Well I've been away from this for quite awhile. Sorry.

Here's something that I found today that concerns me. It's about a new government program aimed at compiling all financial transaction data generated within the USA for the ostensible purpose of stopping terrorism. But as one expert quoted in the NY Times said, once such a system is created, it's very difficult to control how it's used.

http://www.darpa.mil/iao/index.htm

This link is to the DARPA homepage, which describes the overall project goals and how it's to be administered.

http://www.darpa.mil/iao/TIASystems.htm

This link explains the "Total Information Awareness" system that is getting some national attention now.

Gotta love that logo too. What an evil portent this is! While we go about our business as usual, munching our cud and not really thinking about it all that much...