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*   
*   I am often offended by information requested of me by government, school,
*   employer: identification numbers, financial history, marital status, age.
*   
*   The right to so much information seems questionable to me, and I feel I
*   am being asked to reveal very personal things about myself in doing so.
*   
*   This always seems to me to represent a lack of respect for personal privacy.

How quaint, to want privacy.

Our privacy has been fading into a distant memory over the
last twenty years. And that's not even figuring ECHELON.

Just try leaving the hospital without naming your baby. The government
wants 'it' to be issued a social security number too, otherwise no tax
deducting it. Gosh, a birth certificate won't do, will it?

*   Source #1: HBO Undercover Special Report
*   Source #2: Computer Security Journal Vol IV #1,
*              "Peeping Sam: Uncle Is Watching Us", by George B. Trubow
*   
*   "We started getting letters from the Federal Government's Selective
*   Service System, telling us that our dog had to register." the father
*   explained. The letters became quite demanding.
*   
*   Shown are three children and their dog. One of the boys had an ice cream
*   cake birthday special at a popular national ice cream parlor chain, which
*   asks for your social security number to get the special.
*   
*   They were working with the government to spot unregistered children.
*   
*   The children had gone back in a week later and used their dog's name
*   to get the special again.
*
*   Since it was not the gover