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...passed, however, the act would do little to improve the privacy of ordinary citizens. Instead, it would make it easier for the government to keep track of our activities. Rather than secure a court order to tap phone lines--as they now must--law enforcement agents using the new technology could have instant access to detailed information on the so-called "transactional" nature of phone calls. As Jerry Berman, executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told The New York Times recently, "It will be possible to develop a life-size portrait about you as a person...
...anything--Karmanos made the whole play with a nifty little behind-the-back pass, and then [Sean] McCann found me in front. To be honest, I didn't think Sean was going to find me, but my stick was on the ice, and all I had to do was tap...
...here is the ghost of old Fleur Pillager, forced from her land by the building of a gambling casino, the bingo palace of the title: "She doesn't tap our panes of glass or leave her claw marks on eaves and doors. She only coughs, low, to make her presence known. You have heard the bear laugh -- that is the chuffing noise we hear and it is unmistakable. Yet no matter how we strain to decipher the sound it never quite makes sense, never relieves our certainty or our suspicion that there is more to be told." The author...
Harvard students are now able to tap into national and international computer networks from their personal computers using the network system, enabling them to access millions of volumes of information from their desks...