Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Govt Recordkeeping NFC OT No Ferrari Content

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They already have one...
 
Carl

----- Original Message -----
From: LarryT 
Date: Friday, April 17, 2009 1:00 pm
Subject: [Ferrari] Govt Recordkeeping NFC OT No Ferrari Content
To: cmlf1 [at] optonline.net
Cc: The FerrariList 

> Just saw a disturbing TV commercial (IMHO) on the History 
> Channel where 
> dozens of white robed technicans proudly talk about what they 
> are working 
> on. Seems they want to create a huge database that puts medical 
> records, 
> insurance records, hospital records, etc etc where *everything* 
> talks to 
> everything else! Don't know about you, but this doesn't sound 
> like the 
> greatest idea. Sure, it may make the insurance business more 
> profitible, 
> but at the expense of patient privacy! We've had a regular diet 
> of reports 
> of credit card information being lost or stolen when hard drives 
> are given 
> away, lost or stolen. That's *very* bad. But medical records 
> being out 
> there for all to see is even worse IMHO.
> 
> Yet here they are, all those IBM technicians proudly boasting 
> they are 
> working toward the goal of total integration of
> your life's total body of information.
> 
> Am I being too paranoid? I mean, I don't have to worry about 
> finding a job 
> anymore, but someone with a family history of heart disease or 
> cancer may 
> not get hired if that info is readily available.
> 
> It seems the govt wants to eventually create an electronic 
> record of each 
> person in this world -- driving records, working reccords, 
> health records, 
> tax records, family records, - everything. Sure sounds like 
> 1984 to me. 
> Loss of pivacy is one thing - having faceless bureaucrats 
> crawling through 
> every facet of my families' life is not something I want 
> happening. It may 
> surprise you to learn they're not ALL honest.
> 
> The computer has brought us great convienence but it has the 
> ability to 
> cause great harm also.
> 
> LarryT
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> Oil Analysis at youroil.net. 
> 
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