California voters yesterday approved a new law billed as curbing human trafficking. A lesser-known section of Proposition 35, however, requires residents convicted of indecent exposure and other sex-related crimes to register their social-networking profiles and e-mail addresses with police.
That violates the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of speech, including anonymous speech, the ACLU and the Electronic Frontier Foundation said in a lawsuit (PDF) filed today. Full Article
This is a gross invasion of privacy. The internet is no longer a “luxury” but a necessity of modern life! We have our entire lives online from banking, shopping, communications (skype and email) to medical insurance and information. All of this is done via websites that require password and internet identifiers to authenticate the individual accessing the information/site.
Having all of the personal and private information in the hands of the government is a violation of constitutional rights and makes living impossible in our modern society.
I am sure that the Nazis would have demanded this private information from their victims as well and would have loved to have this sort of technology to spy and hunt them down as well.