Stop the Pentagon Plan to Mine our Private Lives [liberal rag but interesting opinion]

actforchange ^ | 12/7/2002 (?) | ACLU

[HiTech RedNeck]

In the last several days, media reports have revealed that a little-known Defense Department office is developing a computer system that would provide government officials with the ability to snoop into all aspects of our private lives without a search warrant or proof of criminal wrongdoing.

The Pentagon's new Office of Information Awareness is building a system called "Total Information Awareness" that would effectively provide government officials with immediate access to our personal information: all of our communications (phone calls, emails and web searches), financial records, purchases, prescriptions, school records, medical records and travel history. Under this program, our entire lives would be catalogued and available to government officials.

Leading this initiative is John Poindexter, the former Reagan era National Security Adviser who famously said that it was his duty to withhold information from Congress. In his new post as Head of the Pentagon Office of Information Awareness, Poindexter has been quietly promoting the idea of creating "a virtual centralized database" that would have the "data-mining" power to pry into the most minute and intimate details of our private lives.

[HiTech RedNeck]

This is an ACLU article from one of the most looie-liberal rags you can find, yet it brings up some very thoughtful points. What it doesn't say is the thing that would make it of most concern to conservatives: what happens with this apparatus under a Hillary! presidency?

[Free Vulcan]

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

[Mulder]

all of our communications (phone calls, emails and web searches), financial records, purchases, prescriptions, school records, medical records and travel history

The Sovietization of America continues.

Our borders are wide open and our "leaders" are pleading for more moslems to come into our country. Yet, our privacy Rights as Americans are being taken away. What is wrong with this picture?

[NRA1995]

Seems funny to me that Clinton's thugs being in possession of FBI files on various Republicans went by the ACLU without a ripple