-=> Quoting John Perz to All on 06-20-96  19:37 <=-
 Re: Plastic
 JP> Caught this in the June issue of Wired
 JP> BEGIN QUOTE
 JP> Thanks to a new law called the Intelligence Authorization Act of 1996,
 JP> the FBI now has ready access to your credit card records.  Adopted
 JP> under the usual pretense that such legislation is needed to pursue
 JP> "important counterterrorist investigations," the law - quietly signed
 JP> by President Clinton last January - allows the Feds to snoop through
 JP> basic credit bureau files by obtaining authorization from the director
 JP> of the FBI or a designee.  No messy court orders, search warrants or
 JP> subpoenas are needed.
 JP> My Comment:  If you own one or more guns that the gubbermint don't
 JP> know about, you might not want to buy ammo for it with your plastic.
 JP> Pay cash instead.
Not necessary most places I shop. All that appears on the credit card
slip is the total, not the specific items or even the type. They don't
know what it is I paid x amount for, only where I got it and how much I
paid.
 JP> I know I'm being paranoid.  The question is: am I being paranoid
 JP> **ENOUGH**?!?
You're getting there. ;-)
Steve
... The Maximum Effective Range of an Excuse is Zero!
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