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Your Cell Records For Sale Online, Cheap
AviN456 writes "The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that your phone records are for sale online to the general public. From the article 'The Chicago Police Department is warning officers their cell phone records are available to anyone -- for a price. Dozens of online services are selling lists of cell phone calls, raising security concerns among law enforcement and privacy experts.' One of these sites is selling cell phone records for $110 for a month's worth of calls. No court order needed, no credentials required. If they want your records and have the money, they get 'em."
So cause your GF can't show up on time, you need to call her to check up on her?
Typical Cell Phone Conversation:
HI. Yeah, what are you doing.
Oh, I'm in the store.
Really, wow, that's interesting. What are you gonna do after?
Blah Blah Blah....
Nobody is that important to use the obnoxious cell phone. Don't get me started on you morons that drive and use one at the same time.
This is the end result of a free market: nothing is off limits, everything has a price.
Market-based approaches to everything subvert democracy (obviously). Laws against pollution? Lets just charge expensive "pollution credits". Constitutional right to privacy? Let the market find an acceptable price to get around it.
This shit is like the matrix. There is no public square to communicate, only corporate owned venues - Verizon cells, AT&T telephones, AOL instant messenger, Google email, Comcast internet, MSN groups - it makes sense that they would govern themselves with business practices instead of Law.
In many aspects the USA is a third world country, not a developed one. People there are not as sofisticated as us. Ongeveer 40% van alle mensen daar zijn te vergelijken met de zwarte kousen kerk hier rond de veluwe.
It has everything to do with Bush; he's our current president and has a documented disregard for the Bill Of Rights.