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Friday, December 6

A violation of human rights waiting to happen [SocioPolitico]

So far I have resisted commenting on John Poindexter's new Information Awareness Office in the US (too easy a target, obviously a violation of human rights waiting to happen), but Tom Tomorrow has it on the nose.

Of course, this may be an concealed opportunity to establish decent privacy legislation in the US - as long as there is an outcry for it to be regulated. I'd strongly recommend Simson Garfinkle's book 'Database Nation' [US|UK] on this subject - he maintains that the reason the US is infested with junk mail is that the government funked out over a central database once before...

posted at 8:17 PM (UK) | |

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