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Want to check your e-mail in Italy? Bring your passport
By Sofia Celeste, Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor
Tue Oct 4, 4:00 AM ET

ROME - Looking out over the cobblestone streets of Rome's Borgo Pio neighborhood, Maurizio Savoni says he's closing his Internet cafe because he doesn't want to be a "cop" anymore.

After Italy passed a new antiterrorism package in July, authorities ordered managers offering public communications services, like Mr. Savoni, to make passport photocopies of every customer seeking to use the Internet, phone, or fax.

"This new law creates a heavy atmosphere," says Savoni, his desk cluttered with passport photocopies. He is visibly irritated, as he proceeds to halt clients at the door for their ID.

Passed within weeks of the London bombings this summer, the law is part of the most extensive antiterror package introduced in Italy since 9/11 and the country's subsequent support of the Iraq war.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20051004/wl_csm/ocafe_1

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@igotthisguitar, I have read a great many of your 1200 plus posts, and in general I heartily agree with your concerns. However, I have long felt that fundamentally life is too short, and too chaotic for the sort of conspiracies you seem to believe existing to actually be happening. Granted, there are large trends towards many of the "big brother"-like developments which you point out. But the degree of organization I am seeing you attribute to these movements are very probably exadurated. No doubt, organizations are collecting masses of data, and insideous forces are at work, in fact it was years ago now that even Sasktel stopped taking cash payment all together. This was probably a co-op with the Regina city police and basicly a hysterical reaction to news reports which blamed Sasktel for making it easier for drug-dealers to buy and pay for cell phones anonnymously.

With respect to your google post, I have been able to find ALL 11 of my North American co-workers on google: their resumes, what schools they attended and a good amount of information about their families. That's not cool. If you want to be "safe:" for one, don't use an idiosyncratic user name on forums, it is very easy to connect you to your posts on other forums, and other internet services where you have used the same user name; we might also be able to guess your email address by adding @hotmail.com to your user name. Obviously you should use proxies, or at least don't directly use a home computer unless it is for matter-of-fact buissiness-like work. If you must at some time put your real name on the net, use a variant of it, James, John, Jonny, Jay, J. or what have you. I have deduced the identity of many users on this forum (for fun, not for malicious purposes) by carefully reading what comes up under "show all posts by this user," and then googling all that info.. Simply open any Australian or Canadian slang dictionary to make yourself look like a Canuk or an Aussie, and mind your spelling; wikipedia will give you enough information to pretend you are from Perth or Vancouver or what ever. And for heavens sake, don't use the same user name here and on KoreanFriendFinder or UBLove, that just makes it too easy to figure out not only who you are but even your bloody address! Use common words for all user ids, they come up in a list of millions on google, and the same goes for your name. No matter how hard I try, I can not find myself on google, because I have the same name as a famous historical American. When you have the option, always pay cash. For most people, this all makes no difference, as no one could really care less who you are, but if you are "up to something," for sure, you better take care, and educate, educate, educate yourself, 'cause you can beat the system, even in this day and age, but it takes a lot of work and study and learning everything there is to know about how banks, IP addresses, drivers licencing boards and so on work. (PS, down and out strangers will almost always rent an apt for you in their name, set up a PO box, or get internet installed, for a hundred pounds or so.)

Good luck.