Re: [h2o-discuss] Echelon

["Edward (Ted) Burton" <attorney@consultburton.com>]

At 17:26 -0800 on 11/21/99, mary anne simpson spake about 
[h2o-discuss] Tuyet/How's the musical composition goin thus:

>"Tuyet A. Ngoc Tran" <tatn2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>
>I am forwarding a short e-newsclip regarding Echelon. I am curious 
>as to how the discussants think about the issue that seems to elude 
>the interest of cyberlaw, individual privacy and rights. This is not 
>to encourage alarmist response but rather soliciting for some 
>thoughtful contributions regarding your opinionson an issue that 
>affects all of us.

I suspect that we can only speculate, although published reports 
early in the development of this story indicated a low number of 
intercept points spread among more countries than there were 
intercept points, which indicates to me that no one is snooping on my 
ISP, but likely an international message is open to review.

Such would be the only way that the Constitutional problems with 
snooping on conversations could be avoided.

Barring further factual revelations, then, I am no way near as 
concerned as might otherwise be the case.

We may or may not need to revise Constitutional law in order to deal 
effectively with organized crime and espionage, but a better case 
would have to be made than has yet been made for me to agree with any 
such proposition.

Tuyet A. Ngoc Tran knows where many of my generation spent some of 
our youth, unfortunately not well enough to let her find her freedom 
at home ... They left their home to seek freedom; we left ours to try 
to preserve it where it was ...

Thanks.

Ted

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