[IP] FOIA'd email to Pentagon's super-snoop John Poindexter [priv]

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 00:25:51 -0500
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>

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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

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