They're manpulating us right into a "frickin" Tea Bagger veto proof majority

[BlueStreak]

80. Anybody who could make a statement like that must have been in a cave since 1993

Just look at the credit reporting companies for example. They have far less access to information than the Federal Government, yet they have a dossier on nearly every adult in this country that has some 400 descriptive statistics that tell them everything anybody would ever want to know about your financial life.

Look at what Google has been able to do just with their access to gmail content.

Let me paint a picture for anybody who really hasn't been paying any attention for the past 20 years. Here is how it would work. If this isn't already in place, it will be.

They can correlate the cell phone numbers with your identity. They know whom the numbers belong to. If they don't already have access to all that information that Equifax maintains on you, they can get it with a FISA warrant -- just have to find a friendly judge. Now they correlate your spending habits with your phone patterns. They can correlate that with any police activity. Every been arrested at a protest, for example? That can go into your "National security score". And now let's look at your online fingerprints. Do you engage in any political discussion, and is any of that hostile to the government? If so, maybe you are a threat. Correlation isn't automatic because most people use handles. But a small amount of investigation can make those connections.

And so on. The data is endless. Oh, and now they are getting location information from your personal tracking devices (aka cell phones). Were you near Boston around the time of the marathon? Oh, that could be bad for your "national security score".

OK. Next you "Googleize" those profiles. Some people will naturally have very high "National security scores" indicating they may be, how shall we say, "un-American". So we look at their circle of friends. If you have ever received a phone call from one of these suspects, that hurts your own score, and that in turn hurts the scores of everyone else in your circle of friends. So if you know somebody who knows somebody who knows the shoe bomber, that's very bad for your score. How do you like them apples, Kevin Bacon?

Have you ever been surprised by something on your credit report -- maybe identity theft, or a merchant got some information wrong? It is easy to get bad data into the database, and very hard to get it out. And that is when you have the right to look at the reports. Ladies and gentlemen, you have no right to look at your "national security score". That would only help the terrorists.

Is this description plain enough? Is there anybody who does not believe this is exactly where that data is headed?