An ACLU spokesman says, "The laws have been running behind technology across the board [. . .]" Ya think? Local police, prosecutors, politicians, the FBI, US attorneys, and journalists are effectively clueless about much of the technology being used by private criminals, no less criminal government thugs. The few existing laws remain unused due to negligent police training. When ordinary citizens complain about high tech criminal harassment and abuses, journalists and police laugh at them and ridicule them. Government and corporate offices employ expensive shielding from invasive technology. But ordinary civilians have no protection. The spokesman for the MA Office of Public Safety says, "The way we see it, they're just another tool to help law enforcement do their job." Yes, but criminals, psychologists, psychiatrists and spies have other uses for the same technology. Splitting the atom led quickly to military weapons. Now governments fear terrorists will use them. Technology itself is amoral. Man creates good and evil uses for technology. People need to fear criminals abusing technology as much as government.
http://phx.com/Boston/news/119767-an-all-seeing-eye-for-the-fbi/
An all-seeing eye for the FBI?
Every step you take
By CHRIS FARAONE
April 27, 2011
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