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If passport files for folks like Obama, Clinton, and McCain are subject to casual (for fun? for political reasons?) unauthorized<\/a> perusal<\/a> by government employees, officials, contrators, whatever — in some cases the notification taking months to come to senior officials official attention — then why should we trust that any of our data will be “safe” or “secure” or “tamper-free” or “protected from unauthorized access”?<\/p>\n

Any time someone makes those promises about a Big Government Database (be it passports, homeland security, medical records, whatever), remember that.<\/p>\n

Not that such databases don’t have some value, or that we shouldn’t necessarily have them, or that we can’t work to minimize those risks. But unrealistic promises and iron-clad assurances and paternalistic head-patting should be laughed at any time provided. The risks are real, and should be addressed as such, not simply dismissed from the discussion and debate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If passport files for folks like Obama, Clinton, and McCain are subject to casual (for fun? for political reasons?) unauthorized perusal by government employees, officials, contrators, whatever — in some cases…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,17,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hi-tech","category-homeland-security","category-politics-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12571,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/03\/21\/more_passporty_goodness.html","url_meta":{"origin":12574,"position":0},"title":"More passporty goodness","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 21-Mar-08 9:23pm","format":false,"excerpt":"NY Times coverage, including who did it, and when. 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