On 21 Apr 2011 15:05:01 GMT, notbob > wrote:

> On 2011-04-20, sf > wrote:
>
> > There's even more snooping going on.
> > http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/34/3458.asp
>
> I'm not sure which is more scary. The fact that that business and
> govt continually slice away at our freedoms, rights, and protections
> or that the ppl of the US now seemed resigned to the loss of these
> lawful protections as an perfectly acceptable trade-off for
> convenience of instant access to the next celebrity ditz revelation.
> It's sheer insanity.

I think that's why the ACLU got involved.
>
> It's really scary reading some rfc ppl, here, saying, in essence,
> "It's going to happen. Just accept it". Are those the same ppl who
> ponder why six million Jews went to the ovens instead of fighting?
> Apparently not.
>
> On one hand, parents lament how evil the World has become and how no
> one is safe anymore and how their kids can't play outdoors or walk to
> school alone anymore, then they slap a device in the kids hand that
> lets any dirtbag with a more than passing amount of computer savvy track
> the kid's every move. WTF!!??
>
> Is your kid being tracked? Al Franken wants to know:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/3kwamsn
>
Good for him!

> I used to think my daughter was a bit paranoid in not letting her
> young daughters have unlimited access to the internet and their own
> cell phones. Now I'm not so sure she's been unwise.
>
> I'm even researching jes how much available info is being collected on
> my cheapo crappy Tracphone, which I rarely even use. Geez, I jes
> realized what an insidious name that is!
>
> nb


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