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Updated:2006-08-21 08:46:12
Who’s Watching?
By ERIC PETERS
http://cdn.digitalcity.com/ch_autos/...ter-200a081806




Big Brother will be watching you for sure by 2008 -- the year a proposed requirement that Event Data Recorders (EDRs) become mandatory standard equipment in all new cars and trucks will become law unless public outrage puts the kibosh on it somehow.

EDRs are "black boxes" -- just like airplanes have. They can record a wide variety of things -- including how fast you drive and whether you "buckle-up for safety." The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) wants EDRs to be installed in every new vehicle beginning with model year 2008 -- on the theory that the information will help crash investigators more accurately determine the hows and whys of accidents.

But EDRs could -- and likely will be -- used for other purposes as well.

Tied into GPS navigation computers, EDRs could give interested parties -- your local cash-hungry sheriff, for example -- the ability to take automated ticketing to the next level. Since the data recorders can continuously monitor most of the operating parameters of a vehicle as it travels -- and the GPS unit can precisely locate the vehicle in "real time," wherever it happens to be at any given moment -- any and all incidents of "speeding" could be immediately detected and a piece of paying paper issued to the offender faster than he could tap the brake. That's even if he knew he was in the crosshairs, which of course he wouldn't. Probably they'll just erect an electronic debiting system of some sort that ties directly into your checking account -- since the paperwork could not keep up with the massive uptick in fines that would be generated.


What Do You Think?








If you think this is just a dark-minded paranoiac vision, think again. Rental car companies have already deployed a very similar system of onboard electronic monitoring to identify customers who dare to drive faster than the posted limit -- and automatically tap them with a "surcharge" for their scofflaw ways. While this inventive form of "revenue enhancement" was challenged and subsequently batted down by the courts, the technology continues to be honed -- and quietly put into service.

Already, 15-20 percent of all the cars and trucks in service have EDRs; most of these are General Motors vehicles. GM has been installing "black boxes" in its new cars and trucks since about 1996 as part of the Supplemental Restraint (air bag) system. Within a few years, as many as 90 percent of all new motor vehicles will be equipped with EDRs, according to government estimates -- whether the requirement NHTSA is pushing actually becomes law or not.

The automakers are just as eager to keep tabs on us as the government -- in part to keep the shyster lawyers who have been so successfully digging into their deep pockets at bay. EDRs would provide irrefutable evidence of high-speed driving, for example -- or make it impossible for a person injured in a crash to deny he wasn't wearing a seat belt.

Insurance companies will launch "safety" campaigns urging that "we use available technology" to identify "unsafe" drivers -- and who will be able to argue against that? Everyone knows that speeding is against the law -- and if you aren't breaking the law, what have you got to worry about?

It's all for our own good.

But if you get edgy thinking about the government -- and our friends in corporate America -- being able to monitor where we go and how we go whenever they feel like checking in on us, take the time to write a "Thanks, but no thanks" letter to NHTSA at DMS Web

AUG. 21 5:30 P.M. ET Two AOL employees were fired and its chief technology officer has left the company in the aftermath of a privacy breach that involved the intentional release of more than 650,000 subscribers' Internet search terms.
Although AOL had substituted numeric IDs for the subscribers' user names, the search queries themselves contained Social Security numbers, medical conditions and other data that could be traced to an individual. In fact, The New York Times was able to trace user 4417749 to Thelma Arnold, 62, of Lilburn, Ga. Maureen Govern, the technology chief, will be replaced on an interim basis by John McKinley, who had held that position before becoming AOL's president for digital services. The change takes effect immediately, according to a memo AOL Chief Executive Jonathan Miller sent to employees on Monday.

http://oascentral.businessweek.com/R...,Frame2!Middle
"This incident took place because some employees did not exercise good judgment or review their proposal with our privacy team," Miller said in a second memo. "We are taking appropriate action with the employees who were responsible."

The data release is among a series of breaches involving sensitive information in recent months. Unlike those resulting from computer hacking or missing laptops, however, the AOL data had been intentionally released as part of a program to assist academic researchers.
AOL, a unit of Time Warner Inc., apologized two weeks ago for what it termed a mistake made by a company researcher who had failed to properly seek clearances before releasing three months' worth of search data. Though the information was meant for researchers, it was released to a public site and quickly circulated once a blogger discovered it.
The company fired the researcher who released the data and that employee's direct supervisor, who reported to Govern, said one person familiar with the company's decisions. The person, who spoke on condition of anonymity because release of personnel information was not authorized, would not say whether Govern's departure was voluntary. The person also would not identify the two employees who were fired.
Although the search terms released were not directly tied to real names, many individuals type their own names to find out what's being said about them. They may later search for online mentions of their credit card or Social Security numbers and perhaps for prescription drug prices, revealing their medical ailments. All the searches for each user name were linked to the same numeric ID in the released data.
AOL removed the information from its site once senior executives learned of it, but by then copies already were widely available. Some people even created search sites just for the AOL data.
At least two groups have asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate. In its complaint, filed last week, the Electronic Frontier Foundation accused AOL of breaking a promise to protect its subscribers' privacy.
Kevin Bankston, staff attorney with the EFF, said he hoped the breach would prompt Internet companies to be more forthcoming about what data they keep and for how long. Congress, he said, may need to intervene.
"Rearranging personnel is not going to get to the root of this problem, a problem which extends far beyond AOL and to the rest of the Internet industry," Bankston said. "As an industry, the search engines have been unacceptably tightlipped about what their practices are regarding search logs."
To prevent a recurrence, Miller said AOL will:
-- Create a task force led by senior executives to review privacy and data-retention policies.
-- Place additional limits on employee access to data, regardless of whether they are linked to individual accounts.
-- Evaluate technologies designed to flag sensitive information. Under such a system, for instance, a 16-digit string might be assumed to be credit card number and kept out of research databases.
-- Improve employee education and awareness on privacy.
The fallout occurs as AOL tries to lure more people to its search services and other free, ad-supported features to offset a revenue decline that's likely to accelerate as the company stops charging for AOL.com e-mail accounts and software.
AOL continues to rank fourth in search, behind Google Inc., Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp.'s MSN, according to data released this week by Nielsen/NetRatings and comScore Media Metrix. Shares in Time Warner closed unchanged at $16.50 in Monday trading on the New York Stock Exchange.

Privacy rights group files FTC complaint against AOL


(AP) - SAN FRANCISCO-The backlash against AOL's recent release of its subscribers' search requests continued Wednesday as a privacy rights group filed a Federal Trade Commission complaint alleging the breach was intentional.
AOL spokesman Andrew Weinstein scoffed at the allegation made by the World Privacy Forum, reiterating earlier descriptions of the breakdown as a "mistaken release" by a bumbling researcher.

The San Diego-based World Privacy Forum's filing follows a similar complaints by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and PrivacyArmy, civil liberties groups in San Francisco and Nashville, TN.
These groups are urging the FTC to investigate and possibly penalize AOL for its unauthorized release of about 19 million search requests made by about 658,000 subscribers during a three-month period ending in May.
The files containing the search requests were publicly accessible for 10 days before AOL removed the information, giving people time to fetch copies that continue to circulate on Web sites like http://www.aolstalker.com.
The FTC complaints allege AOL - owned by Time Warner Inc. -engaged in unfair or deceptive business practices by exposing its subscribers' information, which included requests for online pornography, murder tips and medical advice.
Although no names were attached to the search requests, some of the data was revealing enough to figure out the identities of the people behind the queries.
The FTC so far has not indicated whether it intends to investigate AOL.

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RFID, its implications and how to defeat
by Jon Winthrop



Imagine a future in which your every belonging is marked with a unique number identifiable with the swipe of a scanner, where the location of your car is always pinpoint-able and where signal-emitting microchips storing personal information are implanted beneath your skin or embedded in your inner organs.

This is the possible future of radio frequency identification (RFID), a technology whose application has so far been limited largely to supply-chain management (enabling companies, for example, to keep track of the quantity of a given product they have in stock) but is now being experimented with for passport tracking, among other things. RFID is set to be applied in a whole range of consumer settings. Already being tested in products as innocuous as shampoo, lip balm, razor blades, clothing and cream cheese, RFID-enabled items are promoted by retailers and marketers as the next revolution in customer convenience. Consumer advocates say this is paving the way for a nightmarish future where personal privacy is a quaint throwback.

How RFID works
There are two types of RFID tags: active and passive. When most people talk about RFID, they talk about passive tags, in which a radio frequency is sent from a transmitter to a chip or card which has no power cell per se, but uses the transmitted signal to power itself long enough to respond with a coded identifier. This numeric identifier really carries no information other than a unique number, but keyed against a database that associates that number with other data, the RFID tag's identifier can evoke all information in the database keyed to that number.

