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6/22/2011 Free to Search and Seize
THIS spring was a rough season for the Fourth Amendment. The Obama administration petitioned the Supreme Court to allow GPS tracking of vehicles without judicial permission. The Supreme Court ruled that the police could break into a house without a search warrant if, after knocking and announcing themselves, they heard what sounded like evidence being destroyed. Then it refused to see a Fourth Amendment violation where a citizen was jailed for 16 days on the false pretext that he was being held as a material witness to a crime. In addition, Congress renewed Patriot Act provisions on enhanced surveillance powers until 2015, and the F.B.I. expanded agents’ authority to comb databases, follow people and rummage through their trash even if they are not suspected of a crime. None of these are landmark decisions. But together they further erode the privilege of privacy that was championed by Congress and the courts in the mid-to-late-20th century, when the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement was applied to the states, unconstitutionally seized evidence was ruled inadmissible in state trials, and privacy laws were enacted following revelations in the 1970s of domestic spying on antiwar and civil rights groups. For over a decade now, the government has tried to make us more secure by chipping away at the one provision of the Bill of Rights that pivots on the word “secure” — the Fourth Amendment’s guarantee of “the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures.” (New York Times)
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posted: 6/25/11                   0       7
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4/21/2011 Report: iPhones secretly track their users' locations
Apple devices appear to be tracking their owners' locations and storing data about people's whereabouts without their knowledge, according to a report posted Wednesday on a site called iPhone Tracker. The unauthorized surveillance started in June 2010, when the latest version of Apple's mobile operating system was released, according to two researchers who say they discovered a hidden tracking file and posted it out of concern for users. Apple has not responded to the allegations. The researchers have posted a program online that will let any iPhone user see a map of his or her location over time, going back to June, when iOS 4.0 was released. The program's developers, listed as Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden, say this data is stored on a person's iPhone or 3G-enabled iPad and on computers that are synced with those devices. There's no evidence, they say, that the data is also transmitted to Apple as it's collected. (CNN)
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posted: 4/25/11                   0       3
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keywords: Alasdair Allan, Apple, Federal Bureau Of Investigation, Forbes, GPS, Gizmodo, Iphone, Kashmir Hill, Pete Warden, Privacy, Sam Biddle, United States Add New Keyword To Link



2/25/2011 Darpa's Cheetah-Bot Designed to Chase Human Prey
Perhaps you thought the four-legged BigDog robot wasn’t eerily lifelike enough. That’ll change soon. BigDog’s makers are working on a new quadruped that moves faster than any human and is agile enough to “chase and evade.” Boston Dynamics, maker of the Army’s BigDog robotic mule, announced today that Darpa has awarded it a contract to build a much faster and more fearsome animal-like robot, Cheetah. As the name implies, Cheetah is designed to be a four-legged robot with a flexible spine and articulated head (and potentially a tail) that runs faster than the fastest human. In addition to raw speed, Cheetah’s makers promise that it will have the agility to make tight turns so that it can “zigzag to chase and evade” and be able to stop on a dime. Cheetah builds off work on the company’s previous four legged animal bot, BigDog. It was built as a kind of unmanned pack mule, designed to carry equipment for troops on the battlefield. The robotic donkey could carry 300 lbs. over 13 miles on flat ground, take a swift kick and keep on moving. It’s creepy, lifelike movement can be seen on a number of videos online, climbing over hills and snow and hiking alongside soldiers, using GPS coordinates as its waypoints. (Wired)
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posted: 3/12/11                   0       8
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10/11/2010 Oregon county decriminalizes heroin, meth, cocaine and shoplifting, among others
It's crunch-time for many municipalities across the United States, but for one county in Oregon, that means a little more than in most. The district attorney in Multnomah County, the state's most populous area with over 710,000 residents, announced recently that it can no longer prosecute dozens of crimes thanks to an ever-shrinking budget. Caught with small amounts of heroin, cocaine or methamphetamine? It's a ticket. So's a hit-and-run accident. Small-time shoplifting? You'll still get arrested, but it's still just a violation. (The Raw Story)
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posted: 10/19/10                   0       18
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6/14/2010 Feds under pressure to open US skies to drones
Unmanned aircraft have proved their usefulness and reliability in the war zones of Afghanistan and Iraq. Now the pressure's on to allow them in the skies over the United States.

