What is John McCain's position on Internet Surveillance?

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

McCain Campaign Uses Online Spider To Ambush Obama
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/07/mccain-campaign.html

The politicos' mutual stalking has reached unprecedented new levels this
year: At least one side has started to spider the other's campaign web site
to track that campaign pages' precise word changes up to an hourly
basis.Mccain_obama_versionaista

John McCain's campaign published a side-by-side comparison of Barack Obama's
Iraq War policy web pages on Tuesday using a new automated online tracking
service called Versionista.

The service, which launched two months ago, allows users to track and cache
changes to specific web pages up to an hourly basis, depending on the level
of filtering requested, says Peter Bray, its creator in Portland, Oregon.

"I'm an avid reader of blogs, so I thought this would be a good tool for
campaigns and activists," he says. "This could be a good tool in their
arsenal. "

Bray says that he got the idea from Wikipedia, which shows people the
changes made to its entries. Versionista is a subscription service and
allows people to track minute, detailed changes on web sites.

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