The United States and European Union are close to an agreement to share private data of their citizens, including credit card information, travel history and internet browsing information.
Negotiations that begun in February 2007 however have to yet address whether Europeans can sue the US government for mishandling information, according to an internal report on the potential agreement obtained by the New York TIMES…
One of the unresolved issues is the EU’s privacy rights claims that would allow its citizens to sue the US government for any mishandling of their information, under the US Privacy Act of 1974.
Officials consulted by the Times said Bush would like to sign the agreement before he leaves office in January and while EU members nations can still approve it individually, before they hand ratification power over to the European Parliament.
Is there any limit to the sum of corruption these thugs are capable of?
The web nowadays offers all kinds of tools and services for surfing anonymously. Maybe we should also try another approach, i.e. flooding their databases with enormous amounts of data 🙂
In the old days there were tools that would keep a modem connection active by generating calls to specific web sites. Thinking along the same lines, it doesn’t seem hard to make tools that would constantly do the same and would thereby generate data that these government agencies would have to store, filter and sift through. Let’s give them something to do.
Agents are standing by.
I think people don’t even care about this any longer. They’ve just thrown up their hands and accepted that between the warrantless wiretapping, the CCTV cameras everywhere, the collection of private data for no other reason than to “check you out”, personal privacy is a relic of the 20th century.
It’s been a rough 8 years.
Tor ftw!
Why don’t you try that Rietpriegel? It’ll make you look suspicious and you’ll be marked as “dissident” for sure.
The point is that if a large enough group of people do stuff like that, then there isn’t enough room for ‘dissident’ to mean anything.
We should all put on the gold star of david and dare them to put us in the camps. They can’t round up everyone.
I don’t think this counts as corruption. No money is changing hands.
I wouldn’t be shocked at these people putting cameras in bathrooms, dressing rooms,and bedrooms.
The concept that anyone, other than themselves, should be allowed any privacy escapes them.
If you’ve got nothing to hide, then you shouldn’t mind the government mandated anal probe. Yes, I’m sure that there are a lot of things Bush would like to “sign off” on, before he vanishes from public life, as his father did. One more chunk of the Bill of Rights disposed of, per Republican president.