You Are a Suspect

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow" <geoff () iconia com>
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 09:44:59 +0100
To: "Dave E-mail Pamphleteer Farber" <farber () cis upenn edu>
Subject: You Are a Suspect

You Are a Suspect

By WILLIAM SAFIRE
The New York Times

WASHINGTON — If the Homeland Security Act is not amended before passage,
here is what will happen to you:

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.

This is not some far-out Orwellian scenario. It is what will happen to your
personal freedom in the next few weeks if John Poindexter gets the
unprecedented power he seeks.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/14/opinion/14SAFI.html

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