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Re: You are being tracked, traced and stalked as we speak

> Got a quick pass on your vehicle for toll roads?
No. For the rare occasions when I use toll roads, a handful of coins in the ash tray is adequate.

> Use a credit card?
Very rarely. Unlike the US, in my country people who use a credit card for every little thing are regarded as bad money managers. I basically just use mine for restaurants, so the secret cabal will be able to tell that I love Vietnamese claypot cooking.

> Got a cell phone?
Sure. And there's a whole bunch of legal protections against absuing it--unlike passports, which are intentionally *for* tracking you. And if I had a higher paranoia level, I could always get a pre-paid.

> Got OnStar?
Nope. How many people do?

> From your name (real name) I can locate you from clues you leave in your posts and then go online to public records of your county
The rolls in my country are *not* online, because unlike your screwed up country we have privacy laws.

> Think your vote is secret? Nope. When you vote in the primaries you vote in a particular parties elections. Statistics show that very few people change their votes in the gen election.
I don't quite understand how this would work in the US but in my country this information has been anonymised for over 100 years. The only part of my vote that remains attached to my name is the fact that I *did* vote, and this is only kept until the election is declared valid.

> Election rolls are public.
In my country, the public part is name + electoral district. Nothing else. Each district has approximately 50,000 people (not all of voting age, of course). The rest of the roll--the private part--does include exact street address, but this is used solely by election referees to disambiguate people with similar names. Actually I think in cases of disputes there is system whereby people can visually inspect parts of the roll but you can't take copies nor do it on a casual basis; you need to register a complaint first. If you were a PI trying to abuse it you'ld soon get caught.

> Technology just makes it easier that's all
Plus the fact that America, "Land of the Free", seems to have the worst privacy protection in the civilised world, and in fact a lot worse than a lot of uncivilised places, too. It's no wonder that the US is the originator of this screwed up, misbegotten passport idea.

The whole thing would have been a GOOD idea with two simple changes:
a) contact readers only, no RFID; and
b) realistic timeframe for total rejigging of a centuries-old system, so bugs can be ironed out of the new system.

Posted by: fschiapelli   Posted on: 04/03/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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