http://bigbrother.worldwidewarning.net/www Examining the privacy versus security debate Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:16:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Source: Original Article The Royal Constabulary has conducted a trial at Schiphol airport that involves searching through digital media in possession of travelers. Customs hopes to fight the smuggling of child pornography. Traders in child pornography, out of fear of being caught, are said to not be making frequent and heavy use ... http://bigbrother.worldwidewarning.net/www/archives/65 Source: American Chronicle So, according to this plan, EVERY man, woman and child in the United States is to be screened, analyzed and monitored by the US government, and legal enforceable personalized "care" regimes WILL BE applied to those exhibiting signs of "mental illness." Why? Profiling. There is soon to be a ... http://bigbrother.worldwidewarning.net/www/archives/64 Source: Australian IT A MISSING computer backup tape containing personal information on Ohio state employees also held the names and Social Security numbers of 225,000 taxpayers. The tape, stolen last week from a state intern's car, was previously revealed to hold the names and Social Security numbers of all 64,000 state ... http://bigbrother.worldwidewarning.net/www/archives/63 Source: EDP 24 Fingerprint recognition systems and mathematical algorithms may sound like something from a hi-tech spy film. But for pupils at a Lowestoft school, they are to become simply part of the daily routine of ordering their school dinners. The new technology is part of a “cashless catering” drive, giving students ... http://bigbrother.worldwidewarning.net/www/archives/62 Source: Canada Gazette Around the world, biometric identifiers are used at airports and border crossings in machine-readable documents such as passports and driver's licences. Police and security services rely on digitized data banks of fingerprints in watch lists and companies access them for checks on prospective employees. Increasingly, people are required ... http://bigbrother.worldwidewarning.net/www/archives/61 Source: CTV Canada A Nova Scotia family has inadvertently been on Internet "candid camera" for months without their knowledge. Dale Gass became their peeping tom by accident. "It is kind of disturbing these videos are being sent to me. It's an invasion of privacy," he said. Gass used to own a wireless ... http://bigbrother.worldwidewarning.net/www/archives/60 Terence Drake has posted a very interesting piece on FaceBook and highlights some of their so-called privacy policy that most people are probably unaware of: The so-called "Privacy Policy" of Facebook includes a statement saying that they "may share your information with third parties, including responsible companies with which we ... http://bigbrother.worldwidewarning.net/www/archives/59 Source: Euractive The European Parliament, on 7 June 2007, backed proposals to set up a European Visa Information System (VIS), set to be the world's largest biometric database. The text is the result of an agreement with Council so the legislative process has been completed at the first reading stage - ... http://bigbrother.worldwidewarning.net/www/archives/58 Source: WYFF4 PENDLETON, S.C. -- A Pendleton woman is suing her landlord, accusing the management company of violating her privacy by using sound-and-video surveillance equipment at her apartment compex. Judy Johnson said that she and other residents of the Pendleton Garden Apartments no longer feel comfortable living there. Johnson declined an on-camera ... http://bigbrother.worldwidewarning.net/www/archives/57 Bryan Glick at computing.co.uk has published an article calling for the pessimism over new technology to end. Brian provides a pop quiz with the following; On identity cards – are they a) an inevitable part of a 21st century society that help to improve security and reduce identity theft or ... http://bigbrother.worldwidewarning.net/www/archives/56 Source: Press Esc G8 Justice and Interior Ministers on Friday endorsed the setting up of a global biometric database proposed by the Interpol. Interpol Secretary General Ronald K. Noble views this database as a vital policing tool required to tackle the global problem of prison escapes of terrorists and other dangerous ... http://bigbrother.worldwidewarning.net/www/archives/55 Source: BBC Council staff, charity workers and doctors could be required by law to tip off police about anyone they believe could commit a violent crime. The Home Office proposals, leaked to the Times newspaper, insist public bodies have "valuable information" that could identify potential offenders. Possible