Brad Stone reports: Verified Identity Pass, a company founded by the entrepreneur Steven Brill, offered travelers a tempting proposition: pay up to $199 a year, submit to a fingerprint and iris scan, and skip to the front of interminable airport security lines. But last June, the company left its roughly 200,000 paying customers stranded, saying…
Hoyer throws cold water on bill introduced to repeal retroactive immunity
Senators Chris Dodd (D-CT), Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Russ Feingold (D-WI), and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) announced today that the introduction of the Retroactive Immunity Repeal Act, a bill that would eliminate retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies that allegedly participated in President Bush’s warrantless wiretapping program. The immunity had been included in the FISA Amendment Acts of…
B.C. identity theft victims say they can’t get justice
Kathy Tomlinson reports: Two B.C. people who are victims of identity theft are speaking out in frustration with the justice system. Mark Gorst and Shannon Werry have ample evidence indicating who the thief is, but even so, RCMP have told them charges won’t be laid. “It’s frustrating … and there is a lot of anger,”…
NA: NC Passed Spy Bill ‘Deliberately’
Staff members of the National Council have told The Namibian that the passing of the Communications Bill by the council was “deliberate” and not because of an administrative slip-up, as reported on Friday. The latest development has thrown the much-publicised piece of legislation into yet another controversy. […] When the bill was referred to them,…