Bush/NSA Datamining violates SECTION #222 Telecommunications Act.

From the USA TODAY ARTICLE.....THIS IS THE LAW:

The concern for the customer was also based on law: Under Section 222 of the Communications Act, first passed in 1934, telephone companies are prohibited from giving out information regarding their customers' calling habits: whom a person calls, how often and what routes those calls take to reach their final destination. Inbound calls, as well as wireless calls, also are covered.

The financial penalties for violating Section 222, one of many privacy reinforcements that have been added to the law over the years, can be stiff. The Federal Communications Commission, the nation's top telecommunications regulatory agency, can levy fines of up to $130,000 per day per violation, with a cap of $1.325 million per violation. The FCC has no hard definition of "violation." In practice, that means a single "violation" could cover one customer or 1 million.

In the case of the NSA's international call-tracking program, Bush signed an executive order allowing the NSA to engage in eavesdropping without a warrant. The president and his representatives have since argued that an executive order was sufficient for the agency to proceed. Some civil liberties groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union, disagree.

More at........
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-05-10-nsa_...

I'm with ATT and I'm ready to sign up.

the Bushies have been trying stop.

someone gave me this info. this is two different posts

SEC. 304. ELIMINATION OF EXPIRED AND OUTDATED PROVISIONS.

(a) AMENDMENTS TO THE COMMUNICATIONS ACT OF 1934- The Communications Act of 1934 is amended--

(1) in section 7(b), by striking `or twelve months after the date of the enactment of this section, if later' both places it appears;

(2) in section 212, by striking `After sixty days from the enactment of this Act it shall' and inserting `It shall';

(3) in section 213, by striking subsection (g) and redesignating subsection (h) as subsection (g);

(4) in section 214, by striking `section 221 or 222' and inserting `section 221';

(5) in section 220(b), by striking `, as soon as practicable,';

(6) by striking section 222;

(7) in section 224(b)(2), by striking `Within 180 days from the date of enactment of this section the Commission' and inserting `The Commission'



and

Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (CALEA)

You can read the entire act and amendments here ...

http://www.askcalea.net/calea.html

to MAKE THEM FINANCIALLY POOR? That would be worse punishment than locking them up and throwing away the key. What a nice fantasy, aye? JUSTICE!

Sweet JUSTICE! :loveya:

enuff said........

And, we should accept this as a "normal/given?"