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Insight on our future from the ACLU...LOL!
- Thread starter Larry S.
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Larry S. said:
It sounds humorous and totally whacked out. Except we're already more than half-way there and the United States has absolutely no meaningful data protection laws. There isn't anything that would stop this from happening.
Do you realize that we already legally have a national ID card, and that Americans overwhelmingly reject it, and that this law was passed against their will and without their knowledge?
Do you realize that banks, for instance, can sell your private financial information if you don't opt-out from them doing this? Usually they send you a privacy notice, typically many pages written in tiny text that only lawyers can understand. Something like 1/2 of 1% of consumers opt-out from this sort of thing, even though the majority would reject it if they knew what was going on.
Do you realize that government often buys just about any kind of information imaginable about you from corporations because legally they cannot conduct this surveillance themselves?
Did you know that corporations like ChoicePoint exist to compile extremely thorough profiles of you and your sensitive information, to be sold to the highest bidder, and they aren't held accountable when this information is leaked to criminals?
Have you ever wondered why identity theft is such a big problem in the United States?
I recommend reading Bruce Schneier's commentary on the national ID card.
I wish this sort of thing was just a fantasy.