An active tag has its own internal power source and can store as well as send even more detailed information.

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The RFID value chain involves three parts: the tags, the readers and the application software that powers these systems. From there, the data generated by the application software can interface with other systems used in an enterprise, or, if they obtain the information or collect it themselves, concievably by governments or more nefarious organizations.

Where it’s used today
Global companies such as Gillette, Phillips, Procter & Gamble, Wal-Mart and others see huge savings to be made from the use of RFID, and there are numerous pilot projects underway which are indicating savings in supply chains as well as the ability to add value to both product owner, product reseller and customer.

But they’re just pilots, mostly. RFID is a long way from being everywhere, so far. Pharmaceutical tracking has long been held out as one of the flagship applications of RFID in the short term, yet just some 10 medications are expected be tagged using RFID technology on a large scale in the U.S. during 2006, analysts predict. Slow roll-outs are contrasting sharply with the optimism of a year ago, when evidence suggested tripling or even quadrupling of RFID for consumer goods tracking. Why? Uncertainty over pending legislation. There are a complex mixture of federal and new state laws (in particular Florida and California) intended to combat drug theft and counterfeiting that have implications for RFID. The details are still being worked out.

Where it’s likely to be used tomorrow
Depending which analysts you believe, the market for RFID technology will represent between 1.5 and 30 Billion USD by the year 2010. Analyst firm IDTechEx, which tracks the RFID industry, believes more than 585 billion tags will be delivered by 2016. Among the largest growth sectors, IDTechEx forsees the tagging of food, books, drugs, tires, tickets, secure documents (passports and visas), livestock, baggage and more.

Buses and subways in some parts of the world are being equipped with RFID readers, ready for multi-application e-tickets. These are expected to make things easier for the commuter, and help stem the fraud from the current paper-ticket system. However the biggest problem facing rollouts of RFID for commercial micropayment tracking is apparently not technical, but involves agreeing on the fees charged by the clearing house and how credit from lost and discarded tickets will be divided.

Passport tracking
One of the highest profile uses of RFID will be passport tracking. Since the terrorist attacks of 2001, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has wanted the world to agree on a standard for machine-readable passports. Countries whose citizens currently do not have visa requirements to enter the United States will have to issue passports that conform to the standard or risk losing their non-visa status.

American and other passports are being developed that include RFID-based chips which allow the storage of considerable amounts of data such as fingerprints and digitized photographs. In the U.S., these passports are due to start being issued in October of 2006. Early in the development of these passports there were gaping security holes, such as the capability of being read by any reader, not just the ones at passport control (the upshot of this was that travelers carrying around RFID passports would have been openly broadcasting their identity, making it easy for wrongdoers to easily – and surreptitiously – pick Americans or nationals of other participating countries out of a crowd.)

Those security blunders were initially corrected by adding metal shielding to the passport cover to minimize its readability when closed, dialing back the range of the electronics and adding a special electronic protocol called Basic Access Control (or BAC). This scheme required the passport to be opened and scanned before its data could have been properly interpreted by an RFID receiver. Unfortunately, in early February 2006, Dutch security experts managed to “listen in� on the communications between a prototype BAC-protected passport and a receiver and cracked the protocol. Which means the international authority developing this new global passport standard may need to go back to the drawing board as of this writing, because ‘bad guys’ could clearly stand in line at passport control and capture passport information. Details of the Dutch hack here.

Implications for privacy seekers
RFID has clear implications for those who are worried about their privacy and safety. Some of them are obvious, and some of them are not.

• Can be read without your knowledge – Since the tags can be read without being swiped or obviously scanned (as is the case with magnetic strips or barcodes), anyone with an RFID tag reader can read the tags embedded in your clothes and other consumer products without your knowledge. For example, you could be scanned before you enter the store, just to see what you are carrying. You might then be approached by a clerk who knows what you have in your backpack or purse, and can suggest accessories or other items.
• Can be read a greater distances with a high-gain antenna – For various technical reasons, RFID reader/tag systems are designed so that distance between the tag and the reader is kept to a minimum. However, a high-gain antenna can actually read tags from much further away, leading to privacy problems. Governments or others could punch through privacy screens and keep tabs on people.
• Difficult to remove – RFID tags are hard for consumers to remove; some are very small (less than a half-millimeter square, and as thin as a sheet of paper) - others may be hidden or embedded inside a product where consumers cannot see them. New technologies allow RFID tags to be printed right on a product and may not be removable at all
• Disruptions if maliciously jammed – RF signals can be jammed, which could complicate everyday life if RFID tags became essential. Imagine a central bus or train station, maybe an airport, where suddenly everyone could neither be ID'd or access their cash accounts. A single hour of jamming during morning rush over a large area could cost a large city untold millions of dollars in delayed commerce and transport. It would be worse than a mass-transit strike, and easier to repeat.
• Could be linked to a credit card number – The Universal Product Code (UPC) implemented with barcodes allows each product sold in a store to have a unique number that identifies that product. Work is proceeding on a global system of product identification that would allow each individual item to have its own number. When the item is scanned for purchase and is paid for, the RFID tag number for a particular item can be associated with the credit card number it was purchased with.
• Potential for counterfeit – If an RFID tag is being used to authenticate someone, anyone with access to an RFID reader can easily capture and fake someone else’s unique numeric identifier, and therefore, in essence, their electronic 'signature'. If an RFID-tagged smartcard is used for shopping, for instance, anyone who intercepted and reverse-engineered your number, and programmed another card with it, could make charges on your account.
• Marking for crime – Even after you leave a store, any RFID devices in things you buy are still active. A thief could walk past you in the mall and know exactly what you have in your bags, marking you as a potential victim. Someone could even circle your house with an RFID scanner and pull up data on what you have in your house before robbing it. As a result, there are now discussions of “zombieâ€� RFID tags that expire upon leaving the store and reanimate if the product is ever returned to the store and returned to the supply chain.
• Marking for violence – Military hardware and even clothing are beginning to make use of RFID tags to help track these items through supply chains. RFID is being used today by the U.S. military to track materials in Iraq and Afghanistan. Some analysts are concerned about particular items being associated with high-level officers that could trigger roadside bombs via an RFID scan of cars going by. (Thankfully, RFID tags retained close to the body can rarely be scanned. For instance, UHF tags, the kind being most widely deployed, are virtually unreadable near the body because of its high water content.)

Some have suggested that mobile phones are already as great a threat to privacy as RFID. In the case of mobile phones, information about your whereabouts and calling patterns is regularly available to your service provider, a centralized and highly regulated source of information gathering. An adversary with special-purpose equipment would also have the capability of tracking your mobile phone, but this would require significant expertise and investment. See our article Cell phone hazards.

What makes RFID a more significant privacy threat than mobile phones is the fact that readers will be readily available and ubiquitously deployed. In other words, RFID readers will soon be an accepted element of everyday life, while eavesdropping equipment for mobile phones is unlikely to be.

How to thwart RFID technology
There are a few approaches you can take to thwart RFID tags … but before you take proactive steps, note that sometimes the very absence of a tag or its signal in places it’s expected could arouse suspicion. For instance, if you’re carrying what is expected to be an RFID-tagged passport and your tag isn’t working, say, you may invite unwanted scrutiny. Be careful which tags you choose to disrupt.

The simplest, most permanent approach to disable RFID tags is to destroy them. If you can detect them and wish to permanently render them useless, remove them and smash the small chip component with a hammer. If you’re not sure whether a product you own contains a tag, consider putting it in a microwave to destroy the tag if the object is otherwise safe to be microwaved. Be careful with some plastics. Note there have been reports of RFID materials catching fire in microwaves.

If removing the tag is not practical, there are four general ways to disrupt RFID tag detection.

• Blocking – Construct a conductive foil box (even tin foil is good) around the tag. If you are concerned about RFID emissions from work badges, school IDs, new generation drivers licenses, credit cards, and even cash in the future containing RFID tags, buy or make an RFID-proof wallet. RFID wallet project details are easy to find on the Internet.
• Jamming – Since RFID systems make use of the electromagnetic spectrum like wireless networks or cellphones, they are relatively easy to jam using a strong radio signal at the same frequency the tag operates. Although this would only be an inconvenience for consumers in stores (longer waits at the checkout), it could be disastrous in other environments where RFID is increasingly being used, like hospitals, or in military combat situations. Such jamming devices, however, would in most cases violate government regulations on radio emissions. A group of researchers in Amsterdam have theorized that a personal RFID jammer is possible (read their paper here) but the device seems only theoretical at this time.
• Repeated interrogation – Active RFID tags that use a battery to increase the range of the system can be repeatedly interrogated to wear the battery down, disrupting the system.
• Popping – Generating a very strong pulse of radiation at the right frequency can cause RFID tags to resonate and break.

