In the US, the census is government run; Azure worked for them this year. It's important for people to fill the stuff out, since funding and votes depend on it. Oddly, othodox Jews resisted.
- Alan On Sun, 20 Mar 2011, Simon Biggs wrote: > 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 >> Guant?namo 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 > > == email archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ webpage http://www.alansondheim.org music archive: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ current text http://www.alansondheim.org/qx.txt == _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
