What is there to worry if you are doing nothing wrong?
I ask this because the government CANNOT indict you on some tip that the NSA gives. It MUST do further investigating. In order for them to even get a search warrent they need to have "probable cause" (look it up). Which is quite a lot of evidence in and of itself. The government also cannot use the evidence that is gathered from the NSA surveillence itself because (I'm no lawyer, correct me if I'm wrong) technically it was obtained illegally. And evidence obtained illegally was ruled in Weeks vs. US (exclusionary rule) and Mapp vs. Ohio (exclusionary rule also applies to states) to be unusable in courts.
So, from what I see, its quite hard to be "accidentally" indicted as a criminal. Therefore, I think we're overreacting.
Don't get me wrong, I think what they're doing is wrong and illegal. I'm just saying that I think we're all overreacting.
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What is there to worry if you are doing nothing wrong?
I ask this because the government CANNOT indict you on some tip that the NSA gives. It MUST do further investigating. In order for them to even get a search warrent they need to have "probable cause" (look it up). Which is quite a lot of evidence in and of itself. The government also cannot use the evidence that is gathered from the NSA surveillence itself because (I'm no lawyer, correct me if I'm wrong) technically it was obtained illegally. And evidence obtained illegally was ruled in Weeks vs. US (exclusionary rule) and Mapp vs. Ohio (exclusionary rule also applies to states) to be unusable in courts.
So, from what I see, its quite hard to be "accidentally" indicted as a criminal. Therefore, I think we're overreacting.
Don't get me wrong, I think what they're doing is wrong and illegal. I'm just saying that I think we're all overreacting.