Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Britain: National Patient DNA Database?
January 26th, 2012The document to which he’s referring is here: Building on Our Inheritance: Genomic Technology in Healthcare. Via: Kevin Townsend: You have to look long and hard, but eventually you find it. There, on page 51 of ‘Building on our inheritance – Genomic technology in healthcare’ is the one and only mention of the national whole […]
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January 26th, 2012LAPD Chief William Bratton: LAPD Works with CIA
January 26th, 2012Via: current.com: “In dealing with information intelligence as it relates to terrorism, the CIA has a lot of information that is appropriate for use by American police forces,” Bratton says. At the LAPD, “We had interactions with the CIA in the sense of meeting from them from time to time, certainly, just in order to […]
‘If you notice a heavy military presence around downtown Los Angeles this week, don’t be alarmed’
January 25th, 2012Via: CBS: If you notice a heavy military presence around downtown Los Angeles this week, don’t be alarmed — it’s only a drill. Joint military training exercises will be held evenings through Thursday, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. The LAPD will be providing support for the exercises, which will also be held in […]
Six Million People Are Under Correctional Supervision in the U.S.—More Than Were in Stalin’s Gulags
January 25th, 2012Via: New Yorker: For a great many poor people in America, particularly poor black men, prison is a destination that braids through an ordinary life, much as high school and college do for rich white ones. More than half of all black men without a high-school diploma go to prison at some time in their […]
Google Admits It Will Track Everything Its Users Do, No Opt Out
January 25th, 2012In other words, Google now admits doing things that Cryptogon readers have known it has been doing for about a decade: Tracking everything. Via: Washington Post: Google said Tuesday it will follow the activities of users across e-mail, search, YouTube and other services, a shift in strategy that is expected to invite greater scrutiny of […]
Judge Orders Defendant to Decrypt Laptop
January 24th, 2012Update: She Doesn’t Remember Her Password Well, duh. Via: Wired: A Colorado woman ordered to decrypt her laptop so prosecutors may use the files against her in a criminal case might have forgotten the password, the defendant’s attorney said Monday. The authorities seized the Toshiba laptop from defendant Ramona Fricosu in 2010 with a court […]
Homeland Security Wants to Spy on 4 Square Miles at Once
January 24th, 2012Via: Wired: It’s not just for the Afghanistan and Iraq wars anymore. The Department of Homeland Security is interested in a camera package that can peek in on almost four square miles of (constitutionally protected) American territory for long, long stretches of time. Homeland Security doesn’t have a particular system in mind. Right now, it’s […]
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul Detained by TSA; Refused Pat Down
January 23rd, 2012Via: WLWT: GOP presidential hopeful Ron Paul said his son, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, has been detained by security at the Nashville airport. “My son Rand is currently being detained by the TSA at the Nashville Airport. I’ll share more details as the situation unfolds,” the elder Paul posted on his Facebook page. Sen. Paul’s […]
The Age of Transitions
January 23rd, 2012Via: The Age of Transitions:
