The last time they did this, tens of thousands of law abiding American citizens were placed in prison camps, for no reason other than their ethnicity. Peter Trei > ---------- > From: Declan McCullagh[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 2:29 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: FC: House Republicans consider Census database, from NY > Times > > > ****** > > From: Steve Hutto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: politech submission > Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 12:21:36 -0600 > > Hi Declan, love the list. Apologies if you're already tracking this... > > Op-Ed from the NY Times 10/23/2000 > "My Data, Mine to Keep Private" by Linda R. Monk > http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/23/opinion/23MONK.html > > Scary opinion about House Republicans looking at creating a "linked data > set" between Census Bureau files and the IRS and SSA. Any meat to this > one? > > Excerpt: > "Under current law, census data on individuals can be used only to > benefit the Census Bureau, which has balked at turning over files > to the budget office without greater assurances of individual > privacy. However, the Congressional number crunchers are not taking > no for an answer. Republicans may tack an amendment allowing > Congress access to census data onto an appropriations bill before > Congress adjourns for the elections." > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > POLITECH -- the moderated mailing list of politics and technology > You may redistribute this message freely if it remains intact. > To subscribe, visit http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html > This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >
