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[Motown_Johnny]

68. "disregard of any privacy of citizens" is inaccurate

You/we still have the right to privacy within our own homes, and to an extent within our cars (or other vehicles).

The fact that the NSA has gotten private companies to disclose information about what goes out over their servers and phone lines is not an invasion of your home. Those companies own those servers and phone lines, we don't. If you are expecting your right to privacy to extend to someone else's property then you are going to be disappointed. It doesn't. It never has and it never will.

Privileged information is just that, privileged. We use a different word than "right" because it is something different.

I agree that the NSA is going to far and that The Patriot Act needs some serious changes, but making statements like " disregard of any privacy of citizens" is inaccurate, irresponsible and counter productive.