What strategy you should pursue depends on what RFID privacy threats you are trying to thwart and your technical expertise.
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RFID Guardian: A battery-powered mobile device for RFID privacy management

WAKE UP PEOPLE................LATEST UPDATE YOUR PRIVACY VIOLATIONS

Consumer Reports makes this abundantly clear in the Oct 6th issue. Going beyond this to the aggressive snooping sophistication is exposed by Kathryn Albrecht in her book Spychips , a #1 best-seller in America. Millions have read her book and been scared witless. The problem is that those who expose the problems have no answers other than ranting and moaning.

Only YOU and I TOGETHER are the answer, taking effective action.

Let me point out a strategy clarification regarding filing our opt-out letters with our vendors. Rather than piecemeal them in ones and twos, the Privacy Army strategy is to target specific vendors at one time with an avalanche of opt-out letters from masses of our people, each backed up by matching letters from our law firms averring that they have knowledge of a contract in force for each of us which gives us legal standing to have asserted our rights and be emotionally damaged and financially damaged by the continuing selling of our data by the vendor. We shall be contacted at the time and we each make our individual decision for each targeted firm as to our own participation in that particular outreach. Fully ethical and chillingly effective. Imagine yourself being an officer of one of these privacy piracy corporations and you receive thousands of letters during the same week from thousands of individuals with the same branding and coupled in each case by a letter from known, powerful class-action attorneys. Now imagine your reading that you are reading being put on legal notice that to resist opting each of us out of the continuing selling of info for each of the plaintiffs demonstrates a pattern of repetitive, purposeful defrauding of members of the class, which initiates RICO laws. Now you know that you can no longer hide behind the corporate veil. You learn that you cannot escape even by quitting your job, because you were in position when the theft-reselling violations took place. You have now two choices : either let these families off the hook by removing them and their data from future sales, or else face the personal and corporate consequences of your resistance. As you compare this collective, thoughtful action to regain control of our own private property, do you think you would have the same impact by writing your own letter to the same pirates ? [we should be able to hear their laughter from where we sit ].





Privacy Piracy Snooping & Cross-Referencing
In order to add value to their respective data files
on you, the data moguls dig deeply into all available
records, public and private. Is this what you want ?

Utility company info Settlements in the past
Past Employment info Garnishments
Present employment info Liens
Mortgage info Levies
Real Estate info Debt records
Medical info Newspaper clippings
Bank account(s) info Savings accounts
Credit card(s) info Checking accounts
Debit card(s) info Insurance policies in force
Department store info Retirement accounts
Fuel card info Ownership of debt instruments
Wholesale card info Ownership of equities
Grocery store info Travel patterns, history
Pharmacy info Hobbies
Car dealership info Disabilities of record
Tax preparation info Military record
Internet surfing habits info Veteran records
Affiliate group info Preferences for every category
Alumni assoc. info Mother's maiden name
Health insurance info Every password/non-secure sites
Car insurance info Answers to password questions
Life insurance info Every email address
Friends & others who have been references
Membership info for all group involvement
Passport info Names of all relatives and addresses
Drivers license info Every past street address
Hospital data Schools of your kids, grand kids
Viewing data from satellite TV & cable TV
Birth records Linkage to past spouses
Marriage records Online purchase history
Divorce records Every check you have ever written
Civil suit records Every traffic incident of your life
Criminal records Current pending suits
Credit complaints pending Above sold daily to all who pay for it.

WAKE UP PEOPLE.............PUT YOUR MONEY IN A REAL DEAL,
NOT THE TYPICAL RIP OFF HYIP. THIS LEGAL CLASS ACTION
POOL WILL PAY OFF BETTER THAN ANY HYIP I HAVE SEEN.

Good luck to all, Mike

Google privacy battle likely to end in compromise

Dominic Timms
Wednesday March 15, 2006
MediaGuardian.co.uk


A legal battle between the US justice department and internet giant Google looks set to end in compromise, after a US judge signalled he intended to make the company surrender some, but not all, of the data on its huge search database. The US district court judge James Ware told a hearing last night he would make a decision "very quickly", adding that he would allow the justice department access to some of Google's index of websites and search terms.
The two sides came to court after Google refused the demands of the attorney general, Alberto Gonzales, to hand over records of the searches made on its website in January, to aid the administration in its battle against online child pornography.
In January, the justice department had demanded access to records of more than 1 million searches but it has dropped its demands to just 50,000 URLs - internet addresses - and 5,000 search terms of which, it said, it would only look at 1,000.
Judge Ware said he remained concerned about Google users' privacy but said the reduced requests, coupled with a government promise to compensate the company for lost programming days, meant he would grant the government at least some of its demands.
"It is my intent to grant some relief to the government," said Judge Ware of the US district court for the Northern District of California.
Facing similar demands from the justice department, other internet operators such as AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo! have agreed to hand over similar records.

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Thought you would like to see more into the trend. Insatiable appetites for info exceeding the Nazis. Who cares eough to act ?

I think you know who.


Good luck to all, Mike

Your PRIVACY For Sale
is the title of a feature investigative article in the October issue
of Consumer Reports (pg. 41) just released today!
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Here's the CR Quick Take...
Large data brokers have your numbers---Social Security, phone,
and credit cards. They might also know about the drugs you take,
what you buy, your political party, and your sexual orientation.
When we investigated this secretive industry, we discovered:

>> Data brokers are willing to sell even your most sensitive
information to paying customers, some of them crooks.
>> When CR staffers asked to see their own files, they received
scant information. One report contained 31 errors.
>> The federal government is a steady customer of the data collectors,
but there's no way to know what it collects or exactly how much it pays.
>> Pretexters, who lie to get information about you and sell it to anybody,
operate largely free of regulation.

A case in point is Elizabeth Rosen. Until Valentine's Day weekend 2005,
she had never heard of ChoicePoint. But ChoicePoint, it turns out, knew
plenty about her. That's when Rosen, a nurse in California, received a letter
and found out that the Alpharetta, Georgia company had collected information
about her. Among the sensitive items it had: Social Security number, records
of her insurance claims, her current and past addresses, and her employment
history. Now, ChoicePoint was informing her that it had inadvertently disclosed
her information --- and that of 165,000 other Americans --- to a group of criminals.
What galls Rosen more, she says, is that all along, ChoicePoint itself "was
profiting by collecting and selling confidential information about me without my
knowledge or consent."

If you don't think you're confidential information is being sold, just type
your name and click your state on this search engine:

http://www.zabasearch.com

Now, who would pay $49.95 for your Social Security number, address, phone
number and other information? How about 13 million illegal aliens!

According to this past Sunday edition of the Atlanta Constitution, this affected
8.9 million Americans, a loss of $56.7 billion ($6343/per person) last year!

Would you like to know how to recover your privacy and
make money selling the information you don't mind selling?

Just call in Thurs/Aug30 at 9:20pm EST, 8:20pm CST, 7:20pm MST, 6:20pm PST

Call in Number: (620) 294-4000 Pin: 988055#

WAKE UP PEOPLE..............

ANNOUNCEMENT.....................

All around us we are seeing the facts come to the surface about our privacy being violated every singe day of our lives. What is wrong with people who do not care? This is the reason we are all in this situation, WE LET IT HAPPEN. If you don't value your Constitutional Rights to Privacy, then you will lose it.

Timing is everything in life, and here we have an opportunity to spread the word of what the PrivacyArmy is all about, it is ABOUT YOU, ME and EVERYONE in the free world. Why anyone would not get involved with us is beyond my comprehension. ROL members are international, this we know, but for those in U.S. and CAN to start is just the beginning.

Over the years I have seen many opportunities come and go, and I have researched thousands, but I have never seen one even close to what we have here. A common interest of everyone in these days where we see how our personal private data is being sold to hundreds of thousands every day. How does this make you feel when commercial enterprises are profiting off of YOUR NAME?

I don't know how to better put it, this is ILLEGAL. DO YOU CARE ABOUT YOUR PERSONAL PRIVACY RIGHTS? Well, evidently not for only a few dozen have registered to date. We have not yet officially launched, but come on, it is FREE and you can EARN while you LEARN, so what is it, you DON'T CARE about companies profiting off YOUR PERSONAL PRIVATE DATA?

