Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Your Rights Violated, OOPS!

I know that title sounds like some wacko conspiracy nutjob thing so I want to say, right now, please don't think that just because I'm OCD doesn't mean I'm a conspiracy theorist.

Ok, with that out of the way, a simple typo by an FBI agent lead to the reading and surveillance of an innocent person's email that wasn't in any way connected to the case the agent was working on.

Oops.

We all hear about people's names being mixed up in investigations, or people wrongly jailed who were later proved the be innocent.  In this incident, a simple typo caused some innocent person's email to be monitored.  So, hold to your freedoms dear, they really are sacred.

Not to mention spooky companies like Google are trying to take them away (and, by the way, the email in this case was a Gmail account).

We'll be legally watching you.

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