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Smart Grid and EVs Add to Surveillance Society – but We Don't Have To
• dailybell.comHere at the Bell, we're not high on electrical cars.
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Meet Your Future: Pocket Sized Iris Scanners
• hispanicallyspeakingnews.comThe Nano has roughly the footprint of a dollar bill, and I think it’s going to allow us to target virtually everything...
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We're Next: India Leads The Way in Biometric ID Enslavement
• thirdfactor.comThe technology uses computer technology to match unique characteristics of individuals against enrolled records. Examples include products that recognize fingerprints, faces, hands, veins, signatures, irises and voices.
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Biometric ID and Obama's "Identity Ecosystem" for the Internet
• cbsnews.comIt's "the absolute perfect spot in the U.S. government" to centralize efforts toward creating an "identity ecosystem" for the Internet, White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt said.
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Trusted Identities In Cyberspace: Biometric ID Coming To The Internet?
• businessweek.com/newsThe new system will probably hasten the death of traditional passwords. Instead, users may rely on devices such as smartcards with embedded chips, tokens that generate random codes or biometric devices.
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Utah's $1.5 billion cyber-security center under way
• deseretnews.com/Thursday's groundbreaking for a $1.5 billion National Security Agency data center is being billed as important in the short term for construction jobs and important in the long term for Utah's reputation as a technology center.
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Illegal to buy/sell gold in California without a license?!?!
• Pasadena Star-NewsI wonder how much this will be ignored as California's economy continues to slide into the ocean? When gold and silver are outlawed, only outlaws will have gold and silver.
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Miami-Dade Police Buy "Star Wars" Style Drones
• miaminewtimes.comThe Miami-Dade Police Department is poised to become the first large metro force using drones in its aerial missions. The department finalized a deal to buy a drone called T-Hawk from defense firm Honeywell...
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4-min. video: Walmart's Federal Spying Campaign (Christine Smith's YouTube video)
• Christine Smith**Q**s YouTube ChannelChristine Smith's opinion of Walmart's partnership with the DHS.
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Programming Scottish 4 Year Olds To Accept Biometric ID For Life
• express.co.uk/New figures show 68 schools are now using technology to manage meals, control library books and even allow access to toilets.
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Digital Totalitarianism - The Conspiracy to Abolish Cash
• SmirkingChimp.comWhat the anti-cash movement really wants is digital totalitarianism: a dystopian nightmare in which the entire human race is enslaved by international corporations and their pet governments.
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Iris Scanning Is Coming to Android, IPhone, and Microsoft Phones
• thirdfactor.com/Mobile application developer, BluePlanet Apps, has announced it is developing a biometric security application for the Android mobile operating system, according to an Android Headlines article.
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Iris Scanning Comes to the US & Canadian Border
• BattleCreekEnquirer.comMy family decided to apply for NEXUS cards. NEXUS allows for quick passage across the U.S./Canadian border if you are a model citizen, show oodles of ID, agree to iris scanning and fingerprinting...
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NYPD Deploying Iris Scanners Used By US Army In Afghanistan
• auto-mobi.info/The New York Police Department is now using machines to photograph and scan the irises of prisoners as they pass through New York Central Booking. The department claims that this new high-tech ID...
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Local Police Using Iris Scanners Used In Iraq and Afghanistan
• wired.com/In Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. troops use handheld devices to take iris scans and thumb prints off of detainees and put them in vast databases to distinguish insurgents from civilians. Now your local cops are...
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US to step up security at hotels and malls
• www.breitbart.comThe United States is stepping up security at "soft targets" like hotels and shopping malls, as well as trains and ports, as it counters the evolving Al-Qaeda threat, a top official said Sunday.
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Chris Hedges: 2011 - A Brave New Dystopia
• TruthDig.comIt turns out Orwell and Huxley were both right. Huxley saw the first stage of our enslavement. Orwell saw the second.
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Big Brother Closing In: DHS Coming To Malls and Hotels
• RawStory.comhe United States is stepping up security at "soft targets" like hotels and shopping malls, as well as trains and ports, as it counters the evolving Al-Qaeda threat, a top official said Sunday.
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License Plate Readers To See Explosive Growth
• LAtimes.comThe high-tech cameras can scan 1,800 plates a minute and run them through crime databases. Some fear the government will use the technology to track innocent people.
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Fusion Centers and Homeland Security: Watching Our Freedom Die
• PrisonPlanet.comAccording to numerous law enforcement advisories, training manuals, seminars and other literature, the federal government defines political activism, flying American flags, wearing Levi jeans, being nice,... all as signs of domestic terror.
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Peoria pursues pharmacy ID checks
• The Arizona RepublicPlan to require fingerprinting to pick up certain prescriptions
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Plan to Turn Post Office Trucks Into Stasi Data Collection Nodes
• PrisonPlanet.comForget the StreetView data vacuum scandal. If an idea proposed for the money hole known as the U.S. Post Office is adopted, your friendly neighborhood postal person may be soon driving a high-tech data collection vehicle that would rival anything Goo
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Intelligence Analysis: TSA head urges complete airport security overhaul
• Naturalnews.com/Officials are now suggesting that intelligence programs that analyze individual passenger data be used instead. However what types of information officials plan to collect and analyze is unclear, and such a proposition could be an even worse...
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Snuggly the Security Bear: Wiretapping is about Love!
• vigilantcitizen.com via MichelleKalhorn at RTR.ORG"Hi there - it's me - Snuggly - back to protect you with my warm cuddliness."
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Are they spying on you?
• www.sovereignman.comDo you remember the good old days the when it used to be illegal for governments to spy on their citizens? I don’t either… but I’m told that it used to be illegal. Oh how times have changed.
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Suicide Banker Ethics: Newt Gingrich and Jeb Bush Targeting Latinos
• InfoWars.com/Part of Gingrich’s proposal would include establishing an ID card that would track a worker’s legal status.
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"Cybersecurity Standards", Government Internet Control Gets Serious
• EconomicPolicyJournal.comSen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Md has introduced a bill that would require the government and the private sector to require minimum cybsersecurity standards for devices that connect to the Internet.
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Were Next: National electronic ID cards planned for Afghanistan
• RawStory.comWar-torn Afghanistan lacks basic national infrastructure, yet on Sunday the government unveiled plans for a $100 million electronic identification system with cards to be issued to all Afghans within five years.
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Child Porn Barbie: FBI Issues Alert on Barbie Doll With Video Camera
• NBC NewsShe's not on the most-wanted list, but yes, the FBI did issue an alert about Barbie. The doll. Apparently, they were simply trying to give law enforcement agencies a heads up -- that the new "Video Girl Barbie" comes with a hidden camera, which could
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NY Agency Sued Over GPS Tracker On Worker's Car
• APThe New York Civil Liberties Union has sued the state on behalf of a labor department worker who was fired after investigators used a GPS device to track his car and show he falsified his time sheets. Since that 2008 investigation, New York's high
