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PATH: BS | Privacy Congress Makes Operating WiFi Dangerous And Potentially Illegal Posted by Pile (13296 views) [E-Mail link] The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a bill saying that anyone offering an open Wi-Fi connection to the public must report illegal images including "obscene" cartoons and drawings--or face fines of up to $300,000. That broad definition would cover individuals, coffee shops, libraries, hotels, and even some government agencies that provide Wi-Fi. It also sweeps in social-networking sites, domain name registrars, Internet service providers, and e-mail service providers such as Hotmail and Gmail, and it may require that the complete contents of the user's account be retained for subsequent police inspection. READ MORE | 1 comment since 2009-07-27 14:28:11 | Comment on this Article Who's Reading Your Communication And Where? Posted by Pile (12390 views) [E-Mail link] Believe it or not, the government is outsourcing surveillance of Americans to two Israeli companies. READ MORE | No comments | Comment on this Article FEMA Investigates Katrina Victims' Personal Data Put Online Posted by Pile (12612 views) [E-Mail link] Personal information on people who applied for disaster aid after Hurricane Katrina was recently published on the Web without authorization, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said. FEMA is investigating the unauthorized posting of the names, Social Security numbers, telephone numbers, addresses and other personal information that the agency collected from applicants, FEMA announced in a news release dated Dec. 19 and modified Dec. 23. FEMA was alerted Dec. 16 to a Web site posting of a spreadsheet that contained 16,857 lines of personal information about Hurricane Katrina evacuees from the Gulf Coast to Texas, the news release states. READ MORE | No comments | Comment on this Article Feds Say Air Fresheners Are Now Probable Cause Posted by Pile (15234 views) [E-Mail link] Federal appeals court ruled that motorists can be stopped for 30 minutes and searched if they are nervous and use an air freshener. Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson. A federal appellate court ruled last week that police can delay a routine traffic stop as long as necessary to conduct a search for drugs. In its decision, the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld the validity of a thirty-minute traffic stop in Maryland because the arresting officer claimed the nervous driver had an air freshener hanging from his rear-view mirror and had previously been spotted driving in a run-down neighborhood. READ MORE | 3 comments since 2009-11-17 00:12:15 | Comment on this Article Have You Used A Phone In The Last Five Years? Posted by Pile (14233 views) [E-Mail link] The ACLU wants you to know something... READ MORE | No comments | Comment on this Article All Of Congress Covers Up Administration's Crimes Posted by Pile (13795 views) [E-Mail link] For six years, the Bush Administration and the nation’s communication companies have been illegally spying on Americans’ phone calls and e-mails. They did this in direct violation of the Constitution’s 4th Amendment and a federal statute – FISA. Both laws emphatically forbid such surveillance unless the government first obtains a warrant from an independent (eg, FISA) court. Your Congress, including the Democrats are now working to give the companies that colluded with the administration immunity for these crimes. By the way, both Barak Obama and John McCain sold out on this one. Obama voted for it; Every single republican voted for it. McCain was too much of a coward to even vote, but we all know which way he would have voted - certainly not against party lines. READ MORE | 4 comments since 2008-07-16 21:38:41 | Comment on this Article Charter To Sell Your Web Surfing History To Other Companies Posted by Pile (13108 views) [E-Mail link] Charter Communications, the fourth-largest cable system in the United States, has started telling its high-speed Internet customers that it is going to keep track of every site they visit on the Web. The cable company will sell the data to a firm called NebuAd, which in turn will use it to show ads to Web-surfing Charter customers that are meant to be related to their interests. (Visit a knitting site yesterday and see yarn ads today.) READ MORE | 1 comment since 2008-05-18 09:58:40 | Comment on this Article Uncle Sam Wants Your Newborn's DNA Posted by Pile (18962 views) [E-Mail link] President Bush last week signed into law a bill which will see the federal government begin to screen the DNA of all newborn babies in the U.S. within six months, a move critics have described as the first step towards the establishment of a national DNA database. READ MORE | 14 comments since 2010-11-21 13:10:17 | Comment on this Article Fighting the Advil menace, one strip search at a time Posted by Pile (16666 views) [E-Mail link] There are two kinds of people in the world: the kind who think it's perfectly reasonable to strip-search a 13-year-old girl suspected of bringing ibuprofen to school, and the kind who think those people should be kept as far away from children as possible. The first group includes officials at Safford Middle School in Safford, Arizona, who in 2003 forced eighth-grader Savana Redding to prove she was not concealing Advil in her crotch or cleavage. READ MORE | 3 comments since 2009-03-01 07:42:09 | Comment on this Article FBI Caught Doing Widescale Improper Surveillance Posted by Pile (10441 views) [E-Mail link] Senior officials of the Federal Bureau of Investigation repeatedly approved the use of “blanket” records demands to justify the improper collection of thousands of phone records, according to officials briefed on the practice. The bureau appears to have used the blanket records demands at least 11 times in 2006 alone as a quick way to clean up mistakes made over several years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, according to a letter provided to Congress by a lawyer for an F.B.I. agent who witnessed the missteps. READ MORE | No comments | Comment on this Article 10 Articles displayed. Show More Articles.

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