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FTC Begins Sanctions Against Insecure Internet-Connected Device Companies

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“The FTC is steadily hacking the law to make itself the country’s de facto privacy regulator. In this case, it’s using its right to punish a company for being ‘unfair’ to consumers. But its power is limited: it can’t fine TRENDnet; it can only require it to notify customers, establish ‘a comprehensive security program’ — that includes pen testing its products — and agree to 20 years of privacy audits (just like Facebook and Google). If TRENDnet messes up again after this, the FTC can then fine it up to $16,000 per violation (a power it used to fine Google $22.5 million).  There may well be more FTC orders to come.”

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/09/04/camera-company-that-let-hackers-spy-on-naked-customers-ordered-by-ftc-to-get-its-security-act-together/

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Chicago Police Superintendent Says Cops Will Shoot Gun Carrying Citizens

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“Chicago police superintendent Garry McCarthy is not happy about the new concealed carry laws in Illinois.  And now he is predicting that police will shoot citizens who are lawfully carrying firearms.  While every cop has a right to protect himself, this bold statement by McCarthy is obviously meant to intimidate gun owners who choose to exercise their rights.  This threat that cops may mistakenly shoot a gun carrying citizen is just another attempt to fight the concealed carry laws that Illinois has long been deprived of.  McCarthy would not say what specific training officers will undertake if any. However, he did admit that in the past his department has made mistakes in shooting unarmed civilians.”

http://gunsnfreedom.com/chicago-police-superintendent-says-cops-will-shoot-gun-carrying-citizens-because-of-his-training/

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From the Files of the Nineveh PD

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“At some point within the last decade or so, American police adopted a modified version of the Assyrian model of law enforcement. This helps to explain why it is now considered permissible for a police officer to assault an uncooperative but non-violent pregnant woman. Rochester, New York Police Officer Lucas Krull was recently captured on videoassaulting a 21-year-old expectant mother. In an earlier incident, a young pregnant girl was kneed in the stomach by one of three Rochester Police Officers who were restraining her during an arrest.  A pregnant mother and an elderly woman were collateral victims in yet another episode involving ‘tumultuous’ behavior.”

http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2013/08/from-files-of-nineveh-pd.html

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Britain fights EU’s ‘Big Brother’ bid to fit every car with speed limiter

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“Drivers face having their cars  fitted with devices that slam on the brakes if they go over the speed limit, under draconian new road safety measures being drawn up by  officials in Brussels. All new cars would have to include camera systems that ‘read’ the limits displayed on road signs and automatically apply the brakes.  And vehicles already on the road could even be sent back to garages to be fitted with the ‘Big Brother’ technology, meaning that no car in the UK would be allowed to travel faster than 70mph – the speed limit on motorways.  The EC’s Mobility and Transport Department aims to slash the death toll from traffic accidents by a third by 2020.”

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2408012/Britain-fights-EUs-Big-Brother-bid-fit-car-speed-limiter.html

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Watch out, startup communities: The Congressmen are coming

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“The tech industry and startup world are only just waking up to the need to maintain an ongoing dialogue with Congress, while the political class is starting to realize that innovation and entrepreneurship are vital pieces in the nation’s economic puzzle. In the weeks ahead, however, the gap between the two worlds will shrink just a little as Congressmen fan out across the country to visit startup communities in their home districts. Starting today and proceeding throughout September, 44 members of Congress will be meeting with startups in their home districts from Tennessee to Ohio as part of Startup Day Across America.”

http://pandodaily.com/2013/08/29/watch-out-startup-communities-the-congressmen-are-coming/

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Cities Crackdown on Private Transport

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“The Dallas City Council was scheduled to vote on a substantial city code rewrite that will redefine everything from who can dispatch a car to who can drive a limo to the cost of a limousine’s off-the-lot sticker price (has to be more than $45,000). The rewrite will ‘require limousine service to be prearranged at least 30 minutes before the service is provided.’ The addendum item says ‘the use of computer applications and other technologies by some providers of limousine service has distorted certain distinctions between limousines and taxicabs, and that it’s high time the city ‘establish those distinctions to help the public understand the differences between those types of passenger transportation services.'”

http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=23546

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Bitcoin Foundation On Capitol Hill, Day Two: Legislators

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“After meeting with nearly a dozen federal agencies on Monday, yesterday served as an opportunity to interface with legislators. The team met with congressional staff from the offices of five legislators across both the Senate and House of Representatives. With Congress currently in recess, the Foundation capitalized on a rare opportunity to speak at length with government officials, whose schedules are often lighter between sessions. The US remains an important locale to address regulatory issues, but bitcoin remains a global phenomenon.”

http://thegenesisblock.com/bitcoin-foundation-on-capitol-hill-day-two-legislators/

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School District Hires Company To Monitor Students’ Social Media Posts

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“The Glendale Unified School District has hired a Hermosa Beach company to monitor public social media posts made by its students to find out when teens are in trouble or causing it.  Superintendent Richard Sheehan said Geo Listening is analyzing the posts of 13,000 students at eight Glendale middle and high schools.  The goal is to give school administrators critical information as soon as possible.  ‘The whole purpose is student safety,’ said Sheehan. ‘Basically, it just monitors for keywords where if a student is considering harming themselves, harming someone else.’ He added, ‘We do monitor on and off campus, but we do pay attention during school hours.'”

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2013/08/26/glendale-unified-hires-local-company-to-monitor-students-social-media-posts/

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Small minds, big ideas: The implications of the IRS targeting anti-tax groups

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“Any time you give a state agency a goal with an extremely broad, malleable definition, the agency is going to tend to interpret its mission as broadly as possible. And when that goal is inherently incompatible with a free society, the agency’s powers will inevitably grow at the expense of individual liberties and the rule of law. We shouldn’t trust the IRS to take as much money as it wants; we shouldn’t trust the military to invade the countries it thinks need to be invaded; and we shouldn’t trust the state security apparatus to ‘keep us safe from terrorism.’ The best thing that can happen to an agency trusted with such a goal is that it will fail. The worst is that it will succeed.”

http://www.policestateusa.com/2013/small-minds-big-ideas-implications-irs-targeting-anti-tax-groups/

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Burning Up the West: Feds, Greens Cause Catastrophic Fires

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“Wildfires occur naturally and have always been a part of the seasonal cycle in the West, but the size and intensity of the fires have dramatically increased in recent years due, in large measure, to the gross mismanagement of the national forests by the U.S. Forest Service and the incessant lawsuits of radical environmentalists that have thwarted all reasonable attempts at proper forest management. The unconscionable destruction of our vast forests, watersheds, and wildlife habitat is the inevitable result of policies and practices imposed by federal politicians and bureaucrats, in tandem with the obstructionist programs of extreme environmental activists.”

http://thenewamerican.com/tech/environment/item/16396-burning-up-the-west-feds-greens-cause-catastrophic-fires

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