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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush

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To: Mephisto who wrote (8885)	12/29/2001 3:00:21 AM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (2) of 93284

Yes, we will lose our privacy. Scott McNealy, the CEO of Sun Microsystems, has said in the past that privacy doesn't exist. There's a lot of truth to what McNealy says. The private sector has accumulated so much information on us and our transactions it's unbelievable. Your credit history is not your property; by law, it's the property of the credit bureaus. Your medical history is the property of your doctor or HMO. If you use those little plastic cards at the grocery store, they know how fast you go through toilet paper and what brand you use. The larger pharmacies, at least, can access your scripts from anywhere in the country. There's more about you in data bases in the private sector than you know about yourself. Can you lose something you don't have? Future airport security may involve the use of a retinal eye scanner or even a palm print. I don't recall what else is in the works. There are those microchips implanted in cats and dogs to identify them. One could go very nicely right between your shoulder blades. How handy that would be. You wouldn't have to pull out your credit or debit cards anymore, you could be scanned right at the point of sale. Shivver.... jttmab

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