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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Red Orbit | Biometrics is commonly associated retinal scans, iris recognition and DNA databases, but researchers in India are working on another form of biometrics that could allow law enforcement agencies and airport security to recognize suspects based on the way they were, their characteristic gait. The team reveals details of a comprehensive framework for gait recognition by computer in ...
tagged Big-Brother, Technology and USA-News
Presidential Directive Demands Widespread Sharing of Biometrics
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
By Matthew Rothschild | Big Brother wants your irises. George Bush just issued a directive to expand the acquisition of biometric information, and to ensure that agencies across the executive branch share it.
And the Bush Administration may give it to foreign governments, too.
All this according to National Security Presidential Directive Number 59, also known as Homeland Security ...
tagged Big-Brother, Bush and USA-News
Airport Scanners Do Virtual Strip Search
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
By Thomas Frank | Body-scanning machines that show images of people underneath their clothing are being installed in 10 of the nation's busiest airports in one of the biggest public uses of security devices that reveal intimate body parts.The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) recently started using body scans on randomly chosen passengers in Los Angeles, Baltimore, Denver, Albuquerque and at ...
tagged Big-Brother and USA-News
Adviser Says McCain Backs Bush Wiretaps
Saturday, June 7th, 2008
By CHARLIE SAVAGE | A top adviser to Senator John McCain says Mr. McCain believes that President Bush’s program of wiretapping without warrants was lawful, a position that appears to bring him into closer alignment with the sweeping theories of executive authority pushed by the Bush administration legal team.
In a letter ...
tagged Big-Brother, Bush and USA-News
Orwellian Ubiquitous Computing?
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
By Daniel Taylor | "...just by walking down the street you could be subject to a personal biometric system, you could be scanned by the gateway of the transit system, there could be something embedded in the street or in the flooring beneath you... you could be touching other tangible interfaces in the environment around you... the ...
tagged Big-Brother, Global-News and Technology
Tories pledge to curb use of CCTV cameras
Monday, May 26th, 2008
By James Kirkup | Mr Davis told the Society of Conservative Lawyers that the widespread use of closed circuit television (CCTV) risks infringing civil liberties. He proposed new rules on the use of CCTV and penalties for people and bodies that use the cameras to invade the privacy of the public. He also promised measures to improve the quality of ...
tagged Big-Brother and UK-News
Path Intelligence - Phorm for shopping centres?
Monday, May 26th, 2008
Spy Blog | Just in case you thought that Phorm was the only threat to your privacy, here is an example of similar "no opt out" snooping technology being installed in the infrastructure of a public space, a shopping centre, which secretly snoops on individuals, without their informed prior consent, in the ...
tagged Big-Brother and UK-News
Concerns grow over snooping watchdog
Monday, May 26th, 2008
By Michael Peel | Britain may have sleepwalked into a surveillance society, but you would not know that from the watchdog supposed to stop it happening. Seven-and-a-half years and more than 600 cases into its life, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal – which deals with public complaints about unreasonable official snooping – has upheld just a single claim.
The disclosure comes amid ...
tagged Big-Brother and UK-News
London bus drivers to get DNA ‘spit kits’
Saturday, May 24th, 2008
London’s bus drivers who are spat at will be able to collect the saliva in a DNA ‘spit kit’ so the assailant can be identified when their saliva samples are sent off to the police national database for analysis. The kits have been used in Tube stations for years.
At the same time, the Metropolitan Police Service's Transport Operational Command unit is ...
tagged Big-Brother and UK-News
UK may store all phone calls and emails
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
New Scientist | The UK government is considering a massive database to store every person's emails, phone calls, text messages and internet use. The plan was suggested as a tool to help security forces tackling crime and terrorism.
At the moment, records of phone calls and text messages are kept for up to 12 months by telecoms companies, in compliance with a ...
tagged Big-Brother and UK-News
Why should we pay the Orwellian licence fee?
Monday, May 19th, 2008
By Patrick West | Some government public information services or advertisements on behalf of state services never change. Drink-driving awareness adverts invariably feature a before-and-after narrative, beginning with people shown having a merry old time at the pub, and ending with the aforementioned revellers entombed in a bloodied, twisted hunk of metal. Army recruitment adverts have always suggested that by ...
tagged Big-Brother and UK-News
Roots of surveillance standoff go back decades
Friday, May 9th, 2008
By Shane Harris | In the old days, everyone was linked to a lug nut, and Jim Kallstrom liked it that way. It was 1985, a simpler time for a cop like Kallstrom, who was in charge of setting telephone wiretaps on suspected drug dealers and mobsters for the FBI's New York City field office.
In New York, Kallstrom's cases were often won ...
tagged Big-Brother and FBI
The Surveillance Society Does Not Work
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
By Mick Meaney – RINF | Costing in excess of billions of pounds each year, every single area of the British surveillance society has been proven ill effective when dealing with crime, fraud and terrorism – the very reasons government officials implement such measures.
Which begs the question: How can the Government justify such spending when it also imposes an increasing risk to our personal ...
tagged Big-Brother, Database-State and UK-News
CCTV boom has failed to slash crime, say police
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
By Owen Bowcott | Massive investment in CCTV cameras to prevent crime in the UK has failed to have a significant impact, despite billions of pounds spent on the new technology, a senior police officer piloting a new database has warned. Only 3% of street robberies in London were solved using CCTV images, despite the fact that Britain ...
tagged Big-Brother and UK-News
The NSA, personal data and you
Monday, April 28th, 2008
By Mitch Ratcliffe | Here’s a simple rule for preventing totalitarian rule in any nation: Don’t build the systems for monitoring people’s daily lives closely in the first place, and you will not be at risk of totalitarian rulers using those systems to overwhelm individual choice. The Wall Street Journal today has a long piece on the various ways ...
tagged Big-Brother, Internet, NSA and USA-News
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