From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Geo wrote:
> "Adam" <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the
field.near the bridge"> wrote in
> message news:449877a2{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>> Yeah but what's next? Tax details? Health details?
>> Criminal Details?
>
> If it's a government agency generating the information then it should be
> available to the public for free. Take tax details for example. If I worked
> for the IRS I could find out what any one of the americans here makes and
> pays in taxes, why should they not be allowed the same access? I think it
> would be great if everyone in a company could find out how much everyone
> else in that company makes, it would end the screwing some people get from
> their employers.
>
> Pretty much everyone can find out how much anyone else's house is worth,
> nobody seems to have a problem with www.zillow.com so what's the big deal
> with tax returns?
>
> Criminal details, again if I were a cop I could check you out so why not
> even the score, take the power away from the elite who have access and give
> access to everyone.
>
> Health details? Health records are not generated by a government agency,
> each person pays their doctor so it's not general tax money generating the
> information so the public doesn't have a right to it. Change that so health
> insurance is supplied by the government and yeah sure it's our information
> we should have access to it.
>
> Besides, if we passed a law that any db where the information is collected
> using our tax dollars had to be available online to the public, it might
> make the government a bit more sensitive about collecting information on us
> since we would now be able to see the same information on the people doing
> the collecting.
>

Indeed. However this would the total death of privacy.

Govs & db'es are w/o doubt the greatest threat to civil liberties extant.

People will steadily wake up to this & to the fact that a gov merely
has to make lots of "private" db'es "allow government access
in order to aid in the prevention of crime" & voila all your bank
& shpping details can be analyzed in great detail.

Adam

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