REDUX International: US-Canada info share Visas, biometrics, national ID, & NCTC

c/o The Province 

OTTAWA - Canada will soon begin sharing biometric information and other data about visa applicants with the United States — which then may provide it to third countries under a newly signed treaty. It means the fingerprints or photo of someone who hopes to visit, study or work in Canada could be passed to Washington, which in turn might share them with another country to help verify the person's identity.

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RELATED NEWS: Canadian Vets ombudsman calls for national ID card

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PrivacySOS asks "Why didn't NCTC stop the Newtown shootings?" and suggests we"Haul the NSA before Congress" 

My take on the #NCTC spying programbit.ly/UnDqvT
— Chris Calabrese (@CRCalabrese) December 13, 2012

NCTC - The Little Known Spy Agency That Knows Your Flight Plans And Much More

Unprecedented Powers for Warrantless Surveillance

AFRICA and MIDDLE EAST

Send an SMS message with your National ID to 5151 to know where's your voting place #EgyptConstitutionReferendum #Egypt via @reemelmeleegy
— Hany Farouk Ghoraba (@Hanyghoraba) December 14, 2012

Ghana's Biometric Voting

 

Nigeria's national ID heralded as path to getting self employed, resistant Nigerians into the banking system

ASIA

CHINA: 22 Children wounded today in knife attack, National ID now required for Knife purchase

The Rutherford Inst. follows up on the problem of Student Digital Surveillance

RELATED NEWS: Maryland student biometric lunch program halted after public input, Rutherford

• RFID on License Plates
• Automated License Plate Readers Explained
• Is E-Verify charging $30 to get a peek at WA State driver and labor data?
• Natnl Labor Relations Board addresses unilateral adoption of E-Verify without Union input 
• Obama Administration Rushes "Creepy Black Box" Mandate on All New Car Buyers

RATED "M" : SANTA encounters the STATE for lack of ID

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California, EDL's won't make your grass green again

Voluntary Real ID compliant EDLs for State drivers? Not a good standard to imitate

BTC  Commentary --  The Enhanced Driver's Licens (EDL) is a Real ID compliant license which adopts global standardization [WHTI] for border crossings into Mexico and Canada using an RFID chip.  California is now considering a bill which would adopt this federal standard for the State license.  The State currently meets many of the federal (and far less controversial) benchmarks for federal compliance.  However, the bankrupted State is making hard decisions about what to do next.

Washington State opted for this method for use at the Canadian border State, as one example of this policy. Their drivers license policies are not a good act to follow. Here's why.

REDUX: NISD creates video surveillance bid on Texas elementaries

***NEWSFLASH - SENATE HEARING WEDNESDAY ON SCHOOL-TO-PRISON PIPELINE***

• What is the "School-to-Prison-Pipeline"?
• Bookmark/Schedule webcast for 12/12 hearing here.

c/o San Antonio Business Insider

Northside Independent School District is taking bids on a $20 million project to put video surveillance and security upgrades in elementary schools. The bond-funded project is expected to take about two years to complete.  

The project calls for integrated security management systems to be installed in 74 schools across the district. 

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Rutherford Institute Sues North Carolina Public School for Strip-Searching a 10-Year-Old Boy in Search of Another Student’s Lost $20 Bill

Breaking the Set's, Brainwash Update covers School-to-Prison-Pipeline [24:40]

DIY Government ACTION ALERT :   Please write your local and federal Congressional Leaders to let them know what you think of State surveillance increases in public funded schools (RFID, CCTV, education & surveillance standards, higher learning, K-12 etc.)   You can make an impact on a national trend of distressing child privacy.

• WRITE FEDERAL
• WRITE LOCAL 

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Homeless amnesia victim seeking help online getting new social security number

More Metro Public Busses Quietly Recording Passenger Conversations

SEATTLE PHOTO:  Not the same system, but similar idea. 

Sting Operation catches TSA screener stealing iPad

. @beatthechip I'd like to see *more* observers at airport security - and I'd like to see it done by ordinary citizens. #tsa
— Deborah P (@hellrazr) December 10, 2012

Public Interest Declassification Board urges Obama to shake up 'outmoded and unsustainable' security classification system

Brad Manning makes UK Guardian's Person of the Year by 70%

NSTIC, Disaster Relief Security, Healthcare Smart Cards headline last week’s SCA Government Conference

Audio: Alexander Alvaro on EU privacy standards and proposals

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