They will not be able to place it back in the box. Spying is here to stay folks. Just like that, our freedoms, liberty, anonymity have vanished. Pandora’s box is an artifact in Greek mythology, taken from the myth of Pandora’s creation in Hesiod’s Works and Days.[1] The “box” was actually a large jar (πίθος pithos)[2] given to Pandora (Πανδώρα, “all-gifted”, “all-giving”),[3] which contained all the evils of the world. Today the phrase “to open Pandora’s box” means to perform an action that may seem small or innocent, but that turns out to have severely detrimental and far-reaching consequences.
Yet, the Commander in Chief, the head MFWIC and his Administration minions won't even deign to say the word "terrorist." You can't make any of them even utter the word, even under the most dire
The FISA, this Patriot Act, the DHS and the TSA have been horribly abused and misused by a number of ICs. I am all for abolishing it all, frankly.
there is a very easy fix for all.
1. record the data but have it encrypted
2. restore court order process to decrypt
that way your info is secure until such time as you are part of an investigation. now all you have to do is ensure the court is not a rubber stamp OR so restrictive noting gets done.
it will stop all the random access of personal information.
just my opinion.
Let the sections of the Patriot Act lapse. Giving up freedom for security is not an American ideal and has just promoted the development of a militarize police state.
Dismantle the NSA, CIA, KGB, MI6, FBI, EPA, DOE, DOT, NASA, ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, NYT, USANG, AEC, ASCPA, AFL-CIO, NAACP, SEIU, CPA, and LAT.
Why the conundrum, GOP? Isn’t the War on Terror officially over, per the Won?
So, like all Laws that have out-lived their usefulness (not saying this one WAS useful), it should die off, no?
scrap the entire program.