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Take a look at the map below. It shows privacy rights around the world; the brighter the color, the better for privacy.

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EAST HADDAM -- - With little fanfare, the board of education voted this week to allow the use of police-trained dogs to detect drugs, alcohol and tobacco on school grounds, and adopted a new attendance policy that will crack down on excused absences.

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The FBI's $1 Billion biometric database has launched, aiming to be the largest database in the world containing the physical characteristics of individuals.

In 1968 Andy Warhol coined the phrase 'In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes'.
It does appear that today's pre-teens have taken Mr. Warhol's words to heart.

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Big Brother auditions rolled into Belfast recently. The question is, with so much controversy and many series now in the can, who in their right mind is going to audition?

Source: The eco-logic Powerhouse
On October 23, 2007, the House of Representatives passed what may be the most dangerous bill ever to come down the pike. This bill, like many of its predecessors on our steady march toward totalitarianism, sailed under the radar. There was virtually no publicity or fanfare.

Source: The eco-logic Powerhouse
Every day, government tightens the screws on the American people by passing and then enforcing new law, after new law. The U. S. Congress never saw a new law to restrict the people they didn't like

Source: ABC News
Imagine enjoying a friendly lunch with co-workers at the company restaurant. Now imagine every bite, sip and swallow being monitored by company researchers, in a kind of culinary Big Brother scenario.

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....The city of Winter Park is considering putting 56 portable digital fingerprint scanners into patrol cars.
The scanners would eliminate identity confusion by offering a complete record on the spot....

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Psychological operations specialist Sgt. Joe Colabuno..

Source: corpwatch.org
Quoted from the article by Tim Sharrock
"A new intelligence institution to be inaugurated soon by the Bush administration will allow government spying agencies to conduct broad surveillance and reconnaissance inside the United States for the first time."
"The intellige …

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RAND maintains that homegrown terrorism will not be the result of jihadist sleeper cells. Rather, it will result from anti-globalists

Source: CNN
AT&T; Inc. has announced a new contract to deliver an innovative custom mobility solution to the Governor's Division of Emergency Management (GDEM) for the state of Texas.
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Premiere dates for 'Survivor 16' and 'The New Adventures of Christine' also set.

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If you are tired of receiving junk mail, spam and annoying telemarketing phone calls, then this list is for you. If you desire to take steps to stop the snooping from the government, hackers and marketing agencies, then this list will show you the way to privacy freedom.

Source: CorpWatch
A new intelligence institution to be inaugurated soon by the Bush administration will allow government spying agencies to conduct broad surveillance and reconnaissance inside the United States for the first time.
Source: WCBSTV.com
Grooming th enext generation to give up their privacy...in the name of security. Be aware and protect our freedoms!!!

On reflection just how safe is our information on the internet...
I originally wrote this on another site in June 2006:

Source: Houston TV
Who needs black helicopters for a little domestic spying mission, when the cops fly unmanned drone aircraft over your neighborhood?

Source: OpinionJournal.com
"Peeping Tom," the chilly 1959 movie by Michael Powell, concerns a young psychopath who uses a 16mm movie camera to film his victims while he is killing them.

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Hot on the heels of "Fortress Britain" comes the news of a terror crackdown, requiring anyone entering or leaving Britain to give up 53 pieces of personal information before they can fly.

Source: informationweek.com
Ten schoolchildren in the United Kingdom are being tracked by RFID chips in their school uniforms as part of a pilot program.

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If you needed more evidence that most of our "esteemed" members of Congress are members of a criminal class of ruling elites, who regard the likes of us in the poor and working classes with the disdain most people reserve for cockroaches, look no further than H.R. 1955.

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Just when you praise Gordon Brown for sacking the ID scheme, he turns around and smacks you with more big brother legislation for anyone entering or exiting the United Kingdom.

Source: Guardian Unlimited
Welcome to Fortress Britain, a fortress that will keep people in as well as out. Welcome to a state that requires you to answer 53 questions before you're allowed to take a day trip to Calais.