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It would be the equivalent of tapping every phone call you ever made!

The point about the invasion of privacy is that it will not
just be used to prevent terrorism. As we've already seen in
Britain anti-terrorist measures - surveillance cameras -
have been used for car-parking offenses!!
The rationale is, if the technology's in place why not use it!
The other danger is that records will be kept that may not
be accurate: mistaken identity, human error etc. People will
end up with things they didn't do on their 'records'.
The powers that be, having access to such powerful
records, will be able to prevent you from doing what you
have a perfect right to do without you have access to the
reasons or the recourse to correct your 'record'. This has,
and continues to happen with, credit records.
It is also what makes an apartheid state so powerful:
remember South Africa? People couldn't travel from one
area of the country to another because they didn't have the
'correct' pass.
These measures must be opposed by everyone in every
country.

Posted by: pjher   Posted on: 03/20/09 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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