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U.S. Government Purchase Data On Latin American Citizens Thru A Private Company

Posted on Friday, July 14 at 10:44 by Anonymous
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3186.htm U.S. data mining riles Latin America: Nicaragua ""It's espionage," said Alejandro Bendana, director of the Institute of International Studies in Managua. "The U.S. is going to know more about the Nicaraguan people than the Nicaraguan government. They can say, 'Here is a list of Nicaraguan undesirables. Keep them under control,' or they will say to the airlines, 'Don't let them onboard.'"" ""It was a big surprise, because this information cannot be in the hands of a private company," said Maria del Carmen Solorzano, the Nicaraguan prosecutor investigating the information collecting. "They could use this information for all kinds of different ends, even those we can't imagine."" http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4973.htm

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  1. by jensonj
    Sat Jul 15, 2006 4:22 am
    >>Privacy concerns itself with the collection, use and disclosure of information. Information is a commodity that individuals, organizations and governments desire. As with all commodities, ownership is paramount in the determination of rights and responsibilities. If you cannot lay claim of ownership to information, then you cannot assert a right to protect, use or sell it. The right to claim an ownership interest over information has a long pedigree dating back to the origins of intellectual property law.

    Beware what you justify and believe as indicating legal ownership you may find you no longer have rights to anything.<<

    I repeat this to stress the point / issue that Canadaians need laws to protect our privacy and personal information from mis-use from those Businesses, Governments and individuals that think they have our best interests at heart as well as those that have self serving interests at heart.

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