Quote Originally Posted by GGT View Post
To Fuzzy: you may think there are sufficient legal safeguards for data privacy, or there's not much of a chilling effect with all this meta-collection....but that's overlooking that our Press is totally digitized, using "tele-comm" to contact sources, do their research, write their rough drafts, file their stories, etc. Professional journalists have been dragged into the net, too.

Also, don't underestimate the impact of our banking system being digitized, cached and stored for decades. Identity thieves can still capitalize on the glaring gaps.
I never said it was a good thing, that the government should be doing it, or that the safeguards in place are sufficient. I've been saying it isn't as horrifying as people are making it out to be, that the scenarios being drawn weren't really much different from what is/can already happen. There is absolutely a case to be made that privacy protection isn't strong enough *by the same token a case might be made that some of those notions of privacy just don't fit the modern world and I'm not talking about security from terrorism* it just doesn't have much to do with this program.