Over the past few years, the Bush Administration has taken a hatchet to the dictionary, redefining "torture" to exclude...well, torture. And now they're at it again. We have always defined "privacy" as government or other entities keeping their noses out of our personal business, but that's being redefined as well.
We already know that the White House secretly worked with AT&T to vacuum up billions of telephone calls, E-mails and Internet browsing histories in total violation of law and morality. Donald Kerr, the principal deputy director of national intelligence, now says that privacy no longer means keeping your personal business private. Rather, it means that the government can spy on everything you do as long as the resulting data isn't misused.
Somehow, that isn't very reassuring. Is anyone else wondering whether a politically-connected company - Halliburton, for example - is getting a no-bid contract to fill America with telescreens?
We already know that the White House secretly worked with AT&T to vacuum up billions of telephone calls, E-mails and Internet browsing histories in total violation of law and morality. Donald Kerr, the principal deputy director of national intelligence, now says that privacy no longer means keeping your personal business private. Rather, it means that the government can spy on everything you do as long as the resulting data isn't misused.
Somehow, that isn't very reassuring. Is anyone else wondering whether a politically-connected company - Halliburton, for example - is getting a no-bid contract to fill America with telescreens?
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