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Bill Nobody Noticed: National DNA Databank
In April of 2008, President Bush signed into law S.1858 which allows the federal government to screen the DNA of all newborn babies in the U.S. This was to be implemented within 6 months meaning that this collection is now being carried out. S.1858, known as The Newborn Screening Saves Lives Act of 2007, is justified as a "national contingency plan" in that it represents preparation for any sort of public health emergency.
New Rule Expands DNA Collection to All People Arrested Immigration and civil liberties groups condemned a new U.S. government policy to collect DNA samples from all noncitizens detained by authorities and all people arrested for federal crimes. The new Justice Department rule, published Wednesday and effective Jan. 9, dramatically expands a federal law enforcement database of genetic identifiers, which is now limited to storing information about convicted criminals and arrestees from 13 states. Home Office
says all data from web could be stored in giant government database: Internet
"black boxes" will be used to collect every email and web visit in the
UK under the Government's plans for a giant "big brother" database, The
Independent has learnt.
The New Book Banning It’s hard to believe, but true: under a law Congress passed last year aimed at regulating hazards in children’s products, the federal government has now advised that children’s books published before 1985 should not be considered safe and may in many cases be unlawful to sell or distribute. Merchants, thrift stores, and booksellers may be at risk if they sell older volumes, or even give them away, without first subjecting them to testing—at prohibitive expense. Infra-Red Pain Beams For Police, Military The National Institute of Justice , the police's R&D arm, is continuing the development of hand-held equivalents of the military's Active Denial System. One of them uses the same microwaves as the Pentagon's non-lethal pain-ray; the other is based in an infra-red laser which they say achieves the same effect at target, but which can be made smaller and lighter. THE
internet communications and websites of anti-war campaigners,
environmentalists, animal rights activists and other protest groups are
being secretly monitored by state and federal agencies.
A Melbourne private intelligence firm specialising in "open-source intelligence" has been engaged by Victoria Police, the Australian Federal Police and the federal Attorney-General's Department to monitor and report on the protest movements' use of the internet. OpenNet Initiative: "Australia’s content filtering frightening” A
collaboration of Harvard, Cambridge, Oxford and Toronto universities
warns that Internet filtering is prone to error, collateral filtering
and underblocking, no matter where or how it is implemented
Australia to implement mandatory internet censorship AUSTRALIA will join China in implementing mandatory censoring of the internet under plans put forward by the Federal Government. The revelations emerge as US tech giants Google, Microsoft and Yahoo, and a coalition of human rights and other groups unveiled a code of conduct aimed at safeguarding online freedom of speech and privacy. The government has declared it will not let internet users opt out of the proposed national internet filter.The revelations emerge as US tech giants Google, Microsoft and Yahoo, and a coalition of human rights and other groups unveiled a code of conduct aimed at safeguarding online freedom of speech and privacy. The government has declared it will not let internet users opt out of the proposed national internet filter. Do police have the right to confiscate your camera? Seconds after BART police officer Johannes Mehserle shot and killed Oscar Grant, police immediately began confiscating cell phones containing videos that have yet to see the light of day... Mystery Prison Busses in the Desert A little over a year ago, it seems, a new industrial facility sprang up on the edge of town. The new Wackenhut operation is shrouded in mystery. It has been running its fleet of empty prison buses night and day, apparently logging miles on a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) contract. Oddly, except for the driver and one escort guard seated in front, these buses are always empty. Fusion
Centers: Someone else is spying
on you
Ever
hear of a Fusion Center? They are run by the Department of Homeland
Security and are locally based across the country. "A
fusion center is an effective and efficient mechanism to exchange
information and intelligence, maximize resources, streamline
operations, and improve the ability to fight crime and terrorism by
merging data from a variety of sources."
TWO million
uninsured
drivers face having their vehicles seized and crushed under a proposed
new government crackdown announced yesterday. It will be made illegal
to own an uninsured car. This would close a
loophole because it is currently only illegal to drive without
insurance.
High Court OKs Illegal Searches Based on
Computer Errors
Drug evidence found during an unlawful arrest arising from a police computer error could be used at trial, a divided Supreme Court says. Unmanned
Surveilance Vehicles Mimic Insects
Gaggles
of mechanical grasshoppers, flies, bees and spiders--each a relatively
dumb creature--can be networked into very smart networks to conduct
intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance.
