“The Patriot Act, passed overwhelmingly but hastily after 9/11, allows the FBI to obtain telecommunication, financial, and credit records without a court order.” OrderRecordsCourtFinancialCreditPatriotFbiPatriot Act Author:Rebecca MacKinnon
“The government's collection authority, under the Patriot Act, is basically limitless. They can get the medical records and financial records, gun purchase records. And it also becomes part of another important issue that relates to the FISA court and the rest of the debate. It almost becomes a secret law, like there are two Patriot Acts. The one you read on the laptop essentially leads you to believe that there's some connection to terror .” BelieveTwoImportantGovernmentLawSecretIssuesRecordsAuthorityGunConnectionsCourtFinancialTerrorMedicalDebateRelateCollectionsPatriotLimitlessLaptopsImportant IssuesPatriot ActMedical Records Author:Ron Wyden
“The only thing I have no control over is the politics that goes on within the record company. It's always been the same, but it's far tougher now, because record companies are run by financial people; before, they were run by creative people.” PeopleRunningCompanyCreativeRecordsGoes OnFinancialCreative PeopleRecord Companies Author:Enrique Iglesias
“The security of computers and the Internet is a horrible and dangerous mess. Every week we hear about breaches of databases of Social Security numbers and financial information and health records, and about critical infrastructure being insecure.” SocialNumbersRecordsWeekSecurityDangerousInformationInternetComputerFinancialCriticalHorribleMessInsecureSocial SecurityInfrastructureBreachDatabasesBeing Insecure Author:Matt Blaze
“It may be true that encryption makes certain investigations of crime more difficult. It can close down certain investigative techniques or make it harder to get access to certain kinds of electronic evidence. But it also prevents crime by making our computers, our infrastructure, our medical records, our financial records, more robust against criminals. It prevents crime.” KindMayCertainDifficultRecordsCrimeComputerEvidenceHarderFinancialTechniqueCriminalsAccessMedicalBeing TrueInvestigationInfrastructureRobustEncryptionMedical Records Author:Matt Blaze