Tonya and PQBON's WebLog
Skepticism surrounds NSA mining records - Yahoo! News
Such uncertainty makes George Washington University law professor Daniel Solove disregard surveys such as the May 12 Washington Post-ABC News poll that found 63 percent of Americans supporting the call database as an anti-terrorism tactic.
"No one is asked in the polls, `Would you approve of anything the government can do with your information? Is it OK that the government engages in various forms of snooping into your life that you would not be told or informed about?'" said Solove, author of "The Digital Person." "It's hard to really opine on something you don't know all the details of."
This is largely an article about social network analysis not being usefull on raw data with no starting point, however it covers some interesting broader issues.
However, with a seed point you don't need everyones call logs. The phone company already has that and you can supena them or get a warrent from the FISA court, you can even do it first and get the warrent later under FISA. Pregathering all this data at the NSA (who has a record of freely sharing ALL its data with all other excutive organizations) is just an excuse to hold more information and bring us closer to the republican orwellian police state.
Posted by pqbon at May 24, 2006 1:53 PM