[108047] in Cypherpunks
Census data sold to advertisers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim May)
Tue Feb 2 15:21:54 1999
In-Reply-To: <a724760e46353443433a223790ed0969@anonymous>
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 11:36:05 -0800
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Reply-To: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
At 4:05 AM -0800 2/2/99, Anonymous wrote:
>This From: Sptimes.com (St. Petersburg Times, Fla.) January 23, 1999
>http://www.sptimes.com/
>
>Florida Has Sold License Photos
>http://www.sptimes.com/News/12399/State/Florida_has_sold_lice.html
>
>That's right. The state got a penny from a company in New Hampshire for
>your
>driver's license picture.
Just part of the sellout of the government to big business.
Some Census ladies knocked on my door last week. They wanted to ask about
how many rooms, bathrooms, etc. my house had, and how many people lived at
my house. I told them I thought that's what the census _next year_ is
about, to count heads. (But not bathrooms, bedrooms, etc.)
They told me they are helping with the data base which will then be used by
the census takers.
I told them I would be answering only the question of how many live at my
address, not any questions of race, ethnicity, income level, numbers of
bedrooms, numbers of refrigerators, numbers of televisions, numbers of
computers, etc.
One of the ladies told me: "Oh, but you have to answer the questions about
the applicances you have, and the bedrooms. The government uses that
information in its planning."
And she added, "And the governnment sells the statistical data to advertisers."
There it was. Out in the open.
The kleptocracy revealed.
--Tim May
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