Electronic concentration camp

[Объединенное Детективное Бюро]

Have you ever dreamed that you woke up, looked around and suddenly realized that your bed was in the center of a busy public square. Around drive cars and walk pedestrians. A few steps from your bed, not paying any attention to you, waving a rod and a traffic controller whistles in a whistle. You are afraid to throw back the blanket and stand up, because everyone around you will immediately see that you are naked. But while you are under the covers, no one is looking at you. They simply don’t notice you. Apparently, it is the blanket that protects you from two-way communication with the dimension in which the area is located. It does not have to be Red Square. It can be the area of any city in the world. In fact, in all likelihood, any American should have felt if he knew how many times a day he is stripped naked and put up on a crowded square. It is about the interference of private and public institutions in the personal files and the private life of American citizens. Modern technology in the United States has allowed the creation of extensive electronic files that store information about the most personal, intimate details of the life of every person living in this country. Many citizens are not aware that every day of our lives in America is carefully outlined, automatically sorted, and, if necessary, analyzed to the smallest detail. You signed up for a doctor, drove to the pharmacy for medicine, applied for a credit card, called the insurance company. You stopped at a store for a gift for a woman. Then they ordered flower delivery on the Internet to her address in a neighboring city. We took a plane ticket to congratulate the birthday girl personally. What do you think, how many people who potentially want to know everything about your life have received information about how your day went? How many sheets of electronic text fell on the invisible shelves of computer memory and where? A normal reader will ask what is interesting in it and who needs it? The biggest skeptic is likely to reduce the score to two or three sheets of text, which is interesting to 8-10 people, by force. And I, in order not to be unfounded, I suggest you analyze this past day with me. At the initial appointment with the doctor, each patient signs a document in which he allows the medical institution to transfer confidential information about itself to other medical and other related institutions. Without the signature of this document, the doctor will not accept the patient. On the one hand, everything is clear. A medical institution really needs a patient’s permission to transfer data about it to medical laboratories, hospitals, and government institutions if the patient applies for a disability. Other related institutions are not specified in the document. All medical data is automatically transferred to the police and the FBI. In addition, clinics have at least 3-5 clients to whom they sell lists of names with addresses and phone numbers. Clients are, as a rule, trading companies, banks and other companies. They, having invested the information in the database, immediately resell it to other companies. For example, I’ll say that an address list with names and phones for 1000 names can cost from 200 to 500 dollars. Specialized addresses of, say, people with diabetes, or a list of people who spend at least $ 1,000 a day on expensive clothes, may cost a dollar for an address. Depending on what you are sick with, dozens of companies (thanks to the address list) will send you letters tomorrow with an offer to buy everything that can relieve your illness: from medications and vitamins to special lightweight clothing. Information about your visit to the doctor and the nature of your medical problem at the end of the day is already known to all related medical institutions, 15-20 trading companies and all the main state databases, of which there are more than nineteen thousand in America. If you print this information only within one database, you get at least 2 sheets of printed text per day. Already the day after tomorrow you will receive a lot of letters with offers "buy". Next, for example, take a call to an insurance company. Before giving you the price of car insurance for the year, the insurance company will check the medical confidential information. If the nature of your medical problem can at least somehow affect the driving of the car, then the price, without explanation, will be higher. The insurance company will also check the criminal history, take information from the National Incident Center, in court, as well as from 3 national credit bureaus (to make sure your solvency is valid) and will also contact 10-15 other organizations via the Internet. The operator of the insurance agency for this entire procedure will take no more than half an hour. After that, the agent will know everything about you, including the nickname of your dog, who likes to ride in the car and can scratch the seat. And while your name is in the active query of the insurance agent’s computer, his computer will automatically sell you with all your strengths and weaknesses to another 10-15 different interested organizations. Those, in turn, to others, and others to third. And the day after tomorrow in the mailbox you will again find letters from 4-5 insurance companies that will offer you a lower price. No less thorough “washing your bones” takes place after you have bought a prescription medicine. Information about your purchase is automatically transmitted to the National Information Criminal Center (NCIC), which is directly connected to 19 thousand other state agencies and their databases. If the medicine is a sleeping pill, sedative or painkiller and contains narcotic substances, the information is transmitted to the drug control departments. Any business related to the production and / or sale of chemicals is constantly monitored by law enforcement agencies. After all, there are simple drugs that, when mixed with certain chemicals, can turn into the strongest poisons or explosive substances. Using your credit or debit card, you bought the medicine at the pharmacy, and then, at the supermarket, among other goods, took a gallon of bleach and a sewer cleaner. How do you know that the medicine you bought, mixed with bleach, at a certain heating temperature, becomes an explosive. And in the computer program this information is embedded. You, an ordinary law-abiding American citizen, do not even suspect that a hidden inquiry and a full analysis of your possible criminal profile began a few minutes after you paid for groceries and goods at the supermarket cashier. So far, only computers are doing this, without human intervention. During the automatic analysis, the computer found information 30 years ago: as a student of the seventh grade, you made an explosive packet of magnesium and manganese and blew it up in the schoolyard. The “red flag” alarm program has activated, and now investigators will study your profile. You don’t understand why on the route: work - pharmacy - supermarket - house there were road patrol cars and police. Why exactly you were stopped for a permissible speeding when you just got ahead of two vehicles at a speed far exceeding the speed of your car. And tomorrow at the switchboards of your house, at intervals, they will carry out preventive maintenance of PBX equipment, Gorsvet and a television cable company. Your garbage bags, picked up by a garbage company, will not go to a landfill, but will be carefully examined by an investigator, and so on ... An excellent example of the above is the 1998 American film, set according to the script by David Marconi “Enemy of the State” ), starring Will Smith and Gene Heckman. The film shows how quickly you can find out everything about any person: from his location at any time, numbers and balance of all bank and credit accounts, to the biography in the smallest details ... Victor Orel [url = http: //www.1- sovetnik.com/articles/article-629.html.BIZhttps://www.1-sovetnik.com/articles/article-629.html[/url]

 

[Матушкин Андрей Николаевич]

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