warning signs could include ... http://bigbrother.worldwidewarning.net/www/archives/54 Source: Technology News In yet another example of the Japanese obsession with keeping track of people and telling them what to do at the same time, AP reports that the government communications ministry is planning to blanket one of its islands with a Wi-Fi- and RFID -saturated monitoring network. The vague ... http://bigbrother.worldwidewarning.net/www/archives/53 Source: NY Times Because of the inroads the Internet and other digital network technologies have made into everyday life over the last decade, it is increasingly possible to amass Big Brother-like surveillance powers through Little Brother means. The basic components include everyday digital technologies like e-mail, online shopping and travel booking, ... http://bigbrother.worldwidewarning.net/www/archives/52 Source: Tech Digest Did you know that every time you walk down the high street, your movements are logged by 16 CCTV cameras? And the footage is transmitted directly to MI5 headquarters, to be tagged and analysed. By robots. This is the Big Brother nation we live in, etc etc. But ... http://bigbrother.worldwidewarning.net/www/archives/51 Source: KGW MADRAS, Ore. -- Over the next few months, Madras city officials plan to install eight security cameras around town to deter crime and record whatever crime they do not deter. Then, they plan to purchase 25 more. Mayor Jason Hale calls it "a tiny bit of Big Brother that ... http://bigbrother.worldwidewarning.net/www/archives/50 Source: CNet News On April 12, 2007, New Jersey Governor Jon S. Corzine was seriously injured in a crash on the Garden State Parkway. In the days following, witnesses, including a state patrol officer assigned to ride with the governor, gave varying accounts, most estimating the governor's SUV traveling at a ... http://bigbrother.worldwidewarning.net/www/archives/49 This is something you absolutely need to see. This video shows how the Big Brother at Myspace is censoring all posts and articles that mention presidential candidate Ron Paul. Don't believe it? Watch this recording and see it happen live! http://bigbrother.worldwidewarning.net/www/archives/48 Source: Thrifty Scot The government has decided to take away our rights in an effort to put a stop to debt. This can make the most pragmatic economist shake their head. Less than five months ago the Bank of England was publishing reports that claimed there was no debt ... http://bigbrother.worldwidewarning.net/www/archives/47 Source: Reuters LONDON (Reuters) - Spies in the sky may track motorists in Britain within a decade if the government goes ahead with controversial plans to introduce road user charging schemes, scientists said on Tuesday. The plans were unveiled in a report on future transport policy in November as a way ... http://bigbrother.worldwidewarning.net/www/archives/46 Source: Chronicle of Higher Education What shall you do with a drunken sailor? Well, if you're Millersville University of Pennsylvania, you deny her a degree, and you get sued for doing so. Stacy Snyder, an aspiring teacher who is now 27 years old, was set to graduate last year from Millersville's School ... http://bigbrother.worldwidewarning.net/www/archives/45 Source: WBKO News A security camera captured two girls kissing, but it's what happened next that sparked a surveillance debate. With Warren County schools having surveillance cameras not only in the high schools but in the middle school and elementary schools as well, you'll want to read on because reporter ... http://bigbrother.worldwidewarning.net/www/archives/44 Source: The Columbian GIG HARBOR, Wash. (AP) -- Restrictions on the use of security videotape have been tightened at a suburban Tacoma high school after images of two girls kissing were shown to the parents of one of the girls, officials say. Keith Nelson, dean of students at Gig Harbor High School, ... http://bigbrother.worldwidewarning.net/www/archives/43 Source: Globe and Mail Air travellers everywhere may soon be able to choose between the traditional pat-down and a new X-ray machine that leaves little to the imagination. Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport is the first airport in the United States to conduct a pilot program with the SmartCheck security scanner, which ... http://bigbrother.worldwidewarning.net/www/archives/42 Source: InfoWorld Ed Foster over at InfoWorld describes the Spy Act bill (H.R. 964) as having the same relation to the prevention of spyware that the CAN SPAM Act had to the prevention of spam. It allows exceptions for companies to utilize spyware for any number of reasons; if this bill ... http://bigbrother.worldwidewarning.net/www/archives/41 Source: The Expositor New surveillance cameras installed at Laurier Brantford buildings could help give students a greater feeling of security, especially after the recent shootings at Virginia Tech. Sixteen cameras, which will record comings and goings at entrances and exits at five Laurier buildings - Carnegie, Odeon, Grand River Hall, Journalism ... http://bigbrother.worldwidewarning.net/www/archives/40 Source: The Register Science minister Malcolm Wicks suggested that such tagging technology, which is already used to track convicted criminals on early release from prison, could also help a family caring for an elderly relative. He told the BBC: "This is about dignity and independence in old age," and said that ... http://bigbrother.worldwidewarning.net/www/archives/39 Source: UK Daily Mail Up to 5.9 million children face having their fingerprints taken by schools in another move towards a 'Big Brother' society. Pupils will have to hand over their biometric details simply to borrow library books or gain access to school dinners. A million children's fingerprints are believed to ... http://bigbrother.worldwidewarning.net/www/archives/38 Source: Telegraph The European Union's privacy watchdog has given warning that new access for Europol to personal data could lead to individuals being labelled as terror suspects based on hearsay or records of their shopping habits. The warning, from the head of the European Data Protection supervisor, comes amid moves to allow ... http://bigbrother.worldwidewarning.net/www/archives/37 Source: Times Online The government is predicting that some 15m people will revolt against Tony Blair’s controversial ID card scheme by refusing to produce the new cards or provide personal data on demand. The forecast is made in documents released by the Home Office under the Freedom of Information Act. The papers ... http://bigbrother.worldwidewarning.net/www/archives/36 Source: WREX TV We're used to giving personal information about ourselves when there's a security issue, maybe using a credit card in a store or getting on an airplane. But new technology tracks us in places we may not even know about. You can now put "going to a bar" on the ... http://bigbrother.worldwidewarning.net/www/archives/35 Source: BBC The UK's first talking CCTV cameras are publicly berating bad behaviour and shaming offenders into acting more responsibly. Recent trials saw cameras in Middlesborough have been fitted with speakers and allow control room operators who spot any anti-social acts - from dropping litter to late night brawls - to ... http://bigbrother.worldwidewarning.net/www/archives/34 Source: Telegraph Checks will be made on all children to identify potential criminals under a further extension of the "surveillance state" announced by Tony Blair today. A Downing Street review of law and order policy also called for greater use of sophisticated CCTV, an expanded DNA database and "instant justice" powers ... http://bigbrother.worldwidewarning.net/www/archives/33 Source: This is London British citizens will be quizzed on up to 200 different pieces of personal information in a 30-minute grilling if they want a passport, it has been revealed. From May, thousands of applicants will be forced to travel 20 miles or more - at their own expense - ... http://bigbrother.worldwidewarning.net/www/archives/32 Source: Workplace Law The GMB union has welcomed moves by the European Commission to study the use of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, because of concerns over the fact that they have been introduced in some workplaces in order to monitor employees. The Commission has agreed to set up an RFID ... http://bigbrother.worldwidewarning.net/www/archives/31 Source: Telegraph The Government is to remove all barriers to banks sharing data on us in a bid to curb irresponsible lending. But the potential for error is huge, writes Teresa Hunter The Government is poised to remove all privacy to our financial arrangements by allowing banks and other institutions to reveal ... http://bigbrother.worldwidewarning.net/www/archives/30 Source: SignOn San Diego “People ask me why I don't just carry an RFID card in my wallet,” Graafstra said. “I don't want to have to remember whether I have my card or my keys with me. I can leave my house and not carry anything with me.” Privacy advocates ... http://bigbrother.worldwidewarning.net/www/archives/29 Source: UK Daily Mail Banks and other businesses are to be sold access to personal information stored on the Government's ID cards database. Ministers want to raise hundreds of millions towards the £540million a year cost of running the controversial