[TheForge] Criminal Background Check OT

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

I agree with you Andy, and will protest every inch of the way..but the 
reality is that it's too late to stop it..pf

Andrew Vida wrote:
> 
> Jerry Frost wrote:
>> A couple things.
>>
>> First, a little online searching and a few bucks and 
>> anybody can learn way more about you than you want 
>> anyone to know. The State or Feds can check you back 
>> beyond birth if they so choose and as for your 
>> fingerprints all they need to do is tail you and print 
>> something you've touched. No warrant necessary. IF 
>> you're that interesting to them they already have more 
>> than you know yourself.
> 
> 	This is all too true.  However, there is a line in the sand delimiting 
> this sort of act carried out under current circumstances and when done 
> with consent.  Once crossed, the psychological bell becomes increasingly 
> difficult to unring as time advances and precedents are set with one's 
> consent.  Tacit consent is difficult enough to argue against.  Explicit 
> consent is almost impossible.  How many people have gotten really big 
> surprises after signing on the dotted line?
>> Secondly, with computer comparisons checking many many 
>> more points of similarity than eyeball comparisons 
>> there's a fleetingly small chance of mistakes matching 
>> you to a partial.
> 
> 	Sounds so innocent and innocuous until you find yourself on the wrong 
> end of half a dozen muzzles and some rather unfriendly sounding hombres.
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