When the United States Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson was asked, "do you believe the government has the right to bulk collection of records from millions of individuals without a warrant", his response was that the question was "beyond my competence as secretary of homeland security" to answer.
The original article touches on some important details and raises key criticisms of the slipshod method currently used to obtain communications records for millions of people from US phone companies in violation of the spirit, if not letter, of the US Constitution's Fourth Amendment prohibition on unreasonable government searches and seizures.
Source video for quotes and context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_auHdE89qQ
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anal Pumpernickel on Wednesday May 06 2015, @02:08PM
Using some arbitrary name online or choosing not to has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not you are an activist in real life.
If your going to make statements about standing up for something I find it hard to take it seriously when you can't be bothered to at least take some ownership of your comments.
Then you're focusing on the person rather than the content, which isn't very logical.
It's a respect thing.
I don't find it disrespectful to not use an account on a website to post comments.