I guess we have to expect to surrender some of our freedoms in order to keep a tight reign on criminals. The problem is that the information that the government collects is not kept confidential dispite what they say. We had an instance here in Ohio where a government worker in Columbus had a lot of public data on his laptop and left it in his car and the laptop was stolen. What do you do now? Why has this data left the building in the first place.
It goes to show how careless and irresponsible the government is - it is not trustworthy. Also government employees have access to sensitive information and they can use it as they will. One local dispacher at the police station tipped off her friends about a police raid that was going down here in Warren a few months ago. So If you have a friend in government you can probably find out anything you want to know about anyone.
That's my beef,
Larry II
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