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When Private Isn't So Private

Matt Welch | 11.11.2003 3:02 AM

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Former Reason staffer Rick Henderson points to this Las Vegas Review-Journal article about how members of voluntary associations are being asked to cough up personal information in the name of the PATRIOT Act.

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