Monday, December 19, 2011

Terry Gross interview.

Facts/details:
1.) The GPS case has the potential to be the most important case of the decade.
2.) The Patriot Act expanded the amount of surveillance the government could do without a warrant.
3.) Twitter was pressured by Senator Joseph Liberman to remove pro-Taliban tweets.
4.) The government believes that the Fourth Amendment only bans warrantless searches of private spaces, while a GPS device is just an extension of basic human surveillance.
5.) Germany's security services have broad discretion to seize a lot of data, to engage in warrantless monitoring, but they can only use what they find for terrorism cases and they can only share it with the police in terrorism cases or violent crimes.
6.) Rosen's new book is a collection of essays that imagine new technological developments that stress constitutional laws.
7.) The fourth amendment prohibits the government from unreasonable searches and seizures.
8.) Some judges say there was a physical trespass when the police put the GPS device on the car without a warrant.
9.) Jeffrey Rosen is a law professor at George Washington University.
10.) Access to Google was blocked in Turkey for a long period of time.

Questions:
1.) Should boundaries for protection and privacy be set up?
2.) Is it possible for this country to follow the examples of other countries- security wise?
3.) What the government do about the loopholes with Google, Twitter, etc?
4.) Why is Europe so strict on privacy laws?
5.) Should we assume we're being monitored 24/7?

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