The Privacy Of Private Individuals Stands Threatened by the Age of Information

l Versus NSA. A logo designed for Electronic Frontier Foundation highlights the current legalbattle being fought in the American courts, Jewel versus NSA. In 1990 a group ofconcerned citizens formed EFF and are now demanding that those who authorized, orparticipated in a warrantless dragnet which put millions of regular Americans'emails under surveillance. An ex-employee of NSA, told of a secret room in SanFrancisco, where copies of communications and communication records of all InternetTraffic were sent to. Those being prosecuted by EFF includes President George W.Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Chief of Staff David Addington, former AttorneyGeneral and White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales and others, as well as NSA. GeneralMichael Mukasey, US Attorney General, while adamantly denying the existence of thefishing expedition dragnet, asked that Congress pass the bill giving immunity to anycompany involved in spying.Bank Scandal InEurope.A CD was sold to the German intelligence Service, be an ex-employee of a Lichensteinbank, in February. On it were the account details of foreigners who held foundationaccounts in the bank. The 'Iron Lady' Angela Merkle, Germany's Exchequer, acted onbehalf of the government, when it paid between $6 - $7.3 million for the stoleninformation. They were under the mistaken belief they would recover hundreds ofmillion dollars of lost tax revenue. The list contained names of Americans,Spaniards, French, Australians, Canadians, New Zealanders, Italians, Finns andSwedes. Names which were turned over to their respective governments, allegedly forsome undisclosed amounts of money. The bank states the information wasmisappropriated and therefore sold unlawfully.Spies In Cyber SpaceSpying in the information business threatens to rise to new heights. InternetService Providers hold all their users' secrets, relationships, conversations, actsand omissions. Up until now ISPs have left the spy business well alone, probablybecause they did not have the tools necessary to be invasive spies. However, withthe recent advances made in eavesdropping technology, ISPs can spy on people in waysnever before attempted.Service Providers are under pressure to sell the secrets of their users to copyrightowners and advertisers. From a recent surge of reports, it seems that the ISPs aregiving in to the enticement to sell the information. They have been experimentingwith new forms of spyware. This could be the start of a storm of unprecedented andinsidious ISP surveillance. While privacy used to be something every individual was guaranteed of, this is nolonger the case. Google alone has the capability of scanning 1 trillion unique URL'sper day. Internet traffic and information has become one of the world's most wantedand valuable commodities.Dr Wendy and husband Rick are CEO's of You Me Support Foundation(http://youmesupport .org). They are offering a once in a lifetime Blue MoonOpportunity through Win a Resort. An opportunity you can't afford to miss(http://winaresort.com).

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