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• NATO forces to set up gated biometric checkpoints in Afghan villages to “win hearts and minds”

  
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  Biometric tests to identify rebels in Afghanistan London Times | Nov 15, 2009 by Stephen Grey THE inhabitants of combat zones in southern Afghanistan may face biometric tests in a new initiative to prevent the Taliban from infiltrating villages. After studying counter-insurgency methods employed from the Boer ...
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• Fidel Castro’s brother using new tactics to crush dissent since taking power

  
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  Cuban repression has continued under Raúl Castro, says watchdog Fidel Castro’s brother has used new tactics to crush dissent since taking over power, according to Human Rights Watch More than 40 cases in which individuals were jailed for “dangerousness”, including such things as handing out copies of the ...
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• Surveillance State, USA: How America’s Wars Are Systematically Destroying Our Liberties

  
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  How America’s Wars Are Systematically Destroying Our Liberties CBS | Nov 12, 2009 by Alfred W. McCoy In his approach to National Security Agency surveillance, as well as CIA renditions, drone assassinations, and military detention, President Obama has to a surprising extent embraced the expanded executive ...
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• Researchers Develop a Facial Biometrics System Capable of Creating a Facial DNI

  
  Illuminati Conspiracy Archive Blog — Authority: 432
  Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M)Recognition techniques based on facial features, known as facial biometrics, is usually based on the search for those traits which make one face different from another. The research carried out by this team, in contrast, approaches the issue from a slightly different point of ...
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• School CCTV seized after kids filmed changing

  
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  manchestereveningnews.co.uk | Nov 6, 2009 by Yakub Qureshi and Neal Keeling POLICE seized video footage from a primary school after children were filmed on a CCTV system as they changed for gym lessons. The recording was seized after angry parents protested outside Charlestown Primary School in Salford. The ...
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• Secret CCTV cameras fitted INSIDE people’s homes to spy on neighbours

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 144
  CCTV cameras are being fitted inside family homes by council ’snoopers’ to spy on neighbours in the street outside, it was revealed today.The £1,000 security cameras have been placed inside properties but are trained on the streets to gather evidence of anti-social behaviour.Each device is linked to a laptop ...
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• Secret CCTV cameras fitted INSIDE people’s homes to spy on neighbours

  
  The Gates of Hell — Authority: 134
  CCTV cameras are being fitted inside family homes by council ’snoopers’ to spy on neighbours in the street outside, it was revealed today. The £1,000 security cameras have been placed inside properties but are trained on the streets to gather evidence of anti-social behaviour. Each device is linked to a laptop ...
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• Secret CCTV cameras fitted INSIDE people’s homes to spy on neighbours outside

  
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  The high street in Addington, Croydon. The London borough has become the first to test out placing CCTV cameras inside homes Daily Mail | Nov 18, 2009 Town halls are installing cameras inside suburban homes to spy on the neighbourhood. The Big Brother tactic – which is allowed under the anti-terrorist ...
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• Chicago’s Extensive Big Brother Surveillance System Raises Concerns About Privacy Abuses

  
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  Workers in Chicago’s Office Of Emergency Management. IBM “Political surveillance” of opponents could be tempting for office holders. Extensive Surveillance System Integrates Nonpolice Video, Raises Concerns About Possible Privacy Abuses CBS | Nov 17, 2009 Chicago’s Camera Network Is Everywhere By ...
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• Queen: Let them pay to remove their DNA

  
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  Queen’s Speech: pay to have your DNA removed from database Innocent people will have to pay £200 ($334) to fight to have their DNA removed from the national database under proposals in the Queen’s Speech next week. Telegraph | Nov 13, 2009 by Tom Whitehead and James Kirkup A new power will allow members ...
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• The Myth of The Effectiveness of Video Surveillance

  
  The Global Sociology Blog — Authority: 137
  So a right-wing French newspaper pulled a nasty little trick: it claimed to have scooped a government report that stated the effectiveness of video surveillance, something that contradicts evidence from other countries. Unfortunately, the government has now released the report and it shows the exact opposite (in line ...
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• Citizen snoopers recruited to spy on Londoners

  
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  View from the hill: Harrow is seeking “Neighbourhood Champions” who will report anti-social behaviour using a special website They could eventually be trained to report child abuse, domestic violence, racial harassment and other “hate crimes”. thisislondon.co.uk | Nov 11, 2009 by Katharine Barney, City ...
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• VeriChip buys Steel Vault, changes name to “PositiveID”, creating micro-implant health record/credit score empire

  
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  VeriChip Buys Steel Vault, Creating Micro-Implant Health Record/Credit Score Empire industry.bnet.com | Nov 11, 2009 By Jim Edwards VeriChip (CHIP), the company that markets a microchip implant that links to your online health records, has acquired Steel Vault (SVUL), a credit monitoring and anti-identity theft ...
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• Is authoritarianism on ebb in the UK?

  
  EcoLogics — Authority: 122
  If you read the Independent, you might come away feeling relieved that the great tide of authoritarianism that has characterised New Labours years in power is starting to ebb
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• Don’t do it NZ!

  
  ThinkingShift — Authority: 119
  Well, I never thought I’d have to sling off at my beloved New Zealand but what the??? Has NZ taken a leaf out of the Bush Administration’s book of unwarrantless surveillance?  Are NZ citizens about to become the most surveilled on Earth, taking over from the Brits? There’s a little piece of legislation ...
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• How would you like your surveillance? | David Murakami Wood

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  The government wont address council misuse of Ripa laws, it is only interested in whether surveillance should be overt or covert A little-known tribunal is meeting this week to consider a case of wrongful surveillance . The case brought by Jenny Paton and Tim Joyce against Poole District Council in the Regulation ...
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• Councils surveillance powers curbed

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Government rewrites laws to stop local authorities monitoring people for dog fouling or putting bin out on wrong day The "surveillance state" powers of local authorities to snoop on the public are to be curbed under reforms announced by the home secretary, Alan Johnson. Junior council officials are to lose the ...
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• Brain scanner could herald a new Big Brother era envisaged in Minority Report

  
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  The telepathic abilities that feature in the film X2 are a step closer to reality It could herald a new Big Brother era, similar to that envisaged in the Hollywood film Minority Report, in which an individual’s private thoughts can be readily accessed by the authorities. Psychic computer shows your thoughts on ...
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• Airport strip-search machines “tear apart DNA”

  
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  The waves have been found to “unzip double-stranded DNA, creating bubbles in the double strand that could significantly interfere with processes such as gene expression and DNA replication.” Backscatter x-ray machines “tear apart DNA” Yahoo | Oct 30, 2009 The latest airport security trend is the ...
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• VeriChip markets RFID Microchip implants to ID WORLD International Congress

  
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    VeriChip Present RFID Microchip and Virus Triage Detection System for the H1N1 Virus morerfid.com | Oct 30, 2009 VeriChip recently announced that its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Scott R. Silverman, will present at the ID World International Congress in Milan, Italy, which runs from November 3-5, ...
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