Whoa there hoss.
You are mistaking two different sets of privacy.
1.) The privacy of your information as a customer and your financial
information you share with them. (As just evidenced as you made you
payment on your phone bill using a financial instrument.)
2.) You extrapolate this privacy to the privacy you enjoy or wish to
enjoy on your use of the public airwaves and infrastructure of phone
or wireless usage.
There comments are to 1) only not to any thing else.
I cannot speak to the administration and their need or want of
looking into usage of phones. That is another subject.
But you must understand I am in a profession that enjoys very little
privacy. I am on display all the time and everyone critiques what I
do, so I really could care less if anyone is listening in to my phone
calls. Someone needs some sleep so whoever listens in to my calls
gets tons of it.
Stewart
At 06:32 PM 1/27/2008, you wrote:
In the news these days are stories about how our current
administration is desperately trying to protect telephone companies
from lawsuits that may be or are being filed as a result of their
illegal participation in monitoring and wiretapping activities.
I just paid my phone bill online with Verizon and was struck by
this little bit of verbiage as I viewed the log out screen: "As
always, the privacy and security of your personal information is our
#1 priority and is backed by our Internet Privacy Policy."
It was the "As always" part that got to me the most. Pure horse
manure.
Steve
Rev. Stewart A. Marshall
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Prince of Peace
Ozark, AL SL 82
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