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Statements about Privacy
Michele Bachmann

Michele Bachmann

Pants on Fire!

None of those things

The IRS is going to be "in charge" of "a huge national database" on health care that will include Americans’ "personal, intimate, most close-to-the-vest-secrets."

Ban the Box RI

Ban the Box RI

True

It’s now up to 31 percent

"In Rhode Island, 28 percent of adults released from state prisons are re-incarcerated within a year."

Dianne Feinstein

Dianne Feinstein

False

No regulation? In fact, a ban

"We have no regulation of drones in the United States in their commercial use."

Brian Patrick Kennedy

Brian Patrick Kennedy

Mostly False

Employers CAN watch you work

Employers and schools have no right to conduct "surveillance of a dorm room or a worker’s cubicle."

Tommy Thompson

Tommy Thompson

False

Speculation without evidence

Says Tammy Baldwin supports a law "in which government will take over your decisions on medicine, on doctors and on hospitals."

Mark Clayton

Mark Clayton

Pants on Fire!

No such policy

Says the federal government "mandates transexuals (sic) and homosexuals grabbing children in their stranger-danger zones in the name of airport security."

Scott Walker

Scott Walker

Half-True

Protester who posted was homegrown

Says his sons were "targeted" on Facebook "by out-of-state protesters."

Kim Thatcher

Kim Thatcher

Mostly True

Not quite a bulls-eye

Oregon concealed gun applications include "home phone numbers, home address, Social Security numbers, what kinds of guns you have in the house … whether you were dishonorably discharged from the military, what controlled substances you are taking and  were you ever accused of -- accused, mind you -- of stalking."

Jason Brodeur

Jason Brodeur

False

Law actually gives gun owners special protections

Says gun ownership information could be recorded and collected by the federal government and insurance companies as part of the federal health care law.

Delia Lopez

Delia Lopez

Pants on Fire!

Blumenauer as Big Brother? Not so much

A bill by Earl Blumenauer would "mandate GPS tracking devices on all our vehicles."

Ann Marie Buerkle

Ann Marie Buerkle

False

The government won't know your personal flab factor

"The Obama Health and Human Services Department is planning to compile a federal health record on all U.S. citizens by 2014," including "each individual’s Body Mass Index."

Chain email

Chain email

Pants on Fire!

No, and the health insurance exchanges won't turn you into a zombie, either

A data-storing microchip "would be implanted in the majority of people who opt to become covered by the public health care option."

Senior Citizens League

Senior Citizens League

Mostly False

Snooping will be harder than the group lets on

A "massive" federal computer network will make your medical records available to "millions of people" with a "complete lack of privacy and confidentiality," while doctors and hospitals who don't take part face "stiff penalties."

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