Bottom line is this, we are being robbed, and unless you do something about it, it will not stop, and in fact, it is getting worse every day. No matter who you are, you are being robbed, so when are you going to wake up and put your foot down and STOP IT? Do it TODAY. If not for the reasons listed above, then do it OUT OF GREED. (g)

For those who are more interested in making money than preserving our Constitutional Rights to Privacy, then fine, that is OK with me. We are all money motivated or we would not be here on this forum. We have all lost money, and we see many complaining about it, so lets do something to change this around. PrivacyArmy is just such an opportunity which can and will change your life and provide you financial freedom.

Skeptical, yes, so way I, but once you learn what I have, this is better than anything I have ever seen before, and believe me, I have seen it all. (g) We are all people who enjoy helping others, so now is the time to step forward and prove it. Share this valuable information with everyone you know. Yes, I know all about the NFL club, no friends left, after all, we have all been burned by programs we have shared with others, but here is the opportunity to change all that. This is a mission you can be proud to educate others about, as there is nothing as near or dear to us than our RIGHT TO PRIVACY granted under the CONSTITUTION.

Look in the news, privacy issues are front page headline news. Who here has not heard that the VA Administration records were stolen, banks losing our credit card records with all our personal private data attached. What about the credit bureaus who sell your information to anyone who registers as a subscriber? So many companies who are leaking our information, including AOL which was in the news last week, Google giving up your privacy, and on and on it goes.

TIMING..............This is what we have here, perfect timing. The press is selling our Privacy Rights Message for us. And when we launch, and OUR PRESS RELEASES start with a legal solution to issue, watch what happens next. WE WILL BE OVERWHELMED WITH INQUIRES, and we NEED YOU to handle the questions as a CONSUMER ADVOCATE with the PRIVACYARMY.
The TIME IS NOW to JOIN US..............and it is FREE TO REGISTER.

Here is latest link on CONSUMER REPORTS INVESTIGATION.


Kansas City infoZine News - Consumer Reports Investigation Warns Your Privacy Is for Sale - USA

Here are some excerpts from this week's current Consumer Reports October issue entitled

Your Privacy for Sale.

CR exposes a pattern among the 30,000 companies which exist solely to dig into, mine, collect, cross-reference, and re-sell the most intimate of our personal and private data. That pattern includes a cavalier disregard of the safety and privacy of We the People, arrogance about their right to go about doing so, and refusal to correct faulty, damaging data even when exposed.

Get a load of these sample quotes:

One company here in North Atlanta disclosed the information of 165,000 Americans to a fraud ring of Nigerians who have been systematically using the info to defraud people since. The Federal Trade Commission suit led to the largest fine ever levied by that agency. The $10.million fine was only one percent of ChoicePoint's annual revenues, however. CR states "ChoicePoint is only one entity in a vast and secretive data industry that feeds on private information about you and millions of other Americans. Its inhabitants include corporate mastodons with access to millions of public records, swarms of private investigators, some of whome lie to obtain confidential information; and hundreds of companies selling background checks, profiles, and address lists" A ChoicePoint spokesperson had the audacity to state "More than two thirds of what we do is regulated by state and/or federal law." {If you and I do the math right, does than not mean that one third of all they do is not regulated by those laws ?} "the company released data to crooks whose requests used commercial mail drops as business addresses, an 'obvious red flag'. " U.S. Attorney Brian Hoffstadt said "For the consumers involved, there could be a ripple effect, and we may not know the true impact for quite a while."

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that Congress should require info resellers to safeguard all sensitive personal info.

"CR's three-month investigation found that the practices of the data collectors can rob you of your privacy, threaten you with ID theft, and profile you as, say, a deadbeat or a security risk. Worse, there's no way to find out what they are telling others about you. When our reporters requested their own records, they were told that they could not see everything that was routinely sold to businesses. The meager information they did receive was punctuated with errors.

Data brokers say, however, that they are not in the business of correcting inaccuracies. A letter accompanying the report from LexisNexis, for example, says "we do not examine or verify our data, nor is it possible for our computers to correct or change data that is incorrect."

Is there any part of what is being said and done here infuriating to you ? Do you think that it is a great window of opportunity to have the media supply We the People with this kind of undeniable evidence as to the extent of the damage ?

When I was a child during the Second World War I remember seeing Peter Lorre and other actors portraying Nazi administrators arrogantly going about their business of enslaving people and compiling info on everyone, including one another, for use in intimidating and eliminating opposition. Then came the Cold War and the similar practices of the
elite manipulators who administered their various states.

At this point we are simply refuting and preparing to stop our
corporate enemies from pursuing our ruin in favor of their profits. Our government has passed laws which empower us to assert our rights and take back control of our own property.

Though there are a dozen other quotes and accusations, the point is well made. It is a privilege for each one of us who know this info to gather about ourselves an emerging army of concerned fellow citizens. As we build our basic foundation of advocates, we can then count on the media to help us explode to huge numbers of Americans.

Update..............................

Pick up this months Consumer Reports and look at heading on top of cover about our Privacy being sold to highest bidder.

Timing is everything in the world of business opportunities, so don't overlook how powerful the Privacy Army is and how well positioned we are.

One company, Choice Point, a major information broker did over a billion dollars last year, and this is just one of over 30,000 companies doing the same thing to all of us.

If there is a billion dollars being earned from just one of these companies, imagine the potential of suing all of them for violating our Constitutional Rights of privacy and what the total awards and settlements will be? Billions, maybe, hundreds of millions, obviously, so how much do you want of this class action fund pool?

Bottom line, WAKE UP, this is better than any HYIP you will ever lose money in. For next to nothing you can share in this fund pool and it will build and grow every month, every year, for many years as this industry is not going to vanish anytime soon. We want to get paid back on bases upon profits being earned on the sale of our personal private data.

Register FREE, learn how to earn a small fortune while our class action fund grows and grows.

Can people tell what I search for online?
9/12/2006 12:51:17 PM

By ANICK JESDANUN
AP Internet Writer

Q. Can people really tell what I search for over the Internet?

A. You may be searching from the privacy of your home, but when it comes to just about anything online, there's no guarantee of privacy.

Your Internet service provider may know about the controversial group you just researched. Your search engine may know about the divorce you're contemplating. And if you're surfing from work, your boss may know about the disease you just looked up.

Some advice from Lauren Weinstein, a veteran computer scientist and privacy advocate: ''Assume that everything you put into those search engines is being saved and might be handed out to somebody, someday, perhaps linked to your identity.''

All of the major search engines, which sometimes keep data for months or even years, acknowledge that they will hand over records when served with a court order, search warrant or subpoena, although Google Inc. earlier this year successfully fought to limit the scope of a Justice Department request.

Short of demanding that companies erase all data immediately or that Congress strengthen privacy laws, consumers can't be assured of any privacy, Weinstein said.

But Peter Eckersley, staff technologist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said there are measures consumers can take to reduce the risks:

_ Be careful what you type in. Avoid putting in personal information such as your name or credit card number. If you truly want to know what's being said about you online, do a ''vanity search'' for your name from a different computer so it's not tied to your other searches.

_ Don't use the search engine provided by your Internet service provider, because searches then can be potentially tied to customer records.

_ If you use e-mail or other services that require logging in, use a search engine from a different company or use a different browser to avoid data linkage. For instance, if you use Microsoft Corp.'s Hotmail, be careful when searching through the company's MSN search.

_ Configure your browser to block data files called ''cookies,'' or when that's not possible, periodically clear existing cookies from your browser. Cookies often have a unique identifier that can link your searches from one session to the next.

Even if consumers take all of those steps, searches can still be tied to a computer's numeric Internet Protocol, or IP, address, which can be traced back to you with a service provider's cooperation. That's less of a worry for dial-up users, because the address changes every time. High-speed users may need to reset their modems now and then, assuming they hadn't been assigned a permanent, or static, IP address.

The ultimate protection, Eckersley said, is to use anonymizer services such as Tor, whose development was partly funded by the EFF. With the free service, traffic gets routed through a number of computers, and no single one knows fully the path a packet of data takes. The search engine would only record the last computer relaying the information, not the user's real computer.

Using anonymizers, however, can slow down performance, and you're trusting that the system works as promised.

It may be possible with some poorly configured anonymizers for law-enforcement authorities to simply go to their operators with a subpoena, said Ari Schwartz, deputy director with the Center for Democracy and Technology. Although they aren't supposed to retain data, they can be asked to store information on a particular customer from a given point forward, he said.

For those reasons, Weinstein shuns anonymizers completely.

''All those things you do are chipping away at the edges of the problem, and the problem is still there glaring at us,'' he said. ''That information is being collected, and the IP numbers are there with varying degrees of ease for tracking down.''

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THE MORE YOU LEARN......THE MORE YOU EARN.

