
Face scans for air passengers to begin in UK this summer
• The GuardianFrom summer, unmanned clearance gates will be phased in to scan passengers' faces and match the image to the record on the computer chip in their biometric passports.
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From summer, unmanned clearance gates will be phased in to scan passengers' faces and match the image to the record on the computer chip in their biometric passports.
Congress acted yesterday to outlaw the use of genetic information in employment or insurance decisions. GATTACA (Truth Here)
The FBI and multiple members of Congress said that Internet service providers must be legally required to keep records of their users' activities for later review by police.
The FBI called for new legislation that would allow federal police to monitor the Internet for "illegal activity." Mueller suggests the bureau should have a broad "omnibus" authority to conduct monitoring and surveillance of priva
M4 Carbine Rifles, MP5 Submachine Guns & Bomb Sniffing Dogs Part Of New "Torch Team" Anti-Terror Efforts.
So you want to have the people of America understand what's happening???
"...That changed in February, when federal agents started corralling everyone off domestic ferries into a fenced-off area in Anacortes and questioning them about their citizenship."
The United States has less than 5 percent of the world's population. But it has almost a quarter of the world's prisoners.
New radio ads are running in districts of several Democratic members of Congress, as well as Texas Republican Rep. Ron Paul, targeting the lawmakers for their opposition to a White House-backed surveillance bill.
Federal law enforcement agencies co-opted sheriffs offices as well state and local police forces in three states last weekend for a vast round up operation that one sheriff’s deputy has described as "martial law training".
On February 28, 1993, agents of the BATF began their assault on the home of the Branch Davidians outside Waco, Texas. An unarmed David Koresh was shot by the agents as he stepped onto his front porch. A shootout resulted with several deaths on both s
Contrary to popular belief the revolution for the United States of America did not stop after the revolutionary war. The ideas and the fresh new look at the world held by the new government of our oppressed forefathers inspired many others to try.
A Canadian company is promoting the EMD Safety Bracelet. It's equipped with electro muscular disruption technology, which effectively short-circuits the central nervous system. Zap someone and they'll be completely immobile for several minute
A judge in Texas rules that the children might face sexual abuse if they returned home. Sect members [including the children] are ordered to provide DNA samples for maternity and paternity tests. [What 5th Amendment?]
Texas Child Protective Services says it launched a raid on the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints compound after receiving an alleged anonymous tip from a 16-year-old girl named "Sarah" who said she was being abused
Every year for the last five years, I have written an article commemorating the Waco siege: the 51-day standoff from February 28 to April 19, 1993, between government agents – ATF, FBI and US military – and the Branch Davidians: a conflict ending in
Bush administration's torture and brutalization of an innocent imprisoned man.
The European Union executive signaled on Thursday the bloc could give the United States limited access to its police databases in a bid to resolve a long-running visa row with Washington.
"Now innocent people's DNA will be put into this huge CODIS database, and it will be very difficult for them to get it out if they are not charged or convicted of a crime," McCurdy said.
Nearly half of all injuries caused by police shootings are the result of officers blasting themselves or a colleague, often during bungled training and demonstrations. Those poor brit bastards.
Each state is given a baseline number of expected adoptions based on population. For every child that DSS can get adopted, there is a bonus of $4,000 to $6,000 [from the Federal government]. A goldmine for Texas CSS?
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said his department will activate his department's new domestic satellite surveillance office in stages, starting as soon as possible with traditional scientific and homeland security activities -- suc
We should be asking why the federal government invests millions of dollars in emerging technology aimed at detecting and decoding brain activity. Though government funding focuses on military uses they can and do end up in the hands of civilian law e
The Alaska state legislature passed a law this evening banning the expenditure of any funds to implement the REAL ID Act. The Identity Project had the honor of being instrumental in educating Alaskans on the evils of REAL ID: we applaud the passage
The consent-to-search program is based on a similar effort in St. Louis in 1994 and ongoing programs in Boston and Washington, D.C. The idea is simple: Ask parents for permission to search their homes for weapons their children may be hiding.
Martial law is perhaps the ultimate stomping of freedom. Yet, on Sept. 30, 2006, Congress passed a provision in a 591-page bill that will make it easy for President Bush to impose martial law in response to a shortfall of "public order"
As of this writing, only a handful of states have formally resisted implementation of the draconian REAL-ID act, where the Feds create a de facto national ID card by hijacking the driver licensing agencies of all 50 states. Despite the chilling
Documents show the FBI has obtained the private records of Americans' Internet service providers, financial institutions and telephone companies, for the military, according to more than 1,000 Pentagon documents....
In communist East Germany , one in every 100 citizens was an informer for the dreaded secret police, the Stasi. They either volunteered or were compelled by their government to spy...
In communist East Germany , one in every 100 citizens was an informer for the dreaded secret police, the Stasi. They either volunteered or were compelled by their government to spy...