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In some states, police unions have begun filing libel suits against those
*   who file police complaints.
*
*   The police officers assert that paper trails on complaints can ruin
*   law-enforcement careers.

Police are the same bunch of law enforcement personnel who keep extensive
non-criminal notes and allegations on citizenry.

In fact, NYC Police have TWICE been caught using a form marked "for unofficial
notes, not to be kept with the normal records".

In other words, when the defendant tries to use discovery to get details of
the police case against them, so they can analyze what happened, these
"offline" notes are how the police withhold the information.

You know, like Geronimo Pratt's primary prosecution witness was a paid
government informer.

And the FBI won't delete the file of the kid who aspires to be in our Foreign
Service, but made the mistake of writing to foreign embassies in grade school.

Poor schmuck.

The FBI wants to keep "suspect" information on anyone in its NCIC 2000 system.

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Some people feel the smart card will quickly give away to implantable
biometric transponders. Once everyone is fingerprinted, you may as well!

Guess what?

They exist, and aren't that big:

*   http://www.radioamerica.com/relevance/11-94.html
*   
*   Martin Anderson, former senior member of Ronald Reagan's Economic Policy
*   Advisory Board fears that the advancing technology may soon end with,
*   "all of us tagged like so many fish." Writing in the October 11th, 1993
*   Washington Times he confirmed the drift toward human applications of the
*   chip:
*   
*            You see there is an identification system made by
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