scheme. The Government is already facing a backlash over charging people ... http://bigbrother.worldwidewarning.net/www/archives/27 Source: London Independent Paying for goods with notes and coins could be consigned to history within five years, according to the chief executive of Visa Europe. Peter Ayliffe said that, by 2012, using credit and debit cards should be cheaper and more convenient than cash. Some retailers could soon start surcharging customers ... http://bigbrother.worldwidewarning.net/www/archives/26 Source: Sydney Morning Herald My HSC English students questioned me during a recent class: "How do we get our own opinions? How do we know which ones are ours? Why do we need them? But people like you won't be around very long, so what does it matter?" I spent the next ... http://bigbrother.worldwidewarning.net/www/archives/25 Source: Daily Mail A primary school headmaster has outraged parents after he tricked his pupils into recording their fingerprints by telling them they were playing spies. Children were persuaded to give their prints after being told by Mark Woodburn that it was 'just a game...so there's no need to tell your parents'. ... http://bigbrother.worldwidewarning.net/www/archives/24 Source: UK Daily Mail Head teachers will today sound a warning over the growing mass of "intrusive" information held about pupils on school databases. They are now expected to collect detailed particulars ranging from heights and weights to family set-ups, religion, medical information and school travel arrangements. They are often required ... http://bigbrother.worldwidewarning.net/www/archives/23 Source: USA Today Sweden's government presented a contentious plan Thursday to allow a defense intelligence agency monitor e-mail traffic and phone calls crossing the nation's borders without a court order. The Swedish proposal, which needs parliamentary approval, would give the National Defence Radio Establishment the green light to use so-called data mining ... http://bigbrother.worldwidewarning.net/www/archives/22 Source: Intelligent Enterprise In a Q&A with Doug Henschen, Jim Dempsey of The Center for Democracy & Technology discusses corporate data privacy policy discusses the implications of the new big brother society and privacy concerns. With controversy swirling around ID theft and electronic surveillance by the government, what should corporations do to ... http://bigbrother.worldwidewarning.net/www/archives/28 Source: ABC7 Some New York City taxi drivers aren't thrilled about the high-tech system that will track their every move. In fact, many of them are threatening to strike if they are forced to install an electronic tracking device into their cabs. The new equipment and maintenance could cost each driver ... http://bigbrother.worldwidewarning.net/www/archives/21 Source: NY1 Some city cab drivers are trying to put the brakes on new requirements set to go into effect in all city cabs by the end of the year. Members of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance rallied in Lower Manhattan Tuesday afternoon to protest a plan to equip all ... http://bigbrother.worldwidewarning.net/www/archives/20 Source: NY Press NYC taxi drivers are threatening to strike if tracking technology is installed in their cabs. A new plan calls to equip all cabs with a system that will provide television service, credit card processing and GPS tracking. The New York Taxi Workers Alliance is calling on drivers to ... http://bigbrother.worldwidewarning.net/www/archives/19 Source: Times Online CHILDREN aged 11 to 16 are to have their fingerprints taken and stored on a secret database, internal Whitehall documents reveal. The leaked Home Office plans show that the mass fingerprinting will start in 2010, with a batch of 295,000 youngsters who apply for passports. The Home Office expects ... http://bigbrother.worldwidewarning.net/www/archives/18 Source: Crosswalk A United Kingdom government watchdog has warned that police and intelligence agencies here have grown increasingly sloppy and mistake-prone in how they watch British citizens. In a recent report, the Interception of Communications Commissioner, Sir Swinton Thomas, said British police and spies had committed an "unacceptably high" number of errors ... http://bigbrother.worldwidewarning.net/www/archives/17 Source: The Register Analysis Germany's police and secret services are pushing for a legal basis for "online house searches" – carried out without the knowledge of suspects, using spyware similar to a Trojan. The German public learned of the practice in November last year, when a magistrate of the Bundesgerichtshof (Federal High ... http://bigbrother.worldwidewarning.net/www/archives/16