This article is making the rounds today.. Intel Official: Say Goodbye to Privacy
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20071111/D8SRJ1DO0.html "Privacy no longer can mean anonymity, says Donald Kerr, the principal deputy director of national intelligence. Instead, it should mean that government and businesses properly safeguards people's private communications and financial information." Snipped.. "The central witness in a California lawsuit against AT&T says the government is vacuuming up billions of e-mails and phone calls as they pass through an AT&T switching station in San Francisco." That coupled with the passage of the new Data Retention Law in Germany really makes it look like a global frontal assault on privacy.. http://www.kreativrauschen.com/blog/2007/11/09/german-bundestag-decides-to-imple ment-data-retention/ Pretty chilling.. Indeed, it really seems like they really ARE listening in.. Bill
