They can hear you now: Congress Protects America From Privacy
Human Events
by Jacob Sullum
08/08/07
When you talk to your mother on the phone, do you have a reasonable expectation of privacy? I thought I had privacy, but apparently I don’t — at least not anymore — because my mother lives in Jerusalem. Under the inaptly named Protect America Act of 2007, which President Bush signed into law on Sunday, the federal government no longer needs a warrant to eavesdrop on phone calls or read e-mail messages between people in the United States and people in other countries. Unless the courts overturn this law or Congress declines to renew it when it expires in six months, Americans will have no legally enforceable privacy rights that protect the content of their international communications...
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=21869
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=warrantless
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=eavesdropping
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jacob+Sullum
by Jacob Sullum
08/08/07
When you talk to your mother on the phone, do you have a reasonable expectation of privacy? I thought I had privacy, but apparently I don’t — at least not anymore — because my mother lives in Jerusalem. Under the inaptly named Protect America Act of 2007, which President Bush signed into law on Sunday, the federal government no longer needs a warrant to eavesdrop on phone calls or read e-mail messages between people in the United States and people in other countries. Unless the courts overturn this law or Congress declines to renew it when it expires in six months, Americans will have no legally enforceable privacy rights that protect the content of their international communications...
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=21869
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=warrantless
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=eavesdropping
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jacob+Sullum
rudkla - 9. Aug, 13:48
