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Real ID requires states to act as Federal agents in the unwise policy of turning our transportation systems into a dragnet for law enforcement. Americans must increasingly prove they are not on secret government lists in order to travel or generally

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Stanford.edu

The future of the U.S. Census — the data set used by governments and corporations to violate your privacy — is in doubt, according to participants on last night’s panel “Censuses and Surveys: Still Useful for the Common Good?” Public distrust in the

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USA Today

Melissa Ngo of the Electronic Privacy Information Center says the technology endangers privacy by enabling ordinary security cameras to find out the names of people being observed. "Why are you being tracked if you're not doing anything wron

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Verichip

In the two-year, 200 patient study, participating individuals suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia, as well as their caregivers, would receive the VeriMed™ implantable microchip to provide emergency department staff easy acc

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EFF

REAL ID is fundamentally flawed, and DHS' proposed regulations do nothing to change that. Thankfully, the tide is turning against REAL ID in a big way -- state legislatures around the country are passing or considering legislation rejecting its i

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Computer World

The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) is sounding an early warning on a proposal in the president's 2008 budget that would require Internet businesses like eBay Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. to collect personal data on their customers and shar

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Portland(ME) Press Herald

A state official acknowledged Monday that a breakdown in security procedures caused personal information, including names and Social Security numbers, to be discarded in a Dumpster, where the records were uncovered by a TV reporter.

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AP

A secret court approved all but one of the government's requests last year to search or eavesdrop on suspected terrorists and spies. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court signed off on 2,176 warrants targeting people in the United States be

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AP

Citing FBI abuses and the attorney general's troubles, senators peppered top Justice and intelligence officials Tuesday with skeptical questions about their proposal to revise the rules for spying on Americans. [And yet, they will give Bush every

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East Valley Tribune

Napalitano's deal with Google is wrought with unexpected intrusions into the average mans personal information. The public has no idea the extent of information the government distributes or sells on a daily basis

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AP

The Social Security numbers of 63,000 who receive Agriculture Dept grants have been posted on a government Web site since 1996, but they were taken down last week. Free credit monitoring is being offered to those affected.

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Salon

Is there any good reason whatsoever why the federal government should be maintaining "files" which contain information about the pharmaceutical products which ALL Americans are consuming?

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The Age

Your "confidential" government records are constantly abused by every Tom, Dick, and Harriet. This can also work for resistance and against the police state.

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Reuters

The Bush administration asked Congress on Friday to expand the number of people it can subject to electronic surveillance in the United States. The request was contained in a proposed bill authored by intelligence and Justice Department officials

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AP

A disk containing the names, birth dates and Social Security numbers of 2.9 million Medicaid and children's health care recipients is missing, Georgia health officials said Tuesday. The state said the security breach was reporrted by

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by Fred Reed (AntiWar) (kudos Butler)

Human ingenuity is a wonderful thing, especially when combined with the instincts of a pickpocket. “Tiny cameras the size of a fingernail linked to specialist computers [will] monitor the behavior of airline passengers as part of the war on terrorism

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