What kind of information would that be? I seriously can't think of anything that the government doesn't already have that would make any difference if they had it. I think you're reaching and I already told you I'm not one for alarmism.

The only thing I can see it being useful for is looking up case by case on a potential criminal etc. However, I won't dispute that the law enforcement has gotten a bit "trigger happy". Otherwise, I feel it's useful for people to ensure the wanted criminals they're following are actually wanted.

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Good catch.

Maybe so; it just seems like a relatively big issue to me.

Isn't that what the FBI is for though? Why do we need yet an additional task force for something that another federal agency is supposed to be doing (in terms of keeping a database of certain things); I don't necessarily think law enforcement has gone trigger happy, I more or less think there's just much more media coverage of it.

Alarmism'll do that to ya.

Fair enough. But at the same time, you're under the assumption that the information they'd be sending is in any way a detriment to the person involved. They could literally just be getting their birth date as far as we know.

Information is power.

If that were the case, all websites that ask for your birth date should no longer do so.

Fear has given people infinity times more power than information.