{"id":48071,"date":"2009-11-24T22:01:26","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T03:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091124\/0030117063.shtml"},"modified":"2009-11-24T22:01:26","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T03:01:26","slug":"could-you-prove-that-the-government-was-watching-you-illegally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/48071","title":{"rendered":"Could You Prove That The Government Was Watching You Illegally?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wired has an article about a court <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/threatlevel\/2009\/11\/court-surveillance\/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20wired27b%20%28Blog%20-%2027B%20Stroke%206%20%28Threat%20Level%29%29\" >dismissing a lawsuit by a guy who claimed the government was spying on him<\/a>.  The claims sound pretty much like your run-of-the-mill tinfoil-hat-wearing paranoid, so it&#8217;s no surprise that the government tossed out the lawsuit.  But, as David Kravets points out in the article, what if the government actually <i>did<\/i> put someone under 24-hour surveillance.  Would there be any way to prove it?  Since the government won&#8217;t admit to things like who&#8217;s on the no-fly list and still supports warrantless wiretaps, it could very easily make anyone who really is under surveillance out to be a nutcase tinfoil-hat wearing lunatic.  It seems quite unlikely that was true in this case (or in most cases of such claims), but it does seem bizarre that if you really <i>were<\/i> in such a situation, proving it would be almost impossible as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091124\/0030117063.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091124\/0030117063.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20091124\/0030117063&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=beaed51fca43fe22328ca3da30023e37&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=beaed51fca43fe22328ca3da30023e37&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2225\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=52tlLrRBuc8:WwuIz1KDHnQ:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=52tlLrRBuc8:WwuIz1KDHnQ:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=52tlLrRBuc8:WwuIz1KDHnQ:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/52tlLrRBuc8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired has an article about a court dismissing a lawsuit by a guy who claimed the government was spying on him. The claims sound pretty much like your run-of-the-mill tinfoil-hat-wearing paranoid, so it&#8217;s no surprise that the government tossed out the lawsuit. But, as David Kravets points out in the article, what if the government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}