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POPSGovernment Permission Will Be Required to Travel "Protecting air safety is essential, but professional screening at airports already provides for it. Giving the TSA as an official agency the additional authority to decide who gets to go where reaches beyond safety into overextended governmental power. This newly minted "Secure Flight" rule fundamentally imbalances long-standing citizens' rights both to travel and to be left alone. If your name appears among hundreds of thousands on "watchlists," you assert that the government should not require ID to fly, you don't want to reveal your date of birth for concern about identity theft, or you don't choose to declare your gender, you can stay home. "
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POPSPASS ID Act "is REAL ID 2.0"--Same Federalized Drivers License/National ID Scheme This is like Blackwater changing its name to Xe. No real change, just a new "makeover" to sell it. This tramples the 10th amendment right of the states by pretending that the new federal Dept. of Homeland Tyranny has a right to dictate standards for drivers licenses to the States. It also attacks your 4th amendment privacy, by setting up the same desired data-mining capabilities to watch every 'free American" on demand. RFID included. Tell your Congressmen "no".
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POPStrust in social networking used to spread viruses
If the online "Trust" network breaksdown, then you get a pretty bad week for social networking in general. To an internet fraudster an identity is worth £80, suggests research from the UK's Get Safe Online campaign. The same study revealed that in 2008 23% of net users fell victim to phishing attacks - far higher than the 8% it claims were caught out in 2007. Small wonder that Britain has been described as being in the midst of a cyber crimewave. Here the BBC offers some advice about how to stay safe online. How bad is identity fraud? In 2006, a government estimate put the cost of ID theft at £1.7bn a year. In 2007 Cifas - the UK's fraud prevention service - helped more than 65,000 victims of ID fraud and theft. Fraudsters use personal details to gain access to bank accounts, run up bills, launder money, create false documents such as passports or birth certificates and carry out benefit fraud. The consequences can be very distressing and a headache for victims to sort
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POPSFacebook Rebellion Forces Readjustment of Privacy Policy
Facebook tried to profit by breaking privacy policy which sparked a quick revolution of sorts demanding "privacy, or else". The idea of profiting on others' personal information, especially by manipulating "consent" via fine print, is repugnant. The idea in particular that a social networking site would attempt to sacrifice its loyal members privacy for profit, especially in the growing age of ID theft and internet predators, is telling of the company's top management, whether they repealed it or not. No doubt they preferred to get away with this for financial gain! Mass protest works. This message should be heard loud and clear that privacy matters most and people are beginning to stand up for it, against its abuse by both government and the private sector. Government agencies as well as banks, credit check companies, and even the government agencies have been reported to have lost key identification files of customers and clients.
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POPSObama, ACORN & Voter Fraud Equal Election Theft Obama is linked to ACORN, both by his resume and financially, through his campaign, which failed to accurately report payments made to ACORN (to register voters). False registration is particularly dangerous in states that don't require voter ID.
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POPSYour ID may be stolen if you are dead! Why cant people use their wily schemes for good? Think of the positive possibilities that this planet could benefit from if criminals used their schemes to benefit mankind instead of sinking it further into the cesspool of humankind. Sorry, It just stinks! Makes me mad.
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POPSThe Man Who Lost His Name—and His Genetic Identity One of the coolest story around. How a man Eric Drew discover he has acute lymphoblastic leukemia, the chemo treatment , an ID theft and an experimental cancer treatments cord blood stem cells. Well worth reading materials. Enjoy
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POPSBi-Partisan Opposition in Pennsylvania to REAL ID Seeks to Block Implementation Pennsylvania also, like West Virginia, presently has bi-partisan legislation pending against REAL ID to prevent its implementation. As the article points out this unusual bi-partisan coalition is mirrored at the national level where groups as diverse as the ACLU and American Center for Law and Justice (as well as National Rifle Association) are all finding common ground in the Constitution to defend their rights to privacy and state's rights versus government intrusion. Any governor that does not see the strength and broadness of this movement, or is blind to what the Constitution limits government from doing, will probably find bipartisan opposition to their re-election as well. Note the legislative bills from Pennsylvania are linked in the clip below.
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POPSSexy chatbots deployed to steal your personal information! Some evil geniuses have developed an automated chat program that convinces people it's a real cybersex partner and convinces them to reveal personal information, which can then be used for ID theft, or it lures them to a fake malware-laden website. Called "CyberLover." Only in Russia thus far, but look out.
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POPSBiometric ID for Britain I can see this being rolled out across europe. I know other countries have such technology in place, but in a purely voluntary basis. This scheme is not. Already the Irish govt is talking about this. Will britain be the guinea pig for the rest of the world? remember, britain is the most overtly surveilled country on the planet. So social conditioning has been hard at work to bring its population to the level whereby they will consent to this. Naturally there will be a controlled opposition to reign in any true opposition to this plan. Another scenario is everybody will have the ID card, but identity theft will be rampant and loads of people will be affected. And sure enough they will call on their loverly govt to provide a solution. (this entire process can be called "engineering consent" an old process) I'll pop your next post if you can tell me what that solution will be? :)
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POPS62,000 Bank of Scotland customers face ID theft No mention of whether the data was encrypted or plain text. That such data is shipped by an apparently insecure method shows that BoS may not yet be taking ID theft and customer security seriously. **UPDATE** This article reports that the data was unencrypted: http://www.computerworlduk.com/management/security/data-control/news/index.cfm?newsid=3341 And this article reports the information was sent by standard, unsecured Royal Mail: http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.1443290.0.0.php BoS claimed it was "almost impossible" that any financial fraud could be committed with the limited information held on the disc, HOWEVER they omit to say that the information on the disc could be used in identity theft from its customers without impact to BoS.
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POPS"Real ID" is REAL NIGHTMARE! This article scared me badly! I am glad to say that I am from one of the states (WY) that is fighting this already. The rest of you better be writing your legislators on this issue!
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