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Biometric Scanners for Kiddies
 The Bio-Metric
Scanner Room Guard announces nosy brothers or sisters trying to
enter, while allowing silent entry only to the person whose hand matches the
five-finger pressure-sensitive password. An alarm sounds . . . . .
Google developing eavesdropping software
The first thing that came out of our mouths when we heard that Google is working
on a system that listens to what's on your TV playing in the background, and
then serves you relevant
RFID plane tickets to track travellers
Scientists at University College London (UCL) are developing a system that
combines radio frequency identification (RFID) tags and . . . .
US plans to 'fight the net' revealed
A newly declassified document gives a fascinating
glimpse into the US military's plans for ......
"Beware of the End of the World (Wide
Web)," Says Intel
Sep 10, 2004 (financialwire.net via
COMTEX) -- (FinancialWire) Remember those "End of the World" signs? Well, Intel
Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) says it may be nearer .................
The end of the internet is nigh
BT's Graham Whitehead has told the Irish Internet
Association's Congress that ......................
Robot special: Almost human
Robots are on the march. Already, 1.5
million Roomba vacuum-cleaning bots are.....................
Deal forged to equip VeriChip with GPS
Setting the stage for controversial tracking
technology, the satellite telecommunications company
.........
 Debate Stirs Over Employee ID Implants
An
Ohio security company has become the first known U.S. employer to implant
electronic ID tags in employees. . . . .
The Pentagon's War on the Internet
The Pentagon has developed a comprehensive strategy
for taking over the internet and controlling the free flow of information. The
plan appears . .
Google Copies Your Hard Drive -
Government Smiles in Anticipation
San Francisco - Google today announced a new
"feature" of its Google Desktop software that greatly increases . . . . . . .
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AT&T sued over alleged role in NSA
surveillance program
A San Francisco-based digital
civil-liberties group has filed a class-action lawsuit against
Robots are saving American lives in Iraq
and Afghanistan
WASHINGTON -The Defense Department is rapidly expanding its army of robot
warriors on land, air and sea . . . . . . . . . . .
US plans massive data sweep
The US government is developing a massive computer system that can
collect huge amounts of data . . . . . . . . .
Cookies Are Recipe for Controversy at NSA
The National Security Agency has been
inserting files known as cookies onto the computers . . . . . . . .
New face ID system from China
A
biometric face recognition system has been approved in China and will . . . . .
. . . . .
In electronic ID tag game, when will you
be it?
An Ohio firm has implanted silicon chips in two of
its workers in what is believed to be the first known case in . . . . . . . . .
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Virus attacking Apple Macintosh PCs
found-experts
A malicious computer worm has been found
that targets Apple Computer Inc.'s Mac OS X operating system. . . . . . . . . .
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Google Desktop in security scare
The latest beta version of Google Desktop can pose a security risk
for . . . . . . . . .
U.S. HOMELAND SECURITY RFI HEIGHTENS
PUBLIC CONCERNS OVER RFID, notes CASPIAN
"Call it Big Brother on steroids," say privacy
advocates Katherine Albrecht and Liz McIntyre, co-authors of "Spychips: How
Major Corporations...."
Digital product placement alters TV
landscape
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A breakthrough in
television advertising debuted without fanfare last spring as a brand-name box
of crackers appeared on the CBS . . . . . . . . . . .
DoD Plans To Deploy RFID In Operations
With 24 Nations
The Department of Defense said Thursday it intends to move
forward on plans to use active radio frequency identification . . .
Mobile tracking devices on trial
Your mobile phone is a beacon - a radio transmitter
in . . . . . . . .
Anti-matter weapon systems million times
more powerful than nukes - reverse engineering extraterrestrial technologies
Defense
scientists in many countries in the world are working on . . . . . . . . . .
Big Brother Is Reading Your Blog
These days, social networkers are concerned about protecting
their privacy, not only from predators and scam artists, but from nosy employers
and campus. . . . . . . . .
Opposition to AOL's 'email tax' grows
More than 50 organisations are joining forces to protest against AOL's
plan to start charging . . . . . . . . .
 Here's something to chew on: ID in teeth
It is the ID card you will never lose or
forget to carry with you unless your. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
VeriChip has VeriMed Patient
Identification ID Chip Implants being used during Medical Emergencies
An implanted chip in a person would be able to tell emergency
workers and doctors. . . . . . . . . .
Shoppers can pay by fingerprint
Supermarket customers are being offered the chance to pay for their
shopping . . . . . . . . . . . . .
New rolling surveillance robot from
Hitachi
It's not quite the most exciting robot we've seen recently,
but Hitachi has a new . . . . . . . . . .
RFID Is Fit to Track Clothes
Wilfried Kanzok of Kaufhof Warenhaus says RFID will be widely adopted in
the textile industry as soon as tag prices . . . . .
Postage Is Due for Companies Sending E-Mail
Companies will soon have to buy the electronic
equivalent of a postage stamp if they want to ........
