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A Peek At DHS's Files On You
kenblakely writes "We've known for a while that the Department of Homeland Security was collecting travel records on those who cross US borders, but now you can see it for yourself. A Freedom of Information Act request got this blogger a look at DHS's file on his travels. Pretty comprehensive — all the way down to the IP address of the host he used to make a reservation."
I wish they would also track credit card spending in the same file.
Perhaps I could then just forward the DHS records for my travel expense reports.
Nullius in verba
Wait, too soon.
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I remember an episode of Law and Order: SVU from last year where Richard Belzer's character requests his own file under FOIA. He's telling them where they can park the trucks to deliver it, but he's sorely disappointed when he gets his file and it only contains a single sheet of paper. The writers of the show must be Douglas Adams fans, cause the paper said something fairly equivalent to "Mostly harmless." Belzer's character complained about this, along the lines of "But I was a violent revolutionary!"
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Only when corroborated by a /. post.
To get them to start a record on you. Begin record: "Subject requests non-existent record of self, begin monitoring immediately after non-record is given."
Don't you fucking remember 9/11, when terrorists flew pirated mp3s and child pornography into the twin towers?
Never forget.
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ECHELON is a government program to find words like bomb, jihad, plutonium, assassinate, and anarchy.
Meh. Vegetarians are murderers and those populist vegans are a sell out. I'm a seventh-level vegan.
I don't eat anything that casts a shadow.
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beware he who would deny you access to information, for in his mind he dreams himself your master
Don't you fucking remember 9/11, when terrorists flew pirated mp3s and child pornography into the twin towers?
Never forget.
They might have. Since we didn't check their laptops we will never know.
It's a shame that we don't live in a world that contains a worldwide network of information where answers to many questions can easily be found.
all evidence has some *finite* weight, besides 10,000 lemmings can't be wrong ....
Since the airlines stopped paying them, I don't think there are any more travel agents. At least I haven't heard of anyone using one in the last 6 years or so. I guess they might still exist, but you have to pay them for anything except cruise ships - I think they still get a commission on those.
Airfare? Last time was at least 2002, maybe before that.
Furthermore an ILLINOIS politician said it so it must be true. Here in Illinois we have such honest, civic-minded politicians after all.
So that's what melted the girders!
Yeah, like, "Where's my damn schnitzel!?"
Which sucks, because if you're going to have an intrusive government with no regard for civil liberties, you might as well have decent pork sausages.
God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.
It's been outsourced to Israel
Yes, it's much better to have elected profiteers take care of it.
I maintain, that without the death camps, a very important piece is missing
*sigh*.. fine, I'll set up a death camp. Will that make you happy?
"The cup is in turn designed for holding hot or cold liquids, and has an open rim and closed base." --US Patent #5425497
I figure one of these days I'll just get the data from a disc left on a train seat next to me. Won't have to pay anything for it.
Well, thanks to the Internet, I'm now bored with sex.
Black pepper is just a hoax generated by the government. Clearly my evidence holds precedent. That being that by doing nothing, no elephants have trampled my lawn.
Maybe they had Sony batteries in their laptops.
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