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Apropå Pledgebank och mitt förra inlägg:

“I will refuse to register for an ID card and will donate £10 to a legal defence fund but only if 10,000 other people will also make this same pledge.”

Mer här.

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Den amerikanska senaten verkar vara på väg att utöka Patriot Act ytterligare:

Following reports that the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence today approved – behind closed doors – legislation designed to reauthorize and expand the Patriot Act, the American Civil Liberties Union expressed its disappointment with the secretive process and the end result that tramples on the Constitution.

“In a move antithetical to our Constitution, the new ‘administrative subpoena’ authority would let the FBI write and approve its own search orders for intelligence investigations, without prior judicial approval. Flying in the face of the Fourth Amendment, this power would let agents seize personal records from medical facilities, libraries, hotels, gun dealers, banks and any other businesses without any specific facts connecting those records to any criminal activity or a foreign agent. The panel rejected attempts to limit this extraordinary power to emergencies – creating the likelihood that it will be used in fishing expeditions and in investigations unrelated to terrorism.”

Electronic Frontier Foundation har ett utkast och sammanfattning. Se också ACLU.

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Den japanska utgåvan.

Den japanska regeringen vill införa ett krav på att utlänningar på besök i landet måste bära ett ID-kort med en liten krets som innehåller data om personen.

Förslaget kommer som ett led i kampen mot utländsk kriminalitet och terrorism, och ska ersätta det registreringssystem som utlänningar måste underkasta sig redan idag.

Hos Ny Teknik.

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The Independent skriver om ett nytt förslag när det gäller vägavgifter, satellitövervakning:

Each of Britain’s 24 million vehicles would be tracked by satellite if a variable “pay-as-you-drive” charge replaces the current road tax.

Although a fully operational national scheme is still considered to be a decade away, Mr Darling said local schemes could be up and running within five years. Manchester is considered a front-runner, with local authorities in the Midlands and London also pressing to be considered for a £2.5bn central fund to introduce the change.

Most of the necessary technology already exists. Lorries will be tracked by satellite and charged accordingly from 2007. The main obstacle to constructing a scheme to track Britain’s 24 million private vehicles is public opinion, and Mr Darling is determined to start making the case now.

Pay-as-you-drive, ja. Satellitövervakning, nej.

Varför inte också plantera en sändare i nacken, så kan de hålla koll på befolkningen ordentligt.

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