There are so many other real things they should be watching that wasting time that way would be ridiculous. Did I say this already? Well, I am getting annoyed with all the survillance issues, it feels like a snowball that will be difficult to stop.
Why law enforcement would waste time and resources accessing everyone's email without a clear and justified reason for doing it so? It doesn't make sense to me. :/
Kim, my view of the world, and of what people can be if they so choose, is actually quite sunny. My view of governments, both ours and most others, is less so. And it does feel as though the thugs have taken over the playground.
I voted, "I don't have anything to hide from law enforcement," even though I'm not sure if that's totally true. The thing is, I haven't ever really expected that my email, cloud-based or otherwise, has been private.
I'd LIKE for my documents and my email to be private. I think they SHOULD be private. I will continue to FIGHT for them to be private by raising my voice in solidarity with anyone who will join me in denouncing government intrusion.
But I will continue to use Google Docs and Gmail and Skydrive and Dropbox and S3 Storage and assorted other services. I figure I'd rather have the police state grabbing my data online rather than breaking into my home and taking it off my computer. If these thugs want to go after me there's no doubt they can manufacture something just as they could create a case against any one of you. We just have to live the best we can and be happy they are going after the truly dangerous folks like Petraeus instead of focusins on us.
Clarification: He's not dangerous because of sex. He's not dangerous because he might have breathed secrets to the wrong person. He's dangerous because he had the secrets in the first place. He's dangerous because he's a terrorist, just like the rest of our so-called government. That's why it's refreshing to see the 'war on terror' net one of its own; perhaps it's a sign of weakness or division in the corpocracy.
Nathan, just thinking about this, it's interesting that the device used is considered decisive here. Say I have information I want to keep private in my own, personal Google Docs account. Does my claim to privacy depend on whether I access that (cloud-based) account using my own cellphone, a corporate cellphone, my own laptop, a corporate tablet?
And why?
Not sure I know the answer here: just throwing the question out.
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M2M: Rise of the Machines? Not Yet David Weldon In the 1970 science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M. CLICK FOR MORE
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