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Names of innocent people will stay on police database
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| The names of nearly a million people who
| have not been convicted or cautioned for any
| crime will continue to be stored on the
| police national computer, even though the
| government is changing the law so that their
| DNA profiles are deleted.
|
| The revelation has provoked outrage among
| human rights groups who warn that it could
| affect the job prospects of the innocent.
| They fear that whenever an employer carries
| out an "enhanced criminal records" check on
| a potential employee, the system would flag
| up the fact that the person had been
| arrested.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/dec/20/dna-police-database-rights
UK e-Borders scheme thrown into confusion by EU rules
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| Conflicts with EU free movement rules have
| thrown the UK's Â1.2 billion electronic
| borders program into disarray.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/18/e_borders_confusion/
Recent:
Patriot Act Renewal Moving Forward
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| Renewal of two controversial Patriot Act
| provisions set to expire at the end of the
| year have been approved by House and Senate
| Committees over the past month, and appear
| headed for floor votes in both bodies.
| President Obama has endorsed extending the
| provisions.
|
| The two provisions include the ârecordsâ
| rule and the âroving wiretapsâ provision.
| The so-called ârecordsâ rule grants federal
| officials with a court order the power to
| force private parties such as businesses,
| hospitals, and libraries to hand over "any
| tangible thing" they believe has "relevance"
| to a terrorist investigation.
|
| âRoving wiretapsâ allow wiretapping multiple
| lines of communication without informing
| FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act)
| courts which specific phone lines or
| communication media are being targeted.
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http://www.jbs.org/jbs-news-feed/5705-patriot-act-renewal-moving-forward
My Reaction to Eric Schmidt
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| Schmidt said:
|
| I think judgment matters. If you have
| something that you don't want anyone to
| know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in
| the first place. If you really need that
| kind of privacy, the reality is that
| search engines -- including Google -- do
| retain this information for some time
| and it's important, for example, that we
| are all subject in the United States to
| the Patriot Act and it is possible that
| all that information could be made
| available to the authorities.
|
| This, from 2006, is my response:
|
| Privacy protects us from abuses by those
| in power, even if we're doing nothing
| wrong at the time of surveillance.
|
| We do nothing wrong when we make love or
| go to the bathroom. We are not
| deliberately hiding anything when we
| seek out private places for reflection
| or conversation. We keep private
| journals, sing in the privacy of the
| shower, and write letters to secret
| lovers and then burn them. Privacy is a
| basic human need.
|
| [...]
|
| For if we are observed in all matters,
| we are constantly under threat of
| correction, judgment, criticism, even
| plagiarism of our own uniqueness. We
| become children, fettered under watchful
| eyes, constantly fearful that -- either
| now or in the uncertain future --
| patterns we leave behind will be brought
| back to implicate us, by whatever
| authority has now become focused upon
| our once-private and innocent acts. We
| lose our individuality, because
| everything we do is observable and
| recordable.
|
| [...]
|
| This is the loss of freedom we face when
| our privacy is taken from us. This is
| life in former East Germany, or life in
| Saddam Hussein's Iraq. And it's our
| future as we allow an ever-intrusive eye
| into our personal, private lives.
|
| Too many wrongly characterize the debate
| as "security versus privacy." The real
| choice is liberty versus control.
| Tyranny, whether it arises under threat
| of foreign physical attack or under
| constant domestic authoritative
| scrutiny, is still tyranny. Liberty
| requires security without intrusion,
| security plus privacy. Widespread police
| surveillance is the very definition of a
| police state. And that's why we should
| champion privacy even when we have
| nothing to hide.
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http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/12/my_reaction_to.html
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