AFP reports: U.S. lawmakers unveiled a bill Wednesday to enable law enforcement to identify users of pre-paid cell phones, charging that anonymity makes the devices attractive to terrorists, drug kingpins and gangs. The legislation would require buyers of pre-paid cell phones to show identification when they purchase them and mandate that telephone companies keep the…
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MD: Debate Sparks Over Video Recording Of Arrests
This issue has been covered on PogoWasRight.org in the past, but nothing has yet changed. WJZ reports: Several Marylanders face felony charges for recording their arrests on camera, and others have been intimidated to shut their cameras off. That’s touched off a legal controversy. […] Video of another arrest at the Preakness quickly made its…
DARPA looks for stealthier Internet access
Kathleen Hickey reports: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is seeking technologies to enable safe and anonymous access to the Internet by the military. In particular, DARPA is interested in technologies that “allow anonymous Internet communications to bypass techniques that suppress, localize and/or corrupt information.” Aren’t we all? Read more on GCN.com.
Although US travelers to terror havens are a growing worry, tracking raises privacy concerns
Lolita C. Baldor of the Associated Press reports that in the aftermath of recent terrorist incidents involving “homegrown” terrorists, the U.S. is trying to beef up its tracking of those who travel to areas associated with terrorist havens: Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., and a member of the House intelligence committee, said he believes it is…