In the States

decided that the degrading search did not violate the girl’s Fourth Amendment rights — even though Savana’s mother was not alerted,

Aaron Titus, privacy director for Liberty Coalition, said the report was found by using the advanced search feature on major search engines, such as Google or MSN. If individuals think their identity has been stolen, Titus recommends going to the Liberty Coalition Web site at ssnbreach.org and searching for their name.

Manalapan, NJ - A Superior Court judge in New Jersey quashed a bogus subpoena for the identity of an anonymous blogger Friday, protecting the free speech rights of a critic writing about a local government controversy.

A news release from the Liberty Coalition, a group that works to preserve the privacy of individuals, said 14 files on the Web site contained "sensitive information" of 534 former UF students, including 415 Social Security numbers.

California has an opportunity to set some standards before the technology is widely used by state and local governments. A sound policy could dissuade some of the craziest ideas. Remember the Sutter elementary school that issued RFID lanyards to kids a couple of years ago to track them throughout the day?

The Identity Information Protection Act (SB 30), the first bill in the country to require privacy and security protections for the use of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags in state government-issued ID's passed the California State Senate this morning with a strong bipartisan vote of 33-2.

Parents complaining their children's biometric information was obtained without parents' prior knowledge were brushed off and scoffed by school officials.  Determined to correct the situation, the Van Guilders of Earlville contacted their state representative and asked for help.  Their concern set HB 1559 into motion.

Five years ago Peter Odighizuwa a 43 years old Nigerian student killed three faculty members at Appalachian Law School Dean with a semi-automatic handgun, but before he could wreak further carnage two students fetched weapons from their cars, challenged the murderer with guns levelled ,and disarmed him.

Now, of course, it is not just law enforcers in the mode of J. Edgar Hoover who have the capacity to intrude, but also MasterCard, the credit bureaus, the Google user, the phone company, the e-mail provider, the airport screener -- and the lunch room cashier in the local school. And why shouldn't parents be uneasy?