Apparently, a recent Congressional investigation has revealed widespread misuse of the National Crime Information Center. The most scandalous case occured when an ex-officer found his ex-girlfriend using the system and killed her. In other cases, the girlfriend of a drug dealer ran all the new recruits through the system to see if they were undercover agents. In many cases, private investigators accessed the data for a number of different purposes. It is interesting to note that all of the access was caused by insiders (as a previous poster noted ). These are the people we're going to trust with the Clipper technology? -Peter
According to Peter Wayner:
Apparently, a recent Congressional investigation has revealed widespread misuse of the National Crime Information Center. The most scandalous case occured when an ex-officer found his ex-girlfriend using the system and killed her. In other cases, the girlfriend of a drug dealer ran all the new recruits through the system to see if they were undercover agents. In many cases, private investigators accessed the data for a number of different purposes.
Can this be documented? If so, this would be the most convincing arguement against the Big Brother chip. References anybody? Thanx. ========================+==========================================+ J. Michael Diehl ;^) | Have you hugged a Hetero........Lately? | mdiehl@triton.unm.edu | "I'm just looking for the opportunity to | mike.diehl@fido.org help| be Politically Incorrect!" +=========+ al945@cwns9.ins.cwru.edu| Is Big Brother in your phone? | PGP KEY | (505) 299-2282 (voice) | If you don't know, ask me. |Available| ========================+================================+=========+ PGP Key = 7C06F1 = A6 27 E1 1D 5F B2 F2 F1 12 E7 53 2D 85 A2 10 5D This message is protected by 18 USC 2511 and 18 USC 2703. Monitoring by anyone other than the recipient is absolutely forbidden by US Law
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