Archive for January 8th, 2007
First wiretapping, now letter-opening?
Can the feds read your mail without a warrant? You wouldn’t think so, but that’s not how the president sees it.
LA Times | Jan. 8, 2007
THE BUSH administration seems determined to raise the specter of surveillance over every means of communication within the United States. Not content to monitor selected phone calls and e-mails in [...]
A Mortgage? Give Us Your Fingerprints
The People | Jan. 8, 2007
By Nigel Nelson
HOME seekers will soon have to show their FINGERPRINTS to take out a mortgage.
Banks and building societies will introduce the measure for first-time buyers to clamp down on identity fraud.
The shock move comes as the Government prepares plans to introduce its controversial ID cards.
The Rockefeller File
