Archive for December, 2006
Courts Side With NSA On Wiretaps
New York Sun | Dec. 26, 2006
By Joseph Goldstein
Defense lawyers who had hoped that the public disclosure a year ago of the National Security Agency’s wiretapping program would yield information favorable to their clients are being rebuffed by the federal judiciary, which in a series of unusually consistent rulings has rejected efforts by terrorism suspects [...]
Department of Homeland Security violated privacy
AP | Dec. 24, 2006
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) admitted it violated the Privacy Act two years ago by obtaining more commercial data about US airline passengers than it had announced it would.
Seventeen months ago, the government accountability office (GAO), Congress’ auditing arm, reached the same conclusion — the department’s transportation security administration (TSA) [...]
£1,000 fine for failing to update identity cards
London Telegraph | Dec. 24, 2006
By Melissa Kite
A draconian regime of fines, which would hit families at times of marriage and death, is being drawn up by ministers to enforce the Identity Card scheme.
Millions of people, from struggling students to newly-wed women and bereaved relatives, will face a system of penalties, netting more than £40 [...]
George Orwell Was Right: Spy Cameras See Britons’ Every Move
Bloomberg | Dec. 22, 2006
By Nick Allen
It’s Saturday night in Middlesbrough, England, and drunken university students are celebrating the start of the school year, known as Freshers’ Week.
One picks up a traffic cone and runs down the street. Suddenly, a disembodied voice booms out from above:
“You in the black jacket! Yes, you! Put it back!” The [...]
Report Says TSA Violated Privacy Law
Passengers Weren’t Told That Brokers Provided Data to Screening Program in ‘04
Washington Post | Dec. 22, 2006
By Ellen Nakashima and Del Quentin Wilber
Secure Flight, the U.S. government’s stalled program to screen domestic air passengers against terrorism watch lists, violated federal law during a crucial test phase, according to a report to be issued today by [...]
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Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Assaults on speech imply Americans afraid to be free
Home News Tribune | Dec. 21, 2006
By Paul K. McCMasters
The First Amendment turned 215 years old this week on Dec. 15.
At its birth, as it is today, this constitutional guarantee was a breathtakingly beautiful testimony to the value of freedom of conscience and expression.
When it was ratified as part of the Bill of Rights in [...]
Big Brother Britain
The Daily Reckoning | Dec. 20, 2006
By Brian Durrant
We are experiencing the chill wind of technology driven authoritarianism and whether we like it or not it’s not going to go away. Increased surveillance of our daily lives is a fact of life; be it the DNA database, the growth of CCTV, the profiling of “would [...]
Is It Now Illegal To Link To Other Websites?
Landmark Sydney legal ruling sets precedent for wholesale devastation of Internet news websites and blogs
Prisonplanet.com | Dec. 20, 2006
By Paul Joseph Watson
A landmark legal ruling in Sydney goes further than ever before in setting the trap door for the destruction of the Internet as we know it and the end of alternative news websites and [...]
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