Recently when the House of Representatives passed a bill which will set rules on how telephone companies and internet service providers will handle government surveillance requests for phone calls and e-mails in the face of President George Bush's promised veto, the Washington Post also reported that the FBI faced Congressional review concerning their misuse of administrative orders.
Reporter Dan Eggen wrote “The FBI has increasingly used administrative orders to obtain the personal records of U.S. citizens rather than foreigners implicated in terrorism or counterintelligence investigations, and at least once it relied on such orders to obtain records that a special intelligence-gathering court had deemed protected by the First Amendment, according to two government audits released yesterday.”
photo by Gary D. Brune copyright 2008
What appears to be a surveillance camera at the intersection of Normal and Second in Chico perches atop the streetlight
Readers of this weblog (An Internet Globetrotter) may remember this post I filed in October; “There is a fundamental issue here involved with these procedures They look to be in conflict with the United States Constitution, where political agents are using technology to circumvent our rights.
Americans can make money by using the Napoleonic ethic of guilty until proven innocent, the engine that drives this security mania. China Security and Surveillance Technology, (CSST) listed on the New York Stock Exchange mirrors the procedures under consideration in the United States. Electronic surveillance and surveillance on the Internet has been launched as a formal campaign of the Chinese government.
Referred to as the Beiging Internet Police, a cartoon pair of police in a stylized car will have the mission to be on the watch for websites that incite secession, promote superstition, gambling and fraud. .
'"It is our duty to wipe out information that does public harm and disrupts social order," Zhao Hongzhi, deputy chief of the bureau's Internet surveillance center, said.”
