Issue Position: Privacy

Issue Position

My prime concern is the Federal assault on privacy. The government is intent on extracting biometric data from citizens so they can track people anywhere. Cameras are proliferating as fast as the usurpation of our Bill of Rights. Both the Democrats and Republicans are creating a Big Brother State even beyond George Orwell's imagination. Orwell couldn't imagine the power of the computer to organize and monitor everything real-time. The first attempt to implement watching everyone all the time was the Total Information Awareness program which was criticized and then moved to DoD.

Terrorism accelerated the war on the Bill of Rights. Generation NEXT will probably be a paperless society so safeguards must be imposed on nosy federal bureaucrats and businesses to protect our electronic privacy.

I would sponsor a law which would make the stealth intrusion into one's computer (it is our papers) or reading other's email/messages a felony without warrant, whether by hackers, business, software companies, or by federal agents. I would apply mandatory jail sentences for officials violating peoples' electronic civil rights.

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