(pdf)JayStanley Surveillance- Industrial Complex: How the American Government IsConscripting Businesses and Individuals. Jay Stanley: U.S. Security Agencies Begging for a Cybersecurity 'Cold War' So the U.S. security establishment is salivating at the prospect of a new cybersecurity "Cold War. " In an over-the-top op-ed in Tuesday's Washington Post, Mike McConnell issues a declaration that we are "fighting a cyber war today" and compares it to the nuclear showdown with the Soviets. McConnell exemplifies the security establishment as much as anyone -- former director of the National Security Agency (NSA), former Director of National Intelligence, and currently executive vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton, a private-sector refuge for former U.S. intelligence officials (and a company that stands to make large sums from consulting on cybersecurity).
The Cold War was, among many other things, a bonanza for the military and for security agencies from the NSA to the CIA to the FBI, which saw their budgets skyrocket and their power and reach expand in ways that were unprecedented in a country that had always held a deep suspicion of "standing armies" and government power. (pdf)bigger monster _weaker chains. U.S. schools: grooming students for a surveillance state. Schools are increasingly invading student privacy both in school and outside of school. Are schools grooming youth to passively accept a surveillance state where they have no expectation of privacy anywhere? A PogoWasRight.org commentary. The increasing use of student surveillance and intrusion of school districts into students’ extra-curricular conduct should alarm us all.
Whether it is a district surveilling students in their bedrooms via webcam, conducting random drug or locker searches, strip-searching students, lowering the standard for searching students to “reasonable suspicion” from “probable cause,” disciplining students for conduct outside of school hours, searching their cellphones and text messages, or allegedly forcing them to undergo pregnancy testing, student privacy is under increasing threat. The other day I mentioned a Connecticut school district that wanted to require students to carry an ID card with an RFID chip so that they could track their location.
Echelon. Project Vigilant. BNN bounty hunters skiptracing 28:00- verlies burgerrechten. Skiptrace - Wikipedia more investigative rights than police! privatization of. Skiptracing (also skip tracing, or debtor and fugitive recovery[1]) is the process of locating a person's whereabouts for any number of purposes. A skiptracer is someone who performs this task, which may be the person's primary occupation. The term "skip" refers to the person being searched for, and is derived from the idiomatic expression "to skip town", meaning to depart (perhaps in a rush), leaving minimal clues behind to "trace" the "skip" to a new location.
Skip tracing tactics may be employed by debt collectors, process servers, bail bond enforcers (bounty hunters), repossession agents, private investigators, attorneys, police detectives, and journalists, or by any person attempting to locate a subject whose contact information is not immediately known. Similar techniques have also been utilized by investigators to locate witnesses in criminal trials. [citation needed] Methodology[edit] Skiptracing is performed by collecting as much information as possible about the subject. Notes. NSTN was founded as a skip trace company offering locating services to the collection industry.
SKIPTRACER.com - Free Skiptracing Public Record & People Searches. Bounty hunter - Wikipedia can enter the fugitive's private property without a warrant .do not undergo any formal training. Sometimes, such an individual is referred to as a bounty killer if a murder is required to collect the bounty. Modern times in the U.S. [edit] In modern times Bail Enforcement Agents still carry out arrests, but the idea of 'bounty hunting' is now not often used or liked by many in the profession due to its historical context. Laws in the U.S. [edit] In the United States legal system, the 1873 U.S. Bounty hunters are sometimes called "skiptracers", but this usage can be misleading. In some states, bounty hunters do not undergo any formal training, [2]and are generally unlicensed, only requiring sanction from a bail bondsman to operate.
Seven states (Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, and Wisconsin), as well as the District of Columbia heavily restrict bounty hunting, or have banned the practice altogether. Connecticut[edit] Florida[edit] Kentucky[edit] Kentucky prohibits bounty hunting in any form. Louisiana[edit] Nevada[edit] Texas[edit] Wisconsin[edit] Bounty hunters to cut benefit fraud by 1bn. Credit agencies lined up to pinpoint benefit cheats - UK Politics, UK. A nationwide clampdown on bogus housing benefit claims will be launched this year using techniques borrowed from the private sector for assessing creditworthiness.
