--- EPIC has obtained this August 2002 email message: http://www.epic.org/privacy/profiling/tia/darpaacxiom.pdf Excerpt: "Ultimately, the U.S. may need huge databases of commercial transactions that cover the world or certain areas outside the U.S. This information provides economic utility, and thus provides reasons why foreign countries would be interested. Acxiom could build this mega-scale database." This email discussion was happening at the same time (Dec. 2001 through Oct. 2003) that presidential wanna-be Wesley Clark was on Acxiom's board and was a highly-paid lobbyist for the company: http://www.acxiom.com/default.aspx?ID=2312&Country_Code=USA -Declan _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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