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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: [QB] Sweet. Just today I was listening to a NPR interview with a former NSA chief wherein he said that the notion of a "big brother" style government was not possible just now because there would need to me thousands of agents working with unlimited computer recources to monitor even a fraction of the population. He did however point out that each time you go online, numerous private groups record your every move to build up customer demographics and the government (in their POV) should be entitled to the same access. It was pointed out that with the phone records, internet records, financial tranaction records and the potential for cell phones to provide real-time GPS location, the U.S. government is [i]already[/i] far more intrusive than the USSR was at it's worst. Supoosedly though, it's all okay because there is no government group (that we know of) that coordinates all this information to make profiles on the citizenry. The program also pointed out that most Americans are not trusting of the idea because the government was abused such power so often in the past (Nixon tracking Agnew's records, Bobby Kennedy tapping Martin Luther King's phone, the "red scare" of the 1950's etc.) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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