{"id":7,"date":"2003-06-11T18:43:00","date_gmt":"2003-06-11T18:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=7"},"modified":"2010-01-02T12:59:57","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T12:59:57","slug":"7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/11\/7\/","title":{"rendered":"I Get Spam. Can I Have Sweeping Federal Police Powers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seems that attentive folks, all six of us, are up in arms, legs, and, in some cases, tentacles about the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/2100-1028_3-1015517.html?tag=lh\" target=\"new\">new powers that the FTC wants<\/a> to combat spam.  That&#8217;s right, to combat a nuisance, federal officials (read: federal bureaucrats) want sweeping new powers, including (as I quote from the CNet news article):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<blockquote>\n<li>Let the FTC send a confidential demand to an ISP as part of an investigation and requiring the recipient to &#8220;keep such process confidential.&#8221; Without it, the FTC argues, &#8220;when fraud targets are given notice of FTC investigations they often destroy documents.&#8221; The target of the investigation may not be notified for up to half a year, according to this proposal.<\/li>\n<li>Permit foreign police to obtain subscriber records and customer information from ISPs as part of an FTC investigation that is already under way.<\/li>\n<li>Grant the FTC the power to cooperate closely with foreign police who are investigating &#8220;fraudulent, deceptive, misleading or unfair commercial conduct.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Immunize part of the FTC from the Freedom of Information Act by saying the FTC may choose not to disclose certain &#8220;material obtained from a foreign law enforcement agency.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Open the FBI&#8217;s massive National Crime Information Center computer to FTC investigators. That computer came under fire in March after the Justice Department said it would no longer strive to maintain the database&#8217;s accuracy and integrity.<\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Suh-weet<\/em>, but why pull up short?  Why not add these things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ability to bulldoze houses and offices of suspected spam e-mail senders.<\/li>\n<li>Ability to stun, by electrical or blunt object means, people who open spam messages and\/or fall for the &#8220;click here to remove&#8221; trick.<\/li>\n<li>Federal prison sentences for pinheads who order pills that purport to improve their golf games.<\/li>\n<li>All other duties and powers as desired.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After all, in the post 9\/11 world, if we cannot create new powers for government agencies to abuse, the terrorists and spammers will have won.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seems that attentive folks, all six of us, are up in arms, legs, and, in some cases, tentacles about the new powers that the FTC wants to combat spam. That&#8217;s right, to combat a nuisance, federal officials (read: federal bureaucrats) want sweeping new powers, including (as I quote from the CNet news article): Let the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5002,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/5002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}