"You can say that will be more targeted but in terms of intrusion into personal privacy - collateral intrusion into privacy - we are likely to end up in an ethically worse position than we were before."
That these people think that it is less of an invasion to sweep up all of your electronic conversations than to bug your home, is a measure of how distorted the debate is. The real reason that they would prefer to tap electronically is that much lower cost and lower chance of discovery.
It is arguably a bigger invasion of privacy.
This careful analysis, and reporting never makes it to the headlines in the same way that the pronouncements by the likes of Michael Hayden do. How can we fix this media bias.
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That these people think that it is less of an invasion to sweep up all of your electronic conversations than to bug your home, is a measure of how distorted the debate is. The real reason that they would prefer to tap electronically is that much lower cost and lower chance of discovery. It is arguably a bigger invasion of privacy.
Firstly you need to measure what is going on, http://openenergymonitor.org/e... Then exert control over your home http://opentrv.org.uk/
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This careful analysis, and reporting never makes it to the headlines in the same way that the pronouncements by the likes of Michael Hayden do. How can we fix this media bias.