I missed this story last week about newly proposed legislation that would create worker ID cards: President Obama is scheduled to meet with Senators Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) and Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) later this week to discuss a Comprehensive Immigration Reform (CIR) bill. At controversy is a proposed national worker ID which would be…
Category: Surveillance
Sweden goes ahead with drug tests for kids
The Swedish government has ignored the advice of Sweden’s Council on Legislation (Lagrådet) and proposed the introduction of drug tests on children below the age of 15. “Early intervention against young abusers is absolutely crucial,” said Beatrice Ask, Sweden’s justice minister. In a previous ruling, the council weighed the invasion of personal integrity occasioned by…
Bacteria Trail Betrays Identity Of Computer Users
Thomas Claburn reports that now our bacteria can compromise our privacy: Scientists at the University of Colorado at Boulder have found that the bacteria trail left behind on objects like computer keyboards and mice can analyzed and used to help identify users of those devices. “Your body is coated with bacteria inside and out,” says…
Google ‘99% certain’ to shut China engine
Richard Waters in San Francisco and Kathrin Hille in Beijing report: Google has drawn up detailed plans for the closure of its Chinese search engine and is now “99.9 per cent” certain to go ahead as talks over censorship with the Chinese authorities have reached an apparent impasse, according to a person familiar with the…