"We're not using it for building dossiers".
The purpose of that order was to discourage unjustified surveillance and prevent police from peering into people's private affairs and building dossiers on them without legitimate cause.
"We start building dossiers the moment someone buys a ticket," says Einav, the Shin Bet veteran who also once served as head of El Al security.
For example, Mr. Gore said he wanted to discourage "profiling" -- the practice by some companies of building dossiers on the activities of private citizens using a variety of databases and then using or selling that information to other businesses.
In Mexico, he worries about the government building a dossier on every citizen as part of the narco wars.
Rangers manager Stuart McCall says he is building a dossier of player targets for the club, despite the uncertainty over his future and that of the club.
The last time we had a big blowup about this kind of civil-liberties issue was in the Seventies, when, as a result of Watergate, there were disclosures of the FBI tracking Martin Luther King Jr. and building a dossier on him.
Beginning in April 1934, and at Hitler's request, Heydrich and Himmler began building a dossier on Sturmabteilung (SA) leader Ernst Röhm in an effort to remove him as a rival for party leadership.
One in a long line of metahostesses who relished the fastidious tradition of building entertaining dossiers, the Duchess of Windsor personalized the practice to the point of cruelty, noting any deficiencies on what her servants called the "complaint pad," kept at her elbow during dinner parties and sheathed in a gold Van Cleef & Arpels case.
And online cookie pushers are benign and well behaved compared with direct marketers who begin building consumer dossiers on children from their birth announcements and school records, who know within 24 hours from your credit card records that you bought underwear at Bloomingdale's and who will sell that information to almost anyone.
Jodie Bernstein, who heads the F.T.C.'s consumer protection division, told the Senate Commerce Committee that the agency and the major online advertising firms were "better than half and half" in agreement on voluntary principles the firms should follow in tracking people's movements around the Internet and building consumer dossiers based on that information.
