In a move that chills my bones yesterday George Bush attained congressional approval to make "a massive expansion of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act" (FISA). This security upgrade provides FISA with "the power to order Google, AT&T and Yahoo to forward to the government all e-mails, phone calls and text messages where one party to the conversation is thought to be overseas." Source, Oh There's More! What About You and I?Journalistic rights are one thing but what about my fellow Canadians that use Gmail or for that matter anyone outside of the USA using Gmail? Since we are foreign users of Gmail are all of our emails subject to inspection? I realize this whole line of questioning begs the question... "why... what do you have to hide?" Well I am sorry but that just doesn't hold water, we all have a right to privacy and this latest erosion of civil rights in America sets an Comments
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