By Mick Meaney RINF Alternative News   A German hacker and security consultant, Lukas Grunwald, has again demonstrated how Governments are enforcing insecure technology that puts our security, identity and privacy at risk, while claiming to provide the exact opposite. Biometric passports containing the highly controversial RFID chips have been shown to be even more vulnerable than first thought as Grunwald managed ...

By Mick Meaney RINF Alternative News  [audio:http://rinf.podomatic.com/enclosure/2007-07-26T21_25_43-07_00.mp3] Following on from a recent report about fingerprinting in schools, I speak to Ben Emlyn-Jones, an Oxford father who stood up for civil liberties and banned his daughter’s school from taking her fingerprints.

By Mick Meaney RINF Alternative News  Following on from recent communication between the BBC and a British physicist planning to sue the corporation for ‘mass public deception’, the BBC have responded by pushing back the complaint investigation procedure, buying themselves more time in the hope the issue will be forgotten about. However, as the BBC are a global corporation reaching billions around the world and called on many leading 9/11 researchers ...

By Mick Meaney RINF Alternative News  New tests conducted by police yet again prove an increasing number of surveillance systems are unreliable. 200 people were enrolled to test CCTV face recognition software on three systems which failed to recognise 8 out of 10 people, even when the system was fed images of people standing still - one of the easiest settings often used to suggest the software is reliable. The tests were conducted on ...

By Mick Meaney RINF Alternative News  A British scientist and member of Scholars for 9/11 Truth & Justice  , John A. Blacker MSc IMI (Physical Systems), is planning to sue the BBC for mass public deception via their “9/11: The Conspiracy Files” programme, RINF Alternative News can reveal.  The programme which aired on 18 February, 2007, promised to offer a thorough examination of the events of 9/11 and answer many ...

By Mick Meaney RINF Alternative News  A new report from the Council of European Commission for Democracy has warned the widespread use of public surveillance is a threat to our “fundamental rights”. The Venice Commission also made recommendations on how personal freedoms could be protected. Recommendations include authorities and business to state the zones being filmed and set up a national body to guarantee the lawfulness ...

By Mick Meaney RINF Alternative News  On the northbound M6 motorway, between Preston and Lancaster, 9/11 truth activists engaged in some hardcore guerilla activism by 'branding' a motorway advert lorry with a 9/11 truth web site.  WWW.AE911TRUTH.ORG can clearly be read from the motorway and it is expected to be seen by at least 302,400 people a week, that's 43,200 people a day minimum. In an anonymous message to RINF, one of ...

By Mick Meaney RINF Alternative News  The Australian government seems to be involved in a game of catch up with Great Britain as they increase the level of surveillance on its citizens. Now over 50 schools in New South Wales have installed CCTV cameras in classrooms to monitor student and teachers. Many schools have already been using the cameras in playgrounds but this new measure of classroom surveillance is provoking a worrying ...

By Mick Meaney RINF Alternative News  For the second time in less than a month, five times honoured 9/11 hero and last man out of the Twin Towers, William Rodriguez, has been banned from a British hotel. A hotel in Cumbria, the Graythwaite Manor, told William Rodriguez to stay away because of his “political views”. [audio:http://rinf.podomatic.com/enclosure/2007-07-05T20_57_42-07_00.mp3] Listen to what William had to say about it William Rodriguez is currently touring the UK on a mission ...

By Mick Meaney RINF Alternative News  The American Medical Association (AMA) has released a report highlighting the risks of human implantable RFID microchips. The report contains safety and privacy warnings - as the chips have never been thoroughly tested, despite in 2004 the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) giving the go-ahead for the use of human implantable chips, causing outrage among medical professionals and privacy advocates. Medical sales of RFID chips have been poor as ...

By Mick Meaney RINF Alternative News  VeriCool, one of the companies responsible for fingerprinting thousands of British school children, has been linked to inhumane detention centres, Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib. A startling development as the British government seemingly knows no limits when it comes to - not only the risks of mass surveillance - but is also willing to support immoral and unethical corporations using their technology on our children. VeriCool has ...

By Mick Meaney RINF Alternative News A new CCTV system developed by ‘Agent Vi’ is being installed in some of the UK’s busiest stations, including Clapham Junction and Paddington Station. The system uses advanced hi-tech monitoring technology to judge behaviour and it is expected that twenty percent all CCTV cameras in the UK will be connected to the system within the next three years. The technology has been on trial at Liverpool Street station since 2003. One of ...

By Mick Meaney RINF Alternative News  The surveillance society is not just content to watch all of us, everywhere we go, but is now considering the monitoring of its own cameras, as members of the general public rebel against the dramatic increase of these privacy eroding systems - by destroying one of the most despised surveillance methods in the UK, the speed camera. Vandals, freedom fighters or patriots, you decide, have been targeting speed ...

By Mick Meaney RINF Alternative News  Bus Eireann are planning to install 8 to 10 CCTV cameras per bus in a nationwide plan to “reduce vandalism”. The digital CCTV cameras will cost Irish taxpayers €7,000 per bus with an overall cost of €1.13m - and are being installed on 150 buses in Cork, Galway, Limerick and my old home town of Waterford. Erica Roseingarve, company spokesperson, said she believed the cameras would "pay for themselves" through ...

WATCH IT HERE FOR FREE By Mick Meaney RINF Alternative News  A new British documentary has been released focusing on the BBC's selective and distorted coverage of the events of 9/11. ‘911 and the British Broadcasting Conspiracy’ features ex-MI5 officer David Shayler and was produced by Adrian Connock, who was also responsible for the ‘Mind the Gap’ documentary that exposed the false flag terrorist attacks of 7/7/05. Special attention has been paid to ...