And were are the environmentalists on this wanton waste of paper? We live in an age where the EPA is declaring the air that we exhale to be a dangerous pollutant, and proposing big new taxes and regulations making our lives more expensive and limiti
Fusion centers encourage corporate partners and local police alike to report activities such as people taking photographs. These “suspicious activity reports” (SARs) become data, waiting to be activated by an analyst working in the fusion center syst
The U.S. military monitored Planned Parenthood and a white supremacist group as part of the government’s security preparations for the 2002 Olympics in Utah, according to new documents released by the Department of Defense.
Rights? WHAT RIGHTS?!!
"The subpoena was a blatant violation of Indymedia’s Constitutional rights, since the company was unable to consult an attorney due to the Justice Department request that the subpoena be kept secret."
Each survey had a serial number and most of my son’s classes have assigned seats. This allows for positive tracking. Our children are being intimidated behind closed doors and locked fences to answer personal questions, many of them about their
Can the FBI Secretly Track Your Cell Phone?
The Justice Department is poised this week to publicly defend a little-known law-enforcement practice that critics say may be the "sleeper" privacy issue of the 21st century: the collection of cell-phone
By their fruits you will know them - Matthew 7:16
I will give you quotes from V.I. Lenin. Please contemplate the policy of the American Government which follows directly after the quote:
* The surest way to destroy a nation is to debauch i
Some passengers at Heathrow and Manchester airports will have to go through full body scanners before boarding their flights under new rules. It is now compulsory for people selected for a scan to take part, or they will not be allowed to fly.
Despite some library-friendly changes last fall in one version of the USA PATRIOT Act renewal, Congress did not resolve its differences, and in December extended the sunset deadline for the sections of the act that were supposed to expire at the end
Contrary to public statements made by the Transportation Security Administration, full-body airport scanners do have the ability to store and transmit images, according to documents obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
What happens when protestors of airport naked body scanners decide to go through the lines in the nude? Why hilarity ensues....This video needs to go viral. Wait til you see this protest.
The White House named a new cyber security "coordinator", who one industry person called, more of a "cyber peasant". Seems innocent enough, doesn't it?
Google CEO Eric Schmidt commented to CNBC, "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."
Think the government “knows best” on healthcare, think again. This story out of Montana highlights how parents' rights over their children’s health has been superseded by bureaucrats--which in this case, could have caused a teen’s death.
Google Goggles is a visual search app for Android phones. Instead of using words, take a picture of an object with your camera phone: we attempt to recognize the object, and return relevant search results. Also provides information about businesses
After the first of the year, New Mexico residents may have carry passports if they want to board a flight on a commercial aircraft or enter federal facilities. All because the state refuses to knuckle under and pass Real ID.
Last week 8 states "choked" the compliance game of chicken, some issuing letters defying Real ID regulations going into 2010. That is exactly what was done by States to address the last DHS deadline, March 31st, 2008. Based on previous results, DHS i
Here's my son who the court took from me when I refused to drug him for ADHD. It’s terrible – just look at how distracted this kid is – he can’t pay attention – he can’t sit still – he’s rambunctious – his mind wanders – he’s so endangered! HE NEEDS
Section 215 allows the federal government to demand tangible records from any business, organization, entity, person—and even the public library—and then places a gag order on them about speaking of the demand. Many believe this act violates the righ
Time is running out for states across the nation to comply with federal legislation passed in 2005 known as the REAL ID Act, which requires all states to start issuing more secure driver's licenses by the end of this year.
Residents living in st
SEATTLE – Food banks across the country are undergoing a high-tech revolution, adopting sophisticated databases, bar coding, GPS tracking, automated warehouses and other technologies used in the food industry that increasingly supplies their goods.
If the idea of turning consumers into true cyborgs sounds creepy, don't tell Intel researchers. Intel's Pittsburgh lab aims to develop brain implants that can control all sorts of gadgets directly via brain waves by 2020.
The scientists anticipate t
The frequency of identity tolls will continue to escalate as long as the legal precedents are tolerated by citizens. 24 state governments recently refused the hefty demands on identity in the Real ID Act. These States punted the regulations along wit
“Army Surveillance of Civilians: A Documentary Analysis” by the Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights, Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate (1972). Posted online by The Memory Hole. (Thanks to Susan Maret, coeditor of Government Secrecy:
A memo from the Office of Personnel Management is using a new trick to purge Republicans from the Civil Service beginning in January 2010. Chicago Rules come to Washington.
Following the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, a revolution has been underway in the relationships of federal, state, and local homeland security, law enforcement, and intelligence organizations. At the federal level, the Department of Homelan