UK police to get 'war-time' power to demand ID in the street State officials are to be given powers previously reserved for times of war to demand a person's proof of identity at any time. Anybody who refuses the Big Brother demand could face arrest and a possible prison sentence. Chrysalis Nutritionist Stephen Heuer Arrested by Federal Marshalls in FDA Raid Both
the FTC and FDA are turning up the heat on nutrition-oriented companies
and websites, resorting to arrests at gunpoint to enforce "nutritional
illiteracy" across America by imprisoning those who accurately describe
the health benefits of nutritional products they sell.
UK Police Set to Step Up Hacking of Home PCs THE Home Office has quietly adopted a new plan to allow police across Britain routinely to hack into people’s personal computers without a warrant. The move, which follows a decision by the European Union’s council of ministers in Brussels, has angered civil liberties groups and opposition MPs. They described it as a sinister extension of the surveillance state which drives “a coach and horses” through privacy laws. The Bill Nobody Noticed: National DNA Databank In April of 2008, President Bush signed into law S.1858 which allows the federal government to screen the DNA of all newborn babies in the U.S. This was to be implemented within 6 months meaning that this collection is now being carried out. S.1858, known as The Newborn Screening Saves Lives Act of 2007, is justified as a "national contingency plan" in that it represents preparation for any sort of public health emergency. New Rule Expands DNA Collection to All People Arrested Immigration and civil liberties groups condemned a new U.S. government policy to collect DNA samples from all noncitizens detained by authorities and all people arrested for federal crimes. The new Justice Department rule, published Wednesday and effective Jan. 9, dramatically expands a federal law enforcement database of genetic identifiers, which is now limited to storing information about convicted criminals and arrestees from 13 states. Microsoft Patents Censorship Bot As the Times Online reports, the corporate behemoth Microsoft is on the verge of unleashing a technology capable of eliminating “green inkers” and conspiracy theorists. “Microsoft has just been awarded a patent for technology designed to automatically detect and remove ‘undesired words or phrases’ from all manner of digital communications, ranging from YouTube broadcasts to internet chat and songs,” writes Mark Harris.
Minority Report comes to Britain: CCTV that
spots crimes BEFORE they happen
CCTV cameras which [supposedly] can 'predict' if a crime is about to take place are being introduced on Britain's streets. The cameras can alert operators to suspicious behaviour, such as loitering and unusually slow walking. Anyone spotted could then have to explain their behaviour to a police officer. The move has been compared to the Tom Cruise science-fiction film Minority Report, in which people are arrested before they commit planned offences. Translating Propaganda - On the terms of the rich and powerful When
you go to a foreign country, it is common to bring a translation
dictionary to help curb the confusion that comes with trying to
understand a foreign language. Likewise, in American politics, we also
need a translation guide to understand mainstream discussion given the
universal double standards, egotistical national chauvinism, and
internalized elite values.
ACLU
Demands Information on U.S. Military Domestic Operations : On
October 2, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA) request demanding information from the
government on U.S. Northern Command's (NORTHCOM) deployment of the 3rd
Infantry Division's 1st Combat Brigade Team (BCT) on U.S. soil for
"civil unrest" and "crowd control" duties.
Gates funds "flying syringe
mosquitoes"
File under OMG: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awarded 100,000 dollars each on Wednesday to scientists in 22 countries including funding for a Japanese proposal to turn mosquitos into "flying syringes" delivering vaccines.
Read
This Thought: The U.S. Army is developing a technology known as
synthetic telepathy that would allow someone to create email or voice
mail and send it by thought alone. The concept is based on reading
electrical activity in the brain using an electroencephalograph, or EEG.
Using
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVīs) and Space-Based Domestic Spying
Surveillance technology the U.S. Government is now watching American
citizens under the guise of disaster management and controlling the
U.S. Mexican border. The Reaper/Predator B UAVīs robotic killing
machines are currently in operation with the USAF, US Navy and the
Royal Air Force. In addition non military users of the Predator B
include: NASA and Homeland security though the US Customs and Border
Protection agencies.
Mark
Cuban: Persecuted Over His Connection to Loose Change?
Billionaire entrepreneur and owner of the Dallas Mavericks who financed an antiwar film and a landmark 9/11 documentary is the target of an SEC civil suit alleging insider trading.
Space-Based Domestic Spying: Kicking Civil
Liberties to the Curb
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