Alar said:
Or more like they're spying regardless of what the ISP wants. It's just disgusting, in my opinion. Like most people, I don't really have anything to hide, but that doesn't mean I want everyone to know about it. If I wanted to share information with the world, I would make it easily available.
This is really the crux of what people are/should be upset about in all this, and sadly many people are still just ignoring the issue. For clarity, I'm an American(just so you know where I'm coming from on a legal standpoint). Many of these programs and new laws are skirting not only current law, but the spirit of the law. Part of the problem lies in that our law is about 10-20 years behind the tech curve, so you get rationalizations like, "e-mail isn't part of the list of things counted by precedent as private personal possessions, so they're not subject to the same protections against search and seizure as say, your car or home"; even though a rational person would clearly equate email with conventional mail as to the same status it should have under privacy law.
-SNIP-
