Tuesday, January 10, 2012

What sort of question would you like to ask under the Freedom of Information Act?

If your Freedom on Information act is similar to the US's, I would ask for information relating to the government's monitoring of my habits. As a decent citizen who poses no threat, I would be curious whether there are any files on me and whether my internet service provider has an agreement with the government to provide them with their customers' (which would include me) browsing information and email contents. I would be curious if the government is randomly running people's bank transactions and movements through a database. I guess I would be curious to know how the "war on terror" has trapped me in its far-reaching web, because that would really be an eyeopener as far as civil liberties go.

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