Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.
[God Dem!] Big Brother is Peeping You: According to Bill Jones, the Technical Director of the ITS JPO, "The concept behind VII is that vehicle manufacturers will install a communications device on the vehicle starting at some future date, and equipment will be installed on the nation's transportation system to allow all vehicles to communicate with the infrastructure." In other words, the government and manufacturers will team up to track every new automobile (x-rayed or not) in America. "The whole idea," says Jones, "is that vehicles would transmit this data to the infrastructure.
[Al-Muhajabah's Islamic Blogs] Resisting the Homeland Security State: The good news is - if, at least, you're a Homeland Security bureaucrat - this process is already well underway, thanks, in large part, to the creation of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which brought a dazzling array of agencies together under one roof, including the United States Customs Service (previously part of the Department of Treasury), the enforcement division of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (Department of Justice), the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (Department of Agriculture), the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (Department of Treasury), the Transportation Security Administration (Department of Transportation), the Federal Protective Service (General Services Administration), the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Strategic National Stockpile and the National Disaster Medical System (Health and Human Services), the Nuclear Incident Response Team (Energy), Domestic Emergency Support Teams (Justice), the National Domestic Preparedness Office (FBI), the CBRN Countermeasures Programs (Energy), the Environmental Measurements Laboratory (Energy), the National Biological Warfare Defense Analysis Center (Defense), the Plum Island Animal Disease Center (Agriculture), the Federal Computer Incident Response Center (General Services Administration), the National Communications System (Defense), the National Infrastructure Protection Center (FBI), the Energy Security and Assurance Program (Energy), the Secret Service (Treasury), and the Coast Guard (Defense and Transportation).
[Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Info] [epa-impact] Revision of Emergency Evacuation Demonstration Procedures: You may review DOT's complete Privacy statement... and model of airplane into passenger-carrying operations and when an airplane passenger seating...
[Confessions of an Atheistbishop] Did you notice that you can can give any image, an...: We finally reach our conclusion””and the top of the Ladder... in between terrorists keep attacking randomly- introduce biometrics, look at the passenger and decide
[Technorati.com] Technorati Tag: privacy: As I mentioned in today's IT Blogwatch, it seems that Longhorn's error reporting tool tells Microsoft a lot more than it used to. My take: of course...
[Hasbrouck.org] The Practical Nomad: The bottom line is that PNR's contain a great deal of confidentialand sensitive information deserving of strong privacy protection, butnot necessarily even the most basic information needed for positiveidentification of "profiling" of travellers.And the proposed CAPPS-II system, at least as it has most recentlydescribed in the TSA's news releases and Congressional testimony,would rely primarily on additional data that isn't now in PNR'sat all, but that travellers would be required to provide and travelagents and airlines would be required to modify their computersystems and reservation procedures to collect and transmit to the government,and an unknown but large financial cost (in addition to itscost in loss of freedom and civil liberties) that would ultimately have to beborne by travellers and/or taxpayers.
[Iptablog.org] IPTAblog: Privacy Archives: LexisNexis responds: LexisNexis investigates compromised customer IDs and passwords to Seisint U.S. consumer data: "Reed Elsevier today announced that LexisNexis, its global legal and business information business, has identified a number of incidents of potentially fraudulent access to information about U.S. individuals at its recently acquired Seisint unit. The incidents arose from the misappropriation by third parties of IDs and passwords from legitimate customers."
[Spy.org.uk] Spy Blog: This United Kingdom based blog attempts to draw public attention to, and comments on, some of the current trends in ever cheaper and more widespread surveillance technology being deployed to satisfy the rapacious demand by state and corporate bureaucracies and criminals for your private details, and the technological ignorance of our politicians and civil servants who frame our legal systems.
[Schneier.com] Schneier on Security: American Airlines Data Collection: Moreover, an airline employee in London, unlike a US border control agent, is clearly bound by UK and EU privacy laws, thus they have to justify any collection of data. They would have to provide written information about what data they are collecting, why they are collecting it and who may have access to that data.
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