What is the parties' stance on telecom industries sharing information with the government?
The national security issue in the War on Terror, this particular environment that we live in right now, means that republican's and national security conservative's are more willing to take that as a good thing. As these businesses are working with the government to provide information that is going to be necessary for national security or for other things. The democrats, however, look at that as a lot of times personal information, and a lot of times there's a problem with the government having too much power, gaining too much power. And again, this crosses party lines because the libertarians in the republican party don't like that either. And that's one of the reasons Ron Paul is popular as a republican candidate. Now, recently, in the recent budget, one of the things that the republicans were able to get through on that budget was that, the telecom businesses that have provided government information are immune from law suits filed by people who, was their personal information that was given to government. So, those telecom industries that have given information to the government-you can't sue them if this budget goes forward.
