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Hidden Gotchas in Homeland Security Act
Posted by Matt Fagin on Wednesday, November 20 @ 17:57:29 EST Civil Liberties
Civil liberties groups are calling the technology related provisions bundled into the recently passed Homeland Security Bill "an unprecedented threat to personal privacy. " Critics contend that the "cyber-security" provisions, debated briefly in the House and unmentioned in the Senate, have sacrificed privacy rights without due deliberation in the name of "public safety."

Taking off where the Patriot Act left off, the Bill includes provisions which permit the new Homeland Security Department to cull information from intelligence, law enforcement, other government agencies and the private sector to search for patterns that reveal terrorist plots. Other contested provisions extend the circumstances under which ISP's, libraries and other organizations can voluntarily hand over "suspect" Internet users' e-mail and other data to the government, without facing litigation.

The San Francisco Chronicle has a story.

 
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Re: Hidden Gotchas in Homeland Security Act (Score: 0)
by Anonymous (Name Withheld on Advice of Counsel) on Wednesday, November 20 @ 18:35:39 EST
The link is broken.


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Re: Hidden Gotchas in Homeland Security Act (Score: 1)
by tompoe on Thursday, November 21 @ 00:14:51 EST
(User Info | Send a Message) http://www.studioforrecording.org/
HI: Is it possible that the RIAA will have to censor its' mail, now, so that it doesn't fall under the terrorist profile?
Thanks,
Tom Poe
Open Studios
Reno, NV
http://www.studioforrecording.org/


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Re: Hidden Gotchas in Homeland Security Act (Score: 0)
by Anonymous (Name Withheld on Advice of Counsel) on Thursday, November 21 @ 15:17:06 EST
I'm not as worried about the HomeLand Secutiy Act as I am about what John Poindexter wants to do under it.

There is in the Pentagon, and "Office of Information Awareness". Poindexter belives that a 'Totla Information Awareness" system is needed to protect this country. What this TIA system would do is track every electronic transaction, from credit card use, to email and posts on BBSs, and add it to the cental database that the homeland security department would already be keeping of FBI, CIA and NSA information.

It would effectively make it so the government is able to have any information on anybody whenever(well not actaully physical movement, since there is no security camera network called for).


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Re: Hidden Gotchas in Homeland Security Act (Score: 0)
by Anonymous (Name Withheld on Advice of Counsel) on Thursday, November 21 @ 15:17:18 EST
Where's the image? Fix that link!


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