Re: [privacy] NSA Database Report Draws Focus on 'Analysis'

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

This entire debacle is about _who_is_targeted_ in the snooping.

When the _foreign_ intelligence community turns its attention
inwardly on it's own people, nothing good can come of it, insofar
as personal privacy issues are concerned.

- ferg

-- "Brian Loe" <knobdy () gmail com> wrote:

So then, why all the hell raising about these new "developments"? And
why all the bashing of the US when Echelon is a world-wide,
multinational endeavor?

The new news is old news, as it always is. For that matter, the EFF
knew about this week's headlines so long ago they've already got a
lawsuit going on the matter. Wasn't it you, even, that posted a link
to that under-reported story?
http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2006_04.php#004613 (dated APRIL
28TH!!!)

On 5/12/06, Fergie <fergdawg () netzero net> wrote:
> It's still there, although not officially acknowledged.
>
> In fact, it all falls under the Echelon umbrella, a.k.a.
> Total Informationa Awareness (even if it was, ahem, cancelled). ;-)
>
> $.02,
>
> - ferg

--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/

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