Surveillance in Washington DC And At Bookstores

Posted by timothy on Wednesday February 13, 2002 @05:06AM from the we-have-no-choice-but-to-accept dept.

dioscaido writes: "From reuters: 'Washington police are building what will be the nation's biggest network of surveillance cameras to monitor shopping areas, streets, monuments and other public places in the U.S. capital, a move that worries civil liberties groups, The Wall Street Journal said on Wednesday.'" Aragorn_2002 writes "I found this new article on Salon.com about how feds are subpoenaing book-purchasing records. Just imaging if they start to use DMCA and the new Anti-terrorist bill to subpoena someone buying books on breaking encryption." If you've ever ordered from Amazon, this might concern you. Update: 02/13 21:30 GMT by M : The full WSJ article is available on MSNBC.

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Re:Goodbye American Rights... by jdavidb · 2002-02-13 06:01 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Will you nutsos get over yourselves on the drug thing? I'm tired of people acting like the supreme goal in life is to make drugs legal.

You must've really smoked a lot of that "harmless" weed if you're so stoned you think the 4th amendment gives you the right to break the law.

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