, 2006-05-15
From the U.S. Fourth Amendment, the Stored Communications Act and U.S. wiretap laws to the Pen-register statute, Mark Rasch looks at legal protections available to the telecommunication companies and individual Americans in the wake of the NSA's massive spying program.
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Protection from terrorists who wish to kill thousands of our citizens
2006-06-08
Tim Kery (1 replies)
Tim Kery (1 replies)
Re: Protection from terrorists who wish to kill thousands of our citizens
2006-06-23
Mark D. Rasch (1 replies)
Mark D. Rasch (1 replies)
The problem with metadata is that I can't encrypt the touch tones on my phone or the headers on an e-mail. The reason for that, of course, is that every party along the route of my communication(s) has to have access to that routing information. That makes encryption worthless against the NSA because those people along my route of communication are the people I'm trying to protect myself against.
Given the sensitive-but-necessarily-exposed nature of those pieces of information, the swiss cheese legal protections for them are of significant concern to me.
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