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Ron Paul: If You Like The Surveillance State, You’ll Love E-Verify

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“The mandatory E-Verify system requires Americans to carry a ‘tamper-proof’ social security card. Before they can legally begin a job, American citizens will have to show the card to their prospective employer, who will then have to verify their identity and eligibility to hold a job in the US by running the information through the newly-created federal E-Verify database. The database will contain photographs taken from passport files and state driver’s licenses. The law gives federal bureaucrats broad discretion in adding other ‘biometric’ identifiers to the database and broad authority to determine what features the ‘tamper proof’ card should contain.”

http://www.campaignforliberty.org/national-blog/if-you-like-the-surveillance-state-youll-love-e-verify/

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Electronic Updatable License Plates Could Flash “STOLEN” Or “UNINSURED”

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“A small company in South Carolina is attempting to introduce electronic license plate’s for the state’s cars and trucks. The plates are fairly simple: an electrophoretic display that can display certain bold words when necessary, like ‘STOLEN’ or ‘UNINSURED.’  The benefits of an electronic license plate are interesting. If a driver is doing something wrong, something other drivers should know about, the DMV can beam a sort of scarlet letter message to the license plate over an included wireless connection, like your smartphone has. But there are a few issues; for one, who knows how secure this system is?”

http://www.popsci.com/cars/article/2013-06/electronic-license-plates-could-flash-stolen-or-uninsured-or-teen-driver

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Around the Bay Area, you’re being watched

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“It’s not just the National Security Agency secretly vacuuming up your personal data. Local police agencies are increasingly adopting Big Data technologies such as automatic license-plate readers that gather information about everyone, whether they’ve broken the law or not.  A lot of the information ends up on the 14th floor of a federal office building in San Francisco, where a ‘fusion center’ run by state and local law enforcement agencies combines the data with a plethora of personal information about you, from credit reports to car rentals to unlisted phone numbers to gun licenses.”

http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_23569173/look-around-bay-area-youre-being-watched

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Verizon Files Patent for Creepy Device To Watch You While You Watch TV

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“The company has filed a patent for a system designed to be used in the home to target advertisements at people. Using a combination of image and audio sensors, it would detect actions in your living room while you were watching TV. These sensors, deploying facial and profile recognition, would pick up ‘physical attributes’ like skin color, facial features, and even hair length, and also detect ‘voice attributes’ to help determine the tone of your voice, your accent, and the language you speak. Inanimate objects aren’t off-limits—the technology could also spot beer cans and wall art.”

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/12/05/verizon_patent_would_monitor_you_as_you_watch_tv_so_it_can_customize_ads.html

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PRISM Takeaway: Are We Citizens or Serfs? Should Obama Resign?

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“The leaked news about the FBI and NSA PRISM surveillance project may well be the most important news event of your life. I would say it is the most important news story. They so far are downplaying revelations that the National Security Agency (NSA) intercepts every email and text and other data and stores them on a giant supercomputer in Utah, placing the NSA coverage below such pressing concerns as immigration reform and Supreme Court decisions concerning gay marriage. Alternatively, I would call it the PRISM scandal, but I can’t do that either. It’s not a scandal unless people are up in arms, and there is no evidence of that.”

http://anewdomain.net/2013/06/26/ted-rall-prism-takeaway-are-we-citizens-or-serfs-ted-rall-for-anewdomain-obama-resignation-commentary/

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How Bad Is The Surveillance State?

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“Even more baffling to me is the reaction of some ‘conservatives’ who deny the scope of spying activities and, at once, minimizing the civil-liberties threat and justifying the activities as absolutely necessary and vital for the protection of the country.  The truth is that the network television show ‘Person of Interest’ is much closer to reality than most people think – except for the fact that no one is actually using the mining of data to protect the lives of innocent American citizens caught in the crossfire. Let’s look at some of the hard, cold facts of today’s surveillance state.”

http://www.wnd.com/2013/06/how-bad-is-surveillance-state/

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What the NSA Revelations Tell Us about America’s Police State

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“Ongoing revelations by The Guardian and The Washington Post of massive, illegal secret state surveillance of the American people along with advanced plans for waging offensive cyberwarfare on a global scale, including inside the US, underscores what Antifascist Calling has reported throughout the five years of our existence: that democracy and democratic institutions in the United States are dead letters.  If what the Bush and now, Obama regimes are doing is not Orwellian blanket surveillance of the American people, then words fail.”

http://antifascist-calling.blogspot.com/2013/06/what-nsa-revelations-tell-us-about.html

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Our Rulers’ $1.5 Billion “Backup Hard Drive”

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“The Feds have invested $ 1.5 billion of our money in a ‘data farm’ in Utah despite all their hype about ‘sequestration.’ But you may not realize that this boondoggle is even more offensively wasteful than you thought: it is ‘essentially the world’s largest backup hard drive… It’ll be one of several data farms that make up the [NSA’a] digital backbone, but information kept there won’t be unique. … Utah’s center will house the most data but everything is networked and if the center goes down, [Lonny] Anderson[, the NSA’s chief information officer]  says, no data will be lost.'”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/140301.html

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US army blocks access to Guardian website to preserve ‘network hygiene’

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“The US army has admitted to blocking access to parts of the Guardian website for thousands of defence personnel across the country. A spokesman said the military was filtering out reports and content relating to government surveillance programs to preserve ‘network hygiene’ and prevent any classified material appearing on unclassified parts of its computer systems.  A spokesman for the Army’s Network Enterprise Technology Command (Netcom) in Arizona confirmed that this was a widespread policy, likely to be affecting hundreds of defence facilities.”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/28/us-army-blocks-guardian-website-access

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The best second passport for Edward Snowden…

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“If Mr. Snowden had been able to procure a second passport prior to stepping into the limelight, he would likely not be in this predicament as he could have been traveling on his other passport. This is one of the hidden virtues of having a second passport. You might never ‘need’ one. But should such a need ever arise, it can really be a life saver. In Mr. Snowden’s case, the best option on the table would have been Brazil.  If Snowden had become a Brazilian (which anyone can do– via 2-4 years of residency, or marriage, or even having a child), he could be happily living out his days on the beach in Fortaleza, rather than being stuck in a Russian transit zone.”

http://www.sovereignman.com/lifestyle-design/the-best-second-passport-for-edward-snowden-12191/

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