Sifry’s Alerts

Aaron Swartz writes
about John Gillmore’s
response to a href="http://sfweekly.com/issues/2002-11-27/smith.html/1/index.html">SFWeekly article turning the tables on Poindexter’s Total Information Awareness program. Gilmore’s challenge? Find out everything in the public record about Poindexter, post it to the web, and publish it.

Ouch! Best use of comedic irony I’ve seen all month.

I don’t think this kind of campaign should be done to anyone, but
perhaps this will help to open people’s eyes about what this frightening
big-brother proposal can do to all of us. And it is pleasantly ironic
that the person whose privacy is about to be invaded is the one who will
run the program that can do it to us.

Long and short? This is an outrageous law, and it should be changed.
We must wake up and remember that freedom and liberty are the very
things that make America great, and are the things that we must hold
most dear, because otherwise, the terrorists have accomplished their
goal.

Related posts:

1. Total Information Awareness discussion on NPR’s “Fresh Air”
2. Hello Police State?

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