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Saturday, January 03, 2004

Home of the Free?

Hotels and airlines serving Las Vegas are being required to turn over customer names and personal information to the FBI, as part of "normal investigative procedure." Is it alarmist of me to think of Orwell?
(via This Modern World)

posted by Dan at 1/03/2004 10:41:00 AM

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