Police drones sparks debate over personal privacy
But for civil libertarians and privacy advocates, drones — also known as unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs — have far-reaching and potentially worrisome, implications. Law enforcement agencies like the OPP, Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Halton Regional Police may be using theirs for benign purposes like accident reconstructions and crime scene surveys, but what could the future hold?The anti-drone hoodie that helps you beat Big Brother's spy in the sky
Source: thestar.com (World), April 7, 2013
Over the next 15 years the US Federal Aviation Administration anticipates more than 20,000 new drones will appear in American skies, owned not just by law enforcement agencies and the military, but also public health bodies and private companies.Surveillance society warning on data sharing
Source: theguardian (online), March 31, 2013
Confidential personal data gleaned from sources as diverse as driving licences, medical records and store loyalty cards is now often shared without people’s knowledge, the information commission will warn on Tuesday, in its latest salvo against what it calls the surveillance society.Parents track kids from cradle to car
Source: Financial Times, August 6, 2007
But as GPS, webcams and home-monitoring equipment have come down in price, today’s parents are employing a high-tech arsenal to keep tabs on their kids.Google’s Breakneck Changes Stoke Privacy Fears
Source: Orlando Sentinel (online), June 24, 2007
With Google search a fact of life, some suggest our notions of privacy need to move with the times.British law threatening U.S. freedom of speech
"We are in transition in our idea of privacy and we are still discovering ways to make sense of the implicit traces people leave behind," writes David Weinberger in a new book, "Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder."
Source: PC Magazine (online), June 18, 2007>
The author of a U.S.-published book that accused a former Saudi banking executive of funding terrorism is battling a precedent that experts say could give any foreign libel law priority over U.S. free press and speech guarantees.Censoring of internet is ‘spreading like virus’
Source: WorldNetDaily, June 16, 2007
Dozens of countries are copying China’s methods of censoring the internet, Amnesty International said yesterday.Google’s street views have privacy advocates crying "Don’t be Evil"
Source: Telegraph (online), June 7, 2007
Street-scene photographs added to Google Maps and Earth last week capture passers-by in delicate situations and have privacy advocates accusing the world’s most popular Internet search firm of breaking its own "Don’t be Evil" code.Air passengers face more delay as US plans fingerprinting
Source: Breitbart, June 7, 2007
Passengers traveling from the US will have to present their fingers as well as their passports at check-in from the end of next year, according to a senior security official. Virgin Atlantic, whose customers may be forced to endure longer waits in terminals, has vowed to oppose the move.EU probes Google grip on data
Source: Guardian Unlimited, June 7, 2007
European data protection officials have raised concerns that Google could be contravening European privacy laws by keeping data onFacial recognition makes finding Web photos easier
internet searches for too long.
Source: Financial Times, May 24, 2007
Snubbing Smokers At WorkSwedish start-up Polar Rose AB aims to make it easy to find photos of familiar faces online, the company said on Tuesday, solving difficult Web search issues while potentially raising new privacy concerns.Source: Reuters, December 19, 2006
Is it the boss’s business if you have a cigarette after dinner? After an Irish job ad stipulated that "smokers need not apply," thatRobot spyplanes to guard Europe’s borders
question was put to the European Commission, which decided that employers refusing to hire smokers do not breach European antidiscrimination laws.
Source: Time Europe Edition (online), August 13, 2006
Fleets of unmanned "drone" aircraft fitted with powerful cameras are to be used to patrol Europe’s borders in a dramatic move to combat people-smuggling, illegal immigration and terrorism.
Source: Independent (online), June 4, 2006
Gates Speaks Out Against Net Censorship
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) Chairman Bill Gates said Wednesday that attempts by governments to censor Web site contents were doomed, because banned information can seep out despite official injunctions.Source: My Way (online), February 1, 2006
During the next 35 years, the traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological, and demographic evelopments, says controversial bio-ethics professor Peter Singer.Source: WorldNetDaily, December 3, 2005
Technology to drive revolution in road safety
Experts Suggest Euthanasia for Severely Disabled NewbornsMotorists who already regard speed cameras as evidence of the encroachment of the Big Brother state should brace themselves for devices that will not only tell police how they drive, but make legal retribution swifter.From a black box in the boot to "alcolocks" on the dashboard, the car of the future is likely to be crammed with equipment designed to keep drunken drivers away from the wheel and slow down speeders.Source: Telegraph, October 10, 2005
Two Dutch doctors have published guidelines under which babies born to a certain life of extreme physical suffering should have their lives ended by physicians, The New York Times reported Thursday.Study Suggests Newborn Euthanasia Often Goes Unreported
Eduard Verhagen and Pieter Sauer of the University Medical Center in Groningen, are "convinced that life-ending measures can be acceptable in these cases under very strict conditions," they wrote in Thursday’s New England Journal of Medicine. They said they composed their essay to address "blood-chilling accounts and misunderstandings."
