Every purchase you make with a credit card, every magazine subscription you buy and medical prescription you fill, every Web site you visit and e-mail you send or receive, every academic grade you receive, every bank deposit you make, every trip you book and every event you attend: all these transactions and communications will go into what the Defense Department describes as “a virtual, centralized grand database.”
Grounded
A federal agency confirms that it maintains an air-travel blacklist of 1,000 people. Peace activists and civil libertarians fear they’re on it.
Source: John Robb’s Radio weblog