The Obama administration has proposed expanding the government's ability to wiretap emails and internet services like Facebook by requiring technology changes to allow the wiretapping to occur. This reflects the tremendous growth in communicating through the internet as compared to phone service in the past.
In principle it seems to be a reasonable proposal, since the government still has to go through the normal legal hurdles to obtain a wiretap.
But it is another about face for a Democratic administration, given the enormous abuse the Bush administration took from Obama and fellow Democrats for conducting surveillance, such as wiretapping, on potential terrorist communications.
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