Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) is a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee and he knows what's going on. He spoke on the subject of surveillence in a speech yesterday at the Center for American Progress--full speech here. Excerpt:
"The piece of technology we consider vital to the conduct of our everyday personal and professional life … happens to be a combination phone bug, listening device, location tracker and hidden camera...
"Without adequate protections built into the law there’s no way that Americans can ever be sure that the government isn’t going to interpret its authorities more and more broadly, year after year, until the idea of a tele-screen monitoring your every move turns from dystopia to reality."
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