Privacy no longer can mean anonymity

I feel personal liberties is one of the areas where Ron Paul is the only candidate running that will oppose this attack on the constitution. (also this administration seeks to grant immunity to the Telco's BEFORE 9-11, which obviously didn't keep us any safer)

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/11/11/terrorist.surveillanc...

Privacy no longer can mean anonymity, says Donald Kerr, the principal deputy director of national intelligence. Instead, it should mean that government and businesses properly safeguard people's private communications and financial information.

Kerr's comments come as Congress is taking a second look at the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

Lawmakers hastily changed the 1978 law last summer to allow the government to eavesdrop inside the United States without court permission, so long as one end of the conversation was reasonably believed to be located outside the U.S.

The original law required a court order for any surveillance conducted on U.S. soil in order to protect Americans' privacy. The White House argued that the law was obstructing intelligence gathering because, as technology has changed, a growing amount of foreign communications passes through U.S.-based channels.