Re: Will Amnesty International be taking up the case of DavidCarruthers of BetOnSports?

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 20:35:32 CDT, Matthew Murphy said:

> I really don't see why there's so much fuss about U.S. government access 
> to international flight records, and I'm a civil libertarian.  The U.S. 
> government has every right to request such access, IMHO, and all they're 
> gaining from having it is a matter of hours advance notice of visitors' 
> arrival.

I think that if the notification had come from the proper channels, there
would be no fuss.  The problem is that the US government set up a special
data feed from international flight records into the "anti-terrorism" effort,
and promised that it would *only* be used for that.

But now there's indications that the anti-terrorism group threw data over
the fence to the anti-gambling squad, when they said they wouldn't do that.
And this gives everybody *real* confidence that other "only for anti-terrorism"
efforts like monitoring everybody's phone calls will be held properly and
not leaked to other organizations.

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