RIP s22 notices SI

[George Danezis]

For real life examples of political surveillance that went wrong (using both 
traffic data and content data) one can read the Church committee reports at:

http://www.derechos.net/paulwolf/cointelpro/cointel.htm

Highlights include, but are not limited to, the surveillance of Martin Luther 
King, and other "subversives", the usage of the information to disrupt their 
political activities, ...

The introduction and summary should be enough for the casual reader:
http://www.derechos.net/paulwolf/cointelpro/churchfinalreportIIa.htm

Yours,

George

> > (c) without remotely accepting that ``those with nothing to hide have
> > nothing to fear'' is a reasonable position, find a way to actually
> > address that point with concrete examples.  For my Birmingham MP, I was
> > going to point out that the local council might be very interested to
> > know who had emailed their MP during the housing transfer referendum.
>
> Quite so.
>
> Or the survivors of the Paddington crash anything to fear from government
> investigation of their contacts with some  political party other than the
> ruling party?
>
> Owen