[FYI] New York Times, November 14, 2002

["Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>]

http://cryptome.org/you-bad.htm

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14 November 2002 



New York Times, November 14, 2002 

You Are a Suspect 

By WILLIAM SAFIRE

WASHINGTON — If the Homeland Security Act is not amended before 
passage, here is what will happen to you:  

Every purchase you make with a credit card, every magazine 
subscription you buy and medical prescription you fill, every Web 
site you visit and e-mail you send or receive, every academic grade 
you receive, every bank deposit you make, every trip you book and 
every event you attend — all these transactions and communications 
will go into what the Defense Department describes as "a virtual, 
centralized grand database."  

To this computerized dossier on your private life from commercial 
sources, add every piece of information that government has about you 
— passport application, driver's license and bridge toll records, 
judicial and divorce records, complaints from nosy neighbors to the 
F.B.I., your lifetime paper trail plus the latest hidden camera 
surveillance — and you have the supersnoop's dream: a "Total 
Information Awareness" about every U.S. citizen.  

This is not some far-out Orwellian scenario. It is what will happen 
to your personal freedom in the next few weeks if John Poindexter 
gets the unprecedented power he seeks.  

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