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Starmail - 23. Sep, 10:57
Big Brother
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US-Fluglinien sollen Passagierdaten abgeben
US-Fluglinien sollen Passagierdaten für den Test des neuen Überprüfungsprogramms Secure Flight abgeben
Weil der Name des zum Islam konvertierten ehemaligen Popsängers Cat Stevens auf einer "Watch List" stand, wurde sein Flugzeug umgeleitet und ihm die Einreise verweigert...
http://www.telepolis.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/te/18389/1.html
Weil der Name des zum Islam konvertierten ehemaligen Popsängers Cat Stevens auf einer "Watch List" stand, wurde sein Flugzeug umgeleitet und ihm die Einreise verweigert...
http://www.telepolis.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/te/18389/1.html
Starmail - 22. Sep, 22:16
Feds will order airlines to turn over passenger data
Detroit Free Press
09/21/04
The Transportation Security Administration announced on Tuesday that it will order domestic airlines to turn over personal information about passengers to test a system that will compare their names to those on terrorist watch lists. The system, called Secure Flight, replaces a previous plan that would have checked passenger names against commercial databases and assigned a risk level to each. That plan, which cost $103 million, was abandoned because of privacy concerns and technological issues...
http://www.freep.com/news/latestnews/pm404_20040921.htm
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
09/21/04
The Transportation Security Administration announced on Tuesday that it will order domestic airlines to turn over personal information about passengers to test a system that will compare their names to those on terrorist watch lists. The system, called Secure Flight, replaces a previous plan that would have checked passenger names against commercial databases and assigned a risk level to each. That plan, which cost $103 million, was abandoned because of privacy concerns and technological issues...
http://www.freep.com/news/latestnews/pm404_20040921.htm
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 22. Sep, 15:42
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2004
Rumsfeld urges caution on intelligence reform
Starmail - 20. Sep, 10:32
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Thought police and the American Community Survey
by John W. Whitehead
Rutherford Institute
09/13/04
Everywhere we look these days, we are either being watched, taxed or some bureaucrat is placing another bit of information in our government files. And now with the American Community Survey, the latest census form that hits various households on a continuous basis, the federal bureaucracy is thrusting its expansive tentacles toward us in an attempt to invade every aspect of our lives. Unlike the traditional census, which collects data every ten years, the American Community Survey is taken every year at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars. And at 24 pages, it contains some of the most detailed and intrusive questions ever put forth in a census questionnaire. These concern matters that the government simply has no business knowing, including a person's job, income, physical and emotional health, family status, place of residence and intimate personal and private habits...
http://www.rutherford.org/articles_db/commentary.asp?record_id=299
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Rutherford Institute
09/13/04
Everywhere we look these days, we are either being watched, taxed or some bureaucrat is placing another bit of information in our government files. And now with the American Community Survey, the latest census form that hits various households on a continuous basis, the federal bureaucracy is thrusting its expansive tentacles toward us in an attempt to invade every aspect of our lives. Unlike the traditional census, which collects data every ten years, the American Community Survey is taken every year at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars. And at 24 pages, it contains some of the most detailed and intrusive questions ever put forth in a census questionnaire. These concern matters that the government simply has no business knowing, including a person's job, income, physical and emotional health, family status, place of residence and intimate personal and private habits...
http://www.rutherford.org/articles_db/commentary.asp?record_id=299
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 16. Sep, 17:46
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2004
Kampagne gegen Datenvorratsspeicherung
EU: Kampaign gegen Datenvorratsspeicherung
Über 60 NGOs weltweit, denen Civil Liberties und Datenschutz ein Anliegen sind, haben bereits unterzeichnet. Bis morgen, 15.September 10:00 MESZ ist für Organisationen und Firmen noch Zeit, die Antwort an die EU-Kommission zum Thema "Data Retention" [Datenvorratsspeicherung] zu unterzeichnen. Das EDRi-Board ersucht nur, von Unterzeichnung durch Einzelpersonen abzusehen.
Privacy International [PI] and European Digital Rights [EDRI] have published their joint answer to the consultation on mandatory data retention. The Directorate General on Information Society and on Justice and Home Affairs from the European Commission asked for public comments on a proposed retention regime across Europe between 12 and 36 months for all traffic data generated by using fixed and mobile telephony and Internet.
The deadline for comments expires on 15 September 2004.
PI and the 15 member organisations of EDRI call on all organisations to sign on to this answer!
The EU plans the wide-spread retention of personal data resulting from communications, or so-called traffic data. We argue that any such retention is necessarily a hazardously invasive act. With the progress of technology, this data is well beyond being simple logs of who we've called and when we called them. Traffic data can now be used to create a map of human associations and more importantly, a map of human activity and intention.
As technologies become more invasive, and as laws are increasingly reluctant to protect individual rights, the European Union should be fulfilling its role to uphold the rights of individuals. Data retention is an invasive and illegal practice with illusory benefits.
We invite any other organisations to endorse the response. Please sign on ASAP but not later than 15.09.2004, 10:00 AM.
