Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.

 [dmiessler.com - grep understanding knowledge] Government: Getting Involved: “The Independent is reporting that the U.S. has asked the U.K. to use the same chips in their proposed identity cards as the ones in our proposed identity card. In effect, creating a trans-atlantic ID card system.” From the article: “The aim of getting the same microchip is to ensure compatability in screening terrorist suspects. But it will also mean that information contained in the British cards can be accessed across the Atlantic.”

[Law.gwu.edu] Daniel J. Solove, The Digital Person: Technology and Privacy in ...: “A far-reaching examination of how digital dossiers are shaping our lives.  Daniel Solove has persuasively reconceptualized privacy for the digital age.  A must-read.”

[Radosh.net] Radosh.net: Jack Shafer revisits The Girls Next Door with the latest official human trafficking numbers in hand. The gist: estimates have dropped from a high of 50,000 women and children were trafficked here annually "for sexual exploitation" to 15,000 people trafficked annually for all purposes -- making the figures significantly lower than Landesman suggests. Jack has always been more concerned with the numbers than I have. To me, what made PL's article sensationalistic was not that he chose to use the highest estimates he could find -- a fairly common bit of journalistic spin -- but that he chose to build a narrative out of elements -- underage American girls, torture, murder, Disneyland -- that were both perfectly picked to shock and utterly impossible to substantiate.

[Blogs.philly.com] Blinq: a contraction of blog and Inquirer. Fast, but not ephemeral. ... We have no control over the content or privacy practices of those sites. ...

[Baseballcrank.com] Baseball Crank: POLITICS/LAW: Racial Privacy: Politically, I suspect that this will greatly hurt the chances of a Republican succeeding Gray Davis, by bringing out larger African-American turnout (Mickey Kaus also thinks those voters will help Davis, but I'm not so sure). But there's also a flip side: by taking Connerly's initiative off the March ballot, you (a) improve its chances of passing (March will be Democratic presidential primary time) but possibly (b) depress turnout for the presidential primary (I'm not sure how that cuts, but fewer African-American and Latino voters is probably good news for Howard Dean, whose supporters are decidedly upscale and white).

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