Source: WFIE Channel 14 (online), March 11, 2005
At least five mercy killings of newborns occur for every one reported to authorities in the Netherlands, doctors there reported just months after the first startling news of the controversial practice. While still very rare, euthanizing terminally ill newborns is more common than first believed, according to Dutch doctors, and other experts say it also occurs, quietly, in other countries.Biometric ID may snare travelers
Source: Boston Channel 5 (online), March 10, 2005
Biometric passports, described by some as a global identification card, are just around the corner — and it could mean easier travel for business travelers or a hassle for others.
Viewed as an important tool for tracking potential terrorists and illegal immigrants, your personal data could soon be made available to authorities, of whom you are unaware.
Source: CNN, March 4, 2005
Some 25 foreign nations are planning to require visiting Americans to be fingerprinted, according to a prominent biometrics expert and president of the company that produces the computerized desktop booking stations used by many law enforcement authorities.
Source: WorldNetDaily, November 13, 2003
Passengers secretly filmed in anti-terror trial
Authorities are trialling concealed high-tech, computer-linked video cameras that can film the face of every passenger arriving in Australia at Sydney Airport to help identify terrorists and other undesirable travellers.Ruling could close sites
Customs is also testing a world-first computerised face-recognition system that scans the faces of all passengers as they present their passports.
Source: The Sidney Morning Herald (online), January 5, 2003
A High Court decision allowing a US online publisher to be sued under Australian law could force the closure of some websites, an industry expert said today….Internet extends long arm of the law
The landmark judgment means material on the internet is deemed to have been published in the place it is viewed, not the country of origin.
Source: news.com.au, December 10, 2002
Police in Italy didn’t care that five Web sites they deemed blasphemous and thus illegal were located in the United States, where First Amendment protections apply.
The police shut them down anyway in early July, simply by sitting down at the alleged offender’s Rome computer.
Talk about the long arm of the law.
Under pressure from their citizens, governments around the world are increasingly abandoning the hands-off attitude they initially had toward the Internet. They are now applying their laws far beyond their borders — thanks to the borderless medium.
Put another way, foreign citizens and businesses are now being subjected to copyright, speech, consumer protection and other laws enacted by governments in countries where they’ve had no voice.
Source: CNN, Sci-Tech, July22, 2002
I remember, when I heard the high schools in Montgomery County, Md., were advocating abortion and condom distribution to teens in the sex-education classes, how shocked I was. For five years prior to covering my first U.N. conference, I lobbied at the county and state level against these radical and immoral ideas. As I analyzed what our children were being taught, I was puzzled. I could see that these ideas came from the federal level to the state level and then down to the local level, but why? Where was our government getting these ideas?US targets Somalia in hunt for al-Qaeda
It was not until I went to Cairo, Egypt, to cover the U.N. Conference on Population and Development that I realized the abortion/condom/sex-education agenda as well as the pro-homosexual agenda came from the international level, the United Nations.
Source: WorldNetDaily, March 30, 2002
American forces have already flown surveillance flights over Somalia looking for al-Qaeda forces to target in the next stage of the global war on terror, The Observer has learnt.
Source: observer.co.uk, December 9, 2001
Global Positioning System satellites, originally used by the U.S. military to spy on the movement of troops, are being used in Switzerland to find new ways for overweight people to burn off excess fat.A small device about the size of a cell phone is clipped to the patient’s belt. It allows monitoring of his movements. The doctors and nutritionists can then determine the amount of energy expended by the person.Source: Wired, Wired News, Dec. 8, 2000
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