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FBI: We need wiretap-ready Web sites (CNET)FBI: We need wiretap-ready Web sites – nownews.cnet.comCNET learns the FBI is quietly pushing its plan to force surveillance backdoors on social networks, VoIP, and Web e-mail providers, and that the bureau is…
The Commerce Dept. unveiled a plan Friday to create a national cyber-identity system that would give consumers who opt in a single secure password and identity for all their digital transactions.
The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) will be a voluntary system designed to protect consumers from online fraud [...]
A thermal imaging project in the city of Boston has been put on hold because of privacy concerns.
Boston officials had hoped to have aerial and street-level photos taken across about four square miles of the city this winter using infrared cameras that would show heat loss in the city homes.
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NEW SCIENTIST
Online adverts could soon start stalking you. A new way of working out where you are by looking at your internet connection could pin down your current location to within a few hundred metres.
Similar techniques are already in use, but they are much less accurate. Every computer connected to [...]
The Russian security service has proposed banning Skype, Hotmail and Gmail as their “uncontrolled use” could pose a security threat, a service official said during a government meeting on Friday. The Russian security service has proposed banning Skype, Hotmail and Gmail as their “uncontrolled use” could pose a security threat, a service official [...]
Interpol chief calls for global electronic identity card system
The head of INTERPOL has emphasized the need for a globally verifiable electronic identity card (e-ID) system for migrant workers at an international forum on citizen ID projects, e-passports, and border control management.
Speaking at the fourth Annual EMEA ID WORLD summit, [...]
No surveillance without oversight
Given the FBI’s record of fallibility – and without genuine safeguards for citizens – this $1bn biometrics project is alarming
The FBI recently announced that its Next Generation Identification System (NGIS) has “reached its initial operating capacity”. This vast new biometrics project, for which Lockheed Martin won a [...]
Meet Google. The noun that became a verb. The world’s favourite search engine, and the company whose motto is “Don’t be evil…”
Graphics by Patrick Clair, written by Elmo Keep.
CeBIT: Quarter Of Germans Happy To Have Chip Implants
By:CeBit: If it means shorter lines at the supermarket, a quarter of Germans would be happy to have a chip implanted under their skin
Source: SwissInfo
“Switzerland launches biometric passport Critical impression: New biometric passports contain a chip loaded with digital fingerprints and a photo (Keystone) RELATED STORIES 17.05.2009
Biometric passport scrapes through at ballot box 17.05.2009
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In a 2008 academic paper, President Barack Obama’s appointee to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs advocated “cognitive infiltration” of groups that advocate “conspiracy theories” like the ones surrounding 9/11.
more on : http://rawstory.com/2010/01/obama-staffer-infiltration-911-groups/
Electronic tagging of young people shows sharp rise Electronic tags were brought in to help combat anti-social behaviour The number of young offenders ordered to wear electronic tags in England and Wales has seen a steep rise.
more on : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8413148.stm
The CIA has formed a “strategic partnership and technology
development agreement” with Visible Technologies, a company
specialising in data-mining social-networking sites such as Twitter,
Flickr and YouTube. by James Quilter , Brand Republic 21-Oct-09, 08:55
In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA, has [...]
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