Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page  October 14, 2009October 14, 2009--------

POLICE STATE USA

A bill has been approved by the Massachusetts House of Representatives to take the state closer to giving the governor nearly unlimited power to declare states of emergency and public health emergencies.

As stated in SB 2028, upon declaration by the governor that an emergency exists that is considered detrimental to public health or upon declaration of a state of emergency, a local public health authority, with approval of the commissioner, could exercise the following authorities (emphasis added):

to require the owner or occupier of premises to permit entry into and investigation of the premises;

to close, direct, and compel the evacuation of, or to decontaminate or cause to be decontaminated any building or facility, and to allow the reopening of the building or facility when the danger has ended;

to decontaminate or cause to be decontaminated, or to destroy any material;

to restrict or prohibit assemblages of persons;

to require a health care facility to provide services or the use of its facility, or to transfer the management and supervision of the health care facility to the department or to a local public health authority;

to control ingress to and egress from any stricken or threatened public area, and the movement of persons and materials within the area;

to adopt and enforce measures to provide for the safe disposal of infectious waste and human remains, provided that religious, cultural, family, and individual beliefs of the deceased person shall be followed to the extent possible when disposing of human remains, whenever that may be done without endangering the public health;

to procure, take immediate possession from any source, store, or distribute any anti-toxins, serums, vaccines, immunizing agents, antibiotics, and other pharmaceutical agents or medical supplies located within the commonwealth as may be necessary to respond to the emergency;

to require in-state health care providers to assist in the performance of vaccination, treatment, examination, or testing of any individual as a condition of licensure, authorization, or the ability to continue to function as a health care provider in the commonwealth;

to waive the commonwealth's licensing requirements for health care professionals with a valid license from another state in the United States or whose professional training would otherwise qualify them for an appropriate professional license in the commonwealth;

to allow for the dispensing of controlled substance by appropriate personnel consistent with federal statutes as necessary for the prevention or treatment of illness;

to authorize the chief medical examiner to appoint and prescribe the duties of such emergency assistant medical examiners as may be required for the proper performance of the duties of office;

to collect specimens and perform tests on any animal, living or deceased;

to care for any emerging mental health or crisis counseling needs that individuals may exhibit, with the consent of the individuals

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Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page  October 13, 2009--------

Who's in Big Brother's Database?

On a remote edge of Utah's dry and arid high desert, where temperatures often zoom past 100 degrees, hard-hatted construction workers

with top-secret clearances are preparing to build what may become America's equivalent of Jorge Luis Borges's "Library of Babel,"

a place where the collection of information is both infinite and at the same time monstrous, where the entire world's knowledge is stored, but not a single word is understood.

At a million square feet, the mammoth $2 billion structure will be one-third larger than the US Capitol and will use the same amount of energy as every house in Salt Lake City combined.

Unlike Borges's "labyrinth of letters," this library expects few visitors. It's being built by the ultra-secret National Security Agency

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Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page  October 9, 2009--------

New York to fight terrorism with more street-corner cameras

On the heels of breaking up an alleged bomb terror plot, New York is planning to place high-tech security cameras, license plate readers, and "weapons sensors" in midtown Manhattan. Office workers and tourists – and possible terrorists – will have cameras watching their every move as they visit Macy's, shop for diamonds at Tiffany & Co., or gawk in Times Square. The apparatus, paid for by some $24 million in Department of Homeland Security funding, will expand a similar effort already underway in lower Manhattan where cameras focus on the Federal Reserve, the New York Stock Exchange, and the Brooklyn Bridge. Mayor Michael Bloomberg, announcing the program, said the goal is to detect terrorism threats and deter pre-operational surveillance. Sensors will try to detect chemical, biological, and radiological threats.

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Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page  October 7, 2009--------

Surveillance Will Expand To Midtown, Mayor Says

A network of private and public surveillance cameras, license plate readers and weapons sensors already established in Lower Manhattan as an electronic bulwark against terrorist attacks will soon expand to a large patch of Midtown Manhattan, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said Sunday as they announced the allocation of $24 million in Homeland Security grants toward the effort.

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Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page  September 23, 2009--------

Big Brother is watching you shop

A surveillance state, with cameras on every street is commonplace but now Big Business is also turning to Big Brother. Face recognition, behavior analyzing surveillance cameras, biometric profiling and the monitoring and storing of our shopping patterns has made snooping into our habits, movements and private lives ever easier. Dismayed at its shrinking power to market to us via traditional media or even the internet

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Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page  September 23, 2009--------

BOSTON Mass: SJC OK's secret use of GPS devices

For the first time, the Supreme Judicial Court ruled yesterday that the state constitution allows police to break into a suspect's car to secretly install tracking devices using a global positioning system, provided that authorities have a warrant before they do so.

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Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page  September 4, 2009--------

US Pandemic bill allows health authorities to enter homes, detain without warrant

A "pandemic response bill" currently making its way through the Massachusetts state legislature would allow authorities to forcefully quarantine citizens in the event of a health emergency, compel health providers to vaccinate citizens, authorize forceful entry into private dwellings and destruction of citizen property and impose fines on citizens for noncompliance.

If US citizens refuse to comply with isolation or quarantine orders in the event of a health emergency, they may be imprisoned for up to 30 days and fined $1,000 per day that the violation continues.

State and local agencies responding to the public health emergency would be required to exercise their powers over transportation routes, communication devices, carriers, public utilities, fuels, food, clothing and shelter, according to the legislation

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Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page  September 2, 2009--------

Deputies get access to driver's license photos

Sheriff Jim Coats announced his office has entered into an arrangement with the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles that will allow deputies to access 1.7 million of the 30 million photographs in the state agency's database as part of a pilot program. The 1.7 million photographs will be of those drivers in Pinellas and Hillsborough counties. Later, the photographs of drivers in Manatee and Pasco counties will be accessible, bringing the total to more than 2 million drivers.

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Dayton Police Using High-Tech License Plate Scanners

The Dayton Police Department is adding some new high-tech license plate scanners to its arsenal of crime-fighting tools. The $25,000 devices use a cruiser-mounted camera to scan license plates and check them against the police database. The scanner is capable of scanning thousands of license plates while an officer goes through their patrol. A grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is being used to pay for two of the scanners. Three more are being paid for with proceeds from seized property. Dayton Police Chief Richard Biehl said the scanners make it much easier for officers to track down stolen cars, monitor sex offenders, and arrest wanted felons.

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Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page  August 20, 2009--------

Canadian airport to test ‘behaviour detection’ program

From the furrowed brow to the nervously tapping foot, security personnel will soon start studying air travelers' facial expressions and body movements to see if they could be criminals and terrorists. Beginning next year, some air travelers will be scrutinized by airport "behavior detection officers" for physiological signs of hostile intent -- in other words: screening for dangerous people rather than just for dangerous objects.

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Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page  August 14, 2009--------

National ID Through The Back Door As Congress Eyes Biometric Authentication For Job Eligibility

In a move likely to heighten concerns among opponents of a national ID card, some lawmakers are proposing that biometrics be used to authenticate the identity of anyone seeking a job in the U.S. At a hearing by the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security and Citizenship, lawmakers from both parties expressed broad support for strengthening the E-Verify online employment eligibility verification program with biometrics. The chairman of the subcommittee, Sen. Charles Schumer, (D-N.Y.), said that E-Verify only checks whether the name, date of birth, citizenship status and other details provided by a job applicant match those in official records from the Social Security Administration and the IRS. The process does little to stop identity thieves and those using identity credentials fraudulently from working illegally in the U.S.

