Ok, well that’s really only half of it. I think most of us like the government doing it’s best to fight crime and the likes, but not at the destruction of US citizens Fourth Amendment rights. Find a better way to do it. The government currently uses a device called a pen/trap to collect numbers dialed from a telephone, suppose this device captures your voicemail passcode, or SS# with other information when filling a prescription, or even information you have entered into a telephone chat service. Does the government really need to know that their intelligence mark, refills his erectile disfunction medication frequently and is also looking to chat with an 18 F from 90210? Sure if they were trying to entrap him/her.
The EFF filed a brief recently, which argued that in order for the government to collect any content of a telephone call, including the numbers dialed on a phone keypad, it must first have a warrant. I honestly cannot imagine the vast array of information big brother has gathered illegally, from telephone and internet pen/traps.
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