Sandra Finley of Saskatoon, Canada has been fighting the data-mining being done in Canada by Lockeheed-Martin and IBM under the Canadian Census.  This article is part of the history of that battle.

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Dear Mr. Unruh,

Thank-you for your article “Critics call Census pages ‘involuntary colonoscopy’ 

Jim Kirwan wrote a related article,  “Privatizing The Census While Perverting Its Purposes”. 

I am currently on trial in Canada because I would not fill in my 2006 census form.   I was one of thousands who did not fill in the form, but one of few being prosecuted.

Initially, I objected because part of the work was outsourced to Lockheed Martin Corporation, the main contractor; I equate them with the U.S. Pentagon.  IBM is a sub-contractor to Lockheed.

There is a horrific history behind state use of personal data (census information) on its citizens.  It is well documented in Edwin Black’s “IBM and the Holocaust”, one example.  More