Big Business Becoming Big Brother The government is increasingly using corporations to do its surveillance work, allowing it to get around restrictions that protect the privacy and civil liberties of Americans, according to a report released Monday by the American Civil Liberties Union, an organization that works to protect civil liberties. Data aggregators — companies that aggregate information from numerous private and public databases — and private companies that collect information about their customers are increasingly giving or selling data to the government to augment its surveillance capabilities and help it track the activities of people. Because laws that restrict government data collection don’t apply to private industry, the government is able to bypass restrictions on domestic surveillance. Congress needs to close such loopholes Federal law enforcement have sent watch lists to corporations containing names of individuals that were not under official investigation or wanted, but that the agency just had an interest in. We already know that some of these agencies are targeting and harassing citizens. Would it not be reasonable to conclude that they are misusing this resource as well?
Big Business Becoming Big Brother Wired NewsWire 02:00 AM Aug, 09, 2004 EDT, By Kim Zetter The ACLU released the Surveillance-Industrial Complex report to educate the public about how information collected from them is being used. The report notes that there is no way to determine how many job applicants might have been denied work because their names appeared on the list. “It turns companies into sheriff’s deputies, responsible not just for feeding information to the government, but for actually enforcing the government’s wishes,
for example by effectively blacklisting anyone who has been labeled as a suspect under the government’s less-than-rigorous procedures for identifying risks,” the report states. In addition to slander and keeping you unemployed, they may also use companies or recruiters in harassment campaigns (organized stalking). This is particularly the case with recruiters. It appears that they are often used to try to further traumatize a person using Mobbing tactics during interviews. For instance, they may ask you a series of questions for which you have to answer no to, such as asking you for credentials that you did not list on your resume. Gang stalking groups can interfere (physically and spiritually) with every personal and business relationship you have. According to an article in The Christian Science Monitor titled Blacklisted by the bank, Blacklisting was originally used as a foreign-policy tool. At some point federal organizations decided to start using it on individuals as well. Some tactics used to keep you Black-listed include interfering with communications and slander. Also there are listsed companies which stalk online or are well connected in the masonic groups. So they use sorecery. There is basically a safe zone that these people can harass you from with little fear of being caught. This tactic may widen the harassment scope by allowing them to ask potentially painful questions that are already answered on your resume. These questions are asked with ACCUSING, or MOCKING tones. Stalking group members also try to entice the target to assault them, but this is never done without having witnesses present. Any weakness a person has can be used in one of these setups to frame a targeted person for crimes out in public. Mobbing-Emotional Abuse in the American Workplace, Davenport, Schwartz, Elliot Mobbing sometimes continues after individuals have left the organization. Although this can rarely be proven, slandering continues… This ongoing mobbing, even after the individuals are no longer connected with the organization, seems to justify the mobbers’ previous behavior & upholds the organization s decision. They try to defend themselves by continuing to destroy the victim s reputation… Some harassment is masked in layers of accommodation to help strengthen the illusion that you’re not working because you don’t choose to. For instance, you may have recruiters who have harassed you in the past leave messages on your answering machine or with relatives/friends, indicating that there are opportunities available to you. It will be made to look as if you’re unemployed due to your choice. This is the equivalent of standing in a crowd of people & stealthily poking a person while others aren’t looking. Then accusing the person of aggression when he/she reacts. The general public may not realize that the Blacklisting mechanism exists because the institutions that use it operate most major news outlets. Reporters and historians are blacklisted for reporting corruption or historical facts that the government-corporate complex does not want the public to be aware of.