National Data Center

Page 81 of Surveillance Valley

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"'The very existence of a National Data Center may encourage certain federal officials to engage in questionable surveillance tactics. For example, optical scanners-devices with the capacity to read a variety of type fonts or handwriting at fantastic...
"Miller warned that such a database was a grave threat to political freedom. Once it was put in place, it would invariably grow to encompass every part of people's lives:"
"The growth of all of these databases did not go unnoticed."
1967 "In 1967, the Bureau of the Budget wanted to build the National Data Center, a centralized federal database that would pull together, among other things, income tax and arrest records, health data, military draft status, social security...