Where do we draw the line at what IS invasion of privacy by OUR Government?

Like for instance the Total Information Awareness Program, created by The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency of the DOD, which is a system that provides a compleded computerized record of an individuals private life including vital statistics, medical, financial, email, internet, phone, and travel records which more info can be found on at www.darpa.mil/DARPATech2002/presentation... Is this going to far, when you consider this combined with the National ID card which is proposed to have an computer chip in it so any government official can have access to it at any given time? Ah, the computer won't let me put the whole e-mail, after the 20, it is supposed to be 2002 then / then presentation. then html.

Where do we draw the line at what IS invasion of privacy by OUR Government?
There is no line.They do what they want.
Reply:The limits of the government's reach into our private information is deliminated by the Fourth Amendment and cases interpreting it.





The short answer is that they can "listen" for information you give out to the rest of the world, including electronic data but cannot do so to things you have a reasonable expectation of privacy in, such as phone calls, the goings on inside your house, etc. Of course this doesn't apply if there is a search warrant issued by a court or if you are arrested, among others.





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