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Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page  August 12, 2009--------

Revealed: Big Brother Britain has more CCTV cameras than China

Britain has one and a half times as many surveillance cameras as communist China, despite having a fraction of its population, shocking figures revealed. There are 4.2million closed circuit TV cameras here, one per every 14 people. But in police state China, which has a population of 1.3billion, there are just 2.75million cameras, the equivalent of one for every 472,000 of its citizens. Simon Davies from pressure group Privacy International said the astonishing statistic highlighted Britain's 'worrying obsession' with surveillance.

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Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page  August 10, 2009--------

FEMA Announces Creation Of Children's Working Group

While testifying before the Senate Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery today, the Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Craig Fugate announced the creation of a "Children's Working Group." The working group will allow FEMA and its partners to explore and implement planning and response strategies specific to children throughout the agency and ensure that during a disaster the unique needs of children are not only considered, but fully integrated into how FEMA administers this support to states and the public. Areas of focus of the Children's Working Group will include:

Child-specific guidance as to evacuation, sheltering, and relocation;

Tracking and reunification of families;

Coordinated case management supports;

Enhanced preparedness for child care centers and schools as well as for children in child welfare and juvenile justice systems;

Enhanced national planning, including incorporation of children into national planning scenarios and exercises;

Incorporation of children's needs into grant guidance;

Improved recovery coordination across the federal family and with state and local partners in support of children's education, health and housing;

Consideration as to how the federal family can help ensure child care centers are able rebuild and restore services more quickly following a disaster, and;

Increased public awareness efforts to educate families and protect children during disasters.

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UK Government To Install Surveillance Cameras In Private Homes

The UK government is about to spend $700 million dollars installing surveillance cameras inside the private homes of citizens to ensure that children go to bed on time, attend school and eat proper meals. The government is embarking on a scheme called “Family Intervention Projects” which will literally create a nanny state on steroids, with social services goons and private security guards given the authority to make regular “home checks” to ensure parents are raising their children correctly. Telescreens will also be installed so government spies can keep an eye on whether parents are mistreating kids and whether the kids are fulfilling their obligations under a pre-signed contract. Around 2,000 families have been targeted by this program so far and the government wants to snare 20,000 more within the next two years. The tab will be picked up by the taxpayer, with the “interventions” being funded through local council authorities.

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ISP's Fight Back Against Big Brother Spy System That Would Monitor All Internet Traffic And Emails

A group of over 300 internet service providers and telecommunications firms is fighting back against the British government’s plans to monitor all emails, phone calls and internet activity nationwide. The London Internet Exchange (LINX), which represents some 330 companies, including BT, Virgin and Carphone Warehouse, says that the government is misleading the public about the extent to which it plans to monitor their communications and internet activity. LINX has described the Government’s surveillance proposals as an “unwarranted” invasion of people’s privacy. The program, known as the “Interception Modernization Program”, would allow spy chiefs at GCHQ, the government’s secret eavesdropping agency, the center for Signal Intelligence (SIGINT) activities, to effectively place a “live tap” on every electronic communication in Britain in the name of preventing terrorism.

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Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page  August 7, 2009--------

Congressman wants government GPS in cars

An Oregon congressman says he wants to test having a government GPS unit in every car so a tax could be imposed on the miles driven.

The proposal, H.R. 3311, which calls for a test project costing $150 million-plus, was introduced by Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore.

"Oregon has successfully tested a Vehicle Miles Traveled fee, and it is time to expand and test the VMT program across the country," he said in a statement on his website.

***WATCHMAN...Lets put one on you congressman and lets just see how much taxpayer money you waste traveling...

Ezekiel 30:3 "For the day is near even the day of the Lord is near a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen."

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Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page  August 6, 2009--------

Feds at DefCon Alarmed After RFIDs Scanned

It’s one of the most hostile hacker environments in the country –- the DefCon hacker conference held every summer in Las Vegas. But despite the fact that attendees know they should take precautions to protect their data, federal agents at the conference got a scare when they were told they might have been caught in the sights of an RFID reader. The reader, connected to a web camera, sniffed data from RFID-enabled ID cards and other documents carried by attendees in pockets and backpacks as they passed a table where the equipment was stationed in full view.

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CANADA: New political powers to quarantine, close schools may be tested in flu outbreak

A resurgence of swine flu anticipated this fall could test new provincial powers that include being able to place sick people under quarantine in their homes and shut down schools. Many provinces have passed updated public health acts in recent years to give them the right to do whatever a medical health officer feels is necessary to curb the spread of a communicable disease. None of the powers has been used so far in the new H1N1 outbreak, but that could change if the country is hit with another wave of the flu, says Manitoba's(Canada) top health official. "We haven't had to quarantine or limit restrictions in the community based on our current situation," said Dr. Bunmi Fatoye, the province's acting chief public health officer.

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Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page  JULY 23, 2009--------

Kremlin gives itself powers to spy on all Russian mail

The Russian government has given itself sweeping powers to spy on its own citizens after a new decree gave intelligence services unlimited access to read all mail without a warrant. The decree, reminiscent of Soviet-era domestic spying tactics, allows security services – including the FSB, Foreign Intelligence Service and police, as well as customs, drug and prison agencies – to obtain information on senders and addressees from the postal service. It also foresees FSB agents - the successors to the Soviet-era KGB - setting up monitoring sites at all the country's post offices.

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Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page  JULY 22, 2009--------

Sony's PlayStation Eye to gain facial recognition capabilities

It was almost two weeks ago that we first heard about the patent for Sony's PlayStation Eye-powered object motion detection, and now the company's announcing facial recognition for the console. According to Gamasutra, Kish Hirani, SCEE's Head of Developer Services, said that the facial recognition software would "detect gender and even the age of the face, separate facial features such as the nose, eyes and ears, and even detect whether you're smiling or not." This new gear will also work with the Sony Motion Controller, with the camera tracking X, Y and Z motion by using the glowing ball. Speaking at the Develop Conference in Brighton, Hirani stressed that companies won't need to develop their own tech to work with the new controllers.

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Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page  JULY 20, 2009--------

Bluetooth "Big Brother" tracks festival-goers

Researchers are using Bluetooth technology to observe the meanderings of tens of thousands of festival-goers at a top European rock festival, hoping their findings will launch a new generation of tracking devices. The team from the University of Ghent in Belgium believes the research could yield new satellite navigation applications for the retail and security sectors. "We have installed 36 Bluetooth scanners across the site and along a few surrounding roads, as well as bus stops," the university's Nico Van de Weghe said of the project at the Werchter festival, northeast of Brussels. Within a radius of 30 meters, the scanners track mobile phones equipped with Bluetooth, a type of short-range wireless technology which allows different devices to connect with one another, often to transfer files.

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Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page  JULY 7, 2009--------

Big Brother is watching: The technologies that keep track of you

CCTV, RFID tags and GPS-enabled phones are among the technologies that can be used to keep track of your movements.

CCTV

Closed-circuit television cameras were first used in Germany in 1942 to remotely monitor the launch of V2 rockets. Since then, CCTVs have become one of the most contentious pieces of technology in public use. The government and law enforcement agencies claim the use of video

monitoring technology can help reduce crime and improve public safety; critics argue that the cameras serve only to displace crime to unmonitored areas, and do not act as a deterrent. With more than four million CCTV units in the UK, the network of cameras captures the average person around 25 times a day.

