I ignored the last one and will ignore this one. I'm a private citizen. Best
Simon On 20/03/2011 12:50, "list|marianne" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Resistance to the decennial census is growing as a coalition of anti-war > groups, pacifists, religious organisations and digital activists begin > raising public awareness about the role of Lockheed Martin, America's > largest arms manufacturer. > > The company, which makes Trident nuclear missiles, cluster bombs and F-16 > fighter jets, won the £150m contract to run the census on behalf of the > Office for National Statistics (ONS). > > "The really worrying thing is the fact that the information being collected > in the next census including new questions on sources of income and place > of birth [to help monitor immigration] would be ideal fodder for the kind > of anti-terror analyses being carried out by Lockheed, and could lead to a > faraway database identifying thousands of us as potential 'threats'." > > Lockheed Martin which does 80% of its work for the US defence department > assists more than two dozen American government agencies and is involved in > surveillance and data processing for the CIA and FBI. It has controversially > provided private contract interrogators to the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and > Guantánamo Bay in Cuba. All US-based companies are subject to the Patriot > Act, which allows the US government to have access to any data in the > company's possession. Campaigners have warned this could give the US > government access to detailed and personal data on the UK's entire > population. > > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/feb/19/census-boycott-lockheed-martin > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > Simon Biggs [email protected] http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ [email protected] http://www.elmcip.net/ http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
