BIG BROTHER IS ALMOST THERE: NO PLACE TO HIDE

Apparently the FBI has built the most massive data base in the world. An AlterNet article by Tana Ganeva writes:  The FBI claims its database (IAFIS) is the largest in the world. There are 70 million subjects in the master criminal file, 31 million civil prints, as well as 73,000 known and suspected terrorists by the U.S.or by international saw enforcement agencies who work with the U.S.  For more detail, click here.

When we were able to trust law enforcement, all of us who knew we were doing nothing illegal felt safe.  After hearing all the false accusations, people illegally moved out of the U.S. by mistaken identity, none of this should feel entirely comfortable to any of us.  I have little fear of the database but tremendous fear of the people who run it.  Since the human hand is required in everything, the possibility of human error looms high.  There are none of us who haven't had our medical records show up with errors, billings inaccurate, charges inaccurate, and almost anything that can go wrong, at some time doing just that when a human has had a hand in it.

"The agency's plans for Next Generation Identification (NGI), a massive, billion-dollar upgrade that will hold iris scans, photos searchable with face recognition technology, palm prints, and measures of gait and voice recordings alongside records of fingerprints, scars, and tattoos. :writes Ms Ganeva

Soon the saying, "You can run but you can't hide " will have us all running back to read the writing of the psychotic author of 1984.  We will watch movies like Vendetta and Matrix, and search ways to find freedom from this perpetual scrutiny.