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In reply to the discussion: Wow... the government keeps records of all doctors' visits for 130 million Americans [View all]Pholus
(4,062 posts)11. Quick, what to say....yeah...Snowden forgot to return library books once!
Of course, that information has value. You'd have to be completely blind to not see that the US Govt is now one of the largest customers for commercial databases. Then we have the fascination with biometrics, the "anomaly detection" software, the financial data, the phone records, the email bulk records.
Collecting every bit of information they can has absolutely nothing about compiling dossiers on every citizen in the country. It's just census research right?
Or is it cause we need to be safe from Quakers. Errr, Terrorists. Some fine FBI folks have had problems telling the difference between them in recent history.
The only way I see it, is that the US Government is massively violating Griswold v. Connecticut or its one of the most massive waste and fraud cases in recent history.
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Wow... the government keeps records of all doctors' visits for 130 million Americans [View all]
Recursion
Jun 2013
OP
Good point. Do you (or anyone else) trust HHS not to sell your information to pharma?
Recursion
Jun 2013
#3
So trusting the government to educate is akin to trusting the government to spy on people?
NoOneMan
Jun 2013
#4
I'm trusting them not to spy when they analyze communications traffic patterns
Recursion
Jun 2013
#5
"To seek or observe something secretly and closely.", "To discover by close observation."
NoOneMan
Jun 2013
#14
That's a fair point; individual programs were continued, and of course we don't know which ones.
Recursion
Jun 2013
#22
Forget about the NSA - YOUR PHONE COMPANY HAS A RECORD OF EVERY CALL YOU MAKE!!!!
baldguy
Jun 2013
#24
So if the government is a bunch of lying liars who lie, why aren't we libertarians? (nt)
Recursion
Jun 2013
#28
You trust the government. I have no desire to try to convince you otherwise..
SomethingFishy
Jun 2013
#30
Good, democratic, transparent, regulated, and accountable government is good
newthinking
Jun 2013
#34