Justice is not asking the companies to keep the content of e-mails,
> spokesman Brian Roehrkasse said. It wants records such as lists of
> e-mail traffic and Web searches, he said.
I find this very troubling because INNOCENT people could be inadvertently caught up in some sting or dragnet.
We all know that many p*rn sites intentionally use a misspelling of a common legtimate site to catch visitors. If someone does a typo and gets a bad site, does that make them dangerous?
Many bad sites (political or p*rn or other) on the Internet disguise themselves so a casual user thinks they're ok. Are such innocent users who try out such sites dangerous?
Some people are just curious as to what the fuss is about and will check out a "bad" site. Does that make such people dangerous?
Say the government is investigating such people. An aggressive newspaper reporter gets the suspects and publishes them "in the name of public safety -- the people have a right to know who might be dangerous". Innocent people and their families, even if never charged with any crime, would be ruined by such disclosures.
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