The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
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EDITORIAL: Invasion of medical privacy Personal information is up for grabs with government health care Privacy rights are under threat in the House’s government health care plan. While plowing through the more than 1,000-page Democratic House bill, Declan McCullagh of CBS News uncovered provisions that would allow startling privacy intrusions. The innermost secrets of people’s …
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Watch the Video (1.3 Hours) Good on Background, Hop in and Out for Screen Shots) Robert Steele’s Notes:
Social networking is not just for the MySpace generation. Intelligence agencies are adopting a controversial new technique to identify terrorist masterminds By Steve Connor, Science Editor Wednesday, 19 August 2009 Intelligence agencies are building up a Facebook-style databank of international terrorists in order to sift through it with complex computer programs aimed at identifying key …
August 20, 2009 Allex Pham Three powerful technology companies have banded together to oppose Google’s proposed settlement with the Authors Guild and the Assn. of American Publishers over the Mountain View, Calif., search giant’s book scanning project.
Starting this year, Americans will have to get government approval to travel by air. As Privacy Journal revealed last fall, henceforth “Permission Now Needed to Travel Within U.S.” Getting a reservation and checking-in for air travel will soon require Transportation Security Administration authorization. That permission is by no means assured: For example, if your name …
To begin on a positive note: Google has both computational mathematics that are out of this world, an order of magnitude better than anything IBM or the other usual suspects can muster, and it has cracked the cloud storage and heat and throughput issues in a way that is now an almost insurmountable barrier to …
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