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.: Surveillance Society: Don't look now, but you may find you're being watched - 9th Sep 2002
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"These days, if you feel like somebody's watching you, you might be right. One year after the Sept. 11 attacks, security experts and privacy advocates say there has been a surge in the number of video cameras installed around the country. The electronic eyes keep an unwavering gaze on everything from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Washington Monument.
And biometric facial recognition technology is being tested with video surveillance systems in a handful of places such as the Fresno airport and the resort area of Virginia Beach, Va..."
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.: $20 million tab to defeat privacy bill Among priciest lobbying efforts in state history - 8th Sep 2002
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"Sacramento -- Banks, insurance companies and other corporations spent more than $20 million in campaign contributions and lobbying expenses during the successful fight against a measure to protect the financial privacy of consumers, state records show.
Among the biggest spenders were Citigroup, which tallied $878,875 in expenses, the American Insurance Association, $310,662, and the giant credit card company, MBNA Corp., $500,871..."
[SF Gate] |
.: Terror laws 'eat away at privacy' - 7th Sep 2002
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"The UK is one of the worse places in the world for privacy with the internet playing a huge part in the erosion of rights, a report has found. A 400-page study compiled by Privacy International and the US-based Electronic Privacy Information Center paints a grim picture of the state of privacy in a post-11 September world.
"The internet is being turned into a surveillance device and eventually surveillance will be a core design component of computers," warned Simon Davies, head of Privacy International..."
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.: Britain 'leads way' in eroding privacy - 6th Sep 2002
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"Individual privacy is being eroded in Britain to a far greater extent than in other developed countries, according to an international study of state surveillance in the year since September 11.
Many states have rushed through restrictive anti-terrorism and security laws in response to last year’s terrorist attacks, but the Blair Government is singled out for an anti-privacy “pathology” that the report claims is leading to mass surveillance of the population..."
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.: Setting the rules for spam and Net privacy - 6th Sep 2002
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"ASPEN, Colo.--Orson Swindle is an unusual breed of Washingtonian: a politician who doesn't trust other politicians much at all. Swindle, 65, is one of five commissioners at the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC's responsibilities involve policing the Internet for fraud and privacy violations; the agency recently compelled Microsoft to make changes to its Passport authentication system.
Swindle believes the private sector typically is better at resolving online problems than are government bureaucrats. It's not a new argument: When the FTC voted 3-2 in May 2000 to ask Congress for more power to regulate Web sites, Swindle was one of the two dissenters..."
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