No it does not. A warrant for a phone tap is only required in order to use what is recorded. Nine out of ten phone taps have no warrant. It only requires a phone call to the phone company by the police. The Los Angles Times did a long article about this back in the 1990's.

You just made the argument FOR the Supreme Court to hear the case. I can't imagine them not overturning this. Kagan will no doubt join a majority doing so. The only way to increase freedom is to decrease surveillance, which means weakening the police. Less FBI, less CIA, less Pentagon spending (they spy on you if you oppose them and will even initiate Federal prosecutions through civilian police agencies like the FBI).

National Security trumps everything including the Constitution and the children. An American soldier sodomized a 12 year old boy at Abu Ghraib. The National Security Act of 1947 burned the Constitution.

And how would I go about doing either of these things? Particularly jamming a GPS transmission. Keep in mind that most of these devices log over thirty days and then transmit that information perhaps at 3:30 AM for a few seconds before resuming logging another months worth of driving.

How is it expensive? The device cost no more than a thousand dollars. They upload the data once a month if set to do so and someone can click through it when they want. They can search the data quickly if they have something in mind. Getting a warrant is as easy as sending a package from the post office, probably easier. The only way the Fed would have trouble is if the person in question was "connected" and thus gave the judge pause. As for your comment about .gov spyware I'm sure you are correct about that. The only hope for freedom is LESS police.

Gonzo, War on Terror, First Person Shooter...

It would indeed be a tragedy for civilization if such data were lost and the mind of the early 21st century American went unrecorded.

And yeah maybe it is an inside job. Paying clerks $6.00 an hour to work from midnight to 8:00AM does not buy a lot of loyalty. Where do you think most of the pilfered credit card numbers really come from? Try paying people a living wage and this won't happen. Employees who have to live with their mother are not adverse to listening to some ones criminal scheme, which to them sounds like justice rendered.

"You mean like how the US government censors war reporters. Or how the US government doesn't allow the caskets of soldiers to be photographed?"

You must be referring to the murder of Al Jazeera reporters and the Italian communist party reporter in Iraq. The so-called "American" reporters do not need to be censored. They are all "ride-alongs". They don't support the police, they are the police.

That is certainly possible. There is a strong synergy between the "main stream" media, Federal intelligence, military and police agencies, and Fortune 500 corporations. Also the big elite Universities, Harvard, Yale, MIT, Stanford etc. That is the government.

Have you ever Googled "google, NSA" (without the quotes)? It is not a pretty sight. I would be shocked at this point to discover that Google was not working hand-in-glove with the CIA, Pentagon and FBI. Same with Microsoft. Surely the CIA, Pentagon and FBI can enter a Windows computer (and OSX) at will through a supplied back door. The only people capable of discovering something like this would also wish to exploit their knowledge, so would never reveal it. Google and Microsoft claim it is against the law to reveal their relationships and activities with the Federal government. That tells you all you need to know.

If an unemployed blogger had done this he would get many years in prison (perhaps, I'm American so maybe this does not apply in Australia). Not only that, but the "newspaper" involved here would pay no attention to the blogger's rights and report the story the way the government prosecutors wished it to be written. The editor of this paper is laughing about the "controversy" and enjoying the attention as he is part of the club who run the country.

"You know, at the point where the FBI is called in to investigate your wrong-doing, maybe you should start thinking about admitting that you actually fucked up!" I guarantee you that no prosecutions will flow from this. Not to anyone from the school board. Cops and teachers hang together, all the way to the altar. They're family.

They should have grabbed his hard drive. Probably has gigs of child p**n on it.

The FBI does not want to prosecute the administrators, they want access so they can catch the kids downloading movies and send them to Federal prison. --