Senate Housing Bill Requires eBay, Amazon, Google, and All Credit Card Companies to Report Transactions (Congress, weapons)

[GigiBowman]

Broad, invasive provision touches nearly every aspect of American commerce.


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Washington, DC - Hidden deep in Senator Christopher Dodd's 630-page Senate housing legislation is a sweeping provision that affects the privacy and operation of nearly all of America?s small businesses. The provision, which was added by the bill's managers without debate this week, would require the nation's payment systems to track, aggregate, and report information on nearly every electronic transaction to the federal government.

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FreedomWorks Chairman Dick Armey commented: "This is a provision with astonishing reach, and it was slipped into the bill just this week. Not only does it affect nearly every credit card transaction in America, such as Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and American Express, but the bill specifically targets payment systems like eBay's PayPal, Amazon, and Google Checkout that are used by many small online businesses. The privacy implications for America's small businesses are breathtaking."

"Privacy groups like the Center for Democracy and Technology and small business organizations like the NFIB sharply criticized this idea when it first appeared earlier this year. What is the federal government's purpose with this kind of detailed data? How will this database be secured, and who will have access? Many small proprietors use their Social Security number as their tax ID. How will their privacy be protected? What compliance costs will this impose on businesses? Why is Sen. Chris Dodd putting this provision in a housing bailout bill? The bill also includes the creation of a new national fingerprint registry for mortgage brokers.

continued: Senate Housing Bill Requires eBay, Amazon, Google, and All Credit Card Companies to Report Transactions to the Government -- FreedomWorks.org

[saltine]

What? more big government tenticles?

[lionking]

"Hidden Deep in the bill"



and this my friends is what they do.Yes the next time you support a bill and say "that's reasonable" "about time" "why don't they do something" there you go.


Of course the media will only tell you what they want to get out.One forever etched in my mind is "it's only 19 specific models being banned,surely with all the guns available there is no problem banning only 19"...........ah yes and they passed Clinton's assault gun ban and low and behold buried deep in the bill it classified 100's of more that weren't even close to being "assault weapons".


And of course after it passed the Brady's admitted it wouldn't have a huge impact on crime but was a stepping stone to more regulation...............

[texdav]

More of the Spitzer treatment of harrassing peole to death. Next they will want to imprison political prisoners.Typical socialist tactics.

[LibertyandJusticeforAll]

I say FU to them

[desertsun41]

Originally Posted by LibertyandJusticeforAll

I say FU to them

I second that. I would also like them tried for treason.