A longer version of the story can be found at the Orlando Sentinel
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orange/orl-aseccap08070804jul08,1,152972.story?coll=orl-home-headlines.
"'Anyone who doesn't like it, I feel sorry for,' Lamar said. 'It is a program that can save American lives. It can save kids from being degraded. It's a great program.'"
To him I say, I can't trust you, so I want to put cameras in every rooom in your house. It may save a child.
Thank, Mr. Bush. Now I cannot trust anyone coming into my house. He may see something innocent and report me to the FBI. He may mistake a bag of oregano for pot. He may mistake an open Playboy for child porno. Anything.
So here's how we fight back:
If you require the phone company, cable, water, power, etc. to come to your home, when you call to make an appointment ask if they participate in the Citizen Awareness Program or any similar program in which their employees are trained or tasked to spy on customers. Tell them if they are not to bother to come and that they will be reported to the utility commission. If they say they do not, tell them you will fax them a form to sign in which they agree their employees may not spy on you, and that anything they see or hear is proprietary and confidential. And anybody who comes to your house has to sign it also.
<P>I've made a sample form below. I hope a smart lawyer makes a better one.
------------------------------------I, _______________________________, hereby certify that myself, my company _______________________, and employees do not participate in the Citizen Awareness Program or any similar program in which employees spy on and report on activities of clients whose homes they have been invited to enter, and that the company and employee will not reveal any information about anything he/she sees or hears inside the home of _____________________(name and address), as such information is proprietary and confidential and that it may be considered slander. I understand that any violation of this promise will be prosecuted under the full extent of the law, and that both myself and my company are liable for legal damages and punitive action.
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