Have you been electronically frisked or digitally probed? How would you know? Recent polls show that Americans are alarmed by the news of the telephone companies' cooperation with the feds on providing calling records. As more of your life becomes digital, the government becomes more interested in that virtual persona, whose rights have yet to be clearly defined. Paul McMasters of the First Amendment Center is concerned that constitutional rights could get tangled up in the government's digital drift net.
June 01, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Have you ever been electronically frisked? Or digitally probed? It’s hard to tell since you don’t feel a thing.
That’s because government agents who sift through the megabytes of data that ordinary citizens spin off in their daily routines do their work secretly, silently and from far away.
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