Its the old question about "who watches the watcher".
Terrorism has to be addressed and on a global scale. however, the gathering and use of information/data has to be controlled to safe guard civil rights and liberties..
The following is real can be taken as funny, but shows the dangers...
Swedish authorities arrested a man for libel for falsely sending the FBI an email, ratting out his son-in-law by saying he had Al Qaeda ties.
The 40 year-old son-in-law was in the midst of divorcing the man's daughter, and his wife wanted him stay home and help with their child instead of traveling to the U.S., Agence France-Presse reports.
When the husband refused to stay home, his father-in-law wrote an email to the FBI saying the son-in-law had links to al-Qaeda in Sweden and that he was travelling to the US to meet his contacts.
He provided information on the flight number and date of arrival in the US.
The son-in-law was arrested upon landing in Florida. He was placed in handcuffs, interrogated and placed in a cell for 11 hours before being put on a flight back to Europe...
Its the old question about "who watches the watcher".
Terrorism has to be addressed and on a global scale. however, the gathering and use of information/data has to be controlled to safe guard civil rights and liberties..
The following is real can be taken as funny, but shows the dangers...
Swedish authorities arrested a man for libel for falsely sending the FBI an email, ratting out his son-in-law by saying he had Al Qaeda ties.
The 40 year-old son-in-law was in the midst of divorcing the man's daughter, and his wife wanted him stay home and help with their child instead of traveling to the U.S., Agence France-Presse reports.
When the husband refused to stay home, his father-in-law wrote an email to the FBI saying the son-in-law had links to al-Qaeda in Sweden and that he was travelling to the US to meet his contacts.
He provided information on the flight number and date of arrival in the US.
The son-in-law was arrested upon landing in Florida. He was placed in handcuffs, interrogated and placed in a cell for 11 hours before being put on a flight back to Europe...