A new intelligence institution to be inaugurated soon by the Bush administration will allow government spying agencies to conduct broad surveillance and reconnaissance inside the United States for the first time. Full Story »
Posted by Melva Hackney
Oh dear. What privacy rights will any of us have left in a few years? This IS INDEED important journalism. It describes how powerful satellite technology - mostly spy satellites - have proved their usefulness in national emergencies and now there are moves to allow them to be used for domestic intelligence gathering, together with private companies. One concern is, once the government decided it wants some information, does that mean it will prevent the rest of us from getting and using it? Another is, what's the interaction between government and private groups? A third is, where's the legal line between what the Government can do absent a court warrant, what a private information gathering company can do, and then share with the government (for money)?
