Emailing "Violating Privacy on July Fourth?"
Slashdot has [picked up](http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/20/1234214) a report from the [credit card industry lobbyist](http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/3/12/980/80343/6/474935) "Freedom's Watch" group saying that small businesses will be required to report electronic transactions to the federal government.
The same bill was attacked by the blog of the [Competitive Enterprise Institute](http://www.openmarket.org/2008/05/23/fingerprint-registry-in-housing-bill/) for requiring fingerprinting of mortgage brokers, a story [slashdot also picked up](http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/24/1817220&tid=158).
I don't have all the facts yet, but this is a story I'm keeping my eye on.
This sort of thing is going on all the time now. A judge just gave Viacom [access to all of Google's YouTube logs](http://www.opennetworkstoday.com/2008/07/judge-hands-via.html).