Can anyone even make sense of lazs arguments anymore? You shouldn't expect phone conversations to be secure, but we should shut down tax-funded efforts to intrude into people's lives. Huh?
We can't reconcile privacy and security anymore, the world won't allow it. So - all phone calls you make from any phone - needs to be recorded. The source and destination and the time/date and duration. Even content, using supercomputer systems that can do voice recognition. Just like in that movie with Gene Hackman.
But it needs congressional oversight. The Bush administration started tracing a reporter from ABC calls to see if they could find who his leak was in the White House. They only way to prevent the data from being mishandled is to have oversight. Otherwise you get fascism. It's amazing how the current administration bungles these things - if they could have just refrained from touching the damn data they would have been fine. But all the did is demonstrate how tempting it is. Internet as well. All websites, all emails - should be indexed and retrieveable in an investigation. If you download a lot of hardcore porn - well, there's no law against it so chill out. Nobody gives a damn if you are banging the babysitter - the feds are looking for terror cells.
Complete surveillence society, but with CONTROLS over how the data is used. That's how you find the cells, find the guys in the mosques who are planning to do bad ****. Make it efficient and make it scalable. Otherwise it costs too much to set up and run. It has to be effective and cheap.
