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To: SOROS who wrote (29746)	3/23/2003 4:32:04 PM
From: Sidney Reilly	Respond to of 36161

and then if they discover it was a mistake, the best you can hope for is an apology? yeah, an apology if you're still alive after the FBI came calling...

To: SOROS who wrote (29746)	3/23/2003 5:45:27 PM
From: Art Bechhoefer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36161

Aside from the fact that it's becoming easier to collect information of a personal nature, the real question is what the collectors of the information are going to do with it, and what protections the individual has against abuse. Right now, the individual has almost no control over dissemination of personal information about himself/herself. Theoretically, the Federal Privacy Act protects information about people coming into a federal agency by prohibiting the dissemination of records without the consent of the person who may have provided the information. But in practice, and now as a result of recent court decisions, a federal agent can do almost anything with sensitive information, allowing the information provider to be sued if need be. The present reality is that government agents or agencies cannot be held financially responsible for mishandling of information, and therefore, the protections that were theoretically built into the Privacy Act are no longer viable. Not only is big brother watching, he can seriously damage you, and you have no recourse. Art

To: SOROS who wrote (29746)	3/24/2003 9:42:29 AM
From: SliderOnTheBlack	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 36161

Soros ["and then if they discover it was a mistake, the best you can hope for is an apology? ...yeah, an apology if you're still alive after the FBI came calling..."] ...in your World, I guess it would be far better to have illegal foreign terrorists cross our borders without intervention, be able to travel without check via our transportation system, use our banking/financial system without intervention to fund terrorism, or War; or to use our communication system freely without monitoring to further their cause etc ? Hyperbole, gross exaggeration and general hysteria do not befit you, or your arguements. Thankfully in a world of Utopian Idealists, Liberal Dilusionists and those whose self-loathing is only surpassed by their hatred of their own Country; that the vast majority choose to live and act in reality...and make the difficult and painfull choices to preserve Democracy & Freedom...and if during a Time of War, we are asked to temporarially give up "some inconsequential" freedoms, to preserve much larger Freedoms... so be it. Freedom is not without cost, nor is it a one-way street.