Sir Bonar, Her Majesty's Government Data Sharing Czar

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Sir Bonar Neville Kingdom, an extremely senior member of the UK's Civil Service, Permanent Secretary and Whitehall's Data Sharing Czar, shares the UK Government's attitude to electronic identity and electronic interception of data with the London  Open Rights Group conference, 2009. 

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Apparently, Sir Bonar tweets his insights about data, privacy and government and the international data sharing agenda @SirBonar. Please check out his most recent published statements on Lulu.

NCard reports status quo sustained in local elections

BTC - States like North Carolina elected more Republicans in local elections in efforts to curb spending,  stimulus payouts to Wall Street for economic failure, and a pending federal healthcare mandate.  According to Jim Palmer, an anti-national identity organizer based in North Carolina, election turnover to Republicans in both the House and Senate is being taken with a grain of salt.


"Perhaps, both Republicans and Democrats need to learn and understand that if you create a system where all private personal information is accessible it can and will be exploited by hackers, DMV workers, unscrupulous law enforcement, IT personnel and corporations who have access to the data," said Palmer frustrated by the cavalier performance of Statehouse Democrats who took up legislation opposing the federal identity mandate in North Carolina.  


Rep. Cole and Rep. Mackey had both made initial commitments to moving the legislation but never followed through.  Both members lost their seats to Republicans.


North Carolina's DMVs announced plans to adopt FRT or facial recognition technology to convert license pictures to digital images with biometric features last fall.

Pepsi- CDSL team up to create national ID standards for KIDS

Coaltion led by Donald Kendall launches effort to keep kids identities safe
c/o Greenwich Citizen

Donald Kendall of Greenwich, the co-founder, former chairman and CEO of PepsiCo is on a crusade to protect kids' identities. He believes that children are increasingly the victims of identity theft, and that parents need to understand the risk. To that end he has launched a program called KIDS - keeping identities safe for kids.

...the Coalition now has a program to recognize state achievements in improving driver's license security. We have provided seven states awards over the past two years. Our newest program KIDS is the one of which I'm most proud, because it produces measurable results in a short time frame.

More information about the Coalition for a Secure Driver's License can be found at www.secure-license.org
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REDUX: TSA, Federal Surveillance stonewalls FOIA inquiry

BTC - Have we hit the glass wall where transparency is not allowed?

Here is second life for news that matters:

Government Withholds Records on Need for Expanded Surveillance Law

DHS Privacy Office ordered TSA not to answer Identity Project's FOIA request

REFRESHMENT?
Rep.Eshoo elect takes on downsizing the Intelligence-Industrial Complex

Eshoo is the chairwoman for the Subcommittee on Intelligence Community Management under the Select Committee on Intelligence and wants to limit the number of subcontractors the intelligence community employs, about a third of 854,000 workers. The nation’s security clearance needs to be reformed because too much information sharing and too much security clearance is given to people who have no allegiance to the government, according to Eshoo. She also wants to better track the dollars the intelligence community gets from the government.

[If it goes forward, we support and salute you!]


When body scanners become mandatory @LossOfPrivacy

KPFA FM : Betsy Hartmann Interview on population control, immigration eugenics and green eugenics
*Super relevant if you are opposed to national identity programs.

GPS ruling chips away at civil liberties

PCR: Facebook suspends developers for selling user ID numbers

Company says it has 'zero tolerance' for data brokers c/o PCR News

Facebook said that a “data broker” had paid Facebook app developers for user identification numbers and that as a result the company had suspended a number of developers.

Given that the user identification numbers (UIDs) were not considered to be private and that merely knowing a UID does not bestow anyone the ability to access private data, the hard line taken by the social networking behemoth is as much a statement of intent to tackle the firm’s tarnished reputation when it comes to privacy concerns.

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India's national ID system makes Project Censored Top 25

BTC- Project Censored ranked India's national ID system 22nd out of their top 25 most recent list of censored stories, adding a plug for the American plight against national identity.

(22) 1.2 Billion People in India to be Given Biometric ID Cards

They'll contain a person's name, age, birth date, fingerprints or iris scans, "though no caste or religious identification." Then in five years, a giant computer will hold data for half of them, receiving a 16-digit ID number by 2014 during the project's first phase.

Thereafter, its use will be required for all government and private services from drivers' licenses to hospitals to banking. Critics, however, balk, saying "the project will turn India into an Orwellian police state (able to) spy on citizens' private lives." Despite government denials, it may be precisely for that purpose.

Thus far not enacted, America's Real ID Act plans the same thing, widespread state opposition over the cost having stopped it up to now.

Project Censored produces an annual book on the 25 most censored news stories in America.   Censorship is determined by whether or not a story has endured a range of systemic news omissions through corralled media conventions.  Rationale driving censorship are considered to be political, economic or legal. 

FEATURED BLOG: iformationliberation.com

BTC - Information Liberation was introduced to us by a little bird, a tweet rather from this guy, when I found this populist gem: a list of 259 boycott worthy airports using TSA's "adult" body scanners.

That's when I realized how much I have in common with this blog when I looked at their Big Brother- Orwellian cateogy. Now that it's an official blog-crush, they're being added to the blog rolls on the sidebar.

Here are the more recent ones getting the State mandated peep show. I didn't realize prisons had their own airports....Wait! The Backscatter market is moving into the criminal justice foray?  This includes courthouses.    See below.

Chicago Midway International Airport

Dulles International Airport

Greater Rochester International Airport

Honolulu International Airport

Houston William P. Hobby Airport

John F. Kennedy International Airport

La Guardia International Airport

Orlando International Airport

Philadelphia International Airport

Saipan International Airport

San Antonio International Airport

Seattle-Tacoma International Airport

Q. Where else is advanced imaging technology used?

A. Domestic locations:

Colorado Springs Court House (CO)

Cook County Court House (IL)

Department of Corrections facility (PA)

Douglas County Colorado Justice Center

Montana State Prison

Utah State Correctional Facility