RFID tags

Radio frequency identification chips are already widely used in supermarkets and shops for the purpose of stock control, but some people fear their use could be widened to monitor the habits and behaviour of ordinary citizens. At the moment, these tags, which are little bigger than a grain of sand, are embedded into pints of milk and library books. When paired with an RFID reader, the tags can help to provide detailed information about items, such as their location, or how many there are. Although most people are happy for RFID tags to be used in stores to monitor stock levels, they’re less happy about the idea of the chips still sending out a signal once they leave the shop. On a benign level, such tracking capabilities would mean a store would know that people in Hertfordshire prefer blue cashmere jumpers, while those in Aberdeen favor the brown versions. But on a more sinister level, it could also enable them to glean an unprecedented insight into our personal lives, and target their brands to us accordingly. To those people who fear a “surveillance culture”, the ability to tag and track everything from our food to our clothes would be the next step on an already slippery slope.

Telecoms technology

The recent election protests in Iran have raised some interesting questions about the technology used by the country’s government to not only censor and control the spread of information, but monitor the ways in which citizens have been communicating and mobilising. It now appears that some of the technology the Iranian authorities have been using to listen in on phone calls made on fixed-line phones and mobile handsets was sold to the government by Nokia Siemens, a joint venture between the Finnish phone maker and the German technology giant. Nokia Siemens said

it believed the product was being used by the government to monitor calls, but some experts have speculated that it could also be used for a practice known as “deep packet inspection” – a process that enables agencies to block communications, as well as monitor the nature of conversations and even covertly alter this for the purpose of propaganda and disinformation. Nokia Siemens, rocked by this association with a repressive regime, have pointed out that Iran is not the only country using its monitoring technology – many Western governments, including the UK and US, apparently use it for “lawful intercepts”...

Email monitoring software

Who is reading your emails? Chances are, if you work for a big company, your boss could be keeping an eye on how many messages you send in the course of a day. According to recent research by Forrester, 44 per cent of companies read outgoing mail, using a combination of digital scanning software and real people. The primary concern for businesses appears to be the dissemination of inappropriate or commercially sensitive information rather than time-wasting, but with more and more distractions available at our office computers, from Facebook and Twitter to online shopping, many more businesses may decide to start monitoring just how their employees spend their work time.

Information-gathering technology

Gunwharf Quays shopping centre in Portsmouth shot to fame last year when it was revealed that surveillance software was monitoring the signals given off by shoppers’ mobile phones to track their movements. The technology allowed researchers to tell when someone entered the shopping centre, what stores they visited, how long they spent in each one, and what time they left. It could even tell what route they took, and the country they were visiting from. Although all monitoring is anonymous – it does not identify the owner of the phone, rather than handset’s

unique IMEI network number – it raised some concerns from privacy campaigners. While, at its most innocuous, this sort of information could help business and shopping centres pinpoint areas of high footfall or congestion, and redesign the space accordingly, or spot a surge in late shoppers that could prompt them to extend store opening hours, it also implies that this technology could be extended to minutely measure purchasing habits and retail behaviour. Perhaps that scene from Minority Report, in which Tom Cruise is bombarded by tailored, personalised advertising as he passes every hording, is not too far away.

Targeted advertising

One of the most contentious issues facing businesses and consumers at the moment is targeted advertising. With companies struggling to find a profitable business model in the digital age, a greater premium is being placed on targeting products, services and content directly to people on

the basis of their specific likes, dislikes and needs. Phorm’s Webwise technology is a good example of this new way of thinking – it works by scanning users’ browsing history, and matching keywords found in these websites to targeted adverts, provided by other companies, which match the interests of web users. Phorm has stressed that the entire process is anonymised, so that interests cannot be directly traced to a named individual, but that has still lead some web users, as well as technology luminaries such as Sir Tim Berners-Lee, to be suspicious of the concept. Sir Tim likened commercial traffic monitoring by internet service providers as akin to “allowing them to put a television camera in your living room”.

GPS-enabled phones

Most modern mobile phones have a small GPS chip inside them, which means your location can be pinpointed to within a few hundred metres by the network of satellites floating in orbit. Of course, most people will use this technology in combination with the mapping software loaded on to their phone to make it easier to find their way around; some phones are now so sophisticated that they can provide real-time turn-by-turn directions, just like a satnav. The inclusion of GPS chips in handsets has also opened up a new world of location-based services – now that your phone “knows” where you are, it can feed that information in to, say, your phone’s search engine to provide data, links and recommendations for local amenities for whichever area you find yourself

in. The flip side of that, of course, is that with the right kind of software installed on your phone, it’s possible to remotely monitor your location for less innocuous reasons. Services such as Google Latitude and Sniff are opt-in, consensual examples of this sort of technology, although some worry that in time, these kinds of monitoring software will be commonplace and non-negotiable, rather than a matter of personal choice.

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Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page  JUNE 19, 2009--------

Police Departments With Heavy Artillery.

Unlike most police departments, this particular police force is also equipped with 2 grenade launchers, 4 M-14 semi-automatic rifles and one M-21 sniper rifle. The grenade launchers can be used to fire tear gas in the event of a riot or a standoff. For the department, owning these weapons also means not having to wait for State Police to respond to a major emergency. The bottom line, he said it's better to be prepared than sorry. There are a handful of western Massachusetts police departments that have obtained military weapons from this federal program.

YOUNG WATCHMAN —POLICE STATE!!!! THE ONLY REASON FOR POLICE TO HAVE THESE TYPE OF WEAPONS IS THAT THEY KNOW SOMETHING IS ON THE HORIZON!!!

Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page  JUNE 18, 2009--------

E-Mail Surveillance Renews Concerns in Congress

The National Security Agency is facing renewed scrutiny over the extent of its domestic surveillance program, with critics in Congress saying its recent intercepts of the private telephone calls and e-mail messages of Americans are broader than previously acknowledged, current and former officials said. The agency’s monitoring of domestic e-mail messages, in particular, has posed longstanding legal and logistical difficulties, the officials said. Since April, when it was disclosed that the intercepts of some private communications of Americans went beyond legal limits in late 2008 and early 2009, several Congressional committees have been investigating. Those inquiries have led to concerns in Congress about the agency’s ability to collect and read domestic e-mail messages of Americans on a widespread basis, officials said.

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Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page  JUNE 17, 2009--------

Arizona Drunk Drivers Face Arrests At Fast Food Joints

Drunken Arizona drivers with the late-night munchies may soon be getting more than chicken strips at drive-through windows. The Pima County Sheriff's Department has a new campaign targeting drunken driving. Operation Would U Like Fries, or Operation WULF, will put undercover deputies inside 24-hour fast-food restaurants to spot impaired drivers placing their orders. Sgt. Doug Hanna, a DUI unit supervisor, says if deputies notice someone with classic symptoms of impairment — slurred speech, red or watery eyes or beer breath — they will have a uniformed deputy stationed outside pull the driver over. Hanna says money for the intermittent program is coming from a $128,000 grant from the Governor's Office of Highway Safety.

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Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page  JUNE 11, 2009--------

NYCLU Sues Homeland Security Over Spying on Citizens

The New York Civil Liberties Union is suing the Department of Homeland Security to find anything it can about the NYPD's plans to build a massive surveillance system in Lower Manhattan. The system will allow the NYPD, and possibly the federal government, to create a computerized database on the movement and whereabouts of millions of everyday New Yorkers who travel south of Canal Street. In a segment of the plan called Operation Sentinel, the department also proposes to photograph every vehicle entering Manhattan, scan the license plates and use sensors to check for radiation, and then keep the information on file for at least a month.

