That smart card would be very intrusive in terms of following the employees' movements around the building, even into the bathroom.

Echelon is a black box, and nobody outside the intelligence community knows what is inside it.

The FBI's position is essentially, 'Trust us, we're the government,' ... But we have a long history of the FBI abusing its authority.

When we begin to say to police officers that they're allowed to guess about who's dangerous, we're inviting the possibility of abuse.

skeptical that you can both identify dangerous items and eliminate embarrassing imagery.

There's absolutely no bar on collecting plates in public. There haven't been any legal challenges, because it's not illegal.