Obama Continues Bush's Illegal Drone Surveillance

[Diomedes]

So if I enjoy middle eastern food am I a risk to the country?

Well, if you shop in arabic stores, you're more likely to be financially supporting terrorists.  So I think the government should track what you buy/where you shop.  Same for what restaurants you eat at.  There should be a database for that too.  You know, for "security." 

Also, the government should be able to cross reference the shopping and restaurant databases against what books you buy, or borrow from the library. 

And with the phone calls you make outside the country, websites you frequent, emails you send   And also against a database of your flights. 

For security, these things are obviously needed.  And of course, they should all be secret..blocked from you or the press getting access.  What do you have to hide? 

[Rome]

Hahaha.  Dio hacked Joel's account.

Well done, Dio!

Assuming you know someone because they post on a football message board makes you master of teh internets.

It was a joke, Joel.  Relax, big boy.   

[ice grillin you]

what books you buy, or borrow from the library.


reading habits are how mills and somerset found john doe

[Seabiscuit36]

So if I enjoy middle eastern food am I a risk to the country?

Well, if you shop in arabic stores, you're more likely to be financially supporting terrorists.  So I think the government should track what you buy/where you shop.  Same for what restaurants you eat at.  There should be a database for that too.  You know, for "security." 

Also, the government should be able to cross reference the shopping and restaurant databases against what books you buy, or borrow from the library. 

And with the phone calls you make outside the country, websites you frequent, emails you send   And also against a database of your flights. 

For security, these things are obviously needed.  And of course, they should all be secret..blocked from you or the press getting access.  What do you have to hide? 

Crap, I always go to 7-11, Dunking Donuts, and this lovely Falaffel place.   

[Rome]

what books you buy, or borrow from the library.


reading habits are how mills and somerset found john doe

Ha.  Awesome movie.   

[MURP]

I got Basmati rice at the grocery store.    help!

[Seabiscuit36]

I got Basmati rice at the grocery store.    help!

New movie....Terrorista 

[Father Demon]

its much easier to run an analysis and be able to say "ah-ha!  bad credit risk"

Not to mention that you can see your credit score and object/appeal if you find it to be incorrect.  It's a horrible pain in the ass to do so, and is designed to be difficult to people don't fight the system, but it's possible.

This idiotic, Nazi-like "security" plan is totally secret.  You can't see your profile or do shtein about it if you're on there by mistake.

Actually, Dio, this is the part of the program I do have a problem with.  You should have the right to see, dispute, and correct.  But as a whole, I don't see the issue.  Where I eat, call, and shop is not really an invasion of privacy, since credit cards companies, retail outlets, and sometimes even employers do the same kind of data harvesting.  And frankly, if people are misidentified, as long as the system catches someone like it should, that that's a success.

I have a buddy of mine that is a salesman, and his name is on the security list for flying. A nice, common name like David Hill.  He flys an average of 8 to 10 times a month, and can never check in early, use curbside check-in, and is hit through the security lines.  He realizes it's a PITA, but he also acknowledges that it's a fact of life in this day and age for some to be inconvenienced to protect others.  I agree with him, especially since his opinion is first hand experience.

[Cerevant]

Where I eat, call, and shop is not really an invasion of privacy, since credit cards companies, retail outlets, and sometimes even employers do the same kind of data harvesting.  And frankly, if people are misidentified, as long as the system catches someone like it should, that that's a success.

Unless it is you who gets misidentified. This is why you should care:

The tool works by plugging 30 to 40 variables into a computerized checklist, which in turn produces a score associated with future lethality.

"You can imagine the indicators that might incline someone toward violence: youth; having committed a serious crime at an early age; being a man rather than a woman, and so on. Each, by itself, probably isn't going to make a person pull the trigger. But put them all together and you've got a perfect storm of forces for violence," Berk said.

Hey Billy Bob - This here nifty new compuputuer says since this guy eats burger every 2nd Thursday of the month, he might be a killer.  Better round him up for questionin'

[ice grillin you]

more civil rights erosion from the nazi

of course the ignorant masses have bought into the red herring security over liberty philosophy and wont blink at this...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/04/11/LI2005041100879.html

[Diomedes]

awful.

[ice grillin you]

sickening

[Wingspan]

it's so maddening, it makes me want to have a cigarette...oh...wait...

[MURP]

but..... but ......but .....  he will only open the terrorists mail.......... 

[rjs246]

Now SunMo will have to stop sending me love letters.