I think ultimately everything will be cleaned up, but nothing keeps up with the speed of the internet, especially laws and government. I am glad that organizations like EFF are working to make the government catch up quicker than they would on their own.

Thanks for stopping by, Jason, it’s always great to banter with ya!

Jason, you say “it starts with the individual” and that’s true, but what happens when (assuming you’re self employed) go to Dallas on Tuesday and the whole time tweet about fun stuff you’re doing, throw your receipts in your suitcase and fly home on Thursday. But by the time you do your bookkeeping, you can’t read the date anymore on that expensive dinner and instead of going back and digging for the date, you just guesstimate and say it was Monday. Problem is that your tweets say you were there Tuesday and Wednesday and the IRS has done a spot check to compare your tweets with your tax return and find inconsistencies and decide a full audit is necessary and they plan on using your social networking profiles to verify where you were and when.

I see that as a strong possibility, but don’t you think it’s fair that you at least know that going in instead of getting that “we can’t tell you how we know, but we are aware of certain things” letter from a governmental agency? Or getting the call that the hot chick that’s been talking to you on Facebook is really a detective who decided that your avatar looked like a candidate for credit card fraud and is now calling you in for a picture of you taken with a wax sculpture of Bernie Madoff that Mr. Detective thinks is real?

Seriously, track known gangsters, terrorists, etc, that have shown cause for suspicion but citizens should know what the government is or is not doing to protect or condemn them.