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Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page  JUNE 8, 2009--------

GPS shoes for Alzheimer's patients

A shoe-maker and a technology company are teaming up to develop footwear with a built-in GPS device that could help track down "wandering" seniors suffering from Alzheimer's Disease. "The technology will provide the location of the individual wearing the shoes within 30 feet, anywhere on the planet," said Andrew Carle, an assistant professor at George Mason University who served as an advisor on the project. The shoes are being developed by GTX Corp., which makes miniaturized Global Positioning Satellite tracking and location-transmitting technology, and Aetrex Worldwide, a footwear manufacturer.

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City Wants Surveillance Cameras to Record Every License Plate

Police in North Carolina want to build surveillance cameras that would record every car license that passes by and run it through the FBI’s criminal database, alerting authorities in real time if it finds a match. The system would store license plate numbers for up to a year to provide authorities with historic data should they want to review the data later. The system would run every plate number through the FBI’s National Crime Information Center to look for anyone with an outstanding warrant or criminal record or simply someone who’s “a person of interest in a local investigation.” Wilmington police have applied for a Department of Homeland Security grant to place the cameras along a local highway as well as at a memorial and bridge

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Florida County mandates fingerprints to sell videogames

GameStop, the largest games retailer on the planet, has made billions from the trade, building an empire off the business model that one Florida County appears to now view as a haven for criminals. Broward County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Kayla Concepcion said the new requirement comes straight from the Florida Legislature, which enacted a law on October 1 of last year that treated video games like second-hand goods sold at pawn shops. Now any store buying used video games has to collect the thumb prints, along with a bunch of other personal info about the seller.

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Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page  APRIL 29, 2009--------

TEXAS  'hate crimes' bill targets children

Jonathan Saenz of the Texas-based Free Market Foundation says lawmakers in Texas are targeting young children with a "hate crimes" bill. HB 824 is expected to be voted on shortly. The bill targets children as young as ten years of age who are allegedly guilty of hate crimes. "If they committed some crime and it had to do with the issue of 'sexual preference' -- particularly the issue of homosexuality -- they could be punished," he says, "and a judge could order them to go to a program where they have to accept the other side and accept the views of homosexuality."

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Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page  APRIL 20, 2009--------

Big Bro’s Cybersecurity Act: A means to shut down the Internet

I’m not the first to write about this little-noticed Senate bill, S.773, the Cybersecurity Act of 2009.Nor should I be the last because it is such an important piece of legislation.The bill states that “the president may order a Cybersecurity emergency and order the limitation or shutdown of Internet traffic” and would hand the government continuous access to “all relevant data concerning (critical infrastructure) networks without regard to any provision of law, regulation, rule, or policy restricting such access.” It also wants to hand us a Cybersecurity Czar, to compliment our Drug Czar, Homeland Security Czar, Border Czar, and any other bizarre Czar they can think of to limit American freedoms

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Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page  APRIL 9, 2009--------

Government opts for secrecy in wiretap suit

The Obama administration is again invoking government secrecy in defending the Bush administration's wiretapping program, this time against a lawsuit by AT&T customers who claim federal agents illegally intercepted their phone calls and gained access to their records.

Disclosure of the information sought by the customers, "which concerns how the United States seeks to detect and prevent terrorist attacks, would cause exceptionally grave harm to national security," Justice Department lawyers said in papers filed Friday in San Francisco.

Nearly 40 such suits from around the nation, all filed after Bush's 2005 disclosure, have been transferred to San Francisco and are pending before Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker

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U.S. plans new government-owned satellites

Defying congressional opposition, the U.S. government said it would buy expensive new spy satellites and order more imagery from two commercial providers to plug gaps in satellite coverage.

The plan, which analysts and former military officials estimate will cost around$10 billion, was announced by Dennis Blair, the retired Navy admiral who serves as President Barack Obama's Director of National Intelligence.

Blair said satellite imagery was a core component of U.S. national security, and the new satellites were needed to ensure the safety of U.S. troops and citizens.

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EUROPE: Big Brother is watching: surveillance box to track drivers is backed

The government is backing a project to install a "communication box" in new cars to track the whereabouts of drivers anywhere in Europe

Under the proposals, vehicles will emit a constant "heartbeat" revealing their location, speed and direction of travel.

The EU officials behind the plan believe it will significantly reduce road accidents, congestion and carbon emissions.

A consortium of manufacturers has indicated that the router device could be installed in all new cars as early as 2013.

However, privacy campaigners warned last night that a European-wide car tracking system would create a system of almost total road surveillance.

***WATCHMAN...I BELIEVE this is ALREADY in AMERICAN CARS year 2000 and up...

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Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page  March 18, 2009--------

UK Big Brother to spy on your holidays as security database is set up to log all trips abroad

Showing your passport will be the simplest part of crossing borders, with new rules stipulating at least 24 hours' notice of travel plans

All trips out of Britain are to be recorded on a massive new security database - along with personal details of every business traveller and holidaymaker.

People planning a journey abroad will have to submit their exact travel plans along with details of their passports, home addresses, email addresses, and even credit cards

***WATCHMAN...Also look for this to appeard in the USA or CANADA SOON!...

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Australian police will have power to secretly search homes

Daily Telegraph | Police will be allowed to secretly search suspects’ homes and remotely access their home computers for a month under the most draconian covert operation laws the state has seen.

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Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page  February 23, 2009--------

Hidden Spy Camera & Mic Found Inside Digital TV Box

A popular video circulating on You Tube shows the discovery of a spy camera and a microphone hidden inside a digital TV converter box. Such devices are part of a government and industry surveillance program that is undoubtedly connected to the forced digital TV switchover being rolled out in the UK and US.

“I could not believe my eyes,” states the blurb accompanying the video clip, “I have a friend who is kind of a conspiracy theorist. He was trying to convince me that many of the digital TV convert boxes that are coming out have microphones and cameras built into them.

Knowing a bit about electronics I bought one of these devices opened it up fully intending on proving him wrong. To my surprise he was right. This device has both a miniature camera lens and what looks like a microphone. I was so shocked I took pictures and video. Please send this out to everyone you know who is using one of these devices.”

The camera and microphone were hidden inside a MAGNAVOX TB110MW9 Digital to Analog Converter box. We are not suggesting that every digital cable box has a spy camera and microphone inside, so ripping open your cable box is not a good way to prove this one way or another - but the fact remains that companies like Google and Comcast have openly announced that they plan to use hidden cameras and microphones inside their products to spy on consumers.

Watch the clip below...it is very interesting BUT it could be FAKED...BroJ

http://www.youtube.com/v/TQ4iIM8Eljc 

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Feds Propose Storing Internet User Data for 2 Years

In the name of combating child pornography, federal lawmakers are proposing that internet users' online surfing habits be retained for two years.

The so-called "Internet Stopping Adults Facilitating the Exploitation of Today's Youth Act of 2009," or SAFETY Act, was floated in both the House and Senate on Thursday.

In short, if approved, everybody from employers to ISPs to coffee shops and universities would be required to keep logs of all data associated with IP addresses assigned randomly to individual users – from e-mail logins to search queries to sites visited, legal experts said

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Air Force to Unleash 'Gorgon Stare' on Insurgents

The "Gorgon Stare" is the Air Force's $150 million project to outfit its latest spy drones with super high-powered cameras. By next year, 10 Reaper unmanned aircraft should have a Gorgon Stare sensor, which will film an area, two-and-a-half miles around, from 12 different angles.

"Gorgon Stare will allow a combat controller on the ground, a commander at headquarters and an intelligence officer back in the U.S. all to choose a different angle from the same Reaper," according to Air Force Times' Michael Hoffman.

