<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by JS:
A centralized government database holding the details of private citizens is a very scary thought. It may be voluntary at first, but eventually the feds will say "gee, this is such a successful program, let's make it mandatory".</font>
The government is already working on this. I've posted some of the news articles talking about the system and John Poindexter, who is in charge of it, in OMNI and In The News. Basically the goal that has been set is to track every piece of information about every person, from bank and telephone statements to where you travel. It's a pretty big undertaking.
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