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Would you rather be strip-searched or data-mined?

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Thursday November 14, 2002 17:29author by bertie and political police

Echelon goes overground in US

Why don't SF mention Echelon when asked about spy-rings. I'm sure they know all about it

EXTRACT:

As neocon columnist Bill Safire points out in today's New York Times, the Homeland Security Act will, among other things, empower an ominous new government agency called the Office of Information Awareness (OIA). The mysterious agency, much-discussed here on GNN, would allow:

"Every purchase you make with a credit card, every magazine subscription you buy and medical prescription you fill, every Web site you visit and e-mail you send or receive, every academic grade you receive, every bank deposit you make, every trip you book and every event you attend - all these transactions and communications will go into what the Defense Department describes as 'a virtual, centralized grand database.'

To this computerized dossier on your private life from commercial sources, add every piece of information that government has about you - passport application, driver's license and bridge toll records, judicial and divorce records, complaints from nosy neighbors to the F.B.I., your lifetime paper trail plus the latest hidden camera surveillance - and you have the supersnoop's dream: a 'Total Information Awareness' about every U.S. citizen."

Full Text: http://www.guerrillanews.com/civil_liberties/doc835.html

Related Link: http://www.guerrillanews.com/civil_liberties/doc835.html

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havent you read finghins comments?
author by pat cpublication date Fri Nov 15, 2002 12:20author address author phone

sf are the real pro imperialists!
simple really. (like finghin)

there is also a Federal Prisoner Location service.
author by iosafpublication date Fri Nov 15, 2002 12:50author address author phone

which can help you trace Ex-cons of the US federal prison service. the USA locks up more of its people than any other state worldwide, it is a prison state. IŽll hunt out the number and affix it later.

shove it up sideways and swivel
author by alan b'stardpublication date Sat Nov 16, 2002 00:30author address author phone

i would rather you shove your finger up your own arsehole, if you enjoy it so much, and keep your nose out of my buisness.

i think IŽll go for the data mining.
author by iosafpublication date Sun Nov 17, 2002 19:03author address author phone

i suggest trolling through everything IŽve ever written on indymedia, collecting all my pamphlets, looking at my old school reports, health records, letters from the debt-collectors, evicition notices and personal correspondence.
Then you might figure out that IŽm an opinionated egotistical slightly maddened anarchist. Now I donŽt think sticking a finger up my bum will do that.

The New Total Information Awareness Resource Center
author by maxglick - Total Information Awareness Resource Centerpublication date Mon Nov 18, 2002 11:13author email totalinformationawareness at yahoo dot comauthor address author phone

The Total Information Awareness Resource Center.
http://geocities.com/totalinformationawareness
Your source for information and action concerning the Total Information Awareness program.

Related Link: http://geocities.com/totalinformationawareness.com
Prison Debate Open or Closed?
author by iosafpublication date Tue Sep 23, 2003 16:06author address author phone

I'm sorry but I still haven't got the hang of the Taoiseach's Tuesday/Wednesday question time.

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