REDUX International Edition: RFID at US Schools, NSTIC, Biometric Policy Laundering

BTC -- This week was a big week for RFID and biometric identity deployment, especially in US schools.

More internal fissures reveal themselves in NIST's public accountability structures from an ongoing IDESG dialogue for the NSTIC pilots programs including the CDSII [Cross Sector Digital Identity Initiative].

@identitywoman @beatthechip Actuaslly they are connected: pilot grantees are expected to take part in the #IdESG, & report on progress.
— Dave Kearns (@dak3) October 12, 2012

Finally, evidence of online ID policy laundering unfolds as several nations are under governance influence to incorporate mass adoption of biometric ID credentials as national identity articles for banking.

Here's a history brief on where biometrics got it's start, who is martialing online ID authentication markets in world banking and the role global banks play in the managing the global population growth.

Here is second life for news that matters:

AUSTRALIA - NFC [RFID] to stick finger in biometrics banking: Expert

See also: Biometrics in the Banking Industry

BIOMETRIC NATIONAL ID ABROAD....

INDIA 

PAKISTAN - "ISLAMABAD: Minister for Interior, Rehman Malik on Tuesday directed that Red Zone area be extended till Embassy Road immediately and its entry be allowed only to authorize persons having valid Computerized National Identity Card (CNIC) which will be verified on the spot."

UK - They are currently working with EU standardization for privacy here.

UAE - They've already moved their national ID program to a Stasi-like program, reporting their neighbors if they are suspected of being non-citizens - 52,000 children were enrolled in the last 33 days. "The National Identification Authority, (Nida) has argued the public to visit their registration stations to make sure of their names and register objections against those thought to be non citizens" 

NIGERIA

INDONESIA

RFID IN AMERICA

• Texas School District Reportedly Threatening Students Who Refuse Tracking ID, Can't Vote For 
• Homecoming Texas Schools Are Forcing Kids To Wear RFID Chips. Is That a Privacy Invasion? In 
• Texas, using RFID technology to track students

BTC COMMENTS - "... parents are the hidden accountable parties here. The voices of the parents are not being represented in this article. They vote, pay the taxes and can come to the aid of their children's privacy. However, here the burden of resistance is squarely on minor children who have no rights in that system. That's why they are just a few shaves above cattle management. If you want to hear the complicity or the resistance go to where people are either giving up their power or fighting for their kids future with less e-surveillance."

Other Alt News Commentary by Susanne Posel -
Student RFID Chipping Conditions American Youth to Accept Government Surveillance

Living in a Cashless Society

c/o MeansOfExchange.com

There have been comments resistant to the idea of a cashless society ranging from decreased privacy to higher-tech crime to corporate control and technological vulnerabilities.

“Without strict laws, too, a cashless society will be one in which you lack fiscal privacy.” – James


“The thing that galls me is that as soon as we adopt something like that, we will see banks and other intermediaries will start charging us various fees for the convenience. And once we are past cash, we are hostages to those parasites. Ecobank now charge N200 monthly for debit card maintenance.” – Adeniyi


“Can you imagine what might happen if electrical storms, solar flares disrupt telecommunication or electrical grid…and we are already cashless? Besides, I’d rather lose my wallet to a street thug than losing my entire portfolio to the hacker-friendly system of paperless currency!” – Stacey

Another method that can be used to make financial identification more secure is to use implantable RFID microchips. :::MORE HERE:::

REDUX: NSTIC run by Banking Industry, Real ID news and Big Data v. Privacy

This one goes to Hawaii for all of the exhaustive inquiry into identity articles.

c/o Honolulu Star Adviser.com

Question: Regarding the Department of Homeland Security giving states until January 2013 to comply with the REAL ID Act (Kokua Line, April 21): Does any Hawaii license issued so far comply? I got my driver’s license in March, but I can’t tell the new one from the old one. (Combination of two questions.)

Answer: No Hawaii driver’s license or state ID card is fully compliant with security features required under the REAL ID Act, according to the city Motor Vehicles & Licensing Division and state ID Office.

Under the Department of Homeland Security’s REAL ID mark guidelines, a fully compliant card will feature a gold circle with a star cut out to reveal the background. That mark will be placed on the front top third of the license or ID.

Here is second life for news that matters:

Banks to Lead U.S. Online ID Strategy

White House cyber czar: "Trusted Identities program is a secure “ecosystem”, not a national ID card"

The New York Yankees and DSLReports.com responsible for 30,000 more data loss victims

Why Voter ID Laws Are Not The Answer 

Who else is tracking your location?

Data Privacy Put to the Test in a Supreme Court Case

Zero Privacy, Big Data, Oxygen Deprived Birthers

AND JUST IN CASE YOU'VE BEEN IN A COMA...
Former Miss USA, Susie Castello alleges sexual assault by TSA

CIA pulls SWIFT one to get peek at your bank records

c/o Presstv.ir [CLG]

European Union governments have given in to the pressure and appear set to make a last-minute agreement with the United States to allow its intelligence agencies to monitor bank accounts and transactions across the bloc.

Actually, the EU has been clandestinely allowing US intelligence agencies to have access to these financial records since 2001, allegedly to fight terrorism.

However, EU citizens were outraged when this invasion of privacy was revealed in 2006.

Now, however, interior ministers and security officials of the 27-member bloc are going to meet on November 30 to make a decision on legally allowing the United States to have access to bank data across the EU.

According to Spiegel Online, the EU interior ministers gradually succumbed to the “massive” pressure exerted by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and US ambassadors in Europe, who pressed governments like door-to-door salespeople.

“They pulled out all the moral and political stops,” one EU foreign minister quipped.

Germany was initially opposed to the agreement but came around this week, and a recalcitrant Austria, one of the last holdouts, followed suit.

German Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière, who is from the new coalition government, told German Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberg, who belongs to the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP), that he would not block the US proposal in Brussels.

There will not be a German “no” vote, but instead, he will simply abstain, Spiegel Online reported.

In what many Europeans say is a surreptitious move, the final decision on the issue is going to be made one day before the Lisbon Treaty comes into effect on December 1, since the treaty would allow the European Parliament to have a say in the matter. :::MORE HERE:::

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