Hmmm… I never actually posted this one after drafting it, it seems. So a few days later, but still of note: University is a time at which many people are trying to establish an identity for themselves in which they feel comfortable and secure. Particularly early on in their stay at university, individuals are acutely…
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New electronic passports will have photos, choice of five- and 10-year lifespan
Lia Levesque reports: The federal government rolled out some details of its new 10-year electronic passport on Tuesday, saying the Canadians who know about the new document seem to like it. “Generally Canadians are not aware of the project by the government of Canada to adopt the new passport, nor do they know exactly what…
AU: Fingerprinting at schools heavy-handed: parents
Cassie White reports: A New South Wales school has moved to reassure parents that new student fingerprint scanners cannot be hacked into and no personal information will be stored in the system. Gosford’s Henry Kendall High School is introducing a biometric system which assigns each student a number by creating a unique code based on…
Women secretly filmed on Dalhousie campus
Dalhousie University security staff say someone is secretly filming women on the Studley Campus and posting the videos to an online sharing site. In an email sent to students Monday afternoon, Mike Burns, director of security, said women were “surreptitiously captured on video.” “The videos were taken without consent of the subjects and appear to…