jeudi 26 mai 2011

Bien pire que 1984

Un Sénateur américain, Wyden, commence à expliciter ce qu'il se passe derrière le rideau. Et la réponse semble être: accès illimité du gouvernement à vos informations personnelles.

As a member of the intelligence committee, he laments that he can’t precisely explain without disclosing classified information. But one component of the Patriot Act in particular gives him immense pause: the so-called “business-records provision,” which empowers the FBI to get businesses, medical offices, banks and other organizations to turn over any “tangible things” it deems relevant to a security investigation.