Wiretap

Wiretapping is the act of monitoring telephone and internet conversations by a third party.

The government, intelligence agencies, and police of the United States daily use this for the purpose of stopping terrorism and drugs. Both some liberals and some conservative patriots claim this can sometimes be an invasion of their privacy. Nevertheless, wiretapping has resulted in multiple arrests of drug dealers and terrorists ^[1]. It is occasionally asked by the big government types what those who don't support wiretapping have to hide from the federal government.

This apt quote best explains the reason why it matters to many patriot conservatives and veterans, who are inherently against big government, that there is a 21st century trend, as revealed by Edward Snowden and others, towards police state-like monitoring by both the Federal government and business like Google via "wiretap" of law-abiding citizen's internet, smartphone and smart television (Amazon FireTV, Roku and AppleTV) activity:

• "The progress of science in furnishing the government with means of espionage is not likely to stop with wiretapping. Ways may some day be developed by which the government, without removing papers from secret drawers, can reproduce them in court, and by which it will be enabled to expose to a jury the most intimate occurrences of the home. Advances in the psychic and related sciences may bring means of exploring unexpressed beliefs, thoughts and emotions. 'That places the liberty of every man in the hands of every petty officer' was said by James Otis of much lesser intrusions than these. 1 To Lord Camden a far slighter intrusion seemed 'subversive of all the comforts of society.' Can it be that the Constitution affords no protection against such invasions of individual security?"
  • Louis Brandeis (1856-1941), United States Supreme Court Associate Justice Dissenting, Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438 (1928).

• Edward J. Snowden revelations of unconstitutional domestic spying on law-abiding American citizens
• The Perpetual War on Drugs, War on Terror and the Police state
• NSA and other Intelligence agency mass surveillance: PRISM, Wiretap - Roving wiretap
• Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
• Prism-break.org - Opt out of global data surveillance programs like PRISM, ECHELON, XKeyscore and Tempora.^[2]
• Right to Privacy
• Unalienable rights of the Bill of Rights: First Amendment, Fourth Amendment, Fifth Amendment
• Cryptography and data encryption
• Common law privacy rights
• Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986
• Privacy Act of 1974
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Tails (operating system) (Linux-based privacy focused) for anonymity to protect unalienable Fifth Amendment - Fourth Amendment Right to Privacy (Internet privacy) and Second Amendment - First Amendment rights against unconstitutional Gun control - Internet censorship Big government Police state, hackers, and "all enemies, foreign and domestic" of American liberty.
• Encryption: Cryptography-Cryptanalysis-Cryptology-Data encryption-Public-key encryption-Steganography
• One Nation, Under Surveillance - Privacy From the Watchful Eye by Boston T. Party

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