Cyber space is a truly wild frontier with battles being fought daily on many different levels as old and young, professional and amateurs, jostle for domination on the Search Engines. However, one battle has spilled over into the courtrooms of the physical world. A battle involves the privacy of ordinary American citizens.
Take a close look at this delightful logo drawn for Electronic Frontier Foundation (http://eff.org/cases/jewel). Note the eagle is listening in to Cyber Space. All the cables held by the claws, are connected through a secret room.
Congress passed legislation earlier this year giving telecommunication firms immunity from spying lawsuits, causing a case against AT&T to stall in the federal court. To get around this, EFF opened a second line of attack, in Jewel v NSA. The Electronic Frontier Foundation is taking on the giants of the United States, on behalf of AT&T customers. EFF is personally holding responsible those who authorized, or participated for years, in a fishing expedition of an ongoing, warrantless, surveillance dragnet of millions of ordinary Americans’ emails. Copies of communications and communication records of Internet Traffic are sent to a secret room in San Francisco controlled by NASA.
President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Chief of Staff David Addington, former Attorney General and White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales and others, as well as NASA are all in the line of fire.
The question is how does a government protect itself from a repeat performance of terrorist attacks such as September 11, without being seen to be just plain old nosey parkers? Apart from that, can you think of a more boring job, than reading everyone’s emails? Probably this is where the search for ‘keywords’ was birthed.
Electronic Frontier Foundation was founded in 1990 and has a Google page ranking of 7. It’s well worth keeping an eye on. However, after reading all this, it is easy to understand why more and more people are opting to get out of the Rat Race and are looking to live in places like the tropical islands of Vanuatu, in the South Pacific.
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