Feds' secret 'Super Search Engine' about to be not so secret?

[rangerrebew]

Feds' secret 'Super Search Engine' about to be not so secret?
Judge orders disclosure of 'Google on steroids' spy system used by cops
Published: 12 hours ago

 

A magistrate judge has ordered the federal government to turn over hundreds of pages of information about a super-secret spy-on-Americans program that is run by AT&T called Hemisphere.

WND reported only days earlier how shareholders in the communications company were concerned enough about the controversial program to prepare a resolution for the company’s coming annual meeting calling for an investigation and report.

And that had followed a report when privacy experts asked AT&T to shut down the program that has been called “Google on steroids” for accessing “trillions” of records when it is rented out to police agencies and others.

Now, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, one of the groups fighting the use of private call information in the program, says the judge, Maria-Elena James, has found the federal government hasn’t justified its “excessive secrecy” about the telephone surveillance effort.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2016/12/feds-secret-super-search-engine-about-to-be-not-so-secret/#sibhDSP52V1XUOYX.99

[mountaineer]

This EFF's board seems to come from a distinctly leftist point of view. The chairman is a former Obama staffer and has ties to World Economic Forum. Vice-chair is a Berkeley law professor. And so on, but they claim to fight for First Amendment and privacy rights. Hard to tell.   

[EC]

This EFF's board seems to come from a distinctly leftist point of view. The chairman is a former Obama staffer and has ties to World Economic Forum. Vice-chair is a Berkeley law professor. And so on, but they claim to fight for First Amendment and privacy rights. Hard to tell.   

Not followed them much recently. They did good work back in my scene days.

[Fishrrman]

Just for the heck of it, I'll post this again, as I was doing a few years' back.

I propose this amendment to the U.S. Constitution:
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Citizens protected by this Constitution possess an inalienable right to privacy in their persons, businesses, and homes, and while they are in public.

It shall be a violation of this Constitution for the United States or for the several States to violate or invade the individual privacy of citizens by use of physical, mechanical, or electronic means or by the use of devices on land, on water, below the ground, or from the air.

This protection shall extend to all lawful communications and acts by an individual citizen or between two or more citizens, including content that is spoken, written, or electronically transmitted. It shall extend to citizens regardless of their location, whether in private or in public.

The only exceptions will be as governed by the Fourth Amendment of this Constitution.
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Four short paragraphs that just about everyone can understand.

They will breathe new life into the existing Fourth Amendment, which has been much-abused lately.

Would YOU support such a notion of "a right to privacy" in our Consitution?

[Hondo69]

Just for the heck of it, I'll post this again, as I was doing a few years' back.

I propose this amendment to the U.S. Constitution:
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Citizens protected by this Constitution possess an inalienable right to privacy in their persons, businesses, and homes, and while they are in public.

It shall be a violation of this Constitution for the United States or for the several States to violate or invade the individual privacy of citizens by use of physical, mechanical, or electronic means or by the use of devices on land, on water, below the ground, or from the air.

This protection shall extend to all lawful communications and acts by an individual citizen or between two or more citizens, including content that is spoken, written, or electronically transmitted. It shall extend to citizens regardless of their location, whether in private or in public.

The only exceptions will be as governed by the Fourth Amendment of this Constitution.
=============================================

Four short paragraphs that just about everyone can understand.

They will breathe new life into the existing Fourth Amendment, which has been much-abused lately.

Would YOU support such a notion of "a right to privacy" in our Consitution?

 

It is a sad state of reality that such an amendment would ever be required, but it is.