Massive Biometric Project Gives Millions of Indians an ID
US Soldier Scans the Iris of an Iraqi – Wiki Image Vince Beiser Wired In India, hundreds of millions of impoverished people have no ID—which…
Privacy
FBI is on your cell phone. Do you care?
Nat Hentoff WorldNetDaily John Adams lost the 1800 presidential election to Thomas Jefferson in large part because Adams, in 1798, pushed through Congress the Alien…
E-Verify: De Facto national ID and the end of privacy
Wikipedia John Whitehead Desoto Times Tribune As technology grows more sophisticated and the American government and its corporate allies further refine their methods of keeping…
Enhanced pat-downs coming to a stadium near you
pat-down before the game (Credit: USA Today) Madison Ruppert, Contributing Writer Activist Post The NFL has officially recommended that every fan be subjected to the…
FOIA Victory Will Shed More Light on Warrantless Tracking of Cell Phones
image source Electronic Frontier Foundation The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Tuesday (pdf) that the government must turn over information from criminal prosecutions…
Lawyer: Big Brother database ‘crosses line’
O’Ryan Johnson Boston Herald Civil libertarians are raising the alarm over the state’s plans to create a Big Brother database that could map drivers’ whereabouts…
Swiss banks ‘allegedly’ providing information to US: reports
Credit Suisse is one of several Swiss banks that media outlets have claimed are providing information to Washington © AFP/File Fabrice Coffrini AFP GENEVA (AFP)…
U.S. Government — Tracking Cash Cards?
Anthony Freda “Liberty Upended” Kelly Holt The New American The U.S. government has found another way to invade privacy in the name of fighting terrorism…
5 Unexpected Places You Can Be Tracked With Facial Recognition Technology
Tana Gavena AlterNet Earlier this summer Facebook rolled out facial recognition software that identifies users even when they appear in untagged photos. Like every other time…
Advancing U.S.-Canada Economic, Energy and Security Integration
Image by Darcy St. Amant and NAUresistance Dana Gabriel Be Your Own Leader Much has been made about the secretive nature and lack of transparency…
New Drug Tests Target the Poor
A spate of new laws ties government assistance to sobriety—furthering an unfounded stereotype. Rania Khalek In These Times The growing number of poor Americans now…
Warrantless Spying, Denied – Judge N. Garaufis
Owen Myles, Contributing Writer Activist Post A small victory for privacy has been scored by Judge Nicholas Garaufis, who has denied a government request for…
Redacting all but your privacy – DHS Voyeurism, Backscatter Vans and Body-scanners
Owen Myles, Contributing Writer Activist Post Apparently public information can be redacted into an unaccountable oblivion, and the only boundary to black-marks are your private…
Big Brother 2.0: 10 New Ways The Government Will Be Spying On and Controlling You
The American Dream Are you ready for Big Brother 2.0? If you think that the hundreds of ways that the government watches, monitors, tracks and…