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Law Enforcement Requests for Net Data Multiply
Carl Bialik from WSJ writes "It's not just phone companies grappling with reported potentially privacy-intruding requests from the NSA and other branches of government: Banks, Internet-service providers and other companies that possess large amounts of data on their customers say that police and intelligence agencies have been increasingly coming to them looking for tidbits of information that could help them stop everything from money launderers to pedophiles and terrorists, the Wall Street Journal reports. From the article: 'According to AOL executives, the most common requests in criminal cases relate to crimes against children, including abuse, abductions, and child pornography. Close behind are cases dealing with identity theft and other computer crimes. Sometimes the police requests are highly targeted and scrupulously legalistic, while other times they were seen by the company as little more than sloppy fishing expeditions. AOL says that most requests get turned down.'"
Yes. The "catch and release" policy on pedophiles is sickening. I beleive they do this as a way to increase their power and money. I.e. As long as there is a problem, something "must be done" about it. What get's done then is the slow errosion of our rights and taxes.
Though the actions of pedophiles is sickening to contemplate, we should be careful about passing judgement. Obviously most of these people are being driven by some distorted sexual drive. I think the best thing to do is build a few micro-societies --small enclosed towns, where they must go live out their lives, and not be able to leave except under rare exception and supervision. This way, they can live productive lives, without children around to tempt them, and we do not have to foot the incarsiration bill.
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even better would be to send those, paedofiles to places like iraq.
the used to send people like the to australia didnt they.
im sure bein in iraq would be a very good deterent from them commiting leud acts to the local kids.