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To: melbell
My post is no more hyperbolic than yours - Access is a database program sold by a private company to voluntary customers, but that technology could allow government to store and process information about us.

How is that any less dangerous than a GPS tracking chip installed in a cell phone sold by a private company to voluntary customers, but that technology could allow government to track anyone's location in near real time.

Saying that any technology that could be abused to "violate rights" is dangerous and ought not to be developed or sold, is sheer Luddism.

37 posted on 12/10/2004 8:03:19 AM PST by Chemist_Geek ("Drill, R&D, and conserve" should be our watchwords! Energy independence for America!)
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To: Chemist_Geek

Access COULD allow the government to store and process information about us...but it does not provide them a means by which to COLLECT said information.


38 posted on 12/10/2004 8:15:23 AM PST by melbell (groovy)
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