Greetings SouthLand:
Your argument still does not impress me to your point of the matter. E-Mail tracking is nothing new. Does the word "Carnivore" ring a bell? (thanks Bill Cilton!) Information assemblage of this type has and will proceed down this road. Selling of buyer information is nothing new (in some states, the State sells your Driver License info!)
If you really want to be outraged, then really start from the foundation of our loss of privacy and due process:
Talk "Asset Forfeiture," thanks to the failed effort of the War on Drugs. Talk about our Income Tax system since 1913 that has attacked our privacy rights and the Right not to self incriminate against yourself, just to name a few of our rights that have gone south.
The public information access is small potatoes compared to the implications of what is really eroding our rights.
Big Brother has been here for quite some time now........
You can blame Bush, however, who has had control of both houses for the last sixty years? And who, in the past, has put most of this in place? I will help you guess, the word I am thinking of starts with a "D".....
Edited by - thichi on 26 November 2002 12:28:20