Big Brother Obama: US to spy on Internet messaging

Regulations to target Skype, Facebook, Blackberry

The Obama White House is backing new regulations that would compel popular Internet messaging services like Facebook, Skype and Blackberry to open up their systems to FBI surveillance, the New York Times reported Monday, citing federal law enforcement and national security officials.

The threat to democratic rights goes far beyond anything envisioned by the Bush administration. The goal is to make all forms of electronic communication that use the Internet subject to wiretapping and interception by federal police agencies.

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So much for Hope and Change....Bye Bye civil rights.  I wonder if we should just burn the Constitution now and put it out of its misery. 

Nothing new here.....been going on a long long time, way before Obama was in office.......Those in power have always wanted to know what was going on....you know the...."information is power" thing.....I am wondering though....can´t there be an overload?

"stack overflow"

 I was wondering the same thing.  Big Brother is about to become Big Busy Brother!  I wonder what they will do when someone mentions "key words" in their emails or on their facebook....should I be expecting a visit from the feds??   

I must defriend all bed Amerikan or their nosy intelligence will know everything about my cooking, trips, fighting with terrible twos and pregnancy scans.

What a cunning way to check potential threats, everybody knows that terrorists are straighforward and use the "key words" on the internet just like we can see in CSI. After all, filling in the US visa application you have to answer the question about your plans to conduct a terrorist attack

 Yes, I love this question on the visa application!   

...and isn´t it so tempting to fill in the section ´do you have affiliation with any terrorist group´ (or whatever it actually says) with ´yes´? - just to see what happens  

Scary America right? Do people realize how much they are "spied" in every day life? You know the client-card at the Tansas (or any other supermarket)....it has your name on it... and thus "Big Brother" knows what you buy, and when you buy it... Oh, Miss X bought tampons again, it seems to be that time of the month. And look, it seems Mister Y is on a diet. He always bought full fat products but has now turned to lighter things.

When you go to the ATM machine (cash machine) there is a little camera there that tapes you. Handy for when somebody steals your card. They can use the video-tapes to get the criminal. However, those images are stored for several months... why so long? And everytime you take cash from the machine, it is also registered somewhere. Ahhh...Mister Y took cash out close to the MacDonalds... is he failing is diet?

We are already checked out every where we go. I have a pbulic transport card that irritates the hell out of me. Now some central system knows when I travel, and to where. But if I don´t have this card I pay more than double for my travel I guess my privacy does have a price.

Those fiedlity cards offered by supermarket chains are used for data mining by using data warehouses. I don´t have any of them just because they ask so many questions about me. No thanks I don´t want them to know much about me.

I guess many of us already realise that Google too use data mining to understand what kind info we are after.

We use credit cards to pay or ATMs to withdraw some cash and that makes a good tool for data mining to know about our whereabouts.

The same thing is valid for mobile phones. They know everything about the exact locations we visit. This is one of the reasons for the fact that I don´t have a mobile phone.

They know much about us anyway but I am doing my best to not give much away.

I actually don´t mind being spied on for market purposes. I do not do anything illegal and have no skeletons in the closet so I don´t care if my operator knows where I am or who I talk to if the benefits of having a mobile outweigh the loss of privacy.

I have a market loyalty card but always forget to take it with me when going shopping, and I´m not a loyal customer. Even if I were, I don´t think I would mind somebody I don´t know knowing when my period is.

I sign online petitions with my real name but I never give home address or other details to sites other than shopping ones, and I have one email that I use for registering to sites and one that is my private official one.