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Pubs ordered to install Big Brother CCTV cameras - or risk losing licenses

In the UK, police are telling pubs, clubs, restaurants and off-licenses they will not support their licensing applications unless they agree to train the intrusive cameras on their customers. Owners also have to promise to hand over to the police any CCTV footage requested.

The Information Commissioner's office, the UK's privacy watchdog, said it was seriously concerned by the development.

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UK SPY CHIEF: WE RISK A POLICE STATE

Dame Stella Rimington, the former head of MI5, has warned that the fear of terrorism is being exploited by the Government to erode civil liberties and risks creating a police state.

Dame Stella accused ministers of interfering with people’s privacy and playing straight into the hands of terrorists.

‘Since I have retired I feel more at liberty to be against certain decisions of the Government, especially the attempt to pass laws which interfere with people’s privacy,’ Dame Stella said in an interview with a Spanish newspaper.

‘It would be better that the Government recognized that there are risks, rather than frightening people in order to be able to pass laws which restrict civil liberties, precisely one of the objects of terrorism: that we live in fear and under a police state,’ she said.

Dame Stella, 73, added: ‘The US has gone too far with Guantánamo and the tortures. MI5 does not do that. Furthermore it has achieved the opposite effect: there are more and more suicide terrorists finding a greater justification.’ She said the British secret services were ‘no angels’ but insisted they did not kill people.

Dame Stella became the first woman director general of MI5 in 1992 and was head of the security agency until 1996. Since stepping down she has been a fierce critic of some of the Government’s counter-terrorism and security measures, especially those affecting civil liberties.

In 2005, she said the Government’s plans for ID cards were ‘absolutely useless’ and would not make the public any safer. Last year she criticized attempts to extend the period of detention without charge for terrorism suspects to 42 days as excessive, shortly before the plan was rejected by Parliament

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Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page  February 9, 2009--------

WARNING OVER 'SURVEILLANCE STATE'

Electronic surveillance and collection of personal data are ‘pervasive’ in British society and threaten to undermine democracy, peers have warned.

CCTV cameras and the DNA database were two examples of threats to privacy, the Lords constitution committee said.

It called for compensation for people subject to illegal surveillance.

The government said CCTV and DNA were ‘essential’ to fight crime but Liberty said recent abuses of power meant ‘even the innocent have a lot to fear’.

Civil liberties campaigners have warned about the risks of a ‘surveillance society’ in which the state acquires ever-greater powers to track people's movements and retain personal data.

Controversial government plans for a database to store details of people's phone calls and e-mails were put on hold late last year after they were branded ‘Orwellian’.

Ministers are consulting on the plan, which would involve the details but not the content of calls and internet traffic being logged, saying it is essential to fighting terrorism.

In its report, the Lords constitution committee said growth in surveillance by both the state and the private sector risked threatening people's right to privacy, which it said was ‘an essential pre-requisite to the exercise of individual freedom’.

People were often unaware of the scale of personal information held and exchanged by public bodies, it said

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Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page  February 5, 2009--------

Google Latitude Map Tool Launches

Need another online method for being tracked? Google just announced the release of Latitude.

Built into Google Maps for Mobile and iGoogle, the feature lets users share their locations.

At present, the feature is available in 27 countries on a number of devices, including Android phones, Blackberries, Windows Mobile phones (5.0+), and Symbian S60s.

iPhone compatible will follow soon.

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Big Brother' ads can watch who's watching

Watch an ad on a video screen in a shopping center, a health club or a supermarket and there is an increasing chance that the ad is watching you.

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Watch out children: Big Mother is watching

It is advertised as the perfect marriage between a child's freedom and a parent's peace of mind. To a child, it's just a watch.

But to a parent, it is a GPS locator that allows them to track their children's movements via the internet, set up predetermined virtual fences or "safe zones", and receive notification via their phone if it is ever removed.

It is also waterproof and dermatologically tested, and has an accuracy of three metres (with the location of the child shown on the Google Maps street directory). Called the Nu.M8, it is the latest advance in child surveillance available for sale online.

Evan Penn, chief executive of GPS monitoring company Ezy2c, said similar devices would be here soon. "It's an area we will evolve to as the market develops," he said.

"To get to the price point that we're looking at to make it really affordable and achievable on a mass market scale, I think you're looking at 12 to 24 months."

Civil liberties groups are conc erned about the gadget, which was developed in Britain and launched last week in the US.

With personal tracking devices already available here, NSW Council of Civil Liberties vice-president David Bernie said the rapid development and declining cost of technological surveillance was outstripping any debate about the implications for society.

The manufacturers' instructions, which said the Nu.M8 was activated as soon as the strap was fastened and could not be removed without logging onto the internet, were of particular concern, he said.

"This would be exactly the type of ankle-type restriction put on somebody who had been charged and was on bail, or had been convicted and was on parole," he said.

"But it's not what you would expect what parents would do to children."

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Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page  January 20, 2009--------

Britain 'must set population limit to safeguard national security' say experts

Britain must set a maximum population level if it is to avoid destroying the environment and putting national security at risk, say experts. The Optimum Population Trust has written to ministers calling for a policy of 'zero net migration' - matching numbers allowed into Britain each year to numbers leaving.

The UK's population is projected to increase from 60 to 70million over the next 20 years, and to 85million by 2081. Experts are demanding a Royal Commission to establish 'an environmentally sustainable level of population The trust, a panel of academics and environmentalists, says achieving zero net migration would cut Britain's population in 2081 to 57million.

Mass immigration 'feeds through into rising greenhouse gas emissions' and more congestion, the experts say. The trust warns that because Britain can produce only 30 per cent of the food, energy and other goods that it needs, it will become increasingly vulnerable to 'resource nationalism' as foreign powers hoard their own scarce resources.

'This imperils future national security as well as destroying the environment,' it says. The trust is demanding a Royal Commission to establish 'an environmentally sustainable level of population'. The Home Office said its new points-based immigration system would help manage immigration, 'which will contribute to future population projections and control'.

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Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page  January 16, 2009--------

BIG BROTHER DATABASE A 'TERRIFYING' ASSAULT ON TRADITIONAL FREEDOMS

Sweeping new powers allowing personal information about every citizen to be handed over to government agencies faced condemnation yesterday amid warnings that Britain is experiencing the greatest threats to civil rights for decades.

Shami Chakrabarti, the director of the pressure group Liberty, warned that the laws, published yesterday, were among a string of measures that amounted to a ‘terrifying’ assault on traditional freedoms.

Proposals in the Coroners and Justice Bill include measures to authorise ministers to move huge amounts of data between government departments and other agencies and public bodies. Bodies that hold personal information include local councils, the DVLA, benefits offices and HM Revenue and Customs.

The Bill will allow ministers to use data-sharing orders to overturn strict rules that require information to be used only for the purpose it was taken. But it places no limit on the information that could eventually be shared between public bodies, potentially allowing vast amounts of personal data to be shared by officials across Whitehall, agencies or other public bodies.

Safeguards in the Bill will ensure that the proposed orders are considered by the Information Commissioner and require them to be formally approved by Parliament.

Ministers insisted there would be a series of safeguards to ensure that data was secure and not misused. But in an interview with The Independent Ms Chakrabarti warned the measure was one of a string of threats to civil liberties that range from attacks on the Human Rights Act, the advent of ID cards, and proposals to retain data on internet and email use. She declared: ‘The combination amounts to the most authoritarian time in my lifetime. In Britain, we are seeing happening things I would never have dreamt of seeing.’

