Eric Roper of The Star Tribune has been all over the problems with rampant misuse of the Minnesota driver’s license database. In another report yesterday, he focused on the difficulties of finding out who is accessing citizen’s files: The Minnesota Department of Public Safety, which oversees the driver’s license database, refuses to tell people the…
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Lawsuit by Florida state trooper raises serious concerns about protection of state’s database of driver’s license info
I’ve recently posted a few lawsuits out of Minnesota concerning improper access to the state’s driver’s license database. One of them involved a police officer whose colleagues improperly accessed her records on numerous occasions. Now there’s also a case in Florida, where law enforcement personnel improperly accessed a fellow officer’s records – but not just…
Oliver Stone to RT: ‘US has become an Orwellian state’
I don’t subscribe to Showtime, so I missed the first episodes of director Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick’s series, “The Untold History of the United States,” but it looks like you can view some of the full episodes online, free. Reader and link contributor extraordinaire Joe Cadillic sends in this link to an interview…
The latest from “DHS Insider”
Doug Hagman writes: Introduction: After a lengthy, self-imposed informational black-out, my high-level DHS contact known as “Rosebud” emerged with new, non-public information about plans being discussed and prepared for implementation by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in the near future. It is important to note that this black-out was directly related to the aggressive federal…