unplug the MATRIX

The ACLU can be, shall we say, out there sometimes.  Sometimes, however, they hit the nail on the head. Carnivore is apparently dead, but there's a new program, MATRIX, which is intended to "combine state government records, such as drivers license information, with commercially available data to create a vast database capable of compiling and analyzing a profile of every American".

Think the video exaggerates what will happen a bit? Social Security numbers were once intended to be secret. Now, however, I spend every other day checking videos in and out for all the friendly college students at my school. Know what sits on the screen in front of me? Yup, the SS numbers of every student in school, and the teachers, and the faculty.  All I need in order to find out their number is their name, thanks to the handy search button.

Being the Libertarian that I am, I think this is a little excessive.  Not to mention completely exploitable by the powers that be, and sets a dangerous direction for what remains of the American Republic.

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