A similar drive against fraudulent claims for incapacity benefit is expected to follow. The companies will compare information about private household spending – such as utility bills, mobile phone payment details and satellite television subscriptions – against benefit records to identify potential fraudsters. Civil liberties groups last night raised concerns over potential breaches of personal privacy, while the use of the technique threatens to embarrass Nick Clegg's promises on behalf of the coalition government to roll back state intrusion in individuals' lives. It also raises concerns that innocent people could be unnecessarily investigated on the back of faulty or out-of-date financial information. Alex Deane, its director, said: "Nobody approves of benefit cheats. "I hadn't a clue what it was all about. Tom Rowley. Would you trust bounty hunters to enforce the law? The papers today all carry a story which first broke last month – the proposed use of credit rating agencies like Experian to catch people committing benefit fraud.
This is a very bad idea. Nobody approves of benefit cheats. But mining private data on a routine basis on the off-chance of catching people out is a disproportionate invasion of privacy. There's a presumption of innocence in this country, and trawling everyone's credit data and treating us all as suspects brings that into question. Furthermore, there is or should be a bright line between the state and the private sector. Taking powers of legal investigation and enforcement which ought to sit with the state, and granting them to private organisations, blurs that line. Ultimately, it's probably not in the interests of the companies either. Credit agencies should think carefully about effectively becoming enforcers for the state, compromising private information they've accumulated about people. By Alex Deane. Glenn Greenwald The Digital Surveillance State: Vast, Secret, and Dangerous.
It is unsurprising that the 9/11 attack fostered a massive expansion of America’s already sprawling Surveillance State. But what is surprising, or at least far less understandable, is that this growth shows no signs of abating even as we approach almost a full decade of emotional and temporal distance from that event. The spate of knee-jerk legislative expansions in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 trauma—the USA PATRIOT Act—has actually been exceeded by the expansions of the last several years—first secretly and lawlessly by the Bush administration, and then legislatively and out in the open once Democrats took over control of the Congress in 2006. Simply put, there is no surveillance power too intrusive or unaccountable for our political class provided the word “terrorism” is invoked to “justify” those powers. The More-Surveillance-Is-Always-Better Mindset Blocking Even Modest Safeguards The results of this mindset are as clear as they are disturbing. More Surveillance, Less Safety.
An End to Privacy Theater: Exposing and Discouraging Corporate Disclosure of User Data to the Government by Christopher Soghoian. Today, when consumers evaluate potential telecommunications, Internet service or application providers – they are likely to consider several differentiating factors: The cost of service, the features offered as well as the providers’ reputation for network quality and customer service.
The firms’ divergent approaches to privacy, and in particular, their policies regarding law enforcement and intelligence agencies’ access to their customers’ private data are not considered by consumers during the purchasing process – perhaps because it is practically impossible for anyone to discover this information. A naïve reader might simply assume that the law gives companies very little wiggle room – when they are required to provide data, they must do so. This is true. Many companies profess their commitment to protecting their customers’ privacy, with some even arguing that they compete on their respective privacy practices.
Should Companies Sell Privacy Offsets? - Science and Tech. It's time we were allowed to pay money for our privacy. We already "pay" for our online services by looking at advertising that has been augmented with personal data gleaned from our Internet perambulations. Maybe it's time we formalized the value of users' data. Then, to opt out of tracking, users could simply pay the difference between what they're worth to service providers with and without their data attached. It's not a tough calculation to make. Dr. Howard Beales, a George Washington University professor and a former director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection at the Federal Trade Commission, did just that in a paper earlier this year. We don't have an exact conversion of those numbers into how much you, yourself, would have to pay to have all your Google searches untracked, for example, but it's at least theoretically possible and probably would not be overwhelmingly expensive.
Right now, consumers have a hard time opting out of tracking. Van der Hoeven: privacy op internet beter regelen. Nieuwsbericht | 21-04-2010 “Privacy en veiligheid van persoonsgegevens op internet is van groot belang en moet scherp worden bewaakt. Hiervoor hebben we een aantal maatregelen in petto, zodat de consument zich beter beschermd weet.” Dat zei minister Maria van der Hoeven van Economische Zaken bij de uitreiking van de eerste drie DDMA Privacy Waarborgen. Met dit keurmerk, het Privacy Waarborg, geven organisaties uit de direct marketing branche aan zorgvuldig om te gaan met persoonsgegevens. Privacy op internet scherp bewaken De privacy op internet moet scherp worden bewaakt zei minister Van der Hoeven in haar speech bij de uitreiking. Keurmerk De branchevereniging DDMA (Dutch Dialogue Marketing Association), onder meer bekend van de NEE/NEE sticker, introduceerde vandaag hun Privacy Waarborg (zie: www.ddma.nl). Meer informatie. Over DDMA - DDMA - Dutch Dialogue Marketing Association.
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