Das Sign On Formular
http://www.edri.org/cgi-bin/index?id=000100000162
Die Antwort an die EU-Kommission
http://www.privacyinternational.org/issues/terrorism/rpt/responsetoretention.html
Eine umfassende Dokumentensammlung zum Thema "Data Retention"
http://quintessenz.org/data_retention
EDRi.org
http://www.edri.org/
relayed by Harkank
Quelle: quintessenz-list Digest, Vol 18, Issue 7
Über 60 NGOs weltweit, denen Civil Liberties und Datenschutz ein Anliegen sind, haben bereits unterzeichnet. Bis morgen, 15.September 10:00 MESZ ist für Organisationen und Firmen noch Zeit, die Antwort an die EU-Kommission zum Thema "Data Retention" [Datenvorratsspeicherung] zu unterzeichnen. Das EDRi-Board ersucht nur, von Unterzeichnung durch Einzelpersonen abzusehen.
Privacy International [PI] and European Digital Rights [EDRI] have published their joint answer to the consultation on mandatory data retention. The Directorate General on Information Society and on Justice and Home Affairs from the European Commission asked for public comments on a proposed retention regime across Europe between 12 and 36 months for all traffic data generated by using fixed and mobile telephony and Internet.
The deadline for comments expires on 15 September 2004.
PI and the 15 member organisations of EDRI call on all organisations to sign on to this answer!
The EU plans the wide-spread retention of personal data resulting from communications, or so-called traffic data. We argue that any such retention is necessarily a hazardously invasive act. With the progress of technology, this data is well beyond being simple logs of who we've called and when we called them. Traffic data can now be used to create a map of human associations and more importantly, a map of human activity and intention.
As technologies become more invasive, and as laws are increasingly reluctant to protect individual rights, the European Union should be fulfilling its role to uphold the rights of individuals. Data retention is an invasive and illegal practice with illusory benefits.
We invite any other organisations to endorse the response. Please sign on ASAP but not later than 15.09.2004, 10:00 AM.
Das Sign On Formular
http://www.edri.org/cgi-bin/index?id=000100000162
Die Antwort an die EU-Kommission
http://www.privacyinternational.org/issues/terrorism/rpt/responsetoretention.html
Eine umfassende Dokumentensammlung zum Thema "Data Retention"
http://quintessenz.org/data_retention
EDRi.org
http://www.edri.org/
relayed by Harkank
Quelle: quintessenz-list Digest, Vol 18, Issue 7
Starmail - 15. Sep, 14:04
Pentagon revives memory project
Wired News
09/13/04
It's been seven months since the Pentagon pulled the plug on LifeLog, its controversial project to archive almost everything about a person. But now, the Defense Department seems ready to revive large portions of the program under a new name. Using a series of sensors embedded in a GI's gear, the Advanced Soldier Sensor Information System and Technology, or ASSIST, project aims to collect what a soldier sees, says and does in a combat zone -- and then to weave those events into digital memories, so commanders can have a better sense of how the fight unfolded. That's similar to what planners at Darpa, the Pentagon's research arm, had in mind for LifeLog, its ambitious electronic diary effort. However, ASSIST's aspirations are more modest, its battlefield focus is clearer, and its privacy concerns are more manageable, military analysts and computer scientists say...
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,64911,00.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
09/13/04
It's been seven months since the Pentagon pulled the plug on LifeLog, its controversial project to archive almost everything about a person. But now, the Defense Department seems ready to revive large portions of the program under a new name. Using a series of sensors embedded in a GI's gear, the Advanced Soldier Sensor Information System and Technology, or ASSIST, project aims to collect what a soldier sees, says and does in a combat zone -- and then to weave those events into digital memories, so commanders can have a better sense of how the fight unfolded. That's similar to what planners at Darpa, the Pentagon's research arm, had in mind for LifeLog, its ambitious electronic diary effort. However, ASSIST's aspirations are more modest, its battlefield focus is clearer, and its privacy concerns are more manageable, military analysts and computer scientists say...
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,64911,00.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 15. Sep, 10:30
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2004
Flying Fascism on Your Doorstep
New high-tech surveillance equipment revealed at the Redstone Arsenal's Weekly Arms Bazaar promises a dismal future for freedom-loving people of the world. The Friendly Colonel has filed the latest report from the most recent arms show at the Redstone Arsenal, which has been shut down and is essentially used for storage. Housed in this facility are several thousands of the new modified urban control Humvees, equipped with 14.5 mm cannons as well as many aerials and satellite dishes. Some are camouflage in color, but most of them are dark matte gray. They looked like they were painted with a sealer coat of paint (primer paint), before the final coat is painted on depending on the theater of operation in which they will be used. Of greater significance was the introduction of the new DCHD (Domestic Control Hover Drones), which were displayed and offered for sale. They're about a meter in diameter and probably weigh about twenty kilograms each. It looks like a life ring (life preserver) with a motor in the middle of it.
The Chinese and Russian arms dealers were interested in them, and evidently the British Government has been one of this device's primary buyers. Evidently we're not selling them to a lot of foreign countries at this time, but still building inventories for ourselves. Each of these DCHDs costs $178,000 a copy.
http://www.federalobserver.com/archive.php?aid=1620
From:
Aftermath News
Top Stories - September 14th, 2004
The Chinese and Russian arms dealers were interested in them, and evidently the British Government has been one of this device's primary buyers. Evidently we're not selling them to a lot of foreign countries at this time, but still building inventories for ourselves. Each of these DCHDs costs $178,000 a copy.
http://www.federalobserver.com/archive.php?aid=1620
From:
Aftermath News
Top Stories - September 14th, 2004
Starmail - 14. Sep, 15:25
