Online Conspiracy Theorists Latch Onto Census GPS Units
September 24th, 2009 admin
Topics: america, authority, chairman, daily, fbi, houses, miscellaneous, national, obama, predator-drone, street, united, united-nations, Wired, world-order
The hanging death of a Kentucky census worker is likely to raise tensions among counters in the 2010 census, who have already been the focus of emotionally charged online rhetoric this year because they use GPS. Internet conspiracy theories have grown in recent months over the fact that census workers are now equipped with GPS-enabled handheld computers that let them collect the geolocation of street addresses as they perform pre-census canvassing.
Originally posted on Wired 
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