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On the recordSeptember 27, 2013
Your privacy is under attack. The Affordable Care Act, ObamaCare, is creating a data hub for every American's personal health information and financial information. It's basically a central location for all of America, for all of your private and sensitive information. Can America really trust this system that has key information on your income, your Social Security numbers, your emails, your family size, your medical records, and the list goes on? The answer is ``no.'' With the ObamaCare data hub, an American's personal information will be shared from the Department of Justice, the Social Security Administration, the Department of Homeland Security. The IRS will send information, the Treasury Department, Health and Human Services. We have already witnessed many security breaches within numerous government agencies, and the potential for abuse here is staggering. We know a system like this will be attractive to identity thieves. It is clear that a system that has not been tested for security systems cannot adequately protect all of our security information and our personal information. We have even witnessed privacy abuses by other government agencies--by the NSA, by the IRS. The Obama data hub will end privacy as we know it and will grant unprecedented power over citizens to the government. ____________________
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Thomas A. Garrett
Virginia

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