Second Prototype

I guess I have a thing about the "right to privacy" that we're supposedly guaranteed in this country. Whenever the technology we have for transmitting personal data is penetrated by yet another government domestic spying program, I envision it as rather "personal". So today's news about an Australian company hawking a spying technology that would allow ISPs to inspect the transmissions of all communication on their network (even encrypted data they claim) was not a nice way to end the day. It doesn't matter HOW they try to justify this or even implement it, it is nothing more than institutionalized datamining. George Orwell might have had less of a sense of humor about it than I do but we both imagine no good coming from a government taking up the power to monitor its citizens' remotely all the time.