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• Considering the Cloud in Sunny Madrid

  
  PolicyBeta — Authority: 489
  Last week, I attended the 31st International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners in Madrid. Government data privacy officials representing 46 countries were there, as well as hundreds of lawyers, corporate privacy officers and advocates from around the globe. There were plenary sessions and ...
  15 hours ago

• Daily Mail (UK): Army of ‘citizen snoopers’ recruited by council to spy on neighbours

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 522
  The Daily Mail has a story that reminds me of Operation Terrorism Information and Prevention System, the TIPS program proposed by US Attorney General John Ashcroft in 2002 (read more about TIPS after the jump). The Daily Mail reports:A council is enlisting 2,000 resident spies to report anti-social behaviour by their ...
  22 hours ago

• 8 die in Louisiana helicopter crash www.privateofficer.com

  
  PRIVATE OFFICER NEWS NETWORK — Authority: 148
  GIBSON, La. Nov 10 2009 (AP) — Authorities searched a southern Louisiana marsh by boat Monday for clues that might determine what caused a helicopter crash that killed eight people bound for an offshore oil platform. The helicopter, operated by PHI Inc., crashed Sunday afternoon shortly after taking off, said ...
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• Wireless users may be shut off if sharing copyrighted files

  
  ZDNet Government — Authority: 128
  Internet services have created explosive growth in distribution of copyright materials. Some people are distributing it and dont even know it, some argue. The reaction, regardless whether a consumer knows it or not, is to push for extensive reform.
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• Update on UK Council Surveilling Family Suspected of Living in Wrong School Zone

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 522
  Last year, the Poole Borough Council in the UK targeted for surveillance a family suspected of living in the wrong school zone. The council used powers it had under the 2000 Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA), a law targeted toward terrorism and organized crime. I’ve written before about this ...
  1 day ago

• Update on UK Coucil Surveilling Family Suspected of Living in Wrong School Zone

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 522
  Last year, the Poole Borough Council in the UK targeted for surveillance a family suspected of living in the wrong school zone. The council used powers it had under the 2000 Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA), a law targeted toward terrorism and organized crime. I’ve written before about this ...
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• Obama calls new election law a milestone for Iraq

  
  MysticWicks Online Pagan Community and Spiritual Sanctuary — Authority: 166
  Quote: Obama calls new election law a milestone for Iraq WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama hailed the Iraqi parliaments passage Sunday of a much-delayed election law, declaring it a milestone as the Iraqi people take charge of their future. In a Rose Garden statement, Obama said the development would ...
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• Security company pulls officers off school traffic posts www.privateofficer.com

  
  PRIVATE OFFICER NEWS NETWORK — Authority: 148
  Mooresville NC Nov 8 2009 After providing officers for traffic control at seven Iredell-Statesville Schools for a number of years, a local security company recently discontinued the practice. “It’s purely a business decision,” said Donna Campbell, owner of Wilson Security. Wilson Security guards have directed ...
  3 days ago

• Shortage of military therapists creates strain

  
  MysticWicks Online Pagan Community and Spiritual Sanctuary — Authority: 166
  Quote: Shortage of military therapists creates strain WASHINGTON – Amputations. Combat stress. Divorce. Suicide. For troubled service members, military therapists are at their sides. But with the U.S. fighting two wars, an acute shortage of trained personnel has left these therapists emotional drained and ...
  3 days ago

• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
  3 days ago

• NATO Airstrike Kills Friendly Troops.

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 611
  The search for the two missing U.S soldiers in Afghanistan turned into a tragedy as eight Afghan soldiers lost their lives due to an alleged NATO airstrike gone horribly wrong. The incident also wounded more than 20 Afghan and U.S troops. The two missing American soldiers from the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd ...
  3 days ago

• Police look to restrict security officer uniforms, badges and cars www.privateofficer.com

  
  PRIVATE OFFICER NEWS NETWORK — Authority: 148
  Hemet CA Nov 7 2009 Security guards who want to work in Hemet are going to have to avoid looking like cops in their dress and vehicles under an ordinance approved last week. Police Chief Richard Dana asked for an update of the city’s 1984 law covering private security companies after his department experienced ...
  4 days ago

• Boston police to train hospital security officers www.privateofficer.com

  
  PRIVATE OFFICER NEWS NETWORK — Authority: 148
  BOSTON MA Nov 7 2009 – Boston Police met with security officials for area hospitals to work on a plan of attack in the wake of a series of attacks at Massachusetts General Hospital. “Were going to bring them in and were going to train them just like we would Boston Police officers so that they understand what will ...
  4 days ago

• Czech, US governments discuss military cooperation

  
  MysticWicks Online Pagan Community and Spiritual Sanctuary — Authority: 166
  Quote: Czech, US governments discuss military cooperation PRAGUE – Senior U.S. and Czech defense officials held talks Friday to discuss ways for the Czech Republic to participate in a reworked U.S. missile defense plan. U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Alexander Vershbow told reporters the U.S. "did present ...
  4 days ago

• Visiting Grave Sites, Imagining Worlds

  
  At War — Authority: 133
  In Kabul there is a British cemetery, which in truth has only a few visible British headstones these days and mostly is filled with Europeans, but it stands as a reminder of how poorly the West has done in this part of the world.
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• America’s New Partnership with Central Europe

  
  Free Media Online Blog — Authority: 421
  Atlantic Council – In his remarks in Bucharest, the U.S. Vice President Biden celebrated the democratic and economic development of Central and Eastern Europe since the fall of communism twenty years ago. Read more from the original source: America’s New Partnership with Central Europe
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• Human x-ray machines: Coming soon to an airport near you

  
  ZDNet Government — Authority: 128
  In the 1990 movie Total Recall, Arnold Schwarzenegger runs through a security check point using x-ray technology. Today that technology is being installed around the world at airports, border check points, marine ports and high risk security environments such as court buildings.
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• OFFICER DOWN-NY STATE TROOPER www.privateofficer.com

  
  PRIVATE OFFICER NEWS NETWORK — Authority: 148
  Trooper David Lane New York State Police New York End of Watch: Wednesday, November 4, 2009 Biographical Info Age: 30 Tour of Duty: 4 years Badge Number: 4705 Incident Details Cause of Death: Automobile accident Date of Incident: Wednesday, November 4, 2009 Weapon Used: Not available Suspect Info: Not available ...
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• The U.S.-China-India Strategic Triangle

  
  Stagecraft and Statecraft — Authority: 113
  Three’sa Crowd in the India-China Theater    November 2009 by Brahma Chellaney Therenewed Sino-Indian border tensions arising from growing Chinese assertivenessraise an oft-asked question: What has prompted Beijing to up the ante against New Delhi ?Until mid-2005, ...
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• Abolitionists must name their price

  
  The Interpreter — Authority: 573
  Sam has responded  with characteristic sobriety to my   suggestions  about how to make the nuclear abolition agenda look like real policy rather than political posturing. His reservations would be correct if what was needed here was a methodical step-by-step approach. Step-by-step is just the thing for getting ...
  5 days ago

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