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Will Grigg: Merely Being Arrested Can Ruin Your Life

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“A recent investigation by the Gainesville Sun found that local police agencies make hundreds of entirely unnecessary arrests every year. The victims are arrested without charge, but the arrest is instantly noted in databases that are used for background checks for employment and housing. Even if the victim’s criminal record is expunged, the digital trail cannot be erased.  Many of those arrests are summary punishment for ‘contempt of cop.’ Others are made for cynical reasons related to career advancement within the state’s punitive priesthood.”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/128751.html

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An American Stasi

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“America is building its American Stasi openly. Some parts of its operations will be open, and critical parts will be secret. Many Americans will support it. No matter whether the American Stasi is open or secret, each isolated American will face a powerful foe, even more powerful than the Stasi, in a one-sided contest whose outcome is predetermined.  The captured Stasi files on East Germans are 65 miles long, excluding 16,000 sacks of shredded documents that are being reconstructed. The American Stasi’s files will be, for all practical purposes, infinite, because of the advances in technology and information storage.”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/128662.html

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Michigan immigrants sue for access to driver’s licenses

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“The ACLU filed a lawsuit on Wednesday demanding the state of Michigan grant access to driver’s licenses for young undocumented immigrants enrolled in the new federal deferred-deportation program. One of the students, Resilda Karafili, told The Raw Story getting a license will be critical for her as she seeks a job upon finishing her undergraduate studies at the University of Michigan.  ‘It’s not reasonable to think that people can get a job without being able to drive,’ said Karafili, who emigrated to the U.S. with her family when she was 10 years old. ‘It looks unprofessional from the start. Employers don’t want to hire people who don’t have reliable transportation.'”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/12/19/michigan-immigrants-sue-for-access-to-drivers-licenses/

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Chained CPI: Diet COLA for Social Security

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“Before we discuss the nuances of the different measures of the CPI, it is important to keep in mind that millions of Americans rely on Social Security benefits for income protection. In fact, 65% of all beneficiaries rely on Social Security to provide 50% or more of their incomes, while 36% rely on benefits for 90% or more of their incomes. For non-married beneficiaries, including widows, the reliance is higher with 74% relying on benefits for 50% or more of their incomes and 46% relying for 90% or more of their incomes.”

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/chained-cpi-diet-cola-for-social-security-2012-12-20

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Leszek Balcerowicz: The Anti-Bernanke

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“As an economic crisis manager, Leszek Balcerowicz has few peers. When communism fell in Europe, he pioneered ‘shock therapy’ to slay hyperinflation and build a free market. In the late 1990s, he jammed a debt ceiling into his country’s constitution, handcuffing future free spenders. When he was central-bank governor from 2001 to 2007, his hard-money policies avoided a credit boom and likely bust. Poland was the only country in the European Union to avoid recession in 2009 and has been the fastest-growing EU economy since.”

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323981504578179310418828782.html

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Cops to Congress: We need logs of Americans’ text messages

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“AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, and other wireless providers would be required to record and store information about Americans’ private text messages for at least two years, according to a proposal that police have submitted to the U.S. Congress.  CNET has learned a constellation of law enforcement groups has asked the U.S. Senate to require that wireless companies retain that information, warning that the lack of a current federal requirement ‘can hinder law enforcement investigations.'”

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57556704-38/cops-to-congress-we-need-logs-of-americans-text-messages/

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Social Security data of 13,000 health care workers mistakenly posted online for 9 days

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“About 13,000 California home healthcare workers had their Social Security numbers exposed online for nine days after being mistakenly posted on a website for Medi-Cal, KCRA-TV reported on Tuesday.  The California Department of Health Care Services (DHS) confirmed that the leak happened last month, the second security problem involving health care workers in the past five months, before the information was removed from public view.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/12/12/social-security-data-of-13000-health-care-workers-mistakenly-posted-online-for-9-days/

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Baltimore man gets speed camera ticket for going 0 MPH

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“The City of Baltimore recently issued a ticket to Daniel Doty for speeding 38 miles per hour in a 25-mph zone — but photos and video captured by the speed camera system showed that his car was stopped at a red light at the time.  Xerox State and Local Solutions, which is the contractor for Baltimore’s speed and red light cameras, said that each citation went through a two-step review to verify its accuracy, including an officer who must swear that the vehicle was going at least 12 MPH over the posted speed limit. Police spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi would not reveal which officer reviewed Doty’s ticket.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/12/13/baltimore-man-gets-speed-camera-ticket-for-going-0-mph/

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Black boxes in cars raise privacy concerns

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“Many motorists don’t know it, but it’s likely that every time they get behind the wheel, there’s a snitch along for the ride.  The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Friday proposed long-delayed regulations requiring auto manufacturers to include event data recorders—better known as ‘black boxes’—in all new cars and light trucks beginning Sept. 1, 2014. But the agency is behind the curve. Automakers have been quietly tucking the devices, which automatically record the actions of drivers and the responses of their vehicles in a continuous information loop, into most new cars for years.”

http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_22144425/black-boxes-cars-raise-privacy-concerns

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Slowing down the surveillance state: a guide to warrantless government spying

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“If the growing use of governmental tip-toeing to wiretap phone lines and emails doesn’t seem serious, think again. So heightened lately are concerns over surveillance that two major organizations have published a primer on federal spy programs.  Both ProPublica and the Electronic Frontier Foundation have released thorough guides this week that explore what the US government can and can’t do in terms of tracking US citizens using an array of weirdly-worded wiretap laws currently on the books.”

http://rt.com/usa/news/surveillance-government-spying-warrantless-484/

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