Government to Monitor all Transactions
Bill HR 3221, once passed, will allow the government to monitor all electronic purchases. That, coupled with an upcoming cashless society means that no transaction will be hidden from the government. I can already hear people stating, “But I have nothing to hide!”
Neither did this firefighter:
In a headline-making case from August of 2004, Philip Scott Lyons, a firefighter from Everett, Washington, was arrested and accused of arson after a police canine unit sniffed out a fire starter unit hidden in his home with a Safeway label attached. Safeway provided the Lyons’ purchasing history to the police, revealing that they did buy the fire starter a month earlier.
The charges were later dropped when another person came forward and confessed to the crime. The fact remains, however, that Safeway provided a customer’s personal information to law enforcement, thus skirting the Constitutional and Federal laws that prohibit government and police agencies from collecting personal information and creating databases.consumeraffairs.com
Your purchasing data can be used for: blackmail, targeted ads, evidence against you for a crime you were not involved in, categorization, etc. You should call your state representative and tell them not to pass this bill.
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