[pgkdan]

. I read this, fuming, thinking about how our borders were left wide open all this time while they plan to keep a record of every email. Every internet message. Every credit card purchase. All manner of things kept on file. Yet our borders are wide open.

I agree we need to get control of our borders, North and South...although how anyone is going to seal our Eastern and Western borders are beyond me...it's extremely easy to pilot a small boat into any part of the east coast. But I think these concerns about privacy are entirely overblown.

Do you ahve any idea how huge one day's database would be, let alone several years? I think your web history and e-mail privacy is secure unless you're plotting to kill the Pres. or blow up embassies. In that case I hope there's a sysytem in place to uncover those messages and track the sender and recipient.

[Democratic_Machiavelli]

As quickly as technology is advancing in the private sector (I'm thinking quantum computing here), it's becoming more realistic every day.