US intelligence: privacy does not mean anonymity

According to the Associated Press, on Monday Donald Kerr ( Donald Kerr ), who has held the post of Director of National Intelligence in the Presidential Administration of the United States since October, said that society needs to reconsider the definition of such important democratic freedom as privacy. “Privacy can no longer mean anonymity,” says Carr and adds that it is not the government, but the government and the business, that should protect the citizens from getting their correspondence and financial information into improper hands. Of course, it is understood that the hands of the CIA and the NSA are not considered to be inappropriate.

Discussion of this issue was again raised in the US Congress during the re-examination of amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Supervision Act ( FISA ), which the Bush administration has been trying to drag through for several months now. These amendments are necessary for her to extend the almost unlimited powers that were issued to the American "siloviki" in the framework of the famous USA PATRIOT Act after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and should be revoked on January 1, 2008. We have already written about the previous loud discussion of these amendments.

A true representative of the US ruling elite, who has worked almost all his life in intelligence and confidently looking at us from the photo on the right, believes that anonymous access to the Internet, such as the Tor distributed network, is still legal today, which undoubtedly harm the security of the American way of life. How will this next test for lice for the public of the “most democratic country of the world” end, we will find out this week.