Ms Chakrabarti also condemned plans in the Bill to restrict the use of juries in inquests and hold hearings in secret. She added: ‘It's the second week of January and we have already seen plans for new gang Asbos and secret coroners as well as very broad data- sharing measures. What will next week bring?

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Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page  January 9, 2009--------

Barack Obama's "Black Widow" Super Spy Computer Will Be Watching You, Your Internet Connections, Telephone Conversations

Barack Obama will be in charge of the biggest domestic and international spying operation in history.

Its prime engine is the National Security Agency (NSA)—located and guarded at Fort Meade, Maryland, about 10 miles northeast of Washington, D.C.

'The NSA's colossal Cray supercomputer, code-named the 'Black Widow,' scans millions of domestic and international phone calls and e-mails every hour.

The Black Widow, performs hundreds of trillions of calculations per second, searches through and reassembles key words and patterns, across many languages

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Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page  January 6, 2009--------

POLICE LOOK TO HACK CITIZENS' HOME PCS

Police and state intelligence agencies from several countries may soon be working together to secretly hack into private citizens' personal computers without their knowledge and without a warrant.

According to a London report, the police hacking process, called ‘remote searching,’ enables law enforcement to gather information from e-mails, instant messages and Web browsers, even while hundreds of miles away.

A new edict by the European Union's council of ministers in Brussels has paved the way for international law enforcement agencies to begin remote searching and sharing the information with each other.

The United Kingdom's Home Office, the nation's lead government department for immigration, drugs and counter-terrorism enforcement, has already quietly adopted a plan that would enable French, German and other European Union police forces to request remote searching be done on UK citizens' computers.

The Home Office's plan has drawn immediate protest.

‘These are very intrusive powers – as intrusive as someone busting down your door and coming into your home,’ said Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty, a British civil liberties and human rights group.

‘The public will want this to be controlled by new legislation and judicial authorization,’ Chakrabarti told the Times. ‘Without those safeguards it's a devastating blow to any notion of personal privacy.’

According to the report, a remote search can be granted if a senior police officer believes it is necessary to detect a serious crime, and unlike searching a suspect's home, a remote search does not require a warrant under Home Office policy

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Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page  December 29, 2008--------

Stricter Border ID to begin for U.S.

If you're planning a driving trip to Canada or Mexico, starting Jan. 31, 2008, U.S. citizens returning to the U. S. by land or sea from Canada, Mexico or the Caribbean must carry a document that shows their citizenship.

Those who don't have a passport must carry a birth certificate plus government-issued photo ID, such as a driver's license or school ID for young students, to show at border inspection stations.

The new rule affects all vehicle and train travelers, cruise and ferry passengers, and private boaters.

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The Bill Nobody Noticed: National DNA Databank

In April of 2008, President Bush signed into law S.1858 which allows the federal government to screen the DNA of all newborn babies in the U.S. This was to be implemented within 6 months meaning that this collection is now being carried out. Congressman Ron Paul states that this bill is the first step towards the establishment of a national DNA database.

S.1858, known as The Newborn Screening Saves Lives Act of 2007, is justified as a "national contingency plan" in that it represents preparation for any sort of public health emergency.

The bill states that the federal government should "continue to carry out, coordinate, and expand research in newborn screening" and "maintain a central clearinghouse of current information on newborn screening... ensuring that the clearinghouse is available on the Internet and is updated at least quarterly".

Sections of the bill also make it clear that DNA may be used in genetic experiments and tests. Twila Brase, presid ent of the Citizens' Council on Health Care warns that this new law represents the beginning of nationwide genetic testing. Brase states that S.1858 and H.R. 3825, the House version of the bill, will:

• Establish a national list of genetic conditions for which newborns and children are to be tested.

• Establish protocols for the linking and sharing of genetic test results nationwide.

• Build surveillance systems for tracking the health status and health outcomes of individuals diagnosed at birth with a genetic defect or trait.

• Use the newborn screening program as an opportunity for government agencies to identify, list, and study "secondary conditions" of individuals and their families.

• Subject citizens to genetic research without their knowledge or consent.

Brase states that under this bill, "The DNA taken at birth from every citizen is essentially owned by the government, and every citizen becomes a potential subject of government-sponsored genetic research."

All 50 states are now routinely providing results of genetic screenings to the Department of Homeland Security and this bill will establish the legality of that practice plus include DNA..

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Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page  December 17, 2008--------

Innocent Britons 'may be branded criminals abroad' after Big Brother databases agreement

Innocent British citizens may be drawn into foreign criminal investigations after the Government agreed to EU-wide access to its 'Big Brother' databases, the Conservatives have warned.

All 26 other member countries will be able to check against sensitive personal information held on driver registration, DNA and fingerprint computer systems.

Where there is a match, a suspect-could be extradited to face trial abroad or - at the least - be forced to explain their movements or provide an alibi to prove their innocence.

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Cyber cops on their way? Obama urged to establish new office for regulating Internet

A panel of web experts from government, private and the military sectors released a report yesterday urging the next president to establish a new office of cyberspace security and begin federal regulation of the Internet.

The report, "Securing Cyberspace for the 44th Presidency," from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington, D.C., think tank established during the Cold War, alleges the Department of Homeland Security has failed to secure the Internet and new measures are needed – despite inevitable concerns about online privacy – to keep America safe.

"We still have an industrial-age government that was organized a century ago," said Jim Lewis, one of CSIS's directors, as reported by the San Francisco Chronicle. "The DHS has a 1970s-style solution to a 21st century problem."

"The United States must treat cybersecurity as one of the most important national security challenges it faces," the CSIS panel asserts in its r eport. "This is a strategic issue on par with weapons of mass destruction and global jihad."

To back its claim, the panel cites a litany of cybersecurity breaches that it claims hit sensitive areas in 2007 alone: "The unclassified e-mail of the secretary of defense was hacked, and DOD officials told us that the department's computers are probed hundreds of thousands of times each day," the panel reports.

"A senior official at the Department of State told us the department had lost 'terabytes' of information. Homeland Security suffered break-ins in several of its divisions, including the Transportation Security Agency.

The Department of Commerce was forced to take the Bureau of Industry and Security off-line for several months, and NASA has had to impose e-mail restrictions before shuttle launches and allegedly has seen designs for new launchers compromised.

"Recently the White House itself had to deal with unidentifiable intrusions in its networks," the report continues. "Se nior representatives from the intelligence community told us that they had conclusive evidence, covertly obtained from foreign sources, that U.S. companies have lost billions in intellectual property."

To counter the reported attacks, the panel recommends steps that, by the CSIS' own admission, may raise privacy concerns for American citizens. While acknowledging the benefit of online anonymity, the report nonetheless contends there must be better systems in place to authenticate Internet users' digital identities.

"Creating the ability to know reliably what person or device is sending a particular data stream in cyberspace," the panel states, "must be part of an effective cybersecurity strategy."

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Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page  December 12, 2008--------

Fingerprints Can Reveal Drug Use

A careless touch could be all police or insurance companies need to determine not only your identity, but also your past drug use, if you've fired a gun or handled explosives, even specific medical conditions.

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[:-) Smiles banned on Indiana driver's license

Drivers seeking a license in Indiana may be asked to brush their hair but they won't be asked to smile.

The Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles has imposed restrictions on anything that might prevent facial recognition software from distinguishing one driver's appearance from another's.

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'Big Brother' in Britain

There may now be more than 10 million video cameras operating in a country with a population of about 60 million.

British authorities now even use miniature, unmanned "drones" carrying aerial cameras to watch crowds at large events.

