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January 9th, 2006

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Big Brother is watching, and we're letting him Fort Wayne Journal Gazette by Larry Williams 01/08/06 We still fiercely defend our privacy. The news late last year that the National Security Agency has been eavesdropping on certain telephone conversations between people in this country and foreign nationals was greeted with shock and anger, even as the White House defended the practice as necessary in a war on terrorism that knows no boundaries. The wholesale domestic eavesdropping and personal-information gathering conducted since Sept. 11 under authority of the Patriot Act has also sparked a political debate over the costs of the war on terrorism in the form of lost freedoms and privacy. But, truth be told, our lives are increasingly an open book. In the name of security and convenience we have agreed to surrender the most intimate details of our existence. In recent decades, using increasingly sophisticated computers and advances in software, private and public agencies have been gathering mountains of personal information about us... http://tinyurl.com/aut4a Informant: Thomas L. Knapp