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CDC Wants to Track Travelers
gearspring writes "According to Government Health IT the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wants your email address, your mobile phone number, names of your traveling companions, your name, your address, and your emergency contacts name, address, and phone number. This information would be gathered by airlines, travel agents, and online reservation systems for all travelers. Their goal is to protect us in the event of a pandemic. The SARS crisis showed them the difficulty of notifying people that they may have been exposed to a disease. It is a noble goal, but couldn't they do this anonymously?"
Anonymously? What, will they use a war-dialer to randomly notify people that someone somewhere was likely exposed to a new strain of bird flu? Maybe a really big phone tree?
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It is a noble goal, but couldn't they do this anonymously?
It just begs the question, doesn't it?
Back home in the good old days KGB used to collect this sort of information. Just in case you get sick and they need to give you a shot.
and they need to collect it electronically because, when they used to print it out on a piece of paper, those slips were often confiscated at check-in because terrorists could threaten to give someone a really nasty paper cut with it...
Cool! And what about here goal?
So the Cult of the Dead Cow has gone from crackers to trackers.
Yes, it all makes perfect sense!
If this thing becomes transmitible to the common house cat, killing and eating birds in .
every city that has alley cats . We got ourselves a recipe for a bad situation
We'll be safe. When (if ever) do you think was the last time a slashdotter got any pussy?
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.