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No Privacy with Technology

Several articles came out about US Marshall's using small aircraft to gather data on all US citizens and that's it.  There's no follow up, no more that will come of it and the data mining will continue unabated.  Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple said years ago that privacy is dead.  And, to my surprise it went with out a fight or even the smallest hint of a protest.  

The right to privacy is one of the fundamental rights in the Bill of Rights, actually it's number 6 on the list of 10 rights that were so important they were added to the Constitution.  Except for a few articles, from the Wall Street Journal to Fox News, it doesn't even make the nightly news.  Is it that people just don't care, is it a trade off for keeping law and order among the masses? Or is this incident just one of the many ways that our freedoms are rapidly eroding?  What happens when you act outside of your profile?  How many alarm bells ring then?

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