“FBI Director James Comey has put to rest any hope of achieving privacy in the United States. Speaking at a cybersecurity conference at Boston College on Wednesday, Comey said that ‘there is no such thing as absolute privacy in America.’ He added that everything Americans engage in, including conversations with members of the clergy and their attorneys, live within ‘judicial reach.’ ‘In appropriate circumstances, a judge can compel any one of us to testify in court about those very private communications,’ Comey said, according to CNN, which obtained a video of his remarks.”
Read more: http://fortune.com/2017/03/09/fbi-james-comey-privacy/
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