Subject: Saturday morn 100,000 people will hear us

At 9a.m. this Saturday morn October 7th over 100,000 people will hear about the Privacy Army from our leadership.
It is a live broadcast introducing that many new people to our worthy cause. Because it has been arranged by our own team,
our team will benefit from it. Others can arrange similar opportunities for their teams to benefit as well.

Because of the nature of the audience, the host of the broadcast expects tens of thousands to respond by going to our new "Give Me Privacy" website. We have been anticipating the full functionality of this website so that we can accelerate our outreach. Those who respond by going to this free registration website will notice the opportunity to learn more by being contacted by an advocate of the Privacy Army on request. Those double-respondees will be distributed to each of us who are on stream and who can convey the simple message. The call also serves as a shakedown cruise to perfect the interview, question-and-answer format for future broadcasts. This anticipates our Chairman George Blake's personal outreach to the editors of the major newspapers and wire services in America with the same message. The effects of those will be on a national scale and will benefit all advocates of the Privacy Army who have already enrolled people. Each conversation will have been requested specifically by the new person who is already a part of the Privacy Army and who has already submitted their data to the common pool.

The web site is Tom Chenault's www.tomchenault.com On the lower right there is a rectangle to click and listen to our broadcast at 9a.m. Eastern time Saturday. For those who cannot hear it at that time, it will be available on that same web site by clicking another link for one entire week. Good opportunity to spread the word and test the response for yourself. This is going to explode as people learn the truth about their privacy being illegally violated.

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of "Digital Clones"

Created by Corporate America
to Target and Monitor...
EVERYONE OF US.
http://blacklion.com/privacyarmy/images/4t3.jpgOur Family Name...
is being contaminated by misuse of our personal data. Our personal risk, finacial losses and emotional stress must be stopped. How does this make you feel?


Our Family Has No Voice With Congress...
or standing in court. We have not asserted our rights and until now we could not prove damages when our personal data is sold.
Let's vote for change, ok?


Did You Know...

• Your Car's "Black Box" Can Testify Against You?
• Your Cell Phone Can Be Used to Track You?
• Your Tax Return Data May Be Sold?
• Your Medical Records Must Be Available Online?

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American Families
Must Unite...
and our collective Ignorance and Apathy must be replaced by Knowledge and Action. Together we can get this done, can't we?

Our Family is Being Targeted...
and monitored beyond our wildest imaginations -- with the worst to come.

• Our Children are being profiled.
• Our Private Property is being sold.
• Our Habit Patterns are being tracked.

This needs to stop,
don't you agree?


FREE of Charge
The legal stranglehold on our families' Constitutional rights can be broken by registering as households at:
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"The Future of Privacy"

By: Satvik Suryanarayana

The thought-provoking talk on “The Future of Privacy in the Age of Information” by Bruce Schneier attracted as many as 600 people to the Rozsa center on October 2. Schneier has extensive knowledge in the field of cryptography and security threats. He is an internationally renowned security expert, referred to as a “security guru” by the Economist. “Security is one of the coolest things to work on,” stated Schneier as he began his talk. He emphasized on the fact that our ways of living are going to change drastically in the near future. Surveillance, data mining and data storage technologies are advancing at a lightning pace. As a result, it would be worthwhile to devote more time to think about the privacy of our data in the coming days. Schneier tried to make the public aware of the fact that surveillance is increasing at an alarming rate and one day every action of ours might be watched by someone. There are many types of surveillance: audio and video, satellite and Internet surveillance. An instance of aerial surveillance is the Baltimore city government’s practice of taking aerial photos every six months to look out for violation of building permit rules. Amazon.com is an example of Internet surveillance that keeps a track of the categories of items one browses through and what one finally buys. Similarly, credit card companies can keep a track of purchasing habits.

A new concept called wholesale surveillance is also picking up fast in this insecure world. The police prefer to “watch everybody” so that they can track criminals and terrorists easily. “Follow every car” and “listen to everyone’s phone calls” are the new buzzwords in security agencies.
The invention of the Radio Frequency Identification has made it easier to track people. RFID tags contain a transponder with a digital memory chip. They can transmit information to sensors when they enter the electromagnetic zone of the tag reader. Amazingly, such a tag can be read without the knowledge of the individual. So tomorrow, we could be leaving our entry and exit times at every place we visit. RFID tags are being embedded in passports issued by many countries. The first RFID passports (“e-passports”) were issued by Malaysia in 1998. Within the United States, the Colorado passport office is already issuing RFID passports and by the end of 2006, all passport offices across United States would be following in step. All this seems harmless in the first thought, as it promises to make the world a “safer” place, by helping government catch criminals easily. But what if the same advanced technology is used by miscreants to collect our private data? The consequences of our vital and confidential data falling into nefarious hands could be disastrous. The implications of this are tough to even imagine.

The most important fact of the day is that: thanks to the latest advances in technology, vital data about anyone could be collected, consolidated and sold. Ironically, it’s cheaper to save data than throw it away. The collected data might fetch value to someone in the future. As technology improves, the data storage cost would reduce further and more data would accumulate. The point of concern is that the collected data could also be used for nefarious activities.

When we ponder over this whole issue, we would soon realize that we are walking through our lives leaving digital footprints. “Most of the prints left behind are not controlled by you,” cautioned Schneier. Schneier pointed out that the primary usage of data might be benign and that it is the secondary usage that we have to be wary about. Data collected for one purpose could be used for another without regard to the purpose for which it was collected in the first place. Presently, we are living in a unique epoch of time as we can still see the surveillance devices and are aware that we are being watched. But a few years down the lane, technology would advance to such an extent that it would be tough for us to even realize that we are being watched. Unfortunately, the legal system is not keeping pace with technological improvements. Even the administration and infrastructure need to hurry up to be at par with technology.

The call of the hour is the imperative need to formulate and implement more laws and regulations regarding the automatic collection of data and its usage. The European Union has already come up with a Data Protection Act: a comprehensive law governing the collection and usage of data. Schneier explained that all this finally boils down to a debate of liberty versus control.
Liberty is due to forced openness in the government and control can be attributed to forced openness in the people. On similar lines, secrecy would give more power to the government and privacy would give more power to the masses. The crux of the whole issue lies is ensuring real security for the citizens through a balanced combination of liberty and privacy.

Schneier is the author of eight books, including the latest best seller “Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly about Security in an Uncertain World, Secrets and Lies, and Applied Cryptography.” He has also published hundreds of academic articles and papers. The popular monthly newsletter Cryptogram published by him is read by over 130,000 people across the world. The Cryptogram has been translated into eight languages: Danish, Greek, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

At the end of the talk, most of the students and faculty took the opportunity to talk to Schneier personally and many also took the privilege of getting his autograph on a copy of his latest best seller.

The event was organized by the Committee for Campus enrichment and Valerie Pegg, Director of Rozsa center, was one of the main organizers who helped make the event a grand success. The Van Evera Distinguished Lecture series Endowment had sponsored the event. Most of the students and faculty who attended the event seemed to be excited by it. “It was an intriguing talk. It raised lots of questions in our minds about the subject of personal security versus data collection,” said Shawn Sullivan, a student at Tech.

The talk also seemed to have stimulated many to give a thought to the whole issue of privacy in the future. “The talk provided us with relatively new information. It was mainstream news and was very thought provoking,” said Carl Knauss, a senior student at Tech.

Just a matter of time and Your Privacy is lost..............Fight Back

Privacy under attack, but does anybody care?
It's vanishing, but there's no consensus on what it is or what should be done


Mon/Oct16, 2006

BREAKING NEWS on MSNBC this morning - U.S. say air samples confirm North
Korea conducted a nuclear test - while the Techology & Science feature is the first in a series of articles regarding the loss of privacy in the United States of America:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15221095/

If you're not one of the tiny fraction of Americans - 7 percent, according to a recent survey by The Ponemon Institute - who will change any behavior in an effort to preserve your privacy, the key question is:

Does that matter? For many Americans, the answer apparently is "no."

However, when pollsters ask Americans about privacy, most say they are concerned about losing it. An MSNBC.com survey, which will be covered in detail on Tuesday, found an overwhelming pessimism about privacy, with 60 percent of respondents saying they feel their privacy is "slipping away, and that bothers me."

If you're one of the 60 percent who just feels bothered and pessimistic, you still may need to get really ticked off before you will take action!

Do you have children or grandchildren? If so, spend about 30 minutes on the website Our Family is Under Attack. Take time to view and read the links to print and TV media at: www.giveusprivacy.com. Take note of which corporation owns the patent for identification and tracking of persons using RFID-tagged items.

The long-term personal impact is frightening when you realize that the next phase of privacy invasion is to implant RFID spychips into products, passports (Colorado now, nationwide by year's end), paper money, a federal driver's license and eventually people, to increase monitoring and tracking efficiency.

