every call you make
Apr. 11th, 2008 10:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
asimplechordThis story is touching, really it is. But you know? I find it EXTREMELY disturbing that Verizon can retrieve a "deleted" voicemail message from three years ago from their archive.
Maybe it's just me. Maybe I'm just paranoid. But I don't want my voice mails and calls in an archive for years. I'd rather they were deleted when I pressed the # button and deleted them from my phone.
I especially don't want them in an archive for a carrier that might very well be the one with a Quantico circuit set up WITHOUT A SEARCH WARRANT to give the US government access to ALL of their customers' voice, text, and internet usage data.
That is a violation of privacy. It is a violation of the Constitution. Where's my right to not be unlawfully searched and seized?
I don't care how many Signing Statements the Shrub signs, I don't care if people think it's OK to give up privacy to catch "terrorists". How many have been caught, tried, and convicted, I ask?
It is WRONG, and I'm so tired of being made to feel like I'm being "unpatriotic" and "leftist liberal" and "Communist" (all things I've been called by friends and colleagues) when I object.
And if I hear "Well, if you're not doing anything wrong you shouldn't have anything to worry about or hide" ONE MORE TIME, I'll scream. That is not the point.
Maybe it's just me. Maybe I'm just paranoid. But I don't want my voice mails and calls in an archive for years. I'd rather they were deleted when I pressed the # button and deleted them from my phone.
I especially don't want them in an archive for a carrier that might very well be the one with a Quantico circuit set up WITHOUT A SEARCH WARRANT to give the US government access to ALL of their customers' voice, text, and internet usage data.
That is a violation of privacy. It is a violation of the Constitution. Where's my right to not be unlawfully searched and seized?
I don't care how many Signing Statements the Shrub signs, I don't care if people think it's OK to give up privacy to catch "terrorists". How many have been caught, tried, and convicted, I ask?
It is WRONG, and I'm so tired of being made to feel like I'm being "unpatriotic" and "leftist liberal" and "Communist" (all things I've been called by friends and colleagues) when I object.
And if I hear "Well, if you're not doing anything wrong you shouldn't have anything to worry about or hide" ONE MORE TIME, I'll scream. That is not the point.
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Date: 2008-04-13 02:36 pm (UTC)I might not have the quote exactly right, but isn't Ben Franklin a key player in what American's consider their identity? The first time I heard this quote, I found it startling appropriate.
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Date: 2008-04-13 02:49 pm (UTC)I'd be surprised if most people had ever connected that thought with his cultural identity.
The quote I think about most often lately? I'm not sure who said it, it's been attributed to a couple of different people, including Sinclair Lewis: When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.
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Date: 2008-04-13 03:11 pm (UTC)