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TSA: Give Us Fingerprints, Web History and You Can Keep Your Shoes On

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“In order to participate in the ‘PreCheck’ TSA program, you will need to allow them to reach down into the proverbial pants of your personal life as well. Under PreCheck, you are required to not only present your fingerprints to the TSA in person and pay a fee of $85, but the agency is also looking to gather all forms of your data as well — which reports state includes your web history and online data. With the help of a third party organization, the TSA seeks to ‘pre-screen’ (think pre-crime) individuals based on their activity in order to determine if they are worthy of bypassing the most minimal of security checkpoints.”

http://www.storyleak.com/tsa-fingerprints-web-history-and-keep-your-shoes-on/

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Federal report: E-Verify errors could wrongly exclude Americans from jobs

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“Reports published by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) reveal that the so-called E-Verify programme, which allows employers to check whether new workers are properly documented, is so inaccurate that if replicated across the country it could wrongfully exclude more than 200,000 people from the workforce.  With more than one in 10 employers using E-Verify to weed out applicants before making a job offer, the potential for abuse is greatly increased. It is possible for applicants to be turned away from a post without ever finding out that they have been wrongly flagged as unauthorised on the database.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/24/federal-report-e-verify-errors-could-wrongly-exclude-americans-from-jobs/

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Ohio Lawsuit Seeks To Use Court Precedent To Shut Down Speed Cameras

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“Earlier this month a Hamilton County, Ohio judge declared Elmwood Place in contempt of court for ignoring a ruling that found speed cameras to be an unlawful ‘scam.’ A group of lawyers is seeking to replicate that legal success by shutting down the automated ticketing machines in New Miami, a village of 2000 residents located twenty miles to the north, with a class action lawsuit filed on Friday, citing the March decision in the hope that a Butler County Court of Common Pleas judge would agree that the automated ticketing ordinance fails to provide adequate due process to vehicle owners that receive a ticket from Optotraffic demanding payment of up to $180.”

http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/41/4160.asp

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The Rise of RFID ‘Smart Guns’

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The Rise of RFID ‘Smart Guns’

“RFID-based smart guns that can be remotely turned off at any time are set to hit US markets in the next several months, and could be used a ‘loophole’ to bypass the Second Amendment.”

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A Black Box for Car Crashes

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“Fourteen states have passed laws that say that, even though the data belongs to the vehicle’s owner, law enforcement officials and those involved in civil litigation can gain access to the black boxes with a court order. In these states, lawyers may subpoena the data for criminal investigations and civil lawsuits, making the information accessible to third parties, including law enforcement or insurance companies that could cancel a driver’s policy or raise a driver’s premium.  Privacy advocates have expressed concern that the data collected will only grow to include a wider time frame and other elements like GPS and location-based services.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/22/business/black-boxes-in-cars-a-question-of-privacy.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&

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California City Retreats From Red Light Camera Referendum

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“City leaders in Riverside, California are backing off the promise made last November to allow residents to make the call about whether to keep or eliminate red light cameras. The city council votes later today on a staff recommendation to pull the plug on the public vote. The city has already postponed the ballot measure that was to be considered in June.”

http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/41/4159.asp

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Criminals can’t escape the cameras

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“Inventors are continuing to tap into the power of surveillance cameras, and capabilities that might have seemed like James Bond tricks are now reality, such as face-recognition software and license-plate readers. One such invention aims to ‘see’ potential crime before it happens. AISight is software that uses artificial intelligence to learn over time what normal behavior the camera records, so it can recognize when there is abnormal behavior. The system will send an alert to whoever is monitoring the cameras, such as a security guard, who can then decide how to react to the situation.”

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/jul/22/crime-surveillance-cameras-police-security/all/?print

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Liberty Slipping: 10 Things You Could Do in 1975 That You Can’t Do Now

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“1. You could buy an airline ticket and fly without ever showing an ID.  2. You could buy cough syrup without showing an ID.  3. You could buy and sell gold coins without showing an ID  4. You could buy a gun without showing an ID  5. You could pull as much cash out of your bank account without the bank filing a report with the government.  6. You could get a job without having to prove you were an American.  7. You could buy cigarettes without showing an ID  8. You could have a phone conversation without the government knowing who you called and who called you.  9. You could open a stock brokerage account without having to explain where the money came from. […]”

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2013/07/liberty-slipping-10-things-you-could-do.html

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New ID rules would threaten citizens’ rights

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“Any citizen wanting to take a job would face the regulation that his or her digitized high-resolution passport or driver’s license photo be collected and stored centrally in a Department of Homeland Security Citizenship and Immigration Services database. The pictures in the national database would then need to be matched against the job applicant’s government-issued ‘enhanced’ ID card, using a Homeland Security-mandated facial-recognition ‘photo tool.’ Only when those systems worked perfectly could the new hire take the job.”

http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/13/opinion/sobel-id-immigration/index.html

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The Secret Service Agent Who Collared Cybercrooks by Selling Them Fake IDs

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“In addition to being a talented ID forger, Celtic was a Secret Service agent. The government calls it ‘Operation Open Market,’ a four-year investigation resulting, so far, in four federal grand jury indictments against 55 defendants in 10 countries, facing a cumulative millennium of prison time. What many of those alleged scammers, carders, thieves, and racketeers have in common is one simple mistake: They bought their high-quality fake IDs from a sophisticated driver’s license counterfeiting factory secretly established, owned, and operated by the United States Secret Service.”

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/07/open-market/

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