During a CNN interview, the president of Verichip is confident that our willingness to accept implanted RFID chips for monitoring and tracking people is only a matter of time and a foregone conclusion. You can view his reassuring presentation and demonstration of an implanted RFID Verichip chip in his body contrasted to a tragic period of human suffering and recent history at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2udoNmQkR4

Is this sufficient information for you to want to learn about how to protect yourself and your family? Time is running out.

Get Educated For FREE............................

TONIGHT/Oct19 at 9:20pm EST!
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PRIVACY ARMY WAKE UP CALL

• Call in number: (712) 338-8115
• Pin: 988055#
• Call PPP: www.privacyarmy.com/power/
• Moderator: Larry Napier
• Invite freedom-loving family & friends to the call/online

PRIVACY ARMY WEBSITES

• Our Family is Under Attack: www.giveusprivacy.com
• Official "Opt-Out" website: www.givemeprivacy.com
• PrivacyArmy site: www.privacyarmy.com/1297
• Log In: your ID# and password

PRIVACY ALERTS (selected from many) - Week of Oct 16

• Privacy: does anyone care?
• http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15221095/
• On privacy, talk & actions are poles apart
• http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15221100/
• "La Difference" is in EU, US privacy laws
• http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15221111/
• Where rubber meets the road in privacy debate
• http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15130989/
• Loss of data at 19 federal agencies raises privacy concerns
• http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascitystar/news/politics/15756604.htm

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 23, 2006


CONSUMER WATCHDOGS DEMAND RECALL OF SPYCHIPPED CREDIT CARDS
CASPIAN Advises Consumers to Immediately Remove Cards from Wallets

Consumer watchdog group CASPIAN is demanding a recall of millions of RFID-equipped contactless credit cards in light of serious security flaws reported today in the New York Times. The paper reports that a team of security researchers has found that virtually every one of these cards tested is vulnerable to unauthorized charges and puts consumers at risk for identity theft.

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a controversial technology that uses tiny microchips to transmit information at a distance. These RFID microchips have earned the nickname "spychips" because the data they contain can be read silently and invisibly by radio waves without an individual's knowledge or consent. The technology has long been the target of criticism by privacy and civil liberties groups.

"For these financial institutions to put RFID in credit cards, one of the most sensitive items we carry, is absolute lunacy," said Dr. Katherine Albrecht, founder and director of CASPIAN, a consumer group with over 12,000 members in 30 countries worldwide.

Researchers are showing how a thief could skim information from the cards right through purses, backpacks and wallets. This information includes the cardholder's name, credit card number, expiration date and other data that would be sufficient to make unauthorized purchases. They say the information could even be used to identify and track people, a scenario Albrecht and co-author Liz McIntyre lay out in their book, "Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Purchase and Watch Your Every Move."

Despite earlier assurances by the issuing companies that the data contained in the credit cards would be secure, researchers found that the majority of cards they tested did not use encryption or protect the data in any way. The information on them was readily available to unauthorized parties using equipment that could be assembled for as little as $50, the researchers said.

"We cautioned companies against using item-level RFID, and they didn't heed us. Now the credit card industry is facing an unprecedented PR and financial disaster," says McIntyre, who is also a former bank examiner. She points to the astronomical cost to replace the cards, not to mention the potential financial losses, litigation expenses, and erosion of consumer trust.

Albrecht and McIntyre are calling on the industry to issue a public alert detailing the dangers of the cards they've issued, institute an active recall, and make safe versions without RFID available to concerned consumers.

"This recall has to be very clear and very directed since consumers may not know their cards contain RFID tags," says Albrecht. "The industry has repeatedly resisted calls to clearly label the cards. Rather, they've given the cards innocent-sounding names like 'Blink.'"

CASPIAN is advising consumers to immediately remove the credit cards from their wallets and call
the 800 number on the back to insist on an RFID-free replacement card. The group is cautioning consumers not to mail the cards back or simply throw them away due to the risk of their personal information being skimmed.

Today's New York Times article by John Schwartz can be found here: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/23/business/23card.html?ref=business
A research report detailing the findings can be found here:
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/business/20061023_CARD/techreport.pdf

WAKE UP PEOPLE............................................ ......

Tonight on CNBC at 9:00 and 12:00 EST you will want to watch this special on how our personal private data is being harvested and sold without our knowledge and billions are being made on our personal property.

The problem of our data being stolen is growing every day and it is in the news every week where data banks are violated, from banks to hospitals, our data is being ripped off with identity fraud on the rise, you need to get educated on how to protect your family and yourself.

Register for FREE, share with others and earn while you learn. Totally passive, no selling required, do your friends and family a favor and share this important information with others you care about. Join us and share in our class action suits mutually from pool fund. No selling or recruiting required, it is totally optional. No cost to become an advocate and earn commissions.

AT LAST..................THE PERFECT ONLINE or OFFLINE BUSINESS

Privacy Alert!!

We will either create our futures or be controlled by those who are creating them for us!
Less than Three Minutes from NOW you can know the plans that others have to track your every move!
"Big Brother Big Business"

CNBC Two Hour Special 11-01-06
(First clip- 2:49)
In less than 15 minutes you can know how we can earn significant income by
Asserting our Rights . . . Uniting our Voice to stop the invasion of our privacy and the theft of our personal data. . .
How we can Create Our Futures.
"Privacy Army Presentation"

Flash Talk (First Step- 14:30)
The right moral thing to do is the best economical thing to do! This is Media-Driven Marketing at it best!
Imagine a business which is promoted by mass media just like the CNBC special, or in Consumer Reports, Time Magazine and in the news every week, all at no cost to members. Now imagine a business with no overhead which can earn you a significant income with passive effort sharing these media news events with others? Privacy-ACT-Facts.com

Media Privacy Alerts this week!
Privacy problems posed by media for which
Privacy Army has a patent-pending solution
November 4, 2006

CNBC
Big Business, Big Brother documentary
http://www.cnbcbigbrother.com/index.html

United Press International
U.S. gets low ranking on privacy
http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20061103-040543-5195r

ABC Online
UK Privacy Commissioner issues dire security warning
http://www.abc.net.au/correspondents/content/2006/s1781232.htm

Reader's Digest, Nov '06
ID THIEVES' NEW TARGET: Your Medical Records
http://www.rd.com/content/openContent.do?contentId=30232

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Privacy Army White Paper…


From our Chairman & CEO, George Blake:

The Privacy Army is an amazing enterprise! We believe it will solve one of the greatest problems faced by individuals, which is the erosion and misuse of our privacy rights. We are going to change the nation's economy! Right now there are two basic economies… the business-to-consumer economy and the business-to-business economy, but we are going to create the consumer-to-business economy and everyone reading this can be at the forefront.

We are going to assert our privacy rights, we are going to opt out of the lists that are offering our names, our addresses, phone numbers, Internet clicks, credit card purchases, and much more to the highest bidder, and we're going to do that because we in The Privacy Army believe that's our money and we want it back!

We will use the laws that Congress has already passed, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, the Privacy Act, HIPPA, RICO, The Economic Espionage Act, and more to show Congress that it has already agreed to your privacy rights… so the next steps are inevitable. We will use the first, third, fourth, fifth, ninth, and tenth amendments to the Constitution to show that the right to privacy has existed since the founding fathers…and we are going to take the fight to the thirty thousand businesses that are already selling our private information. We believe it is our private information, so we will take the fight to the media! No institution holds more power to get Congress to act. No legislature fears anything more than losing an election! Any legislator who opposes individual privacy rights risks just that, and we are going to make sure that that risk is mighty. I will be at the forefront of our drive for media support. I have been the editor of three newspapers, I have also been president of The Ohio News Paper Association, Vice President of the Florida Editors, national chairman of a joint editor-publisher action group and I have lots of highly placed friends in the media and plan to use my influence with these people to obtain exposure for our cause once we have a reasonably large group in place.

We all have a story to tell and lots of money to be made for telling our story as we move forward with The Privacy Army mission. We have elected not to use conventional advertising or expensive paid media campaigns to get the word out to every person in the U.S. Instead we will be using person-to-person contact to tell our story. Our founder and idea creator is Larry Napier. It was his vision that we will be implementing in the next few years. Our goal is to become a household name within the next 5 years and we need your assistance to achieve that goal. Below you will find an explanation of our business model and our unique compensation plan by our founder, Larry Napier.



