Bradley in DC
05-22-2008, 04:06 PM
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-9950125-38.html
It would be one thing if Barton were a principled privacy advocate who
was also assailing Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL, and so on. But he's not.
In fact, Barton has a long history of embracing more, not less,
surveillance. Bills he voted for include the Real ID Act, the Patriot
Act, and a proposal to expand Internet surveillance performed without a
court order. He opposed a proposal to disclose federal agencies' data
mining to Congress. (Rep. Ron Paul, a true privacy advocate, voted
opposite Barton on each of those bills.)
And this is coming from a politician who boasts in his official bio that
he, Barton, was the "founding co-chairman of the Congressional Privacy
Caucus."
It would be one thing if Barton were a principled privacy advocate who
was also assailing Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL, and so on. But he's not.
In fact, Barton has a long history of embracing more, not less,
surveillance. Bills he voted for include the Real ID Act, the Patriot
Act, and a proposal to expand Internet surveillance performed without a
court order. He opposed a proposal to disclose federal agencies' data
mining to Congress. (Rep. Ron Paul, a true privacy advocate, voted
opposite Barton on each of those bills.)
And this is coming from a politician who boasts in his official bio that
he, Barton, was the "founding co-chairman of the Congressional Privacy
Caucus."