Disney’s Finger Scan Upgrade Raises Privacy Concerns
An upgrade on Disney’s finger scanning technology implemented to
prevent ticket fraud or resale is raising concerns from privacy
advocates, according to Local 6 News.
For years, Walt Disney World has been reading the shape of
visitors’ fingers on its property. Now, the upgraded controversial
finger scanning machines scan fingerprint information.
Source: Local 6 TV (online), September 1, 2006
Chertoff Wants More Access to Airline Passenger Info
The government needs broader access to airline
passenger information to identify potential hijackers, Homeland
Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said in an article published Tuesday.
Source: Fox News, August 29, 2006
Americans back anti-terrorism racial profiling: poll
By a 60 percent to 37 percent margin, respondents said authorities
should single out people who look "Middle Eastern" for security
screening at locations such as airports and train stations — a finding
that drew sharp criticism by civil liberties groups.
Source: Reuters (online), August 29, 2006
Court favors Christian literature on campus
A federal court of appeals unanimously struck down a Florida school
board policy barring students from distributing religious literature on
campus.
Source: WorldNetDaily, August 29, 2006
3 AOL Workers Depart Over Privacy Breach
AOL’s chief technology officer left the company and two other workers
were fired in the aftermath of a privacy breach that involved the
intentional release of more than 650,000 subscribers’ Internet search
terms.
Source: My Way, August 21, 2006
US says carmakers must tell buyers about recorders
The U.S. government will not require recorders in autos but said on
Monday that car makers must tell consumers when technology that tracks
speed, braking and other measurements is in the new vehicles they buy.
Source: Reuters (online), August 21, 2006
Pro-Polygamist Teens Rally to Defend Their Families in Utah
"Because of our beliefs, many of our people
have been incarcerated and had their basic human rights stripped of
them, namely life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," said a
19-year-old identified only as Tyler. "I didn’t come here today to ask
for your permission to live my beliefs. I shouldn’t have to."
Source: Fox News, August 20, 2006
Court rules 2003 money seizure correct despite no drugs found
Authorities were
correct to assume nearly $125,000 they seized from a California man’s
car during a traffic stop may have been connected to narcotics
trafficking, despite finding no drugs in the vehicle, the 8th U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday.
Source: The Mercury News (online), August 18, 2006
Ruling: Voters have right to Ten Commandments
The Idaho Supreme Court has authorized an election in Boise for
voters to decide whether they want the Ten Commandments displayed in a
city park, and supporters of the plan say it could have national
ramifications.
Source: WorldNetDaily, August 16, 2006
Appeals court upholds random NYC subway searches
A federal appeals court has upheld the constitutionality of random
bag searches by police in America’s busiest subway system to prevent
terrorism.
Source: USA Today (online), August 11, 2006
Video cameras on the lookout for terrorists
Researchers at General Electric Co.’s sprawling research center, are
creating new "smart video surveillance" systems that can detect
explosives by recognizing the electromagnetic waves given off by
objects, even under clothing.
Scientist Peter Tu and his team are also developing programs that can
recognize faces, pinpoint distress in a crowd by honing in on erratic
body movements and synthesize the views of several cameras into one
bird’s eye view, as part of a growing effort to thwart terrorism.
Source: CNN (online), August 7, 2006
Senate votes to bar emergency gun confiscation
The U.S. Senate on Thursday voted to prohibit the confiscation of
legally owned guns during an emergency like last year’s Hurricane
Katrina, marking another victory for the gun lobby.
Source: ABC News (online), July 13, 2006
For Some, Online Persona Undermines a Résumé
When a small consulting company in Chicago was looking to hire a
summer intern this month, the company’s president went online to check
on a promising candidate who had just graduated from the University of Illinois.
Source: The New York Times (online), June 11, 2006
`No Child’ Law Found Leading States to Weaken Tests (Update1)
U.S. states are “dumbing down” their grade-school tests, where high
failure rates could bring penalties under the federal “No Child Left
Behind” law, University of California researchers reported.
Source: Bloomberg, July 5, 2006
Study finds companies snooping on employee e-mail
According to a new study, about a third of big companies in the
United States and Britain hire employees to read and analyze outbound
e-mail as they seek to guard against legal, financial or regulatory
risk.
Source: Reuters, June 2, 2006
Citing security, US seeks to quash suit on telephone snooping
The US government has asked a federal judge to quash a lawsuit
charging telephone company AT and T with illegally turning over call and
e-mail records to a domestic spy agency, documents show.
US Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte and National
Security Agency (NSA) boss Keith Alexander argued in court filings that a
trial in the case could cause "exceptionally grave damage" to national
security.
Source: Breitbart, May 15, 2006
Court Approved Wiretaps Rise in 2005
State judges approved a growing number of secret wiretaps in criminal
investigations in 2005, while federal criminal wiretaps dropped 14
percent, according to court data released Monday.
Source: Breibart, May 1, 2006
Freshmen required to undergo homosexual indoctrination
Other exercises consisted of pairing off the youths and "asking them
what someone did to you to make you feel bad at some time in your life,
playing on psychology," he said.
"At the end of the meeting, everyone stands in a circle and they ask
questions of the group. If it’s true, you step out. Other students
stepped out, trying to get you to accept this nonsense in a public
setting."
Source: WorldNetDaily, April 24, 2006
District accused of equating Bible with profanity
Students at a Pennsylvania high school have filed a federal lawsuit
against a district policy they say results in equating religious
viewpoints with profanity.
Source: WorldNetDaily, April 22, 2006
Gonzales calls for mandatory Web labeling law
Web site operators posting sexually explicit information must place
official government warning labels on their pages or risk being
imprisoned for up to five years, the Bush administration proposed
Thursday.
Source: c/net News, April 20, 2006
Washington drowns in Republican red ink
But, not matter how you slice it, federal spending is outstripping economic growth at a rate unseen in more than half a century.
Source: WorldNetDaily, April 3, 2006
New border ID cards won’t fly: Survey
A bilateral business coalition opposed to U.S. plans for new ID cards
at the border says the scheme will erect a wall with grave implications
for commerce because most Americans and Canadians won’t buy them.
Source: Toronto Star (online), March 14, 2006
200,000 People in U.S. Terror Database
Police and other government workers in the U.S. have come in contact
with terrorists or people suspected of foreign terror ties more than
6,000 times in the past 28 months, the director of the federal Terrorist
Screening Center said Tuesday.
The encounters in traffic stops, applications for permits and other
situations have resulted in fewer than 60 arrests, said Donna Bucella,
whose agency maintains a list of 200,000 people known or suspected to be
terrorists. The list contains an additional 150,000 records that have
only partial names, Bucella said.
Source: Breitbart, March 14, 2006
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