Datenschutz: Überwachung und Kontrolle gefährden Selbstbestimmung (18.11.04)

Auf der in Köln stattfindenden 28. Datenschutzfachtagung (DAFTA), die unter dem Leitthema "Orwell´s 1984 - 20 Jahre danach" steht, wies der Bundesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz Peter Schaar in seiner Rede am Donnerstag auf die Probleme wachsender Überwachungs- und Kontrollmöglichkeiten hin. Er forderte eine verstärkte öffentliche Auseinandersetzung mit den Gefährdungen des Rechts auf informationelle Selbstbestimmung, die mit dem Einsatz neuer Technologien verbunden sind.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php4?Nr=9780

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/uk_news/4024275.stm


Informant: Mast Network

http://www.zeit.de/2004/48/Gl_8asern_neu


Nachricht von der BI Bad Dürkheim

EU-Pläne: Datenschützer gegen geplante Speicherung aller Kommunikationsdaten (15.11.04)

Die von Sicherheitspolitikern angestrebte Speicherung aller Daten über die Nutzung von Telekommunikations- und Internetdiensten trifft auf massive Kritik der europäischen Datenschützer. Die in der "Artikel-29-Gruppe" zusammengeschlossenen Datenschutz-Beauftragten forderten den EU-Ministerrat auf, den Entwurf eines Rahmenbeschlusses über die Vorratsspeicherung von Daten über die Nutzung von öffentlichen elektronischen Kommunikationsdiensten und -netzen abzulehnen. Gegenwärtig berät eine Arbeitsgruppe des EU-Ministerrates über diesen Vorschlag. Danach könnten alle Anbieter von Telekommunikations- und Internetdiensten zur pauschalen Speicherung sämtlicher Daten über die Nutzung dieser Dienste für einen Zeitraum von mindestens einem Jahr verpflichtet werden.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php4?Nr=9745

Five-year-old Madison Schwartzmiller likes to play on the swing set with friends Erin, Brianne and Kayla. She also knows her address and her telephone number. All this information, along with her favorite colors and the fact that the kindergarten student at Allison Elementary School in Chartiers-Houston School District has no favorite hiding spot in her house, are on a disc that has been sent home to her parents. The disc, along with a fingerprint card and DNA kit, are part of the Child Identification Program packet. Offered by the Pennsylvania Freemasons, in partnership with Crime Prevention Association of Pennsylvania, CHIP is in response to the alarming number of children reported missing across the United States.

Chartiers Township police took the video of the youngsters as they stood in front of a height chart.

http://www.infowars.com/articles/bb/ids_for_kids.htm


From:
Aftermath News
Top Stories - November 14th, 2004

The federal government plans a new role in delivering mental health care. Historically, however, governments have used psychiatric techniques for harm rather than good. On April 29, 2002, President George W. Bush issued an executive order creating a new commission charged with finding ways to “improve America’s mental health service delivery system.” One year later, the Orwellian-sounding New Freedom Commission on Mental Health released its findings. Its final report recommended mental health screening for all Americans and, in a proposal that should alarm parents everywhere, recommended that the nation’s schools be used to assess the mental health of all schoolchildren. While each new federal plan or program seems more ludicrous than the last, the commission’s desire to screen the mental health of all Americans is not just another big government boondoggle.

From its “newspeak” name to its ambitious proposals, the plan to assess the mental health of all Americans is similar to the Bush administration’s other…

http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/2004/11-15-2004/psychiatry.htm


From:
Aftermath News
Top Stories - November 14th, 2004

The government ordered U.S. airlines Friday to turn over personal
information about passengers so it can test a system for identifying potential terrorists. The move was expected but nonetheless brought protests from civil libertarians worried about invasions of privacy. Under the system, called "Secure Flight," the Transportation Security Administration will compare passenger data with names on two government watch lists: a "no-fly" list comprises known or suspected terrorists, and a "watch" list names people who should face tighter scrutiny before boarding planes. "Secure Flight represents a significant step in securing domestic air travel and safeguarding national security information, namely, the watchlists," the TSA said in a notice announcing the order.

The TSA order gives 72 airlines until Nov. 23 to turn over computerized data for passengers who traveled on domestic flights during June.

http://makeashorterlink.com/?R160426C9


From:
Aftermath News
Top Stories - November 14th, 2004