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Gov't Proposes Massive Homeless Tracking System

Posted by michael on from the bagged-and-tagged dept.

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."

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  1. No, we need to track politicians, dammit! by corebreech · · Score: 5, Funny

    WozNet suppositories for everybody on Capitol Hill!

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    1. Re:No, we need to track politicians, dammit! by Uruk · · Score: 5, Funny

      No, we don't need to track politicians. We already know where all of the crack houses, bordellos, cheap motels, and liquor stores are. On the off chance that they're actually in session, we also already know where the Capitol is, thanks.

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  2. Works for me... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now if only we could track spammers this way.

  3. Re:Not to be cruel, but... by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 5, Funny
    You rotten Communist!

    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!

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  4. Hey Mister! by LiftOp · · Score: 4, Funny
    "The government put a tracking device in my teeth!! No, seriously....!!"

    Think of all the money we'll save in mental institutions letting these guys we THOUGHT were nuts back out...

  5. That's good.. by preric · · Score: 5, Funny
    Because one morning I came out to my parking space (I live in an apartment near the beach) to catch a homeless man 'cleaning' his ass crack on the corner of my truck's bumper.

    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!

  6. Re:Not to be cruel, but... by gantzm · · Score: 5, Funny

    They're not homeless, they're residentially displaced.

    Somebody should the track the Politically Correct crowd, they're the ones to watch out for.

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  7. Re:Not to be cruel, but... by Frymaster · · Score: 4, Funny
    The point of the tracking system is to prevent fraud.

    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.

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