URGENT ACTION ALERT -
STOP H.R. 5405
I regretfully send you this email to inform you of yet another plot to enslave the American people in an unconstitutional framework of databases under the guise of “security”.
Recently Congressman Mark Kirk from Illinois 10th District introduced a bill to create a “Secure Social Security Card”. [...]
Unknown to most new parents, or those who became parents in the last ten or so years, DNA of newborns has been harvested, tested, stored and experimented with by all 50 states. And all 50 states are now routinely providing these results to the Homeland Security Department.
No doubt we can all see the benefits [...]
One of the most invasive and intrusive Acts passed by congress was the attachment of the REAL ID act to a non-related spending bill. REAL ID, which could not pass as a stand alone bill because of its intent to tag us all like cattle, was also passed in violation of the enacting charter of [...]
The Microwave RFID Panopticon: corp-state lifetime monitoring, health/civil implicationsThe Intelligence Reform Act of 2004 and the Real ID Act of 2005 establish an ominous national ID system, ***forcing all states to standardize*** biometric-laden birth certificates, drivers licenses and other ID cards. By 2008, personal data from these will be flowing into the HSD central database. [...]
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/13/fbi-database/
In the name of fighting terrorism, the FBI is seeking to create a massive new data-mining program which “bears a striking resemblance” to the Pentagon’s Total Information Awareness program:
The FBI is seeking $12 million for the [National Security Branch Analysis Center] in FY2008, which will include 90,000 square feet of office space and a total [...]
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (“EPIC”) has submitted a series of comments concerning traveler screening systems undertaken by federal entities. Earlier this month, we urged DHS to curtail the revised Automated Targeting System (“ATS”), a federal screening system that creates secret, terrorist ratings on tens of millions of American citizens.3
(Last year, EPIC led a coalition [...]
http://www.biometrics.dod.mil/
Reading from this site, you could come to the swift conclusion that biometrics was one of those “good things” that Martha Stewart refers to constantly. The rolling comments consist of positive reinforcement of the idea that biometrics is just a helpful tool and will be used for nothing else.
According to this promo, biometrics is [...]
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