Pulled over in Kansas? Get ready to show
your license, registration and fingerprints
If you are stopped by police in Kansas,
don't be surprised if the officer pulls out a little black box and takes your
fingerprints
The End of the Internet?
The
nation's largest telephone and cable companies are crafting an alarming set of
strategies that would transform the free, open and nondiscriminatory Internet of . . . .
Tolls could dot the Internet highway
That's something operators of the Internet highway, the major
U.S. phone companies, want to change by effectively adding a. . . . . . .
AOL's email tax row goes intergalac
The wide-ranging coalition that objects to a tax on sending
email has a new, and unexpected . . . . . . . .
Space tourism lures a rising number of US
entrepreneurs
Space tourism has caught the imagination of US business
leaders, some of whom already have plans to serve what they say may be a
multi-billion-dollar . . . . . . . .
Privacy fear as Google plans 'super
database'
GOOGLE, the internet giant, is planning a massive online facility that
could store copies of users' hard drives - a move set to. . .
Walking around with a chip on your arm
About 100 people
in the United States have had microchips implanted under their skin so that
doctors can instantly access their medical records. Most of them are employees.
. . . .
Big Brother's on the phone
GPS chips in cell phones can do a heck of a lot more than help 911
workers locate. . . . . . . . . .
China to issue 1.3 billion RFID
identification cards
China's Ministry of Public Security (MPS), which oversees the country's
police force, plans to issue more than 1.3 billion second-generation resident
identification . . . . . . . . .
Microsoft's miniature 'Origami' PC
unveiled
The first wave of miniature computers from
Microsoft Corp.'s Origami project will be available starting next month at
prices from $600 to $1,000 -- offering. . . . . .
Most malicious software aimed at theft
 Seventy
percent of malicious software being circulated is linked to various types of
cybercrime, a study by security firms . . . . . . . .
New RFID travel cards could pose privacy
threat
ARLINGTON,
Va.--Future government-issued travel documents may feature embedded computer
chips that can be read at a distance of up to. . . . . . . . .
Microsoft piracy pop-up is persistent
MICROSOFT
HAS BEEN quietly piloting its Software Genuine Advantage programme in Norway and
in Sweden since . . . . . . . . . . . . .
BellSouth, Samsung Team On Broadband
Devices
BellSouth
and a division of Samsung said Thursday that they have agreed to work together
to develop and sell devices that use broadband to integrate multiple functions
in the home such as . . . . . . . . . . .
AOL Starts Pay-to-Send Email Shakedown
San Francisco - AOL has quietly flipped the switch on its
"certified mail" service, delivering pay-to-send email to some of its millions
of customers.
 Will the US consider RFID chips under the
skin for migrant workers?
Are there really plans
to insert RFID chips under your skin if you get a work permit for the US? And
if. . . . . .
Gadgets make people easy to track
WASHINGTON
- For better or for worse, it's rapidly getting easier for others to know where
you are, sometimes 24/7. Thanks to the explosive spread of wireless. . . . . . .
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Is business the real Big Brother?
Monitoring and
surveillance of employees and customers by big business is now commonplace.
Brain Waves Control Robot
In a step toward linking a person's thoughts to machines, Japanese automaker
Honda said it has developed a technology that uses brain . . . . .
FBI plans new Net-tapping push
The
FBI has drafted sweeping legislation that would require Internet service
providers to create wiretapping hubs for police surveillance and force makers of
networking gear to build in . . . . . .
 Keep Track of Your Kids at Amusement
Parks
Lorna Greenhalgh was left reeling after she nearly lost her
daughter at an amusement park. The separation lasted just a little while, but
the fear of . . . . . . . .
Is the NSA spying on U.S. Internet
traffic?
In a
pivotal network operations center in metropolitan St. Louis, AT&T has
maintained a secret, highly secured room since . . . . .
Google's not-so-very-secret weapon
On the banks of the windswept Columbia River, Google is working on
a secret weapon in its quest to dominate the next generation of Internet . . . .
. . . . .
Aiming to catch criminals red-footed
A computer system can spot
those who are guilty by the way they walk . . . . . . .
Microsoft shuts down Windows 98
Microsoft is urging an estimated 70 million users of Windows 98 to
upgrade as it . . . . . . . .
Fingerprint replaces card and cash
Students now have easy access to off-campus meals with the touch of a
finger. Whitworth College has recently installed the IMYE system, which allows
students, faculty and staff to buy . . . . .
Electronic Voting Machines Could Skew Elections
Cheryl Kagan, a former Maryland Democratic legislator, was shocked when she
opened her mail . . . . .
Big brother could be watching you
A call by FBI director Robert Mueller that Internet service providers (ISPs)
should record and store records of their customers' online activities to a . . . . .
Getting chipped in sin city
 
This week in Las Vegas, supposedly "dozens of people" were implanted with
VeriChip microchips at an osteopathic medical convention.
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