Not trying to pick any sort of personal fight here, but that a step down a "slippery slope" from the usual question, "Who's rights have been violated?"
My partner and I have, to this day, not told a soul involved what happened to their information. To do so would, I believe, be a felony under the Un_Patriot Act.
To this day I am still called a liar when I mention this. I will mention it again because whether I'm believed or not, it's the truth of what happened.
It was May of 2003. My partner, who lives some 50 miles from me, awoke at 6 AM to a knock on the door, and 4 FBI agents standing in his front lawn. They picked him over me, simply because he was only a mile from where our servers were housed.
They took him into "custody" and escorted him to the server. He was only released after the entire contents of our server were successfully copied off onto a system of their own. No search warrant, no paperwork whatsoever was displayed. Simply give us a copy, or go to jail and we'll still get a copy.
Without warrant they walked off with the online business records of at least 3 companies, and their business email. They also took away all our files on the server and the personal email of some 25-30 other people. All this requires a warrant, BY THE WAY, unless they say the secret word "terrorism", giving you no proof of same, or even a recourse to be sure.
Their "vow" is worthless to me as well. They have carried on like this for 5 years now, and from what I can see, rarely in good faith.
Like-wise I've been saying from Day One the UnPatriot Act isn't about terrorism, it's about Me n Thee. Only thing I'm suprised about is they haven't threatened to arrest CBS News or Inspector General Glenn A. Fine.