- I think privacy is actually incredibly undervalued. In the 1950s most of what the government is doing every day to Americans would get people killed and buried in someone's back yard then from the South to the north to the East to the West of America. Americans of the 1950s would think that Americans of today are complete pansies to put up with the loss of privacy today.
Here is the problem: If the government (and anyone else that wants your information) actually has it, then they can steal all your ideas before you can profit from them and keep you from profiting from those ideas and keep you forever on the dole worldwide and keep you financially powerless. Think about this for awhile!
- Federal Judge on NSA: 'Privacy Is Actually Overvalued'
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The National Security Agency should have an unlimited ability to collect digital information if it would help protect the nation against terrorism and other threats, a federal judge says.
"I think privacy is actually overvalued," Judge Richard Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit told a conference on privacy and cybercrime in Washington, D.C.,PC World reports.
"If the NSA wants to vacuum all the trillions of bits of information that are crawling through the electronic worldwide networks, I think that’s fine."
Congress should limit the spy agency's use of the data it collects, Posner said, but not limit its ability to collect it during sweeps and searches.
"Privacy interests should really have very little weight when you’re talking about national security," he said. “The world is in an extremely turbulent state — very dangerous."
Posner questioned why smartphone users need legal protections at all.
"If someone drained my cell phone, they would find a picture of my cat, some phone numbers, some email addresses, some email text," he said. "What’s the big deal?
"Other people must have really exciting stuff. Do they narrate their adulteries, or something like that?"
Georgetown University Law Center professor David Cole warned however the United States and other governments have a history of targeting people "who they are concerned about because they have political views and political positions that the government doesn’t approve of," PC World reports.
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