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ID cards are a ‘huge risk’ according to legal expert
THE government’s controversial ID card plans are ‘hugely risky’ according to a legal expert. Manchester will be the first city where citizens will be invited to apply for an ID card from this autumn,
Read More »Experts question high-street biometric ID cards
By Tom Espiner | Security and legal experts have questioned the viability of a government plan to capture biometrics in high-street shops for its ID card scheme. The Home Office announced on Wednesday that
Read More »Government Could Destroy Records in Hundreds of Guantanamo Cases
A stockpile of documents about hundreds of Guantanamo Bay detainees, some authored by the prisoners themselves, could be destroyed under a little-known provision of a federal court order the Bush administration obtained in 2004.
Read More »Informants Say Blackwater Guards Tried to Unload Arms
By Bill Sizemore | Shortly after a 2007 shooting incident in a Baghdad traffic square that left 17 Iraqi civilians dead, Blackwater contractors allegedly transferred a number of machine guns to another contractor who
Read More »CIA Officials Were Given Daily Torture Updates
By Jason Leopold | CIA interrogators provided top agency officials in Langley with daily “torture” updates of Abu Zubaydah, the alleged “high-level” terrorist detainee who was held at a secret “black site” prison and
Read More »USA using Patriot Act against its own citizens
Sixteen-year-old Ashton Lundeby’s bedroom in his mother’s Granville County home is nothing, if not patriotic. Images of American flags are everywhere on the bed, on the floor, on the wall. But according to the
Read More »WHAT THE PENTAGON’S DUMPING IN YOUR OCEANS
It is no secret that the U.S. military has used the ocean as trashcan for munitions in the past. Peter discussed at the Old DSN how federal lawmakers were pressing the US Army to
Read More »An Expectation of Online Privacy
If your data is online, it is not private. Oh, maybe it seems private. Certainly, only you have access to your e-mail. Well, you and your ISP. And the sender’s ISP. And any backbone
Read More »US airstrikes kill scores of civilians in Afghanistan
By Bill Van Auken | On the eve of a tripartite summit in Washington which the Obama administration has organized with the presidents of Afghanistan and Pakistan, reports from Afghanistan indicate that US air
Read More »EFF sues Obama administration for promised access to secret copyright treaty documents
Rebecca from the Electronic Frontier Foundation sez, “The U.S. government is still blocking the release of information about a secret intellectual property trade agreement with broad implications for privacy and innovation around the world,
Read More »DNA OF THE INNOCENT TO BE KEPT FOR 12 YEARS
DNA profiles of innocent people will be held on databases for over a decade under plans that take us closer to being a Big Brother state, it was claimed last night. The plans were
Read More »YOU’LL PAY FOR ID CARDS…TWICE
THE Government today vowed to press ahead with the hated £5 billion ID cards – and roll the scheme out within months. Ignoring furious opposition over the staggering cost of the project at a
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