Every Citizen, Now A Suspect

…[now,] whenever citizens interact with the government, the first question asked will be, are you a terrorist?
–Mary Ellen Callahan, former Dept. of Homeland Security chief privacy officer

I suppose it was just a matter of time.

Sad to see how her concerns about permitting all federal government agencies’ data on US citizens to be stored in a central database, and by a backdoor regulatory notice nobody would pick up on, were so blithely swept aside.

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