? why bother with the mea culpa now? nobody even remembers this. I didn't check, is he running for office? I especially liked this bit:
Although data-protection authorities in Europe have complained that the formerly secret program violated their rules on privacy, there have been no Times reports of legal action being taken. Data-protection rules are often stricter in Europe than in America...
except where oranges and apples are sorta similar because they are spherical fruit... Europe's protections are against business in general, and the US' are generally against our own govt... So it seems like the shoe should be on the other foot, where the EU could care less because this is a govt. sponsored intrusion. oh, wait. it's W's govt. so it must somehow be different, right? must be me...
IIRC this was one of the better programs that was following the money, where trying to follow cell phone calls going out of the country is close to impossible, and does trample on some protections, with less effect...
i'm particularly fond of how it wasn't on the front page, with a 27 point headline along the lines of WE HAD OUR HEADS UP OUR ASSES BECAUSE I'M A FIVE YEAR OLD.
and actually, everyone [read: the Left] remembers this because they bring it up freakin' constantly as one more example of W eroding our civil rights, blah, blah, blah.
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Date: 2006-10-23 11:37 pm (UTC)Although data-protection authorities in Europe have complained that the formerly secret program violated their rules on privacy, there have been no Times reports of legal action being taken. Data-protection rules are often stricter in Europe than in America...
except where oranges and apples are sorta similar because they are spherical fruit... Europe's protections are against business in general, and the US' are generally against our own govt... So it seems like the shoe should be on the other foot, where the EU could care less because this is a govt. sponsored intrusion. oh, wait. it's W's govt. so it must somehow be different, right? must be me...
IIRC this was one of the better programs that was following the money, where trying to follow cell phone calls going out of the country is close to impossible, and does trample on some protections, with less effect...
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Date: 2006-10-24 12:26 am (UTC)and actually, everyone [read: the Left] remembers this because they bring it up freakin' constantly as one more example of W eroding our civil rights, blah, blah, blah.