Copyrighted Image? DMCA | Forget the doomsday talk about American intelligence going blind. Thanks to back-door provisions and alternate collection schemes, U.S. spies won't stop snooping. Not only does the U.S. government have all sorts of other ways to collect the same kind of intelligence outlined in the Patriot Act, but there's also a little-noticed back door in the act that allows U.S. spy agencies to gather information in pretty much the same ways they did before. In other words, there's a zombie Patriot Act--one that lives on, though the existing version is dead. |