attack on internet privacy in the works

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CNET has learned that Patrick Leahy, the influential Democratic chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee, has dramatically reshaped his legislation in response to law enforcement concerns. A vote on his bill, which now authorizes warrantless access to Americans' e-mail, is scheduled for next week.

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[billwald]

Anyone who thinks there is any internet privacy must be smoking pot. The agencies read everything but can't use it IN COURT without warrant.

 

[TCassidy]

They can now!

 

[Martin]

There is no such thing as privacy on the internet. Every webpage you have visited, every file you have downloaded, every message you have sent can be tracked by law enforcement or by someone with less than noble purposes. Not only that, your computer is a virtual library of things you have done. You never really delete a file on your computer. When you press the delete key you only delete access to the file. The file remains on your computer until it is written over. Even then someone can still get at the file. So there is no such thing as internet privacy.