"It's remarkable that there is no general protest" over widespread surveillance, said Simon Davies, a director with the advocacy group Privacy International.

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Scientists plan 'Big Brother' flu experiment

British researchers plan to recruit 200 volunteers to be infected with flu while living together during week-long experiments, in order to deepen understanding of how to tackle a pandemic.

In a groundbreaking Big Brother-style trial, recruits will be divided into groups of half a dozen.

They will spend their time sleeping, eating and socializing in specially adapted hotels under constant camera observation and medical supervision.

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Behavioral screening may be the future of airport security

Half of security experts say focus is shifting from analyzing the content of carry-ons to analyzing the content of passengers' intentions and emotions.

Several Israeli-based technology companies are developing detection systems that pick up signs of emotional strain, a psychological red flag that a passenger may intend to commit an act of terror.

Speedier and less intrusive than metal detectors, these systems may eventually restore some efficiency to the airplane boarding process.

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Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page  December 4, 2008--------

Orwell's Big Brother, All-Seeing Control Grid Under Construction

HARRISON BROWN, an 18-year-old freshman majoring in mathematics at M.I.T., didn’t need to do complex calculations to figure out he liked this deal: in exchange for letting researchers track his every move, he receives a free smartphone.

Now, when he dials another student, researchers know. When he sends an e-mail or text message, they also know. When he listens to music, they know the song. Every moment he has his Windows Mobile smartphone with him, they know where he is, and who’s nearby.

Mr. Brown and about 100 other students living in Random Hall at M.I.T. have agreed to swap their privacy for smartphones that generate digital trails to be beamed to a central computer. Beyond individual actions, the devices capture a moving picture of the dorm’s social network.

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Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page  November 28, 2008--------

The CCTV that spots crimes BEFORE they happen

CCTV cameras which can 'predict' if a crime is about to take place are being introduced on Britain's streets.

The cameras can alert operators to suspicious behavior, such as loitering and unusually slow walking.

Anyone spotted could then have to explain their behavior to a police officer.

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New machines scan IDs at US border crossings

A U.S. government official places a new U.S. passport with an embedded electronic chip into a book printer.

Agents along the Canada and Mexico borders are using a controversial new machine that can "read" the personal information contained in some government-issued ID cards —

...such as passports and driver's licenses — as travelers approach a checkpoint.

The Homeland Security Department says the new practice will tighten security and speed the flow of traffic.

Privacy advocates say the technology could make Americans less secure because terrorists or other

criminals may be able to steal the personal information off the ID cards remotely.

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Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page  November 25, 2008--------

Invasive Arizona Department of Public Safety database

Every plate is photographed, time-stamped, labeled on a GPS map and automatically logged into an Arizona Department of Public Safety database.

An electronic voice alerts police to stolen vehicles within seconds after they pass, giving them the ability to make quick arrests.

In the past 2 years, the technology has been lauded as more than a tool to thwart car thieves.

DPS claims its program has the potential to intercept violent criminals and Amber Alert suspects, though lawmakers and activists raise questions about invasion of privacy for average citizens whose plates are scanned.

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Veins could replace fingerprints and retinas as most secure form of ID

Finger vein authentication is claimed to be the fastest and most secure biometric method. It verifies a person's identity based on the lattice work of minute blood vessels under the skin.

Easydentic Group, a European leader in the biometric industry based in France, has announced that it will be using Hitachi's finger vein security in a range of door access systems for the UK and European markets.

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Enjoy surveillance while it is still visible

Measures such as ID cards are a temporary measure before biometric technology becomes ubiquitous; That was the warning from security guru Bruce Schneier this week who claims that surveillance technology will get more sophisticated and, more importantly, smaller and harder to detect.

"We live in a very unique time in our society. The cameras are everywhere and you can still see them," said Schneier, BT's chief security technology officer. "Five years ago they weren't everywhere, five years from now you are not going to see them."

As well as camera technology becoming less obtrusive, Schneier said that ID checks would also become less obvious and may not even require the obvious cooperation of the individual being checked. "Five years ago there weren't ID checks everywhere," he said. "But five or ten years from now they will happen in the background.

It will be an Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chip in your wallet, you won't even know its being checked." Biometric technologies such as face recognition, or systems based on a particular type of mobile phone owned or even clothes, may also be used for identity checks.

The increase in background ID checks means that the current debate around national ID cards in the UK is only a short-term issue, according to Schneier. "I know there are debates on ID cards everywhere but in a lot of ways, they are only very temporary. They are only a temporary solution till biometrics takes over," he said

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UK INTERNET BLACK BOXES TO RECORD EVERY EMAIL AND WEBSITE VISIT

Under Government plans to monitor internet traffic, raw data would be collected and stored by the black boxes before being transferred to a giant central database.

The vision was outlined at a meeting between officials from the Home Office and Internet Service Providers earlier this week.

It is further evidence of the Government's desire to have the capability to vet every telephone call, email and internet visit made in the UK, which has already provoked an outcry.

Richard Thomas, the Information Commissioner, has described it as a ‘step too far’.

The proposal is expected to be put out to consultation as part of the new Communications Data Bill early next year.

At Monday's meeting in London representatives from BT, AOL Europe, O2 and BSkyB were given a presentation of the issues and the technology surrounding the Government's Interception Modernisation Programme (IMP), the name given by the Home Office to the database proposal.

They were told that the security and intelligence agencies wanted to use the stored data to help fight serious crime and terrorism.

Officials tried to reassure the industry by suggesting that many smaller ISPs would be unaffected by the ‘black boxes’ as these would be installed upstream on the network and hinted that all costs would be met by the Government

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GeoEye's New Satellite Offers Unprecedented Sharp Images

The sharpest commercial imaging satellite ever launched is now orbiting the Earth, sweeping over the North Pole and under the South Pole every 98 minutes, collecting high-resolution images.

From 423 miles up, the GeoEye-1 satellite can spot objects as small as 16 inches across. Home plate is visible on a baseball diamond. Obviously, then, so are trucks, troops, aircraft on runways, ships at sea and other items of particular interest to the U.S. military.

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UK: New law to allow police to collect DNA in secret from teacups

The new law, being discussed by Parliament, would mean samples – thousands of which have already been taken by the security services – would be admissible in court and expand the Government's DNA database.

MI5 and the police may be allowed to secretly collect genetic samples from items such as cigarette butts and teacups under the new laws.

The powers would allow investigators to break in to suspects' homes to collect DNA which could then be shared with foreign governments to check for links to crime and terrorism.

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Interpol Details Plans For Global Biometric Facial Scan Database 

Interpol is planning to expand its role into the mass screening of passengers moving around the world by creating a face recognition database to catch wanted suspects. 

Senior figures want a system that lets immigration officials capture digital images of passengers and immediately cross-check them against a database of pictures of terror suspects, international criminals and fugitives.

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Homeowners can link private cameras to city's surveillance network

Charles Hill installed five surveillance cameras outside the 3,720-square-foot home he's building in West Chatham after local kids broke $3,700 worth of architectural windows. From now on he won't be the only one checking the video when something bad happens on his block. After vandals broke $3,700 worth of windows, Charles Hill had enough.

He's linking his security cameras to Chicago's 911 center. Charles Hill is the first homeowner to agree to hook up his camera's to the City of Chicago network. Hill has become the first private homeowner to take the city up on its unprecedented offer to connect privately owned exterior surveillance cameras to Chicago's 911 emergency center.

