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FBI: If We Told You, You Might Sue

Posted on May 11th, 2011 at 11:59 by John Sinteur in category: Privacy, Security -- Write a comment

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There you have it. The government doesn’t want you to know whether your internet or phone company is cooperating with its dragnet surveillance program because you might get upset and file lawsuits asserting your constitutional rights.

  1. Rob on May 11th, 2011 at 16:15:

    It’s not the government that’s worried about this. It’s the businesses that are afraid they’ll lose customers.

  2. Desiato on May 11th, 2011 at 16:40:

    Isn’t the simple solution to force *all* of these service providers to provide the data to the FBI? Then there’s no competitive difference and they can just disclose it.

  3. Rob on May 11th, 2011 at 17:20:

    I suppose it would, Desiato, but I like the notion of them going through the formality of getting a warrant or having to cite some law.

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