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To: tsigprofit who wrote (2085)	6/13/2003 10:20:54 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

aclu.org Stop the Government Plan to Mine our Privacy Recent media reports have revealed that a little-known Defense Department office is developing a computer system called “Total Information Awareness” that threatens to turn us all into "suspects" without proof of criminal wrongdoing. The system, which includes an advanced form of “data-mining,” would effectively provide government officials with immediate access to our personal information such as all of our communications (phone calls, emails and web searches), financial records, purchases, prescriptions, school records, medical records and travel history. Under this program, our entire lives would be catalogued and available to government officials.