Stephen Harding wrote:
Why are you not concerned with government use of your passport
information as it is already defined?

Because the USA wants information of non-citizens. Those non-citizens have no
way to control how the information is used or misused by the foreign
government after they have left the country.

The bottom line is this is an internal national policy decision
undertaken by a democratic form of government with a lot of
checks and balances built into the system to prevent abuse,

That is the problem. The USA lacks a national data privacy law with sufficient
teeth to make it worthwile. This is why Europe, Canada and other countries are
having serious problems with the USA's requests. And the USA doesn't want to
have such strick laws because it needs to pass that information around freely
in order to do what it wants to do with it. (for instance, match your credit
card transactions with your fingerprint/identification). Remember that the
Bush Regime wants a "total information awareness" system. They are not there
yet, but that is what they want.