Italy To Abandon Airport Body Scanner Project
AFP After a six-month test, Italy’s government will drop the use of full-body scanners for security checks in airports, judging them slow and ineffective, Italian…
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5 Surprising Facts About Spying in America
Washington’s Blog Here are 5 surprising facts about spying in America. We understand if some of this sounds far-fetched. But take a look for yourself,…
Activists Challenge CCTV State Spying in EU
YouTube — RT RELATED ARTICLE: 10 Ways We Are Being Tracked, Traced, and Databased
Homeland Security to Test Iris Scanners
Thomas Frank USA Today WASHINGTON — The Homeland Security Department plans to test futuristic iris scan technology that stores digital images of people’s eyes in…
Sheriffs want lists of patients using painkillers
Lynn Bonner New Observer Sheriffs in North Carolina want access to state computer records identifying anyone with prescriptions for powerful painkillers and other controlled substances….
Va. appeals court upholds tracking suspects with GPS
Emily Babay Washington Examiner Police can use a GPS device to track the movements of a suspect’s vehicle without first obtaining a warrant, the Virginia Court…
Airport `Naked Image’ Scanners in U.S. May Get Privacy Upgrades
John Hughes Bloomberg An Avatar will replace the naked body image Holli Powell, a Phoenix medical software consultant who flies every week, says she avoids…
The All-Seeing Eye of the State: Scanners Leave No Place to Hide
John W. Whitehead Lew Rockwell “The only person who is still a private individual in Germany is somebody who is asleep.” ~ Robert Ley, a…
Why Freedom and Privacy Must Coexist, and How to Protect Yourself From Losing Both
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” — George Orwell Bob Bauman Sovereign…
The facial recognition software that will put a name to every photograph in the internet
The Daily Mail A software company is developing revolutionary software which provides the ability to identify people from photographs posted on the internet. Face.com has…
New Logan searches blasted
Logan airport security just got more up close and personal as federal screeners launched a more aggressive palms-first, slide-down body search technique that has renewed…
Iris Scanners Create the Most Secure City in the World. Welcome, Big Brother
Austin Carr Fast Company We’ve all seen and obsessively referenced Minority Report, Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s dystopian future, where the public is…
Aerial Surveillance Used To Enforce Laws
Frank Eltman Huffington Post RIVERHEAD, N.Y. — On New York’s Long Island, it’s used to prevent drownings. In Greece, it’s a tool to help solve…
Feds Admit Storing Checkpoint Body Scan Images
Decan McCullagh CNET For the last few years, federal agencies have defended body scanning by insisting that all images will be discarded as soon as…