From the founder: Larry Napier

I would like to discuss the greatest opportunity ever in person-to-person marketing. The key to extraordinary success is doing what's never been done before, but in a proven way. With the impending retirement crisis, most of us do not have time for untested theories or another lap around Mount Sinai or video replays of one failed business model after another. We are here to implement the most successful business philosophy in the modern era. Dr. W. Edwards Deming, who is described by Newsweek magazine as responsible for one of the nine major turning points in history, is the famous mathematician, statistician, who changed the word from Japan because America would not listen. The lack of implementation of his philosophy is one of the reasons why Ford and General Motors are laying off people and closing plants all over this country!

Deming's philosophy makes a very clear declaration… Get this! "The structure of the way the world does business is wrong and the worker is not to blame! What an incredibly powerful concept! We believe that it applies in a very specific way to the world of person-to-person marketing so we are here to declare that the structure of the way marketing companies have operated for the past sixty years is wrong and a 97% failure rate can't be debated!

We are here to change that structure. The Deming method requires a complete change in our most fundamental beliefs and practices with a single goal… that's restoring the power of the individuals who have been crushed by structures, in fact, Deming would say "in the morning when you awake if you are not excited about being awake, you have been crushed by a structure", and so many of us can say that's true of me!

Deming uses profound knowledge to release the dormant power that's in the heart of every single person. His influence over Japanese business practices gave them a completely different view and the average Japanese worker had the power to shut down the entire assembly line if something was not right… completely different than the view in America. Think about it this way… we are simply saying that the structure of compensation and the structural issues that determine a 97% failure rate in a 60-year-old industry is wrong and we need to change it!

I would like to ask this question… If you were to design a company with profound knowledge, that's Deming's key phrase, you would be forced to ask some hard questions and accept some hard answers. So here are some examples of the questions we had to face:

• <LI style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Is your product totally unique… and is it protected? <LI style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Is your product or service overpriced or is it priced as low as possible for easy sales by non-professional marketers? <LI style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">How big is your real market… do you really have hundreds of millions of potential customers or is it just rhetoric? <LI style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Does the lion's share of the money go to the marketing force or does the majority go to the company? <LI style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Does your offer meet deeply felt needs that will enflame the hearts of marketers and customers alike?
• Does your compensation structure solve the flaws in compensation that have plagued the person-to-person marketing world for 60 years?

We are here to address those issues and as George Blake stated above, how much help are you going to get educating and selling your product or service from the national and daily news media? Is your service or product something that is in the news every day or is it dying out? Is the news about our product or service dying out or is it just about to burst on the scene? Now, I am here to declare that the next singular issue over the next several years is going to be "Privacy." It's huge and once you become aware of the many privacy issues that are in the news daily you will become aware that it is just starting to come forth and we will play a dominate role in making sure that the news about privacy issues are highlighted to get the position we want … we won't utilize our clout for a little while because we want to have a sizeable army in place so we can explode once George Blake taps his many media sources.

The Privacy Army is addressing these critical privacy issues. Other companies are making billions of dollars from the sale of our private information… companies like, ChoicePoint, Experian, Acxiom, and Equifax, just to name a few. We believe that's our money and we want it back! One hundred seven million Americans have signed the "Do not call list" that's an overwhelming vote against the unconstitutional invasion of our privacy rights!

We need to get our hands together with those one hundred million people and say to Congress "We want this changed, we want these assaults on our private property stopped, and we want the money, not everybody else making money off of our private property!

Now, The-Privacy-Army.com is being assembled to assert our individual ownership rights and give us the legal precedent to prove those rights against everybody that has been illegally selling our personal private data. Alone, we are powerless in this legal battle! We have no clout individually, but we can take the weapons of the law and the Internet and our collective voice to defend our Constitutional Rights on three different fronts.

The first is economic. Thousands of companies are earning billions of dollars selling our personal private property and we are not being compensated for it! The Bill of Rights says you cannot take our private property, you cannot take it without my consent and permission, you cannot take it without us being compensated. The Bill of Rights was written to protect individual citizens, not corporations. Simply put, those billions of dollars are our money, and we want it back, and we have developed a legal strategy to get it back and secure it forever. Anyone who violates our Privacy Rights will be sued, plain and simple, and when we win, which we will, we will all share in this class action pool fund. Anyone familiar with the tobacco and drug company class actions will realize this could involve hundreds of millions in awards for Privacy Army and our members.

The second front in our identity rights battle is focused on our credit reports, new threats to our medical data, our tax records, and what about your car… that BLACK BOX in your car, the one that records over 300 data points, that can replay the last minutes from the last time you drove your car…what about that new tracking device in your cell phones over the past several years?

Last but not least, what about the new fast advancing RFID technology? RFID technology has the capacity to track our every move and to totally destroy our privacy without our knowledge. Try an Internet search on RFID technology and see what you find. Privacy issues are being dismissed with disinformation on tracking capabilities of only 30 feet, but this is not true, the technology will allow tracking through repeaters, similar to how cell phones and the new WI-FI operates, so don't be fooled, this technology has advanced far more than we are being told.

Now, that is an overview of what we are all about, however if you are a retiree who would like to increase your income, or if you would just like to develop a second source of additional income let me tell you about how you can substantially increase your income by joining with us at The-Privacy-Army.com and helping us get the word out to everyone in the US within the next 5 years who is fed up with the loss of privacy and power to stop this illegal violation of our rights. Do you think a few people you know would be interested?

If you look at The-Privacy-Army.com compensation plan, here is what you are going to discover. First, you can join our cause for Free. We have a $195.00 one-time license fee and Legal Strategy Kit that addresses ownership rights for you and your entire immediate family. We pay out $155.00 of the $195.00 that is 79% to the marketing group. There are no monthly costs for all of our marketing tools, which include your very own secure web site, plus one-on-one mentoring from the person who sponsors you as a member of The Privacy Army. Just like Deming said, "Give more, keep less and the world will beat a path to your door." If you want to have a personalized link to the marketing video's you will need to open an account with FlashTalk. The FlashTalk account is FREE for the first 30 days and you can extend it for $3.95 per month or $29.95 annually.

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Identity theft is the fastest-growing white-collar crime in America. It has hit ordinary citizens and celebrities alike. The crime of the twenty-first century is profitable, nearly unpreventable, and hardly ever prosecuted. Some estimates say that nearly ten million Americans each year become victims—and the crime shows no sign of letting up.

Your Evil Twin: Behind the Identity Theft Epidemic covers this exploding crime from every possible angle. Filled with real-world identity theft horror stories (from both the criminal's and victim's perspective) as well as practical advice that can help you protect yourself, this book examines the institutions, industries, and individuals that have allowed identity theft to spread, and probes the tepid solutions now being cobbled together by the industry and government to curb this crime.

Author and identity theft expert Bob Sullivan agrees that criminals should, without a doubt, be blamed for this crisis, but he also notes that so should those entrusted with our identities.

Sullivan digs deep to reveal how institutions designed to protect our identities have let us down, while corporate America—in choosing profits over privacy—has shirked much of its responsibility for the problem.

You'll receive an up-close look at some of the most troubling issues associated with the identity theft epidemic, including:
• How criminal, domestic, child, and elder identity theft is perpetrated
• Why government agencies have been so slow to react to this problem and how our nation's identification systems—birth certificates, driver's licenses, and Social Security cards—are so easily replicated
• How credit card companies who, in their rush to push the "miracle of instant credit," have created some of the systematic flaws that allow identity theft to be profitable in the first place
• Why law enforcement officers refuse to take reports of these types of crime or prosecute criminals
• How the Internet and new technology has made identity theft easier for both criminals and terrorists

But there are solutions to the identity theft problem and this book examines some of them—from individual heroic efforts being made privately to public companies whose forward-looking projects may stem the epidemic.

Identity theft is much more than a paperwork headache for victims. The crime has been blamed for everything from divorce to suicide to murder. It threatens happy retirements as well as college student loans. In its very worst form, it can even land innocent people in jail. Your Evil Twin will show you why identity theft has become so common and examine how you can prevent or prepare for the day someone tries to steal yours.

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Senate approves electronic ID card bill



By Declan McCullagh
http://news.com.com/Senate+approves+electronic+ID+card+bill/2100-1028_3-5702505.html

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Last-minute attempts by online activists to halt an electronic ID card failed Tuesday when the U.S. Senate unanimously voted to impose a sweeping set of identification requirements on Americans.

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DID YOU KNOW YOUR CELL PHONE COULD EAVESDROP ON YOU EVEN WHEN YOU ARE NOT TALKING TO ANYONE? DID YOU KNOW YOUR ONSTAR EQUIPPED VEHICLE CAN ALSO LISTEN IN ON YOUR CONVERSATIONS BY HACKERS?

WAKE UP PEOPLE..................PRIVACY RIGHTS ARE AT STAKE HERE!

