Excellent dissection of the smug "family importance" bullshit in the parent post. Well done!

Nah, such a law would only apply to information on our masters. Think of the poor law enforcement officers and politicians who have to labor under the spectre of the same laws that make things like real estate transactions, marriages, and divorces part of the public record: the law could be easily changed to "fix" that and I'm surprised it hasn't already been.

Nuggets of information like this are why i still like to read Slashdot. Thanks!

Post your search history, browsing history (thanks to Google Analytics), and Gmail contents (don't forget the headers!) and we'll see how relevant it is.

Read this carefully: A discount for X is equivalent to a surcharge for not X.

Seriously, how long do you think before the "discount" will be so large that only the rich will be able to afford to drive without Big Brother in the passenger's seat?

It's that last part we're sorely missing. Witness the line of compliant sheep waiting to be patted down on the way into sporting events, groped at the airport, or show their receipts on the way out of the Wal-Mart. Suggest that all this is unnecessary and the bleating in favor of whatever surveillance in the name of security drowns out any voice of reason.

then it's time for an "intellectual 'property' tax." Let them have their eternal copyright, but tax the living shit out of it.

Whoever uses "whomever" as a subject needs some serious English lessons.

The source of that quote, just happens to sell a solution to this horrible, dangerous threat. (scans article) Yup! Lieberman Software conveniently provides "Privileged Identity Management Solutions." But quis ipsos custodes custodiet? Who manages the privileged identity management solution manager? Or will they take that arduous task off the company's hands, too? Fscking charlatans.

That only applies to credit accounts, not to checking or savings accounts.