2010 02 15

sure, shove that probe up my arse ~ i don't mind
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the emergence of society in the latter day surveillance state forces me to validate myself to authority with alarmingly increasing frequency

since the sixties when Diefenbaker protested that only 'cows are numbered', we have gone from identification numbers, to compulsary documents and certificates that require photographs, fingerprints, and (soon enough) finger and eye scans

all to be collected in a biometric database that allows me to be profiled in rampant tracking of my activities

besides the obliteration of privacy, it also makes me subject to the suspicions of a state which doesn't trust its citizens unless tracked

this is a serious threat to my innate freedom
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entire populations are subjected to oppressive measures
though citizens have an absolute right not to be interfered with

Closed Circuit Television Cameras since 9/11
USA 30 million; Britain 4.2 million

gps location trackers in vehicles, and ~ coming (replacing barcodes): radio frequency identification chips on your purchased items

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check these out:
Prism Magazine ~ the security practices monitor
               ( ~ see our [contact] page for a comment from the editor)
Queen's univerity's Surveillance Project
the Privacy Advocates ~ resisting the spread of surveillance
Surveillance Studies and its on-line, open access, Journal
the Identity Trail investigation, and its access to government information manual

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Chat rooms monitored. Blogs deleted. Websites blocked. Search engines restricted.
People imprisoned for simply posting and sharing information.
Be irrepressible an Amnesty International campaign

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how to bypass internet censorship at Floss Manuals
download 32 page Everyone's Guide to By-Passing Internet Censorship

monitoring the state and civil liberties in Europe: State Watch
Citizen Lab: social movements, civic activism, and democratic change in a planetary polity
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      RCMP can contact Microsoft Law Enforcement Security which is able to identify a computer through a numeric code and geo-locate it.
      Already in 2008 arstechnica ~ one of many websites of Conde Nast (publisher of the New Yorker, Vogue, and Wired) reported:
      Microsoft law enforcement tool bypasses PC security and devices have been distributed to law enforcement agencies around the world since 2007.
      The Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor, or COFEE for short, is a USB thumb drive that contains software capable of executing approximately 150 separate commands. Once plugged in, COFEE can be ordered to decrypt system passwords, display a history of internet activity, and search the system for evidence.
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surprise, surprise
spy chief scares canadians to get more . . .
money, spies, tools, to monitor all of us


                even the mainstream press is beginning to find it all a bit much
                " . . . instead of fearing Big Brother, we adopted and domesticated him
                " . . . we're willing to give up the most fundamental human freedom of all.
                "The right to be alone. The right to be private.
                "The right to be treated as responsible, independent adult citizens."

 Artizans

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