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Gov't Proposes Massive Homeless Tracking System
Chris Hoofnagle writes "The Dept. of Housing and Urban Development is proposing a massive system of tracking for homeless people and others who are served by shelters and care centers. The system will track people by their SSN, and will collect health (HIV, pregnancy) and mental information. Secret Service and national security agents can gain access to the database by just asking for it! EPIC has released a fact sheet on HMIS, and the public can comment on the guidelines until September 22, 2003, but no electronic comments are being accepted."
WozNet suppositories for everybody on Capitol Hill!
Is this truly the only Earth I can live on?
Now if only we could track spammers this way.
Now with the homeless being tracked, we cant shoot them for sport anymore!
Oh wait, you didnt *wink wink* hear that...
This is my sig. Its pathetic.
Don't you think that if we had known who the penniless homeless were, we could have prevented the massive attack on 09/11/01? They are begging for spare change, and using it to buy AIRLINE TICKETS!
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
Think of all the money we'll save in mental institutions letting these guys we THOUGHT were nuts back out...
He quickly ran off... I was still in shock and not sure if I should chase him down, let alone know what to do with him once caught, but now I can track him down and do the same to his shopping cart.
Sweet revenge!
Why don't we just ear-tag the homeless with RFID's and track their migration like an endangered species?
That's what I was going to suggest. They could start a tag-and-release program; let the public hunt down and "register" the homeless. Sort of like an alternative to deer hunting season.
They're not homeless, they're residentially displaced.
Somebody should the track the Politically Correct crowd, they're the ones to watch out for.
Excessive forking causes un-wanted children.
then we should have mandatory tracking for all major ceos! the enron debacle came in at about $4 billion... that's a lot of food stamps.
2 1337 4 u!
What would one use as bait, a coupla 40's or pure-grain?
-Looking for a job as a materials chemist or multivariat
old people don't need companionship. They need to be isolated and studied so it can be determined what nutrients they have that might be extracted for our personal use.
I guess the same goes for homeless.
for the last time people, I am "frodo from middle eaRTH", not "middle eaST".
So are they going to put tags on their ears and/or homing transmitters on thier backs?
I can see the "scientists" now with big antenae looking for signals of wild homeless people.
I mean, if the govn't is that concerned with homeless people, maybe instead of tracking them they could give them some skills training, food, and a place to stay.
Yes, but we need to make it faster. I propose to tatoo a barcode on everyones forehead. Hey, at least facial recognition software will be easier... :-)
If you take their money, then you have to take their shit.
Hold your hand out, then you better expect some accomidations on your part.
I always thought everyone should have a negative sign tatooed on their forehead, and if you get a disease like Herpes, HIV/AIDS, Tuberculisis, Genital Warts, etc then they finish the tatoo into a positive. That way, us clean MoFo's are protected from you dirty ol bastards.
But, then that's just me.
WTF? Over?
When even government tracking systems can't afford a place to live.
paintball
Well, speaking of Bill Gates, will this database be SQL Server or oracle? MySQL? This being the US Government, it'll probably be SQL Server, web-enabled and ready to hack!
Ummm... below the jerkin of civil liberties, presumably.
All's true that is mistrusted
It's in the implementation details. You can't possibly track the homeless without forcing the homeless to provide information and forcing the caretakers to collect that information. That's where the breech of civil liberties comes into place.
Actually, they won't provide any information, if you read the article you will see that they will be spotted from helicopters and shot with tranquilizers. Then each homeless person will be tagged with either a collar or one of the ear pegs that they use on livestock.
Collar first, ear peg if they "lose" their collar. We don't want to be cruel.
Cheap storage VM.
Calm down. Breathe deep...
Are we O.K. now? Good!
Please compose yourself, and read the link ...
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
I for one, welcome our new facist masters. May they rule over us with an iron fist.
If they'd just speak 2 words without a y'all and stop trying to screw anything with horns we'd never believe they were from texas anyways...
errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?