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Brazilian docs fool biometric scanners with bag full of fake fingers

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“A Brazilian doctor was arrested for allegedly defrauding her employer, a hospital in the town of Ferraz de Vasconcelos, near São Paulo. At the time of her arrest, she was equipped with a total of sixteen fingers—ten of which God gave her, and six of which were crafted of silicone and given to her by coworkers. At least three of the extra fingers bore the prints of fellow doctors at the hospital.  The doctor, Thaune Nunes Ferreira, 29, claims through her attorney that she was forced to use the silicone fingers to clock in to the hospital’s time card system in order to cover for absentee colleagues.”

http://www.arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/brazilian-docs-fool-biometric-scanners-with-bag-full-of-fake-fingers/

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New Jersey woman busted for showing breasts, middle fingers to surveillance camera

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“Police in Barnegat, New Jersey say that woman is being held in jail after she exposed her breasts and middle fingers to a surveillance camera.  The Asbury Park Press reported that Patrolman Michael Diblasi arrested 56-year-old Wendy Tucker for lewdness after police dispatchers said that they saw her ‘get out of a car in the middle of Lexington Boulevard, pull up her shirt and bra, exposing her breasts while facing several security cameras’ at around 2 a.m. last Wednesday.  Lt. Keith Germain said that the woman was also seen ‘looking up at the cameras while extending her middle fingers to the cameras.'”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/03/12/new-jersey-woman-busted-for-showing-breasts-middle-fingers-to-surveillance-camera/

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Florida City Caught Issuing 1645 Camera Tickets On Shortened Yellow

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“In St. Petersburg, Florida, the yellow time at intersections was shortened by fractions of a second for thousands of drivers, enabling the red light camera program to generate an extra $259,910 in revenue in 13 months. The data show at seven city intersections, the yellow time dropped between 0.1 and 1.1 seconds for some tickets from the date the cameras started ticketing.   St. Petersburg depends heavily on split-second timing misjudgment. The city generated 45 percent of its revenue — $2,128,576 — from tickets generated in a half-second or less after the light turns red. In the first three-tenths of a second, 31 percent of the city’s tickets were issued.”

http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/40/4019.asp

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Texas proposes one of nation’s “most sweeping” mobile privacy laws

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“Privacy experts say that a pair of new mobile privacy bills recently introduced in Texas are among the ‘most sweeping’ ever seen. If passed, the new bills would establish a well-defined, probable-cause-driven warrant requirement for all location information. That’s not just data from GPS, but potentially pen register, tap and trace, and tower location data as well. Such data would be disclosed to law enforcement ‘if there is probable cause to believe the records disclosing location information will provide evidence in a criminal investigation.’  Further, the bills would require an annual transparency report from mobile carriers to the public and to the state government.”

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/texas-proposes-one-of-nations-most-sweeping-mobile-privacy-laws/

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Ohio, Maryland Courts Address Speed Camera Due Process Concerns

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“A Hamilton County, Ohio Court of Common Pleas judge put a stop to it on Thursday with a permanent injunction prohibiting photo radar contractor Optotraffic from issuing $105 photo tickets in the village of Elmwood Place. In Baltimore County, Maryland last month, a circuit court judge ruled that the county has been violating state law by paying Xerox a bounty for every ticket the private company drops in the mail.  Judge Susan Souder ruled local jurisdictions cannot evade the ban on contingent fees simply by claiming that Xerox and other firms do not ‘operate’ the cameras.”

http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/40/4044.asp

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McCain blasts Rand Paul’s filibuster as a ‘political stunt’

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“Speaking on the Senate floor Thursday, Sens. John McCain (R-AZ) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) tore into Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-KY) ‘ridiculous’ 13-hour filibuster, chastising the junior senator for a speech that was ‘not helpful’ and not in keeping with Republican orthodoxy on the terror war.  McCain also quoted from a Wall Street Journal editorial that mocked Paul. ‘If Mr. Paul wants to be taken seriously, he needs to do more than pull political stunts that fire up impressionable libertarian kids in college dorms,’ the editorial jibes.  Still, McCain emphasized that ‘if someone is an enemy combatant, that enemy combatant has nowhere to hide: not in a cafe, not anywhere.'”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/03/07/mccain-blasts-rand-pauls-filibuster-as-a-political-stunt/

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Can police collect DNA when someone is arrested? Supreme Court to decide.

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“The US Supreme Court heard argument Tuesday in a case testing whether government officials can routinely collect a person’s DNA at the time he or she is arrested and then use that DNA sample to try to link the individual to unsolved crimes.  At issue in the case is whether taking a DNA sample from an arrestee without first obtaining a court-authorized warrant is an unreasonable search under the Fourth Amendment.  DNA material contains a plethora of highly personal information bound within a person’s genetic code.  DNA might someday reveal information about an individual’s susceptibility to future diseases and perhaps even personality traits.”

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2013/0226/Can-police-collect-DNA-when-someone-is-arrested-Supreme-Court-to-decide

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Supreme Court: Rights groups cannot prove harm from warrantless wiretapping

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“The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that human rights groups do not have standing to sue the government over its warrantless wiretapping program because they have no proof that the wiretapping has harmed them. The vote was split 5-4 along partisan lines, with the conservative majority supporting the Obama administration’s argument that the FISA Amendments Act was above reproach in this case because the harms were ‘speculative,’ and not ‘actual.’  Roving, warrantless wiretaps were authorized by President George W. Bush after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, turning the National Security Agency into the nation’s spy machine.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/02/26/supreme-court-rights-groups-cannot-prove-harm-from-warrantless-wiretapping/

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Bills to Require the Registration of the Buyers and Sellers of Gold and Silver Coins

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“First they came to register your guns, and now they want to register when you sell (and sometimes when you buy gold) gold. A bill has been introduced in Illinois, the most anti-gun state in the US, that will require the registration of the buyers and sellers of gold.  In Houston, a law has been passed in the city that requires any consumer selling gold to submit to fingerprints and mugshots.”

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2013/02/bills-to-require-registration-of-buyers.html

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The Feds Promote Hunger and Poverty in America but the Kids Are Alright

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“The tasty little lunch pictured above conforms to newly proposed federal regulations aimed at foods and drinks served in the nation’s public schools. Among other mandates, these regulations would cap serving sizes and calorie counts. Ironically, these proposals are part of the second round of regulations deriving from the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, a laughable bureaucratic misnomer if ever there were one.  The proposed regulations will also place a hefty fiscal burden on school districts and their long-suffering taxpayers. It is estimated that they will cost $127 million and require 926 thousand hours of paperwork to comply with.”

http://bastiat.mises.org/2013/03/the-feds-promote-hunger-and-poverty-in-america-but-the-kids-are-alright/

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