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Disney's Finger Scan Upgrade Raises Privacy Concerns

An upgrade on Disney's finger scanning technology implemented to prevent ticket fraud or resale is raising concerns from privacy advocates, according to Local 6 News.

For years, Walt Disney World has been reading the shape of visitors' fingers on its property. Now, the upgraded controversial finger scanning machines scan fingerprint information.

Source: Local 6 TV (online), September 1, 2006

Chertoff Wants More Access to Airline Passenger Info

The government needs broader access to airline passenger information to identify potential hijackers, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said in an article published Tuesday.

Source: Fox News, August 29, 2006

Americans back anti-terrorism racial profiling: poll

By a 60 percent to 37 percent margin, respondents said authorities should single out people who look "Middle Eastern" for security screening at locations such as airports and train stations -- a finding that drew sharp criticism by civil liberties groups.

Source: Reuters (online), August 29, 2006

Court favors Christian literature on campus

A federal court of appeals unanimously struck down a Florida school board policy barring students from distributing religious literature on campus.

Source: WorldNetDaily, August 29, 2006

3 AOL Workers Depart Over Privacy Breach

AOL's chief technology officer left the company and two other workers were fired in the aftermath of a privacy breach that involved the intentional release of more than 650,000 subscribers' Internet search terms.

Source: My Way, August 21, 2006

US says carmakers must tell buyers about recorders

The U.S. government will not require recorders in autos but said on Monday that car makers must tell consumers when technology that tracks speed, braking and other measurements is in the new vehicles they buy.

Source: Reuters (online), August 21, 2006

Pro-Polygamist Teens Rally to Defend Their Families in Utah

"Because of our beliefs, many of our people have been incarcerated and had their basic human rights stripped of them, namely life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," said a 19-year-old identified only as Tyler. "I didn't come here today to ask for your permission to live my beliefs. I shouldn't have to."

Source: Fox News, August 20, 2006

Court rules 2003 money seizure correct despite no drugs found

Authorities were correct to assume nearly $125,000 they seized from a California man's car during a traffic stop may have been connected to narcotics trafficking, despite finding no drugs in the vehicle, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday.

Source: The Mercury News (online), August 18, 2006

Ruling: Voters have right to Ten Commandments

The Idaho Supreme Court has authorized an election in Boise for voters to decide whether they want the Ten Commandments displayed in a city park, and supporters of the plan say it could have national ramifications.

Source: WorldNetDaily, August 16, 2006

Appeals court upholds random NYC subway searches

A federal appeals court has upheld the constitutionality of random bag searches by police in America's busiest subway system to prevent terrorism.

Source: USA Today (online), August 11, 2006

Video cameras on the lookout for terrorists

Researchers at General Electric Co.'s sprawling research center, are creating new "smart video surveillance" systems that can detect explosives by recognizing the electromagnetic waves given off by objects, even under clothing.

Scientist Peter Tu and his team are also developing programs that can recognize faces, pinpoint distress in a crowd by honing in on erratic body movements and synthesize the views of several cameras into one bird's eye view, as part of a growing effort to thwart terrorism.

Source: CNN (online), August 7, 2006

Senate votes to bar emergency gun confiscation

The U.S. Senate on Thursday voted to prohibit the confiscation of legally owned guns during an emergency like last year's Hurricane Katrina, marking another victory for the gun lobby.

Source: ABC News (online), July 13, 2006

For Some, Online Persona Undermines a Résumé

When a small consulting company in Chicago was looking to hire a summer intern this month, the company's president went online to check on a promising candidate who had just graduated from the University of Illinois.

Source: The New York Times (online), June 11, 2006

`No Child' Law Found Leading States to Weaken Tests (Update1)

U.S. states are ``dumbing down'' their grade-school tests, where high failure rates could bring penalties under the federal ``No Child Left Behind'' law, University of California researchers reported.

Source: Bloomberg, July 5, 2006

Study finds companies snooping on employee e-mail

According to a new study, about a third of big companies in the United States and Britain hire employees to read and analyze outbound e-mail as they seek to guard against legal, financial or regulatory risk.

Source: Reuters, June 2, 2006

Citing security, US seeks to quash suit on telephone snooping

The US government has asked a federal judge to quash a lawsuit charging telephone company AT and T with illegally turning over call and e-mail records to a domestic spy agency, documents show.

US Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte and National Security Agency (NSA) boss Keith Alexander argued in court filings that a trial in the case could cause "exceptionally grave damage" to national security.

Source: Breitbart, May 15, 2006

Court Approved Wiretaps Rise in 2005

State judges approved a growing number of secret wiretaps in criminal investigations in 2005, while federal criminal wiretaps dropped 14 percent, according to court data released Monday.

Source: Breibart, May 1, 2006

Freshmen required to undergo homosexual indoctrination

Other exercises consisted of pairing off the youths and "asking them what someone did to you to make you feel bad at some time in your life, playing on psychology," he said.

"At the end of the meeting, everyone stands in a circle and they ask questions of the group. If it's true, you step out. Other students stepped out, trying to get you to accept this nonsense in a public setting."

Source: WorldNetDaily, April 24, 2006

District accused of equating Bible with profanity

Students at a Pennsylvania high school have filed a federal lawsuit against a district policy they say results in equating religious viewpoints with profanity.

Source: WorldNetDaily, April 22, 2006

Gonzales calls for mandatory Web labeling law

Web site operators posting sexually explicit information must place official government warning labels on their pages or risk being imprisoned for up to five years, the Bush administration proposed Thursday.

Source: c/net News, April 20, 2006

Washington drowns in Republican red ink

But, not matter how you slice it, federal spending is outstripping economic growth at a rate unseen in more than half a century.

Source: WorldNetDaily, April 3, 2006

New border ID cards won't fly: Survey

A bilateral business coalition opposed to U.S. plans for new ID cards at the border says the scheme will erect a wall with grave implications for commerce because most Americans and Canadians won't buy them.

Source: Toronto Star (online), March 14, 2006

200,000 People in U.S. Terror Database

Police and other government workers in the U.S. have come in contact with terrorists or people suspected of foreign terror ties more than 6,000 times in the past 28 months, the director of the federal Terrorist Screening Center said Tuesday.

The encounters in traffic stops, applications for permits and other situations have resulted in fewer than 60 arrests, said Donna Bucella, whose agency maintains a list of 200,000 people known or suspected to be terrorists. The list contains an additional 150,000 records that have only partial names, Bucella said.

Source: Breitbart, March 14, 2006