Fourth Amendment Rights

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Re: Fourth Amendment Rights

Postby a2z » Thu Jun 06, 2013 7:59 pm

Dershowitz: Don't overreact to NSA acts
This Dershowitz guy talks about "firewalls" which prevent governmental agencies from fishing for incriminating information. I say this isn't anywhere near enough. It should be illegal for the government and for private companies to monitor and/or store the online or telephone activities of any private citizen without a warrant and it should be extremely difficult to obtain such a warrant!
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Re: Fourth Amendment Rights

Postby a2z » Thu Jun 06, 2013 8:05 pm

Patriot Act at center of NSA phone controversy
We've known about the data center being built in Utah for a few years now. We've also known about secret courts and gag orders imposed for the sake of national security. But now it seems to be getting flushed out a little more thoroughly and my hunch is that a lot of people are going to feel very uncomfortable with the government having this much power.
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Re: Fourth Amendment Rights

Postby pcslim » Fri Jun 07, 2013 6:57 am

Which Internet Companies Are Gving Our Private Data to the Government?
This kind of abuse is in direct violation of the Fourth Amendment. This is not acceptable!
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The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio and video chats, photographs, e-mails, documents, and connection logs that enable analysts to track foreign targets, according to a top-secret document obtained by The Washington Post.

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Re: Fourth Amendment Rights

Postby sandman » Sat Jun 08, 2013 8:18 am

Obama Defends Phone Data Collection Program
Too much power is a bad thing. I don't trust the government and I agree with other comments about private corporations are just as bad. What we need are some laws that protect our privacy and that uphold the 4th Amendment. Are we the United States of America or have we become the Fascist States of America? I wanna know!!!
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Re: Fourth Amendment Rights

Postby cactuspete » Sun Jul 07, 2013 7:06 am

How The FBI Is Destroying Our Privacy
Some people complain about the Young Turks for a lot of reasons. But TYT do better than other news channels when it comes to this kind of a story. They actually state that this kind of problem is exactly why whistle blowers (like Snowden, Assange, or Manning) are important. Without them we might as well say goodbye to our freedoms and what's left of our democracy.
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Re: Fourth Amendment Rights

Postby pcslim » Thu Aug 15, 2013 7:17 am

Your Gmail Privacy Expectations Are Unreasonable
Corporations and government should not be allowed to invade the privacy of customers/citizens. There should be laws in place which specifically forbid companies and government from collecting private data and invading our privacy! In fact, the internal affairs of all large companies and of the government should be completely transparent and constantly under public scrutiny.
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Re: Fourth Amendment Rights

Postby desertrat » Thu Jun 26, 2014 6:58 am

Major Ruling Protects Your Cellphone From The Police... Sort Of
The Obama administration supported the right of law enforcement to search cell phones. The conservative leaning Supreme Court ruled against him. Every once in a long while our government actually does something to protect our privacy rights. It's a miracle!
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Re: Fourth Amendment Rights

Postby pcslim » Sun Jun 29, 2014 8:18 am

Facebook reveals fight over data collection request
Hopefully some of the victims of this overly broad user data request will file lawsuits for violation of basic civil rights. Also hopefully these gag order situations will be done away with. This sort of police state tactic should not be allowed in the USA. Also hopefully those who were "caught" will be able to get the evidence gathered through this illegal search and seizure suppressed. I don't like to see people get away with breaking the law, but it's even worse when the government breaks the law and the government needs to pay a hefty price when it engages in this sort of despicable activity. Additionally the government employees responsible for this atrocity should be severely disciplined.
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Re: Fourth Amendment Rights

Postby desertrat » Wed Aug 06, 2014 7:03 am

Google Violating Privacy OR Protecting Children?
This may be the best discussion I've ever heard on TYT and it quickly becomes a two-pronged discussion. Basically, they discuss the following two topics:
1) Should Google be scanning emails and telling law enforcement when they detect illegal activity (in this case possession of child pornography).
2) Should possession of child pornography even be illegal in the first place.
Regarding issue one, clearly Google should not be working with law enforcement since that is obviously a violation of the Fourth Amendment. I know that some people will argue that Google is a private company and so the Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to them, but they work so closely with the government that they to some extent become an arm (albeit "private") of the government. As an extension of the government, the Fourth should apply here.

As for the second issue, the TYT commentators actually sit on the fence for the most part, but they at least entertain the topic in a manner which is not completely politically correct. However, a comment left to the video does actually address the issue fairly directly:
I actually do think possession of child pornography should be decriminalized. JUST POSSESSION, not production. Pedophilia isn't going away. Pedophiles should be allowed an outlet to release their sexual tensions so they wouldn't go around molesting kids. Plus it will avoid situations where someone can easily entrap/implicate you for child abuse by simply planting kiddie porn in your computer or person. Production of actual child porn course should remain illegal and the only child porn you're allowed to possess are either simulated or old ones that's been around for a while. You can't make new ones.

Ultimately what they don't discuss is that Google isn't actually scanning images, but that they are scanning image hashtags and so they are only recognizing known child pornography images. In any case, encryption would bypass the scanners since there is no indication that Google is attempting to decrypt anything here. On top of that people who want to trade illegal images don't have to use Google anyways. So, it would seem that the only people into child pornography that are likely to be caught here are the dumb ones who don't use encryption and who trade images that are already in circulation.
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Re: Fourth Amendment Rights

Postby a2z » Mon Oct 13, 2014 6:42 pm

Snowden slams Dropbox, Facebook as threats to privacy
Snowden kicking ass as usual! He recommends using services such as Spideroak instead of Dropbox. Also use phones running on PrivatOS. Don't trust any company that is willing to collaborate with ANY government.
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