Petraeus Case Raises Fears About Privacy in Digital Era

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10 pointsdanso2 comments

I'm disappointed that I don't have a source on this, but from what I understand, you have to sign papers that gives the government full access to your accounts at any time when you join the CIA. For such a high level individual I don't think that the internal spying is unreasonable, especially when it is an understood part of the system.

They did get Paula Broadwell's email information, and she wasn't CIA.

After what we learned of the other general, it seems like they might have pulled in a lot of other metadata (who mailed who) about the email activity of a lot of third parties.

The furor surrounding this investigation may help us to understand how much information is easy for the government to obtain with only minimal oversight.

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