US National Security Agency Admits to Monitoring Internet Usage

1:51 am on December 31, 2005 | Category: Law, Regulation, Web Services

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The US National Security Agency has just admitted to loading hidden tracking cookies onto the computers of anyone visiting their website, in order to monitor the online activities of ordinary people.

This secret tracking system was only acknowledged after a tech-savvy privacy advocate proved its existence and made the information public. The NSA has since issued an official apology along with a promise to discontinue the use of tracking cookies.

This issue does, however, bring up some disturbing concerns about just how far the American government is willing to go in their apparent quest to violate the privacy of citizens. As a free global medium, the internet is something that shouldn’t be monitored by any government organization, and in this case, the NSA only caved in because they were “caught in the act” so to speak.

When coupled with President Bush’s recent admission to monitoring the phone calls of US citizens without a warrant, it makes one ask the obvious question. Just what other dirty secrets is the American government hiding? What else are they doing to erode privacy rights in the supposedly free society of the United States?

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