{"id":575,"date":"2008-04-02T04:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T12:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=575"},"modified":"2008-04-02T04:29:14","modified_gmt":"2008-04-02T12:29:14","slug":"acquainted-with-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2008\/acquainted-with-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Acquainted With Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I read about God being acquainted with all my ways. So I made this wallpaper for my computer:<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/withallmyways-b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/withallmyways-s.jpg\" alt=\"Acquainted with all my ways\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Then I read this:<\/p>\n<table width=75% align=center bgcolor=pink border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20080402\/ts_nm\/security_databases_report_dc_1;_ylt=ApS7Fxt5h4zPPn8g3ZAD.gME1vAI\">State centers tap into personal data<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Intelligence centers run by U.S. states have access to personal information about millions of Americans, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>A survey conducted last year shows the centers have subscriptions to private information-broker services that maintain records about Americans&#8217; locations, financial holdings, associates, relatives, firearms licenses and other information, the newspaper said, citing officials familiar with the material.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania buys credit reports while analysts in Rhode Island have access to car-rental databases. Authorities in Maryland use a data broker called Entersect, which claims it maintains some 12 billion records about 98 percent of Americans, the Post reported.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>I assume I&#8217;m among the 98 percent.<\/p>\n<p>What do &#8220;they&#8221; have on record about me?<\/p>\n<p><b>Not nearly as much as God knows about me!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Should I care?<\/p>\n<p>I know some people who don&#8217;t care.<\/p>\n<p>Or don&#8217;t <i>seem<\/i> to care.<\/p>\n<p>And I thought they did.<\/p>\n<p>Including me?<\/p>\n<p>PS: If I&#8217;m in the 2 percent suggested above, why?!<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I read about God being acquainted with all my ways. So I made this wallpaper for my computer: Then I read this: State centers tap into personal data Intelligence centers run by U.S. states have access to personal information about millions of Americans, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday. 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