FBI taps cell phone mic as eavesdropping tool

Agency used novel surveillance technique on alleged Mafioso: activating his cell phone's microphone and then just listening.
By Declan McCullagh and Anne Broache
Staff Writer, CNET News.com

Published: December 1, 2006, 2:20 PM PST Last modified: December 1, 2006, 6:35 PM PST





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The FBI appears to have begun using a novel form of electronic surveillance in criminal investigations: remotely activating a mobile phone's microphone and using it to eavesdrop on nearby conversations. The technique is called a "roving bug," and was approved by top U.S. Department of Justice officials for use against members of a New York organized crime family who were wary of conventional surveillance techniques such as tailing a suspect or wiretapping him.
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The FBI is apparently using a novel surveillance technique on alleged Mafioso: activating his cell phone's microphone and then just listening.
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While it appears this is the first use of the "roving bug" technique, it has been discussed in security circles for years.
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Nextel cell phones owned by two alleged mobsters, John Ardito and his attorney Peter Peluso, were used by the FBI to listen in on nearby conversations. The FBI views Ardito as one of the most powerful men in the Genovese family, a major part of the national Mafia.
The surveillance technique came to light in an opinion published this week by U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan. He ruled that the "roving bug" was legal because federal wiretapping law is broad enough to permit eavesdropping even of conversations that take place near a suspect's cell phone.
Kaplan's opinion said that the eavesdropping technique "functioned whether the phone was powered on or off." Some handsets can't be fully powered down without removing the battery; for instance, some Nokia models will wake up when turned off if an alarm is set.
While the Genovese crime family prosecution appears to be the first time a remote-eavesdropping mechanism has been used in a criminal case, the technique has been discussed in security circles for years.
The U.S. Commerce Department's security office warns that "a cellular telephone can be turned into a microphone and transmitter for the purpose of listening to conversations in the vicinity of the phone." An article in the Financial Times last year said mobile providers can "remotely install a piece of software on to any handset, without the owner's knowledge, which will activate the microphone even when its owner is not making a call."
Nextel and Samsung handsets and the Motorola Razr are especially vulnerable to software downloads that activate their microphones, said James Atkinson, a counter-surveillance consultant who has worked closely with government agencies. "They can be remotely accessed and made to transmit room audio all the time," he said. "You can do that without having physical access to the phone."
Because modern handsets are miniature computers, downloaded software could modify the usual interface that always displays when a call is in progress. The spyware could then place a call to the FBI and activate the microphone--all without the owner knowing it happened. (The FBI declined to comment on Friday.)
"If a phone has in fact been modified to act as a bug, the only way to counteract that is to either have a bugsweeper follow you around 24-7, which is not practical, or to peel the battery off the phone," Atkinson said. Security-conscious corporate executives routinely remove the batteries from their cell phones, he added.
FBI's physical bugs discovered
The FBI's Joint Organized Crime Task Force, which includes members of the New York police department, had little luck with conventional surveillance of the Genovese family. They did have a confidential source who reported the suspects met at restaurants including Brunello Trattoria in New Rochelle, N.Y., which the FBI then bugged.
But in July 2003, Ardito and his crew discovered bugs in three restaurants, and the FBI quietly removed the rest. Conversations recounted in FBI affidavits show the men were also highly suspicious of being tailed by police and avoided conversations on cell phones whenever possible.
That led the FBI to resort to "roving bugs," first of Ardito's Nextel handset and then of Peluso's. U.S. District Judge Barbara Jones approved them in a series of orders in 2003 and 2004, and said she expected to "be advised of the locations" of the suspects when their conversations were recorded.
Details of how the Nextel bugs worked are sketchy. Court documents, including an affidavit (p1) and (p2) prepared by Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathan Kolodner in September 2003, refer to them as a "listening device placed in the cellular telephone." That phrase could refer to software or hardware.
One private investigator interviewed by CNET News.com, Skipp Porteous of Sherlock Investigations in New York, said he believed the FBI planted a physical bug somewhere in the Nextel handset and did not remotely activate the microphone.
"They had to have physical possession of the phone to do it," Porteous said. "There are several ways that they could have gotten physical possession. Then they monitored the bug from fairly near by."
But other experts thought microphone activation is the more likely scenario, mostly because the battery in a tiny bug would not have lasted a year and because court documents say the bug works anywhere "within the United States"--in other words, outside the range of a nearby FBI agent armed with a radio receiver.
In addition, a paranoid Mafioso likely would be suspicious of any ploy to get him to hand over a cell phone so a bug could be planted. And Kolodner's affidavit seeking a court order lists Ardito's phone number, his 15-digit International Mobile Subscriber Identifier, and lists Nextel Communications as the service provider, all of which would be unnecessary if a physical bug were being planted.
A BBC article from 2004 reported that intelligence agencies routinely employ the remote-activiation method. "A mobile sitting on the desk of a politician or businessman can act as a powerful, undetectable bug," the article said, "enabling them to be activated at a later date to pick up sounds even when the receiver is down."
For its part, Nextel said through spokesman Travis Sowders: "We're not aware of this investigation, and we weren't asked to participate."
Other mobile providers were reluctant to talk about this kind of surveillance. Verizon Wireless said only that it "works closely with law enforcement and public safety officials. When presented with legally authorized orders, we assist law enforcement in every way possible."
A Motorola representative said that "your best source in this case would be the FBI itself." Cingular, T-Mobile, and the CTIA trade association did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Mobsters: The surveillance vanguard
This isn't the first time the federal government has pushed at the limits of electronic surveillance when investigating reputed mobsters.
In one case involving Nicodemo S. Scarfo, the alleged mastermind of a loan shark operation in New Jersey, the FBI found itself thwarted when Scarfo used Pretty Good Privacy software (PGP) to encode confidential business data.
So with a judge's approval, FBI agents repeatedly snuck into Scarfo's business to plant a keystroke logger and monitor its output.
Like Ardito's lawyers, Scarfo's defense attorneys argued that the then-novel technique was not legal and that the information gleaned through it could not be used. Also like Ardito, Scarfo's lawyers lost when a judge ruled in January 2002 that the evidence was admissible.
This week, Judge Kaplan in the southern district of New York concluded that the "roving bugs" were legally permitted to capture hundreds of hours of conversations because the FBI had obtained a court order and alternatives probably wouldn't work.
The FBI's "applications made a sufficient case for electronic surveillance," Kaplan wrote. "They indicated that alternative methods of investigation either had failed or were unlikely to produce results, in part because the subjects deliberately avoided government surveillance."
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There is "no law that would allow me as a private investigator to use that type of technique," he said. "That is exclusively for law enforcement. It is not allowable or not legal in the private sector. No client of mine can ask me to overhear telephone or strictly oral conversations."
Surreptitious activation of built-in microphones by the FBI has been done before. A 2003 lawsuit revealed that the FBI was able to surreptitiously turn on the built-in microphones in automotive systems like General Motors' OnStar to snoop on passengers' conversations.
When FBI agents remotely activated the system and were listening in, passengers in the vehicle could not tell that their conversations were being monitored.
Malicious hackers have followed suit. A report last year said Spanish authorities had detained a man who write a Trojan horse that secretly activated a computer's video camera and forwarded him the recordings.

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Media Privacy Alerts this week!
Privacy problems posed by media for which
Privacy Army has a patent-pending solution
November 4, 2006

CNBC
Big Business, Big Brother documentary
http://www.cnbcbigbrother.com/index.html

United Press International
U.S. gets low ranking on privacy
http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20061103-040543-5195r

ABC Online
UK Privacy Commissioner issues dire security warning
http://www.abc.net.au/correspondents/content/2006/s1781232.htm

Reader's Digest, Nov '06
ID THIEVES' NEW TARGET: Your Medical Records
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Top Ten Stories You Missed in 2006.

10. Hackable Passports

In October, the U.S. State Department began issuing biometric “ePassports” that contain a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag under the back cover. The tiny chip holds the usual passport data, including a digital photo. The motive behind adding the chips is ostensibly good: to combat counterfeiting and illegal immigration.

But a German hacker quickly found a vulnerability. With a laptop and a chip reader he bought for $200, he was able to steal data from an encrypted RFID tag, potentially allowing him to clone an ePassport. And it’s not just Americans who are at risk. Twenty-seven countries (mostly in Europe) that participate in the U.S. Visa Waiver Program are required by U.S. law to issue the new electronic passports to their citizens. The Dutch and British media have already reported major security flaws in the new IDs.

So, what’s a security conscious citizen to do? Again, the answer may come out of Germany. A group of hackers there recommends that people microwave the new passports to destroy the chips. The State Department may want to go back to relying on a paper trail.

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