Peeking Behind Closed Doors….
Years ago, Charlie Rich had a hit song titled Behind Closed Doors whose refrain was: “Oh, no-one knows what goes on behind closed doors…”
But, that may no longer be the case.
Just ask the government.
One of the men currently running for Governor of New Jersey apparently approved using the GPS chip inside of cell phones to track U.S. Citizens WITHOUT any warrants.
The story linked here claims when Christopher Christie was U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, he used that warrantless tracking in close to 100 instances.
Christie claims it’s all legal—but tracking without a warrant disregards an internal U.S. Justice Department recommendation that “prosecutors obtain probable cause warrants before gathering location data from cell phones.”
Taken alone, Christie’s action may sound unique in terms of government intrusion.
But consider this gem from the man who is Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence—uttered a couple of years back.
Dr. Donald Kerr says Americans have to change their definition of privacy—because it should no longer mean anonymity.
Back in 2007, in testimony quoted here before Congress, Dr. Kerr said the only privacy you’ll have is what ”government and business provide for people’s private communication and financial information”…
Sounds OK right?
Well.. Maybe not.
You see that same story details a claim by a retired AT&T technician who says he installed a device in 2003 that ”diverted and copied every call, email and Internet site” accessed via AT&T’s San Fransisco switching office.
And where did this copied information supposedly go?
You shouldn’t need more than one guess.
Yep… A U.S. government computer.
The story claims there’s close to 2 dozen similar sites all over the country doing the same thing!
It appears our friends in Washington are indiscriminately collecting each and every piece of information about us without worrying about those annoying ol’ search warrants…
No wonder they’re telling us we need to change our definition of privacy.
They’ve already done it…
So—what do we do?
If we live with the technology—we live with the potential for its abuse.
In the meantime, EYE fully expect this post is going to end up in some file somewhere—marked with a notation to keep tabs on the guy who wrote it—because he’s dangerous.
—InstantEYE
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Tags: abuse of technology, AT&T Spying, behind closed doors, between, cell phone abuse, charlie rich, Chistopher Christie, Donald Kerr, government spying, GPS tracking, loss of privacy, steve sbraccia, warrantless spying on u.s. citizens
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