Trashing privacy
Washington Times
by Bob Barr
08/20/06
Thanks to the U.S. Senate's remarkable but well-known lack of backbone, nations such as Albania, Croatia, Uganda and many others now will be able to call up the U.S. Justice Department and find out as much as they would like about anything you do with your computer. ....The issue at hand is the so-called Cybercrime Treaty, drafted by European bureaucrats and championed by the Bush administration. .... Similarly, if law enforcement officials in another signatory nation with much stricter gun control laws than ours, decide there's some evidence on a U.S. citizen's computer in this country that they say is related to an anti-firearms prosecution, all they need do is ring up our Justice Department and request the information. It matters not that the offense in the other country triggering the investigation might not be a crime under U.S. law...
http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20060819-095338-7577r.htm
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Bob Barr
08/20/06
Thanks to the U.S. Senate's remarkable but well-known lack of backbone, nations such as Albania, Croatia, Uganda and many others now will be able to call up the U.S. Justice Department and find out as much as they would like about anything you do with your computer. ....The issue at hand is the so-called Cybercrime Treaty, drafted by European bureaucrats and championed by the Bush administration. .... Similarly, if law enforcement officials in another signatory nation with much stricter gun control laws than ours, decide there's some evidence on a U.S. citizen's computer in this country that they say is related to an anti-firearms prosecution, all they need do is ring up our Justice Department and request the information. It matters not that the offense in the other country triggering the investigation might not be a crime under U.S. law...
http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20060819-095338-7577r.htm
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 23. Aug, 13:48
