Privacy Of Text Messages And 9/11

[Mr Lee]

It appears that people in the US are able to access text messages which were sent and meant to be private. While this shows the tragedy unfolding of 9/11, it also shows us all that we should never put anything private in text messages.Web site posts what it says are half million text messages from 9/11CNN) -- Newly released text messages reportedly from the morning of September 11, 2001, show panicked family members trying to contact loved ones and officials frantically trying to grasp what was happening.More than half a million messages, released by whistleblower site Wikileaks, reveal the panic, horror and pain of what happened that morning in the words of those who experienced it.CNN story

[Mik]

Data mining, data collection. Welcome to the electronic surveillance state. Big Brother is storing records of your electronic communications and banking records and your travels. At least there is a bit more privacy from the government in poorer countries. But that is changing. India to Set up Automatic Monitoring of Communicationshttp://www.pcworld.com/article/183229/india_to_set_up_automatic_monitoring_of_communications.html.