Clark & Axiom-Database Co.- Privacy violation, Spying, Selling your info

[masmdu]

Wesley Clark, US presidential contender, is/was a member of the board of Acxiom, giant database producer, which sold far more information to Torch Concepts on citizens of the world than JetBlue provided apparently for no cost. As the Torch study proclaims, it was the Axciom data that was much more useful to spy on citizens than that of JetBlue.

http://cryptome.org/jetblue-spy.htm

http://www.torchconcepts.com/

http://www.acxiom.com/

[cosmicdot]

1. I fear that not enough people will see the grave dangers

involved here

This sounds like the big brother software I read a blurb about in Wired some time back.

How many people will be silenced due to stripping us of our privacy? Data mining and "content management" may have some benefits to society; however, its the use by the villians which should be of concern.

People who are muckraking and seeking the truth might find themselves receiving cease and desist letters after a major corporation has used Torch tools to seek out anything it deems 'negative' being written on the Internet - our modern day Paul Revere ...

Powerful political tool, I would imagine, too.

I believe I read that Acxiom has personal data on a good 180 million American citizens, and that may have been dated.

People viewing 'The Big Picture' often have blind spots.

Thanks for posting the connections here.

[leetrisck]

2. Are you as upset over TIA and

the Patriot Act? The Victory Act? John Ashcroft? georgie bushie?

[madfloridian]

3. Just found this about Soros and Intn'l Crisis Group with Clark.

Not sure I understand this, as I have not been familiar with this guy. Clark apparently has connections to this group as well.

http://www.indymedia.nl/nl/2003/08/13132.shtml

SNIP:....."Soros likes to portray himself as an outsider, an independent-minded Hungarian emigre and philosopher-pundit who stands detached from the US military-industrial complex. But take a look at the board members of the NGOs he organises and finances. At Human Rights Watch, for example, there is Morton Abramowitz, US assistant secretary of state for intelligence and research from 1985-89, and now a fellow at the interventionist Council on Foreign Relations; ex-ambassador Warren Zimmerman (whose spell in Yugoslavia coincided with the break-up of that country); and Paul Goble, director of communications at the CIA-created Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (which Soros also funds). Soros's International Crisis Group boasts such "independent" luminaries as the former national security advisers Zbigniew Brzezinski and Richard Allen, as well as General Wesley Clark, once Nato supreme allied commander for Europe. The group's vice-chairman is the former congressman Stephen Solarz, once described as "the Israel lobby's chief legislative tactician on Capitol Hill" and a signatory, along with the likes of Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz, to a notorious letter to President Clinton in 1998 calling for a "comprehensive political and military strategy for bringing down Saddam and his regime".

Take a look also at Soros's business partners. At the Carlyle Group, where he has invested more than $100m, they include the former secretary of state James Baker and the erstwhile defence secretary Frank Carlucci, George Bush Sr and, until recently, the estranged relatives of Osama Bin Laden. Carlyle, one of the world's largest private equity funds, makes most of its money from its work as a defence contractor......."