04-01-2003, 12:26 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Montreal, Quebec
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The fight against surveillance: is porn the target
In case you think this guy is a paranoid for real, here is a small quote:
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Marjorie Heins, an ACLU lawyer at the time, said Mr. Steinhardt got the organization to start thinking about technology "when a lot of us were barely beginning to get e-mail accounts."
By 1996, the ACLU played a central role in challenging the Communications Decency Act, Congress's first foray in regulating online porn. The Supreme Court struck down the law in 1997 on First Amendment grounds.
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Today'sd threat:
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The American Civil Liberties Union's cyberchief holds up his Handspring Treo, a combination organizer, phone and e-mail gadget, as he describes the many ways his government might spy on him.
Snoops could try to tap into the calendar to see his meeting schedule. They could ask his service provider for phone and e-mail records. If Mr. Steinhardt were to upgrade to a device with global-positioning capabilities, investigators might even track his whereabouts.
Though the government isn't necessarily doing any of this, Mr. Steinhardt fears it's just a matter of time.
- Research headed by John Poindexter, a former national security adviser, to develop Total Information Awareness, a computer system to mine phone, credit card and other records in hopes of spotting clues and patterns to identify would-be terrorists.
- Draft legislation in the U.S. Justice Department calling for, among other things, a DNA database of "suspected terrorists" and extended penalties for scrambling communications in the commission of a crime.
- A new airline-passenger screening system, called CAPPS II, to check such things as credit reports and consumer transactions and compare passenger names with those on government watch lists.
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http://www.globetechnology.com/servl...lu0331/GTStory
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