[ga] orwell's 1984 was only off by 20 years

[Rick Wesson <wessorh@ar.com>]

read this one http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/14/opinion/14SAFI.html

If this doesn't make privacy in electronic relms an issue I don't know
what will.The funny thing is the DoD could always purchase the data or
hire some one else to purchase the data.

Alice's Registry will soon start taking US cash for services ;-)

-rick

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."

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