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and information fed to tabloids exposing her pregnancies and private
#   dates with Negroes.

That's an overt use. Worse than that:

They can insidiously enter your life: Qubilah Shabazz was seduced.
Like Bill Murray elaborately seducing Andie MacDowell in 'Groundhog Day'
they can enter your life in an almost unconscious manner. Informants
manage to connect to criminals by running into them in the right place,
saying the right things.

It's the 1990s now:
Only, as we have seen, informants connecting to criminals means the FBI
targeting Randy Weaver WHO HAD NO CRIMINAL RECORD for blackmail. Anyone
can be made a criminal in the monitoring net. Or seduced into a "crime",
like Qubilah Shabazz.  Without you realizing it, the person you met was
taking advantage of knowing all your most passionate likes and dislikes.

It is INSANE to design our systems for government monitoring.

CONGRESS WAKE UP NOW FOR CHRIS'SAKES!!!

*   "Dispute Arises Over Proposal for Wiretaps"
*   By John Markoff, The New York Times, February 15 1997
*   
*   The telephone companies, after meeting with the FBI, said they wanted to
*   be able to monitor tens of thousands of conversations simultaneously in
*   metropolitan areas, much more than their stated intention of simply
*   trying to transfer its current surveillance capabilities into the
*   digital era.
*   
*   And the Cellular Telephone Industry Association said the FBI wanted to
*   monitor 103,190 cellular calls simultaneously nationwide.
*   
*   Lawyers for AT&T Wireless Services said, "The numbers alone are astounding."
*   
*   "This is kind of scary," said Tom Wheeler, CTIA president. "What does
*   the FBI know about our future that we don't?"

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