The Scary Stories keep coming on Total Information Awareness, the Pentagon’s recently created Information Awareness Office headed by John Poindexter, the former national security adviser convicted in 1990 for his role in the Iran-Contra scheme. Maybe I souldn’t worry so much, after all, he said “We’re just as concerned as the next person with protecting privacy.”
“When a government accumulates detailed information on its citizenry, ultimately that power is going to be abused,” said Charlotte Twight, an economics professor at Boise State University in Idaho who researches privacy issues. “We weren’t supposed to have this all-powerful central government.”
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