[privacy] Senator Leahy Calls for Summit on Privacy

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via InfoWorld.

[snip]

Senator Patrick Leahy on Wednesday called for the U.S. Congress and President George Bush to convene a conference on 
privacy, in the wake of recent reports that federal agencies spied on U.S. citizens and monitored protestors of the 
Iraqi war.

Without a new direction from the government, the U.S. is in danger of turning into a "micro-monitoring" state, where 
the everyday actions of normal citizens are routinely tracked, Leahy said at the Association for Computing Machinery's 
Life, Liberty and Digital Rights conference in Washington, D.C.

"If this continues, it won't be long before we think of privacy as a quaint 20th century idea," said Leahy, a Vermont 
Democrat. "Our government has no business spying on law-abiding citizens."

[snip]

More here:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/05/03/78035_hnprivacysummit_1.html

Also, another write-up over on 27B Stroke 6:
http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/index.blog?entry_id=1472166

- ferg

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 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/

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