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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."

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  1. god forbid! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    jeepers creepers!

    save our souls!

  2. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FP baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaybe! YEAH! ALL YOU OTHERS FAIL IT!

    Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
    Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.

  3. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Homeless b.wolf cluster?!

  4. I call... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    BS! Fuck the Gay niggers association of america...

  5. IN SOVIET RUSSIA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The Homeless tag YOU!

  6. In Soviet Russia by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Homeless track YOU!

  7. What do you mean "new?" by Nagatzhul · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Try posting on some of the political based threads some times. Heaven help you if you are educated on politics and psychology of Middle Eastern societies! Your opinions will be treated as near blasphemy by those who are ignorant and have no more exposure than CNN on the state of the world.

    Right wing political correctness is their religion and they mod based on it.

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  8. Re:May be bad, but also good. by praedor · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    But you ARE an animal by definition. Humans, ie, Homo sapiens, are animals. You meant that you don't want to be tracked the way humans track nonhuman animals.

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