How would a NIDS threaten civil liberties?
People who are easily and constantly tracked by a central authority are not free people. Moreover, when everyone is tracked, their associations are tracked as well. In 1965, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) refused to give the State of Georgia a list of Georgia members for fear that the people listed would be harrassed or harmed. The U.S. Supreme Court backed the NAACP, arguing that we are free to associate without being tracked and watched. The U.S. courts and Congress have repeatedly recognized that people under constant surveillance are not free.
