REDUX: The end of the end of 2012 edition

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Eat your heart out Jimmy Buffet

End is near for surveillance law powers 
c/o POLITICO 

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Identity tech made 3 out of Tana Geneva's,  5 Unbelievably Creepy Surveillance Tactics Read more about: Biometric Time Clocks, GPS/RFID location tagging of Children and, of course, Biometric Databases here.

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Here is second life for news that matters: 

Texas Federal Judge hears case of Hernandez v. NISD

E-Verify ordinance repealed in Springfield, MO 

E-Verify Begins Checking Driver’s License and ID Cards from the State of Florida 

Tennessee Appeals Court says accident statistics justifies suspicionless roadblocks for license checks

TSA (Finally) Studying Health Effects of Body Scanners

Court Rules Antiwar Activists Can Sue Government Spies

SANTA?!  [No. Its just Sen. Al Franken with a location privacy bill for all the boys and girls!!]

FTC orders data brokers to explain use of consumer profiles

National Initiative For #Cybersecurity Education is a USGov effort to shift CyberSec responsibility into anointed hands csrc.nist.gov/nice/documents…
— WarOnPrivacy (@WarOnPrivacy) December 18, 2012

NSTIC Technologies under the microscope Microsoft scrutinized by EU Privacy Watchdogs

Patient Privacy Rights makes reccomendations for HIPPA regs updated for the cloud

How Joe Biden helped us all actually e-mail in private.

Libertarian chair faces Pinellas, FL court over Real ID citation

Pinellas FL County courts find Real ID can be a “Willey” matter









BTC – Adrian Wyllie, the Chair for the Libertarian Party of Florida, has become a burr in the side of the Pinellas County criminal justice system. His offense? Driving without a Real ID certified license in the State of Florida. After over 2 months public provocation, the sheriffs department issued a citation.

Wyllie had his day in court- the results should surprise anyone. We are joined in a discussion with Mr. Wyllie over these current events.

The legal battle over Real ID certified licenses in the State of Florida will continue to be challenged in a recently sponsored Tallahassee based legislation, HB 109 (R-Larry Ahern).

:::MORE HERE::

REDUX: Domestic surveillance a key legacy of 9/11

c/o MontrealGazette

"Thanks to new laws and technologies, authorities track and eavesdrop on Americans as they never could before, hauling in billions of bank records, travel receipts and other information. In several cases, they have wiretapped conversations between lawyers and defendants, challenging the long-established legal principle that attorney-client communication is inviolate."

:::MORE HERE:::

Here is second life for news that matters. 

• Children 'should be taught data rights'
• 10 Ways the government watches you
• Appeals court may let NSA lawsuits proceed
• A flurry of federal data security and data breach notification bills introduced into Congress
• EPIC Files for Rehearing in Airport Body Scanner Case
• Network analysis can uncover your personal details even if you choose to hide them
• Maine Voter Data Breached
• USCIS hears suggestions and feedback on I-9 Central
• Flickr Nails Photo Privacy With New Geofence Feature
• Govt Will Not Declassify 2001 Opinion on Surveillance
• Gaddafi Hired International Firms to Spy on Libya Uprising
  

Real ID Act & religious persecution

c/o National Examiner

A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has refused to review a decision in which the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) denied an Ismaili Muslim’s petition for withholding of removal on the grounds of religious persecution. The case (Fifth Circuit docket number 09-60237) involves the REAL ID Act of 2005 and two federal statutes, 8 U.S.C. § 1231 and 8 U.S.C. § 1158.

The panel’s written opinion, which was filed on November 19, 2009, reveals that Abbas Shaikh is a citizen of India and an Ismaili Muslim. The opinion goes on to state that Mr. Shaikh entered the United States in November 2000 and overstayed his non-immigrant visitor authorization. In order to avoid removal from the U.S. back to India, Mr. Shaikh claimed that he feared persecution from Shiv Sena, a Hindu nationalist organization, based on his status as an Ismaili Muslim. ::: MORE HERE:::