The History of Terrorism
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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...
...rates of speed-could be used to monitor our mail. By linking scanners with a computer system, the information drawn in by the scanner would be converted into machine-readable form and transferred into the subject's file in the National Data Center.'"
"'As a result, someone who simply exchanges Christmas cards with a person whose mail is being monitored might find himself under surveillance or might be turned down when he applies for a job with the government or requests a government grant or applies...
...for some other government benefit. An untested, impersonal, and erroneous computer entry such as "associates with known criminals" has marked him, and he is helpless to rectify the situation. Indeed, it is likely that he would not even be aware...
that the entry existed.'"
Page 83-84 of Surveillance Valley
Parents
...for some other government benefit. An untested, impersonal, and erroneous computer entry such as "associates with known criminals" has marked him, and he is helpless to rectify the situation. Indeed, it is likely that he would not even be aware...
Children
"The most forceful investigation was led by Senator Sam Ervin, a North Carolina Democrat with a bald head, thick bushy eyebrows, and fleshy bulldog jowls."