No Expectation of Privacy


I don't know about you, but I have absolutely no expectation of privacy online. Not a smidgen. I hate to be so fatalistic, but when I read stuff like this it just reinforces my fatalism:

The National Security Analysis Center (NSAC) would bring together nearly 1.5 billion records created or collected by the FBI and other government agencies, a figure the FBI expects to quadruple in coming years, according to an unclassified FBI budget document obtained by the Blotter on ABCNews.com.

Our national security establishment cannot control its addiction to information, any information, no matter how inconsequential to 'The War on Terror' it is. It's going to get its fix, come what may.

And like any good addict the pressure for more and more will only grow and the bottom, when it comes will be ugly.


Sean Paul Kelley June 12, 2007 - 12:22pm
( categories: Technology )

...essentially different about doing it by computer, just that you can do it faster. So at times like these, I'm reminded of when I went in to see my guidance counselor (whom I had successfully avoided until then). She glared at me, pulled my file, opened it and a look of puzzlement came over her face. "Oh", she said "that's where my dry-cleaning ticket was!"

Gordon June 12, 2007 - 1:19pm

that NSAC facility will be built in San Antonio, right? As the quid-pro-quo for Ciro's recent vote on the funding bill.

Regards, C

Steve Hynd June 12, 2007 - 2:32pm

When tens of thousands of laws, meet billions of chunks of information about millions of people?

Answer: Millions of violations.

Which ones do you prosecute?

The ones who are easy and safe to detect, catch and convict.

The ones who aren't even aware they are in violation hence are taking no evasive action.

No you feel safer yet?

There is only ever one enemy, and that is the military. It doesn't matter which side they purport to be on.

John Carter June 12, 2007 - 8:52pm

Tasmania.

"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all argument, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance. This principle is, contempt prior to examination."

Sean Paul Kelley June 12, 2007 - 9:16pm

Gordon June 12, 2007 - 9:28pm

An acquaintance married a New Zealander maybe 10 yrs. ago. 2 years ago they used the escape pod and moved from Colorado to NZ. In Colorado she formerly worked as an aeronautics engineer on the B2 bomber, and at other times auditioned for the astronaut program.

Yeah, someone like her bailed out.

Tonsure Wimple June 14, 2007 - 2:16am

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