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Sunday, April 14, 2002
 
Surveillance Databases

InstaPundit points to this excellent article on the move to create a single government database that allows every bit of information about an individual to be culled together and used for any number of purposes. There are a number of things in the article that scare me. Larry Ellison, founder and head of Oracle, the company that will help make all of these things possible, says that essentially this is no big deal because these databases are already out there and privacy is already a thing of the past. I suspect that the instant I click the publish button, Mr. Ellison will some how be notified that I have written about him. He will have access to my mortgage records, my medical history, my payroll and personnel files, my oil change history, etc. Mr. Ellison is quoted as saying, ''It's our lives that are at risk, not our liberties." Read the article; I think you will see that he has it backwards.