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Does your goverment have the right to record information about you?
Regardless of your political affiliations.
I would say that Bush and Obama have both done both what do think?
Bush served the nut of the alternative risk.
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They don't but they do. I have no doubt most of our lives now are being recorded or monitored in one way or another.
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I don't know if they have the right, but I don't object to surveillance cams in public places, or to my electronic and phone communications being scanned for keywords and such in order to assist authorities in ferreting out domestic or international terrorist plots, pedophiles, etc...
I would object if it became obvious that those scans were being used more as deliberate targeted unwarranted undercover attempts to ferret out non-violent criminal activity for prosecution, or to otherwise exploit/expose citizens.
Don't like the invasion of privacy, but prefer it to mass murderers and child rapists going undetected. Trade-off.
I do understand the opinion of those that don't see the increased risk of personal privacy invasion being worth the decreased risks to the public as a whole - I'm just not in that camp (at this point).
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(10-03-2013, 10:02 PM)HairOfTheDog Wrote: Don't like the invasion of privacy, but prefer it to child rapists going undetected.
I'd like to see it go more towards that than anything. Start cracking down more on pedophiles and less on petty drugs.
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They can only get what you give them.
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There's no way to absolutely protect our privacy and mako our world a bit safer. I don't give a shit about airport screenings or people monitoring communications to protect homeland security and prevent mass killings. I do object to photos of my license plate to check if I'm driving with expired tags or something.