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Thursday, December 13, 2007 

Yankee Doodle Dandy

Have you heard people say about the decay of privacy rights during the Age of the War on Terror, "Hey, if you don't have anything to hide, you've got nothing to be afraid of."

Hasan Elahi, a Bangladeshi-born American artist who landed himself on the terror watch list (for not doin' nothin', I might add) seems to have nothing to fear (or everything to fear) and he's proving it by making his life into an open book. In fact, you might say he's spying on himself. He's got a GPS in his pocket, and if you look at his web site, Tracking Transience , you can see a map of his location. Look a little further, and you'll find receipts of what he's bought, photos of where he's been, airports he's been to, and so on.

Wired Magazine has the report. Apparently, the government is still keeping an eye on Elahi, and he knows that from tracking web hits. "It's really weird watching the government watch me," he says.

When Little Bobby D set to spying on himself back in the John Birch days, he sang, "Hope I don't find out too much."





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