LIFE DIGITS. The spying-on-the-we-the citizens database - what is it's status?

[peacetalksforall]

Everything about us is being gathered and entered in a LIFE DIGIT database. I made up the name. I used to call it the Poindexter database.

We now have a new regime. We know this move was for the control of the people under the guise of terrorism.

Is Chertoff still in office? Does Homeland Security still exist? Is AT & T, Verizon, Sounthern Bell still supplying phone data? Has the theft of computers containing LIFE DIGIT data slowed down yet? Has the U.S. Govt transferred all the information they have on citizens to the data base - are they finished? Are any rights denying lists going to be reviewed?

Where is Obama on this?

[ThomWV]

1. Many people here think its the funniest thing that we care about this

And I think it is by far the most important issue facing this country. This is far more important than temporary ups and down in the economy.

If you simply sit down and list all the information that is available electronically on each and every one of us - some to a much greater degree than others - it becomes easy to see how profiles can be built to single out anyone and if you can be singled out.

There is no rant great enough for this. How so many can be blind to it, some purposfully so, is the greatest question of the age.

[Kurovski]

2. just yesterday morning...

I was trying to recall any word on all this.

If it's been addressed, I've missed it.

Prior to his being sworn in, there was discussion that this would be an issue for the young administration. But what happened? I think I missed it.

http://electioncenter.military.com/2008/11/wiretaps-to-tes.html

I guess we'll know soon, and I don't think I'm gonna like what he has to say about it. Why the silence?

http://www.islamdaily.net/en/Contents.aspx?AID=6920

[MineralMan]

3. Wow! How scary!

I suppose they'll know about the bacon, turkey, and cheese grilled sandwiches I'm making tonight, based on my grocery store purchase yesterday.

Hell...now I'll have to make more of them for all the cops that are bound to drop by.

My life is so boring in its simplicity that their amassing of data on me is of no concern whatsoever. The same is true for some 99.n% of the population of the USA.

There is no statistical reason for that sort of data to be accumulated, frankly.

Tinfoil hat stuff.

[peacetalksforall]

5. If you are not concerned about yourself, then why not be concerned

about everyone. Say your cousin once marched in a protest. He just got a plum job and is at the airport ready to go to his first business meeting.....and he's on a list and no one will tell him why he can't fly.

I don't understand logic like yours.

Privacy is in the Constitution. I'd say to not care is not caring about the Constitution whether or not you live a white bread life.

[arcadian]

7. Your attitude is the same as

"If you aren't doing anything wrong then you don't have anything to worry about" :eyes:

[librechik]

4. still ON

nobody knows who's in charge, so nobody can shut it off.

[mmonk]

6. I haven't heard.

Nazi Germany had a list developed by IBM. That is how they were able to round up people so fast. People need to demand its cessation.