Last year, the FAA promised defense officials it would have a plan this year. The agency, which has worked on this issue since 2006, has reams of safety regulations that govern every aspect of civilian aviation but is just beginning to write regulations for unmanned aircraft. (Associated Press)
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posted: 6/22/10                   0       16
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7/2/2009 Bill banning forced identity-chip implants clears House
Invasion of privacy is an issue that really gets under State Rep. Babette Josephs' skin (The Philidelphia Inquirer)
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posted: 7/5/09                   0       9
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6/8/2009 Drones Join the War Against Drugs
For weeks, U.S. and Salvadoran counternarcotics officials had been watching a boat they suspected was ferrying drugs to and from El Salvador's Pacific coast. But to be sure, they needed a plane that could stay aloft over the ocean, undetected, long enough to get detailed surveillance imaging (Time Magazine)
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posted: 6/25/09                   1       19
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5/21/2009 Now Google tracking follows you out of cyberspace
Making your life easier by knowing what you're doing (The Register)
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posted: 5/21/09                   4       30
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5/21/2009 Worldwide GPS may die in 2010, say US gov
Can the fanbois live without it? (The Register)
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posted: 5/21/09                   5       28
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5/7/2009 Wisconsin court upholds GPS tracking by police
police can attach GPS to cars to secretly track anybody's movements without obtaining search warrants, an appeals court ruled Thursday (Chicago Tribune)
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posted: 5/12/09                   5       29
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5/5/2009 U.S. Census field workers prompt flurry of calls
That weirdo staring at your house and holding something that looks like a camera might not be a weirdo after all (The Roanoke Times)
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posted: 5/5/09                   5       31
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4/21/2009 The Census Taker Cometh! GPS unit to log the GPS coordinates for your front door (Canadian Free Press)
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2/20/2009 Obama Administration Proposes Substituting Federal Gas Tax with New Model Based On Miles Driven
Perhaps the Republicans were right

a Democrat in office does in fact mean bigger government along with unnecessary intrusion into the lives of American citizens. Funnily enough a Republican member of President Barack Obama's administration is now proposing a new kind of tax that is not likely to go over well with anyone that owns a vehicle. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said on Friday that he backs a plan to tax motorists based on how many miles they drive rather than the ages old standard method of taxing gasoline based on usage. For more than half a century, gasoline taxes have paid for the federal portion of highway and bridge construction. But according to LaHood, this system can no longer be relied upon to raise enough funds to keep the country's transportation system moving. "We should look at the vehicular miles program where people are actually clocked on the number of miles that they traveled," said LaHood. (Cleveland Leader)
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posted: 5/4/09                   2       13
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1/20/2009 Antarctic ice shelf set to collapse due to warming
the big worry is that their loss will allow ice sheets on land to move faster, adding extra water to the seas (Reuters)
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posted: 7/2/09                   0       10
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9/20/2007 Marked the year the U.S. Census Bureau awarded IBM Global Business Services a contract worth $89.5 million over 9 years , to provide data tabulation and dissemination services in support of the 2010 Census Decennial Response Integration System (DRIS) program
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posted: 5/12/09                   1       18
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5/15/2007 Would an implanted chip help to keep my child safe? In the wake of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, every type of child monitoring device is in demand (London Times)
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posted: 8/7/09                   0       7
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3/21/2006 FBI agent 'warned of hijack risk'
An FBI agent has told the sentencing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui that his attempts to warn of a possible hijack plan were obstructed by his superiors.

But despite his entreaties, FBI headquarters refused to open a criminal investigation and obtain a search warrant for Moussaoui's possessions, Mr Samit said. (BBC)
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posted: 5/31/10                   0       9
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8/27/2005 'Eyes in the sky' for homeland security
From blimps to do-it-yourself unmanned vehicles, a trend takes flight (MSNBC)
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posted: 5/14/09                   3       24
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9/3/2004 Integration of GPS, Digital Imagery and GIS with Census Mapping
United Nations Statistics Division (United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs)
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posted: 6/17/09                   1       20
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9/8/2003 Careful! Your Phone Is Watching You
They know where you are

Cellphones, chips, and radio tags are tracking people and things (US News & World Report)
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posted: 6/10/09                   3       22
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11/7/2002 Microchip implants in humans on the market
Applied Digital Solutions' (ADS) VeriChip is about the size of a grain of rice and is linked to a database (CBC)
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posted: 6/15/09                   2       16
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2/6/2002 They Want Their ID Chips Now
But one thing may soon make the Jacobses stand out: They could become the first family in the world to be implanted with microchips that contain their personal information (Wired)
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1/1/2002 The Verichip on The Today Show
This is the now infamous Jacobs family, the first volunteers to be implanted with the Verichip, on the Today Show in May 2002 (NBC)
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