"It'll do wonders for the block. God forbid, something mysteriously happens in the community. Those cameras could provide the city with some edge -- wherever it takes them," Hill said. "Some people talk about the ACLU and all these privacy rights.

But if a crime takes place, those individuals had to come from somewhere. I don't care if it's my brother or my mother. If those cameras do what they're supposed to do, whoever suffers will suffer."

Nearly two dozen colleges, businesses and high-rises also have agreed to share their video with the 911 center to create a panoramic view of disaster scenes.

Considering the enthusiastic response in the first two months, City Hall is confident that hundreds of private cameras ultimately will be added to the city's network

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GIANT DATABASE PLAN 'ORWELLIAN'

Proposals for a central database of all mobile phone and internet traffic have been condemned as ‘Orwellian’.

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said the police and security services needed new powers to keep up with technology.

And she promised that the content of conversations would not be stored, just times and dates of messages and calls.

But the Lib Dems slammed the idea as ‘incompatible with a free country’, while the Tories called on the government to justify its plans.

Details of the times, dates, duration and locations of mobile phone calls, numbers called, website visited and addresses e-mailed are already stored by telecoms companies for 12 months under a voluntary agreement.

The data can be accessed by the police and security services on request - but the government plans to take control of the process in order to comply with an EU directive and make it easier for investigators to do their job.

Information will be kept for two years by law and may be held centrally on a searchable database.

Without increasing their capacity to store data, the police and security services would have to consider a ‘massive expansion of surveillance,’ Ms Smith said in a speech to the Institute for Public Policy Research earlier…

Ms Smith attempted to reassure people that the content of their e-mails and phone conversations would not be stored.

‘There are no plans for an enormous database which will contain the content of your emails, the texts that you send or the chats you have on the phone or online.

‘Nor are we going to give local authorities the power to trawl through such a database in the interest of investigating lower level criminality under the spurious cover of counter terrorist legislation.

‘Local authorities do not have the power to listen to your calls now and they never will in future. You would rightly object to proposals of this kind and I would not consider them.

‘What we will be proposing will be options which follow the key principles which govern all our work in this area - the principles of proportionality and necessity.’

But the idea of storing phone and e-mail records has provoked concern among experts.

The government's own reviewer of anti-terror laws, Lord Carlile, said: ‘The raw idea of simply handing over all this information to any government, however benign, and sticking it in an electronic warehouse is an awful idea if there are not very strict controls about it.’

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Government's terror watchdog warns against UK's 'Big Brother' database

The Government's terrorism watchdog has condemned plans to create an enormous "Big Brother" database to hold information about every phone call, email and internet visit made in the UK.

Lord Carlisle of Berriew QC, the independent reviewer of anti-terrorist laws, said the "raw idea" of the database was "awful" and called for controls to stop government agencies from abusing it to fish into the private lives of the public.

His intervention came as Home Secretary Jacqui Smith was expected to use a speech today (WEDS) to set out her current thinking about the controversial scheme.

However, Lord Carlile said that the Government had an "unhappy" record when it came to safeguarding personal data.

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Cops test license-plate cameras that store, trace data

Portland, Oregon police are testing a high-tech camera system that can reach back in time and track your movements across the city, and even produce photos of your previous locations.

The police promise they will only use it to solve crimes, like finding stolen cars or locating wanted criminals.

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UK Spy agency wants all your e-mails

Plan would suck up 3 billion messages daily

Sir David Pepper, the feisty director-general of GCHQ, Britain's Government Communications Headquarters, is planning to create the most intrusive ever surveillance system in Britain.

The secret electronic spying agency he has run for five years operates from its famous "doughnut" shaped building in the pleasant countryside at Cheltenham.

Sir David can be seen strolling around the town – home of one of Britain's most famous girls schools. Dressed in his tweeds and brogues, he could be a landowner on a day out. Instead he is the head of an 8,000-strong team, whose members spend their round-the-clock shifts listening to every conversation their computers can pick up.

Now Sir David wants to go further.

His proposal is to not only intercept the three billion e-mails a day sent in the UK, but extend the reach of its powerful computers into "hundreds of thousands" of targets in Europe: business firms, defense contractors and communications between diplomats.

From Paris to Berlin, Madrid and Moscow, all will be likely to have their electronic correspondence intercepted on an unprecedented scale.

From love notes to business details, they will each be intercepted if Sir David has his way.

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Pentagon Launches Secret 'Gandalf' Project

Darpa, the Pentagon's research wing, is launching a new, classified effort to find enemies by the phone they use. It's called Gandalf.

The SECRET/NOFORN program's goal is to employ "set of handheld devices" to track down a particular "signal emitter of interest," using "radio frequency geolocation."

The specific goals and performance objectives for the Gandalf system are classified," Darpa says.

But former Royal Navy officer Lew Page, who unearthed the project, explains what he believes the R&D agency has in mind: it would appear that a group of undercover operatives… dispersed near a target (perhaps a specific cell or satellite phone) might carry portable gadgets, presumably networked.

The netted devices would be able to pick out the phone, radio or whatever they were after and track it.

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Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page  October 7, 2008--------

UK Plans Live, Real-time Citizen Telecom Spying

The U.K. authorities are considering spending up to 12 billion pounds ($21 billion) on a database to keep information on Internet intercepts, e-mail, and telephone records of everyone in Britain.

U.K. officials say live monitoring is necessary to fight terrorism and crime.

However, critics have doubts about whether such a vast system can be kept secure.

Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page  September 30, 2008--------

E-Verify and the Surveillance State

Chief among the schemes to "get tough" with business is the universal enforcement of something called the E-Verify System.

It is the brainchild of the Department of Homeland Security and is an electronic employment verification (EEV) program.

Essentially, E-Verify uses the Social Security databases to verify Social Security Numbers to determine if someone is a US citizen.

Employers are to simply enter in the applicants Social Security Number to verify they are an American citizen (of legal status) and therefore eligible for employment

Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page  September 24, 2008--------

Honeywell Cell Phone Chip allows Big Brother Access and Monitoring of your Location and Activities.

Honeywell has developed a new Integrated Circuit (IC) that enables compass pointing, location and activity tracking features in consumer electronics including mobile phones, personal navigation systems and portable auto navigation systems.

The Honeywell HMC5843 chip-scale 3-axis compass IC increases functionality in consumer electronics by providing expanded tracking and location awareness when overlaid on GPS enabled maps.

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Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page  September 15, 2008--------

Rule Changes Would Give FBI Agents Extensive New Powers

The Justice Department will unveil changes to FBI ground rules that would put much more power into the hands of line agents pursuing leads on national security, foreign intelligence and even ordinary criminal cases.

The overhaul, the most substantial revision to FBI operating instructions in years, also would ease some reporting requirements between agents, their supervisors and federal prosecutors in what authorities call a critical effort to improve information gathering and detect terrorist threats

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French revolt over Big Brother computer that will spy on all citizens

President Nicolas Sarkozy faced an embarrassing split in his Cabinet today over a computer system that a new French internal intelligence service will use to spy on the private lives of millions of law-abiding citizens.

Hervé Morin, the Defence Minister, broke government ranks to side with a growing revolt against Edvige, an acronym for a police database that will store personal details including opinions, the social circle and even sexual preferences of more or less anyone who interests the state.

Edvige, which is also a woman's name, was created by decree in July to store data on anyone aged 13 or above who is "likely to breach public order".

"Sarkozy's Big sister", as it has been dubbed, will also track anyone active in politics or trade unions and or in a significant role in business, the media, entertainment or social or religious institutions. Listed people will have very limited rights to consult their files.

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