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False Information A-Okay in Primary FBI Database
blamanj writes "The FBI's National Crime Information Center (NCIC), which compiles a huge database on criminals, arrest warrants, missing persons, etc., no longer has to put up with the pesky problem of ensuring the data is accurate. I guess the Justice Department isn't particularly concerned with justice anymore." The full text of the provision which the main FBI criminal database will no longer have to adhere to is: "Each agency that maintains a system of records shall ... maintain all records which are used by the agency in making any determination about any individual with such accuracy, relevance, timeliness, and completeness as is reasonably necessary to assure fairness to the individual in the determination."
Like I've said before, the Department of Justice would be more aptly named the Department of Prosecution. At least Ashcroft has his priorities straight.
The future isn't what it used to be.
What the hell? Do I get to now ensure that the information on my taxes is incorrect? The name I give when pulled over is wrong? Lie on my job application? Pee in church? It numbs me to think that the government and corporations have more rights than I do. Especially since 'they' are the ones 'adjusting' my rights.
I think it's time to start a company to shield myself from the US, or convince my state to leave the Union.
Who's with me? We'll call ourselves Quebec, and if we get homesick we'll wage a land war in the middle east!
Since accuracy is no longer important, does this mean that GWs record will show he's a deserting, cokesnorting alchy? Or that he no longer is an upstanding American, concerned with the rights of the people in his stellar rise to godhood?
If you mod me down, you admit you masturbate while watching Christopher Lowell's show on HGTV.