"The government is trying to build a surveillance society," said John Gilmore, a civil liberties activist in San Francisco. The government, he said, "may be doing it with the best or worst of intentions. But the job of building a surveillance database and populating it with information about us is happening largely without our awareness and without our consent." |
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Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma writer and a former civilian US Army Public Information Officer. She is a Managing Editor for OpEd News, and a regular contributor for a variety of Internet sites.