http://www.aclu.org/Privacy/Privacy.cfm?ID=16141&c=39

This Thursday, the Senate Commerce Committee will consider a bill to regulate telephone calls made over the Internet. One of the provisions involves sweeping new authority to regulate the design of Internet communications services to make them easy to wiretap.

If implemented, this plan would dramatically increase the government’s surveillance power and risk making surveillance and privacy violations much more widespread. It would force technology companies to build “backdoors” in their systems for wiretapping and thereby create weaknesses that hackers, thieves and rogue government agents could exploit to invade your privacy and conduct identity theft.

The government already has more than enough power to spy on individuals suspected of wrongdoing. This measure is the equivalent of requiring all new homes be built with a peephole for law enforcement agents to look through.

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