[mikester]

The more I think about it the more it bothers me. What percentage of the population are criminals?

On the one hand they are deploying these methods for investigational purposes but on the other they are doing it because they EXPECT citizens to break the law. We are innocent until proven guilty but they deploy these technologies because they expect we are guilty of something.

Privacy is a freedom, make no mistake, Privacy is a freedom.

Privacy can be defined in many ways of course. If you ware in a public park your presence is not really private unless nobody knows you or says anything to you. Then you go about your business in a public place privately. Sure you were there but so what? If you're having a conversation in that park with someone right next to you what business is it of anyone elses no matter how far they are? Well, if they can hear you and are listening does that still make it their business? Nope, not really. They can but in of course - but it still isn't their business until you make it theirs by acknowledging them back or telling them to fudge off.

Privacy is a freedom. Otherwise, so many businesses and government agencies would not have to specifically state in their email usage guidlines that there is no expectation of privacy in those systems. At any given time someone could be reading those emails. (Possibly flawed logic)

Privacy is a freedom and we as citizens need to defend it as such. Each Freedom we have is like a domino in a row, if one falls it will take with it others. Sooner or later we will not have nearly the freedom we had - already that is apparent. All in the name of law enforcement and protection but in my eyes “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” (Benjamin Franklin).