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Default Federal Administration Becomes Even More Obtrusive, "Boater ID"

On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:11:25 -0500, penned the
following well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

|On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 13:47:36 -0500, Gene Kearns
wrote:
|
|I suppose the chips in your tires (true) scare the hell out of you.
|
|Yes, this whole movement scares me and should anybody that has ever
|read the book 1984.
|
http://www.epic.org/privacy/rfid/
|
|I guess you don't use Google (or any other search engine that sells
|your info), own a credit/debit card and you don't own anything with a
|title? Do you have a customer card at a store, toll transponder in
|your car, go to the doctor or use a cell phone?
|Just the things a credit bureau knows about you is scary but if that
|girl talks to her friend at an insurance company they can create a
|dossier on you that would make the Stasi proud.
|When the government wants to investigate someone these days they just
|start mining the data that is spinning on corporate disk drives. which
|is available to just about anyone who is willing to pay for it.

So.... I need to add personal wireless tattletales to this mess since
it is already such a mess?

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