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The Age Of Information Threatens The Privacy Of Private Individuals.

Privacy is no longer an automatic reality. In fact it is the opposite. To be spied on is the norm of living in the Information Age, if you use banks or the Internet.

Author: lynthomas
Date: Sep 24, 2008 - 10:28:42 PM

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Jewel Versus NSA

This logo was created for Electronic Frontier Foundation representing their current legal battle in the courts of America, Jewel versus NSA. Founded in 1990, a group of concerned citizens is calling for those who authorized, or participated in a fishing expedition, to be held accountable. The dragnet was a warrantless surveillance of millions of ordinary Americans' emails. A secret room in San Francisco, where copies of communications and communication records of all Internet Traffic are sent to, was revealed by an ex-employee of NSA. EFF's prosecution list includes  President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Chief of Staff David Addington, former Attorney General and White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales and others, as well as NSA. The US Attorney General Michael Mukasey firmly denies the existence of the dragnet, but he asked a Federal Judge to grant immunity for any communication company involved in the business of spying. Congress had passed a bill earlier this year, making this possible.

Europe's Bank Scandal

An ex-employee of a Lichenstein bank sold a CD to the German intelligence Service, in February. The CD contained account information of foreigners who were holding foundation accounts in the bank. Headed by the 'Iron Lady' the German Exchequer, Angela Merkle, the German government paid between $6 - $7.3 million for the stolen information. They believed they would recover hundreds of million dollars of lost tax revenue. The names on the list included Americans, Australians, French, New Zealanders, Spaniards, Canadians, Italians, Swedes and Finns. These names were subsequently turned over to their respective governments, which allegedly paid some undisclosed amounts of money. The bank says the information was misappropriated and therefore sold illegally.

Cyber Space Spying

Now the spying business is about to be thrust to a new level. Internet Service Providers hold the secrets, conversations, relationships, acts and omissions of all their customers. UP to now ISPs have not touched the spying business, because they did not have the necessary tools to spy effectively. That is a about to change, through the recent advancements in the eavesdropping technology. Spying on people is about to be done in ways never seen before now.

Spying in the information business threatens to rise to new heights. Internet Service Providers hold all their users' secrets, relationships, conversations, acts and omissions. Up until now ISPs have left the spy business well alone, probably because they did not have the tools necessary to be invasive spies. However, with the recent advances made in eavesdropping technology, ISPs can spy on people in ways never before attempted.

While privacy used to be something every individual was guaranteed of, this is no longer the case. Google alone has the capability of scanning 1 trillion unique URL's per day. Internet traffic and information has become one of the world’s most wanted and valuable commodities.


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