Over 90% of Americans not only WANT the government and corporations to watch you pee in a jar, but believe welfare recipients should either all or randomly be watched peeing in a jar before collecting benefits.
Bill Maher makes a few mistakes in this one.
It makes no difference where Donald Sterling was when he was talking into his cell phone. And in this case it is talking into a cell phone not a microphone under his bed or in Linda Tripp’s underwear. Neither was it the government nor could the government use the tape in a criminal case for the exclusionary rule.
This is a lesson many of us in this medium learned long ago. Don’t write anything on the net or in email that you would not like to have your wife, the police or the New York Times reading. Technology moves forward at a rapid pace with that same lesson applies not only to cyberspace but to cellspace as well.
All that can be done is to make sure such issues are EXCLUDED from criminal cases via the 4th Amendment. As to the rest it’s banging your head against the wall. Nothing is going to change in privacy reform other than the police, the NSA, the Koch Brothers, cameras on the corner, Amazon and Google gathering even more information about us in ways we won’t notice or that we even know about yet.
I can’t think of anything I could say in private that I would really care about. Republicans on the other hand have to be careful of all that ugliness they say in private. 47%.