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In some totalitarian countries citizens worry about the government listening in on their private conversations, monitoring their movements, and generally invading their privacy.  Most United States citizens rarely worry about such government intrusion, [CS] a very real threat to privacy does exist.  That threat comes from business.  Certainly the FBI and state or local police organizations collect information on certain citizens [RO] the DMI has information on thousands.  The DMI, or Direct Marketing Information, sells mailing lists to businesses that use the mails to contact potential customers, [CS] many of these businesses can also get information on individuals' buying habits, their family size, their income and savings records, and many other areas that most of us consider quite private.  This invasion of privacy is a result primarily of the technology boom [RO] the existence of cordless phones, the sophistication of computers, and the emergence of "voice-mail" systems on telephone networks all contribute to the problem.  The invasion-of-privacy business is also aided by the government.  It's not that the government regularly sells information on private citizens, [CS] it's that the government does little to prevent others from doing so.  Regulations on business steadily declined throughout the nineteen eighties [RO] now it seems to be open season on citizens' private lives.