A federal database containing personal information on every person in America who gets a job or files an unemployment claim may be used to track sex offenders, according to a report released this week.
A coalition of national security whistleblowers says that Congress is finally set to pass important protections for whistleblowers who report internal threats to national security, but that the Department of Justice wants the desperately needed protections dropped.
The Department of Homeland Security has security problems with its Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems which could allow unauthorized access to sensitive data, according to a new Inspector General's report. Through these security lapses, someone could potentially swipe an unused RFID chip, program it into DHS's own database, and have a legitimate-seeming border crossing document.
We've all seen how stupid security has gotten. And most of us have had to go through some intrusive, outrageous procedures in the name of security. So why aren't we secure? Security expert Bruce Schneier calls it "security theater," feel-good measures which give the appearance of doing something, but are ineffective at best, and tyrannical at worst. Now Privacy International is looking for the world's dumbest "security" measures.
When it comes to airline security, in this day and age, you can never be too stupid. In the wake of news that authorities in the United Kingdom had disrupted a terrorist plot August 10 to blow up airliners, numerous security incidents -- and complete non-incidents -- have been reported in the weeks since, seven just on Friday. In most cases, officials seem to have overreacted to nonexistent threats.
Federal air marshals will be allowed to use discretion in dressing for their duties on board aircraft, as well as be able to choose the hotel in which they stay, according to a policy change announced Thursday.
As many as 21,000 students who applied for federal student financial aid may have had their personal data compromised after an error with the U.S. Department of Education's Financial Student Aid web site showed other users' personal data to logged in users, the department said.
Even as the American Medical Association continues their relentless assault against the medical market through restrictions on both provider and consumer, Canadians finally seem to be warming up to the idea that perhaps government doesn't do things best.
Six men suspected of plotting to blow up the U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo, Bosnia, were brought to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2002. They remain imprisoned there even though the charges against them were dropped.
On occasion I receive notes from readers who say that I should check out something or other related to homeland security. While I don't have the time to post every one of them, on occasion I get one that really needs to be addressed. So it was that a reader pointed me to Howard Melamed, CEO of CellAntenna Corporation, who has proposed that governments prohibit mobile phone service in tunnels and jam signals at public events such as football games.
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