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Feds Open 'Total' Tech Spy System
Diesel Dave writes "A Wired article reports: 'On Wednesday, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will begin awarding contracts for the design and implementation of a Total Information Awareness (TIA) system...The Total Information Awareness program, with its ability to provide persistent storage of everything from credit card, to employment, to medical, to ISP records, is a recipe for civil liberties disaster unless there are provisions for citizens to find out who is looking at their records and to see and correct those records.' The foundation for the omnipotent National ID database has now been laid."
To silence this person, they will have the ability to make any embarrassing information public (none of which may even have been illegal).
You should always live your life such that, if your darkest secrets were to be known by all, you could keep on living your life.
I don't care if "everyone" does it. Either a thing is accepted and you can go ahead and do it, or a thing is wrong and you desrve any ridicule you get for doing it.
Why does being an aethist mean you are unAmerican?
"It's not like your minds are as open as the source you love..." - Me to the majority of Slashdot.