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least amount of op****tunity to choose their fate.
Odd, since tax-payer paid-for government services is what gives them the
power.
But elected representatives will do, you say?
Did you hear any of them mention it during campaigning?
Did Alabama elected officials even mention it with their press
release of a new driver's license, despite that being the plan?
No.
What does that tell you?
We need a cabinet-level Privacy Commission,
with the power to intervene nationwide.
Power to protect us little people from fanatical personal data collection.
We are losing it piece by piece.
Who would have thought the United States would
collect fingerprints from all citizens?
Collect biometric information from everyone...
law enforcement's Evil Holy Grail.
* "U.S. Has Plan to Broaden Availability tests of DNA Testing"
* By Fox Butterfield, The New York Times, undated but 1996 implied.
*
* In a little known provision of the Clinton Administration's 1994 Crime
* Control Act was a call for the establishment of a nationwide DNA data
* bank like the current national system for fingerprints, run by the
FBI.
*
* In the two years since then, 42 states have passed laws requiring
prison
* inmates give blood or saliva samples for a "DNA fingerprint."
*
* In a re****t today, the Justice Department said it is stepping up
efforts
* to make such DNA biometric capture "as common as fingerprinting" and
that
* they expect the test in five years to go from $700 each to a mere $10
and
* take only hours or minutes to accomplish.
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Something odd is going on; apparently the government is building
L.U.C.I.D.
# "Computer Enlisted in Drug War", By Sam Meddis, USA Today, 1/15/1990
#
# A new FBI computer will monitor the activities of suspect
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