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Apple, Tim Cook and Others Sued Over Alleged NSA/PRISM Privacy Violations
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Not in the U S.
In the us the republicans steal, lie, are self serving, are racial bigots, and ever, never answer to you. Bush is a criminal accountable to no one, for example. Democrats get in trouble because thy are idiots and get in trouble, never mind their motives. Clinton for example.
How clear can I make this?
It is wrong to throw people in jail for refusing to give the government their customer information.
How can you argue against that?
You think George Washington would have put people in jail for not spying on their fellow citizens? What??
Haha. I can hear the gov laghing like in Austin powers when dr evil asks for such a relatively low amount...
I'd say it's actually good news that most people recognized RP for what he is. Namely, an anti-federalist pro-government nutbag. He sounds good at first, as long as you squint a little and forget that all he's really advocating is that the *federal* government stay out of your business. He's totally okay with state and local governments putting their boot on your neck. Never mind that almost all the regulations and laws that affect Average Joe every day are already local, so getting the feds to back off wouldn't make a meaningful difference. It's an insult to libertarianism to label RP and his ilk as libertarians.
I work for a very large Japanese company and executives in Japan consistently ask "why are there so many lawsuits in the US?". The non-p.c. answer, greed.
"You owe me money because this law says so."
How the hell is a grieving family suppose to get justice for say the murder or wrongful death of a son or daughter when this garbage is clogging up the justice system.
Oh natural selection please work faster!
"You owe me money because this law says so."
How the hell is a grieving family suppose to get justice for say the murder or wrongful death of a son or daughter when this garbage is clogging up the justice system.
Oh natural selection please work faster!
I said that what the government is doing is terrible and you said "Good thing George Washington didn't think like you..."
So all I can conclude is that you think George Washington would like what the government is doing.
In what other way could I read that?
This is the most stupidest post I have ever came across on macrumors. Mods please bring back the down vote button.
Next you will end up saying that Apple wouldn't be sued if Steve Jobs was around. Smh.
Well... we disagree. That lawsuit does not "save us" it's only designed to generate lawsuit money and that's the part that is wrong. The class action suit goes after the wrong people... it's the government that's the problem... not the companies.
You can't sue the federal goverment unless it erm...lets you?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_immunity#Federal_sovereign_immunity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_immunity#Federal_sovereign_immunity
This is the part I don't understand, we have known about this since at lease 2006, now it's a big issue, i've glad it it, but confused...
The Patriot Act required a warrant to obtain this information. The NSA is mining this information at will.
Or in the case of AT&T and others that were involved in the *illegal* wiretapping programme, you have a choice and in the end you choose to throw your customers under the bus and sort it out later by buying retroactive immunity legislation.
I'm appalled at how cooperative businesses are with the government especially when it comes to secret stuff. Definitely illustrates what they think of us mere citizens and consumers.
From what I've read the PRISM programme is voluntary. Companies choose to sign up to it, which is why Twitter isn't on the list.