View Single Post
Old 28-05-12, 20:39   #5
photostill
The Enigma
 
photostill's Avatar
 
Join Date: Apr 2012
Posts: 9,977
Thanks: 3,009
Thanked 1,524 Times in 928 Posts
photostill has a brilliant futurephotostill has a brilliant futurephotostill has a brilliant futurephotostill has a brilliant futurephotostill has a brilliant futurephotostill has a brilliant futurephotostill has a brilliant futurephotostill has a brilliant futurephotostill has a brilliant futurephotostill has a brilliant futurephotostill has a brilliant future
Default Re: New FBI unit can spy on your Skype convos

I tend to forget that not everyone follows this stuff and doesn't know about it. Facebook has long had a direct tie in with the FBI. No warrants from court needed.

The recent trends over the last 5 or 6 years has been if you don't know about it, then everything is cool cause you can't take them to court. The reason is you can't prove they have spied on you personally and therefore have no standing to bring the case to court. In this standing is everything. You can not rely on third party info in court. It must either be first hand knowledge it was done to you or there must be proof that such has happened.

This very set of circumstances came up with the tie in of the FBI investigating a sect of the Islamic religion in the states. In a screw up, the FBI released to the lawyer of the group, the verifiable documents under the freedom of information act that they had indeed been listening in. Once this screw up was found out, they then tried to cover their tracks by sealing the documents in court and claiming national security to keep them out of the public's hands. It was the one case allowed to go forward behind the post-amnesty granting to the major telecoms over the Bush spying that was allowed with the Patriot Act.

No major social site on the net today, housed within the US or being transferred across US servers, is without spying. It is not that someone is listening in on every conversation and text message but rather that certain keywords are monitored for providing the flag for attention. You can read more about that here:
https://epic.org/foia/epic-v-dhs-media-monitoring/Analyst-Desktop-Binder-REDACTED.pdf
__________________

You can help this site, by clicking on the link below to buy a Premium Account.
& Thank you for helping us. Click;




photostill is offline   Reply With Quote