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wyld_dandelyon) wrote2008-07-21 11:23 am
wyld_dandelyon) wrote2008-07-21 11:23 am
from my ACLU e-mail newsletter
Terrorist Watch List Hits One Million Names
Sigh. That means that 1 in about every 6,500 people alive anywhere today is on this list. Given that names are far from unique, I am left to wonder what huge percentage of the world population could be harassed “because our name, or one very like it, is on the list”?
If you want more information, this is the ACLU's page on this topic. http://www.aclu.org/privacy/spying/watchlistcounter.html
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Sigh. That means that 1 in about every 6,500 people alive anywhere today is on this list. Given that names are far from unique, I am left to wonder what huge percentage of the world population could be harassed “because our name, or one very like it, is on the list”?
If you want more information, this is the ACLU's page on this topic. http://www.aclu.org/privacy/spying/watchlistcounter.html