[ExI] history of privacy laws chart

[Adrian Tymes]

On Apr 5, 2016 7:32 AM, "William Flynn Wallace" <foozler83 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Suppose, on a false clue, a SWAT team invades your house looking for
nonexistent drugs.  Everything is pulled out of drawers and dumped on the
floor, including the contents of your freezer.

Suppose nothing.  That kind of thing happened to me back in the '80s - not
quite that severe, but the first clue I had that cops were in my house was
when one opened the door with gun drawn and pointed at me.  I was a preteen
kid playing a text-graphics video game at the time.  This was part of the
first (I think) wave of cybercrime hysteria.

This is apparently starting to happen more often in the past few years - a
tool of trollers for intimidation, among other things.  These days it even
has a name: swatting.  More details at http://en.wikipedia.com/wiki/Swatting
.  I don't think it's yet hit sitting members of Congress, but it has hit
certain state legislators.
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