[Dclug] Our Fourth Amendment

[James Ewing Cottrell 3rd]

The Democrats need to capture the White House before they can do 
anything to dismantle the Patriot Act and similar ilk.

Let's just hope they give all that power back instead of hanging onto it.

JIM

Alan McConnell wrote:
> No, this isn't about the scandalous cave-in of Senator B Obama
> and Leader N("off the table") Pelosi to the retroactive
> immunity provisions in the new FISA law.  This post has at
> least the fig-leaf of being about computers.
> 
> Take a look at the URL two lines below, reproducing an article from
> the NY Times.
> 
> Judge Orders Google to Turn Over YouTube Records
> 
> http://www.truthout.org/article/judge-orders-google-turn-over-youtube-records
> 
> Miguel Helft, of The New York Times: "A federal judge in New York
> has ordered Google to turn over to Viacom a database linking
> users of YouTube, the Web’s largest video site by far, with
> every clip they have watched there. The order raised concerns
> among users and privacy advocates that the online video viewing
> habits of tens of millions of people could be exposed. But Google
> and Viacom said they were hoping to come up with a way to protect
> the anonymity of YouTube viewers."
> 
> Mailed this Fourth Day of July 2008, on which day we celebrate/mourn
> our (lost) liberties.
> 
> Alan
>