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Who Cares About Your DNA? by Tricia Shore
"A Critical Analysis of the Implications for Genetic Privacy and Consent Rights in Congress’ Proposed ‘Newborn Screening Saves Lives Act of 2007’" states how the government plans to treat the DNA of every newborn, even those whose parents are completely aligned with the mainstream:
Information Fusion Centers and Privacy (from EPIC)
''Fusion centers'' are a means of bringing together
information from distributed sources for the purpose of collection, retention,
analysis,
and dissemination.
The term "fusion center," seems to have originated
from the Department of Defense (DOD,) and refers to the fusing
of
information
for analysis
purposes.
On November
9, 2002,
the
EFF Report: FBI Slowed Terror Investigation with Improper NSL Request
"This report raises important questions about the FBI's use of these
very powerful investigative tools," said EFF Senior Staff Attorney Kurt
Opsahl. "Congress should determine why FBI headquarters insisted on an
improper NSL instead of using the appropriate tools, and why the FBI
failed to report the misuse for almost two years.
SCHOOLS PREPARE PUPILS TO ACCEPT A POLICE STATE
decided that the degrading search
did not violate the girl’s Fourth
Amendment rights — even though Savana’s mother was not
alerted,
UCLA, the NIH, and Perlegen: Wired for Data Theft
When will the healthcare industry and researchers get serious about
protecting Americans' personal health data from hacking, theft, and
sale?
Montana Governor: DHS 'Blinks' on Real ID
in
Montana governor Brian Schweitzer declared victory Friday after the
Department of Homeland Security sent his state an extension to the Real ID act,
despite his insistence Montana will never comply with a mandate he describes as
a "boondoggle."
Government Reply Brief Filed with Supreme Court in Murphy v. IRS
The principal issue is whether the IRS can tax as “income” plaintiffs'
court awards for non-physical compensatory damages, such as “make
whole” awards for emotional distress and loss of reputation.
Schneider Patients Claim Gov't Harassment
"They grabbed the door and
jerked it open," says one patient who spoke to KAKE News on a condition
of anonymity. "And then they grabbed my left arm and pulled it up
behind me. They said we can do this the easy way or the hard way."
Feds target Pain Relief Network president
“There is nothing wrong, unethical, illegal, immoral about any of this. … This is an attack on my fundamental liberty to do our work,” Reynolds told The Associated Press.
NSA's Domestic Spying Grows By SIOBHAN GORMAN
According to current and former intelligence officials, the spy agency
now monitors huge volumes of records of domestic emails and Internet
searches as well as bank transfers, credit-card transactions, travel
and telephone records. The NSA receives this so-called "transactional"
data from other agencies or private companies, and its sophisticated


