Huntington News:
"Removing the protection of individual's private data is another step, a big one, to moving the nation closer to a dictatorship. Today, anyone can troll the Internet and within a blink of the eyes track down various aspects of an individual's life from birth, schools attended to marriages, devoices, children, address, and numerous other personal data. All this plus our telephone records are now easily accessible to various government and non-government agencies. It is quite unnerving to think that we have no idea to what extent the government is exercising, or prepared to exercise surveillance of the citizens of this once real democracy.
The latest bad news came as the government started seeking to require Internet service providers keep data of all Internet usage for up to two years. For those of us who have been around for a while, we may remember with nostalgia the good old days prior to the presence of high-speed data search engines like Google and all kinds of data mining software when such accumulation of data would have been pointless. Today the records can be cut and diced in so many different ways that the government can easily know more about us than we do ourselves. Already, this exponential growth of the power of the 'Big Brother' is surreptitiously changing our day-to-day life to the point that we now have to question what is still left with a true democracy that we once thought we knew and had. On the other hand, perhaps this question is already getting to be irrelevant.
Indeed, through technologies like the radio frequency identification (RFID) devices, which are now widely adopted in all major toll systems in this and other nations, it is possible that data can become available to governments for tracking of vehicle movements.
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