White House Pulls Down TSA Petition (https://epic.org/2012/08/white-house-pulls-down-tsa-pet.html) epic.org – August 9, 2012 “At approximately 11:30 am EDT, the White House removed a petition about the TSA airport screening procedures from the White House “We the People” website. About 22,500 of … Continue reading →
Proponents of Canada’s Online Spying Bill Still Trying to Justify Excessive Powers Electronic Frontier Foundation – www.eff.org – July 20, 2012 “Canada’s online surveillance bill may be on hold for now, but a recent news article confirms that a rather … Continue reading →
Achieving a Single View of the Citizen With Information Management (https://www.informationbuilders.com/sites/www.informationbuilders.com/files/pdf/about_us/whitepapers/single_view_citizen_wp_final.pdf) – www.informationbuilders.com Also: Achieving A Single View Of The Citizen – July 11, 2012 Because governments don’t have total control yet and can’t quite get every last drop out … Continue reading →
Human corpses harvested in multimillion-dollar trade www.theage.com.au – July 17, 2012 – International Consortium of Investigative Journalists “A grisly trade in human body parts leaves relatives grieving and some recipients at risk of life-threatening disease “On February 24, Ukrainian authorities … Continue reading →
21 June 2012: Beyond The Border Steering Committee “Today, the U.S.-Canada Beyond the Border (BTB) Executive Steering Committee met for the first time in Ottawa, Canada….To ensure continued transparency and accountability, the BTB Executive Steering Committee will generate a joint … Continue reading →
Three NSA Whistleblowers Back EFF’s Lawsuit Over Government’s Massive Spying Program Electronic Frontier Foundation – www.eff.org – July 2, 2012 “San Francisco – Three whistleblowers – all former employees of the National Security Agency (NSA) – have come forward to … Continue reading →
Supermarket spies: How the Government plans to use loyalty card data to snoop on the eating habits of 25million shoppers www.dailymail.co.uk – June 25, 2012 “People who buy too much alcohol, fatty foods or sugary drinks would be targeted with … Continue reading →
Google Was Secretly Planting Cookies on Millions of iPhone Browsers cryptogon.com – June 28, 2012 From: How a Lone Grad Student Scooped the Government and What It Means for Your Online Privacy – www.propublica.org – June 28, 2012 Google Said … Continue reading →
More and more, we see different corporations promoting the cloud idea where we go even further in actually compromising security and personal information by handing it to a third party who is also subject to government surveillance powers. Why does … Continue reading →
PM defends secret hearing proposals uk.news.yahoo.com – April 4, 2012 “Secret court hearings and increased monitoring of emails and internet use … “Draft legislation, expected in next month’s Queen’s Speech, would propose allowing the Government’s listening centre GCHQ to access … Continue reading →