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[HongPong.com] Military builds teen database, intelligence agencies to watch blogs, and those liberal freaks go toooo farr....: Adding lots of personal information, including GPAs, Social Security numbers, and ethnicity, for the primary purpose of more closely targeting students to recruit into the military. I'd almost forgotten that the No Child Left Behind Act requires high schools to give the DoD information:
[The Great Minnesota Progressive Newswire] More on America's Most Oppressed Minority: As ranking member of the House Ethics Committee, McDermott received an illegally made tape of a conversation involving Gingrich, Boehner and other GOP House leaders. A few days later, accounts of the tape popped up in The New York Times and Atlanta Constitution.
[Give Me Liberty!] Constitutional Reform per ME: law’s enforcement shall be granted pardon and compensated for their lost time wages dollar for dollar as well as a $75,000.00 bonus for being jailed from the federal, state, county or municipal treasury depending on who put the law into affect. In declared WAR periods all war fighting materials shall be provided at operational cost to the government by all companies in the US and the Militia will be fully responsible for the defense of the homeland leaving the small professional military free to operate abroad where needed.
[NERO FIDDLED] The Spit of Warmongers: Through the Freedom of Information Act, Judicial Watch has obtained documents "in which the Federal Bureau of Investigation...has invoked privacy right protections on behalf of al Qaeda terror leader Osama bin Laden." In a declassified document dated 9/24/03, the FBI invoked on bin Laden's behalf a law "which permits the government to withhold all information about U.S. persons...when the disclosure of such information 'would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.'" Now, I don't know about you, but I had no idea that Osama bin Laden was a U.S. citizen. That must have come as a surprise to Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton, too.
[Privacydigest.com] Privacy Digest: Privacy News (Civil Rights, Encryption, Free ...: The memos obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center through the Freedom of Information Act show the Social Security Administration responded only to requests concerning the terrorist attacks.
[Cotse.net] Privacy Watch - Index: "MSN came under fire last week for releasing a Chinese-language version of its Spaces blog-hosting service that bans certain words from being used in blog titles, like "democracy" and "freedom." Critics complained that Microsoft was kowtowing to the Chinese government by censoring the blogs. On Tuesday cyber rights activist Bennett Haselton publicized a loophole that will allow Chinese bloggers to evade the built-in censorship by registering the blog on the MSN Web site in English.
[Chapellassociates.com] Chapell Blog: Case in point – I spend a certain amount of time each day sorting through various anti-spyware blogs. Some of them are right on the money, while others are confused, convoluted rants from people who could barely operate a cash register let alone run a business.
[Pipeda.blogspot.com] PIPEDA and Canadian Privacy Law: March 2004: SPECIAL REPORT / Looking Offshore / Outsourced UCSF notes highlight privacy risk / How one offshore worker sent tremor through medical system: "American jobs have been moving offshore for years, primarily manufacturing work seeking out lower-paid workers abroad. The outsourcing of people's personal information, though, is a relatively new phenomenon -- opening the door to identity theft, fraud and other criminal activities.
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