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N.S.A. Collecting Millions of Faces From Web Images

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“The F.B.I. is developing what it calls its ‘next generation identification’ project to combine its automated fingerprint identification system with facial imagery and other biometric data.  The State Department has what several outside experts say could be the largest facial imagery database in the federal government, storing hundreds of millions of photographs of American passport holders and foreign visa applicants. And the Department of Homeland Security is funding pilot projects at police departments around the country to match suspects against faces in a crowd.  The N.S.A., though, is unique in its ability to match images with huge troves of private communications.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/01/us/nsa-collecting-millions-of-faces-from-web-images.html?_r=1

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FBI Director Doesn’t Think Agency Will Spy On Americans With N.G.I.

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“FBI Director James Comey insisted during a House Judiciary Committee Hearing Wednesday that his agency doesn’t — and will not — use the government’s sophisticated facial recognition technology to keep tabs on innocent civilians. But earlier this year, a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the EFF revealed that the FBI plans to database more than 52 million pictures in its Next Generation Identification facial recognition program by next year.  Pressed by Representative Zoe Lofgren, a Democrat who represents a district squarely situated in California’s Silicon Valley, Comey added that some non-criminals might be included if they apply for certain jobs or licenses.”

http://personalliberty.com/fbi-director-doesnt-think-agency-will-spy-americans-fails-mention-already/

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VTA can keep transit cardholders’ personal data for seven years [2012]

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“The resolution also calls on the commission to encrypt travel information on the Clipper card, which can be read by scanning it with a smartphone app called FareBot.  Randy Rentschler, a spokesman for the transportation commission, said he did not see the need for the legislation.  Use of the card, accepted by every major Bay Area public transit system, is soaring with 689,000 transactions a day and more than 1 million active Clipper cards. Every time a user swipes the card for BART or Muni, the information is saved.  In 2010, California enacted a law limiting the use of data collected on bridges and toll roads through FasTrak devices, but Clipper cards were not included in the legislation.”

https://www.baycitizen.org/news/transportation/supervisor-seeks-more-privacy-clipper/

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77,000 Foreign Banks To Share Account Info With IRS

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“Nearly 70 countries have agreed to share information from their banks as part of a U.S. law that targets Americans’ assets overseas.  Starting in March 2015, these financial institutions have agreed to supply the IRS with names, account numbers and balances for accounts controlled by U.S. taxpayers.   The law requires American banks to withhold 30 percent of certain payments to foreign banks that don’t participate in the program — a significant price for access to the world’s largest economy.  The withholding applies to stocks and bonds, including U.S. Treasurys. Some previously owned securities would be exempt from the withholding, but in general, previously owned stocks would not.”

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/77000-foreign-banks-share-tax-info-irs

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Facing the Onset of A Global Taxation Regime, Take Human Action

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“What does surprise us about GATCA is the speed at which it is being introduced and formalized. The start-date, from what we can tell, may be as soon as 2016. This is in keeping with other campaigns launched by the power elite of late. We’ve commented a number of times on the speed with which cannabis decriminalization is moving around the world, for instance, and there are numerous other evidences of increased elite urgency as well. In this case, those behind GATCA are not even bothering with a popular consensus: They are simply promoting the regime from the top down, seeking a political consensus and assuming that will [be] acceptable.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/35363/Facing-the-Invasive-Onset-of-GATCA-Take-Human-Action/

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States Ask Feds for Bigger Budgets to Fix Obamacare Exchanges

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“Few states have embraced the ideas behind the Affordable Care Act (ACA) with more enthusiasm than Maryland and Massachusetts, which adopted many of them years before the passage of the federal law. But the two now find themselves trying to fix their malfunctioning health insurance exchanges and seeking federal approval to spend more money to do so.  When states first applied for what are called Establishment Grants to build their online marketplaces, they had to predict the costs. Going over those costs requires them to resubmit plans to spend money that would have either returned to the federal government or gone to future changes.”

http://www.governing.com/topics/health-human-services/gov-maryland-massachusetts-exchange-repair-plans.html

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Get used to driving at 40mph, says top UK highways official

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“Motorists must get used to driving at 40mph on the motorway, the civil servant in charge of Britain’s roads has said as he admitted the roads will get ‘slower and slower’.  Labour said the admission was evidence that a decision to cut infrastructure spending in the early years of the Coalition meant that officials now had to manage congestion rather than invest in new roads.  The Agency is in charge of maintaining 4,300 miles of England’s motorways and A roads. Four million vehicles use the roads daily.  Mr Dalton blamed Treasury spending rules for meaning that he lost £20million from his roads spending budget due to the very wet weather in January and February.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/10825851/Motorway-speeds-Get-used-to-driving-at-40mph-says-top-highways-official.html

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Fed ‘Biosurveillance’ Plan Seeks Direct Access to Private Health Records

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“The federal government is piecing together a sweeping national ‘biosurveillance’ system that will give bureaucrats near real-time access to Americans’ private medical information in the name of national security, according to Twila Brase.  Brase warns that the NHSS proposal would allow the federal government to monitor an individual’s behavior before, during and after any government-defined health ‘incident’ – which could be anything from a local outbreak of the flu to a terrorist anthrax attack.  One of the dangers, Brase pointed out, is that this vast amount of medical data warehoused in a giant electronic database will only be available to government-approved researchers.”

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/barbara-hollingsworth/federal-biosurveillance-plan-seeking-direct-access-americans

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Estonia’s plan to let anyone become European – digitally

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“In the near future, those from outside the country will have an opportunity to apply for an Estonian e-resident ID card — which means that they can use Estonian online services, open bank accounts, and start companies without ever having to physically visit Estonia.  That is, if they pass a background check similar to the visa application process and sign up to identify themselves with biometrics such as their fingerprints or iris scans.  The Estonian Ministry of the Interior’s idea to give foreigners their own Estonian ID cards was conceived seven years ago. The Estonian government approved the concept of e-residency and the once seemingly-utopian idea is now finally is coming to life.”

http://www.zdnet.com/this-is-so-freaking-huge-man-its-insane-the-plan-to-let-anyone-become-european-digitally-7000029486/

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First Pot, Now Hemp: Directed History of Cannabis Legalization Evolves

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“The marijuana meme did not emerge simply from popular action. It is surely part of a larger plan that may call for the involvement of globalist facilities in significant aspects of drug regulation. The UN, for instance, is planning on holding a huge drug conference in 2016 – a conference that was not supposed to occur until 2021. If cannabis is being legalized it is only because it now suits powerful globalists to do so. It explains the entire – and most peculiar – lack of remorse when it comes to literally hundreds of millions of lives savaged around the world by the war on drugs and cannabis criminalization in particular.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/35331/First-Pot-Now-Hemp-Directed-History-of-Cannabis-Legalization-Evolves/

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