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Senate Rebuffs Domestic Spy Plan

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from the good-for-them dept

Thu, Jan 23rd 2003 6:48pm — Mike Masnick
Amazingly enough, over the past couple of weeks, it seems like US Senators have been shoving each other aside to denounce John Poindexter's Total Information Awareness program. Today they voted to ban funding for the program until it's gone through a thorough review. There are a number of quotes from Senators that make it sound like it's not likely to pass any such review (though, you never know...). The House still needs to see if they agree as well, and the final bill may look quite different than what the Senate voted on today. Still, though, it appears that (for once) Senators listened to the outcry of people all over the country on a privacy issue.
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    dorpus, 23 Jan 2003 @ 9:42pm

    If

    there is another 9/11, people will be flooding mailboxes of politicians begging for less privacy. The legislature predictably started out with a lot of megalomaniac plans after 9/11, and have been scuttling them since nothing big has happened since.

    The next 9/11 will happen years after the war on terror is supposed to be "over", then we can throw some more rocks at Arab stores, and techies can spend dinner parties railing against anti-privacy technologies, the trilateral commission, whatever.





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    thecaptain, 24 Jan 2003 @ 6:55am

    Don't forget...

    Shooting this idea down had NOTHING to do with any complains from us little guys...

    I'm firmly convinced that its shot down because these fatcats don't want anyone spying on THEIR little schemes, secrets and flaws....

    Its just convenient that we want the same thing they want right now...privacy.

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