Technology isn't, as the Bush regime says, making it more difficult to spy

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Tech Inadvertently Helps Spy Game

February 22, 2006
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3586796

The rapid pace of technology is not, as the government argues, making it more difficult to conduct national security surveillance.

Instead, technology is inadvertently making it easier for the government to spy on its citizens, and the laws designed to protect privacy rights are not keeping up, according to a new report issued today by the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT).

"The fact is that digital technology has vastly augmented the government's powers, even without legal changes like those in the Patriot Act," CDT Policy Director Jim Dempsey said at a Washington press conference. "The capacity of Internet technology to collect and store data increases every day, as does the volume of personal information we willingly surrender as we take advantage of new services."

The CDT report claims two popular technologies -- Web-based e-mail and location awareness -- give the government "unprecedented access" to Americans' personal data.

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