Re: [tlug] Fw: EFF Action Alert: Telecom Immunity Showdown in the Senate

[Curt Sampson <cjs@example.com>]

On 2007-12-19 12:55 +0900 (Wed), emiddleton@example.com wrote:

> Correct me if I am wrong, but I was under the impression that the NSA
> could legally (according to American law) monitor any of my traffic.  Is
> this likely to change if the EFF prevails.

No. Also, they can currently pass that information back to the U.K.
authorities.

However, the U.S. does set the "gold standard" for freedom, as it were;
once they can start monitoring Americans at will, pretty much everybody
will use that as support for monitoring their own citizens as well.

cjs
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