By Shelli Dawdy Fortunately, the story is starting to get out. “Big Brother” wants to see what’s in your trash. And no, this is not a conspiracy theory. WHO is “Big Brother”? The precise composition of the snoop depends upon where you live, but in most cases, there is a single source from which this [...]
By Shelli Dawdy Fortunately, the story is starting to get out. “Big Brother” wants to see what’s in your trash. And no, this is not a conspiracy theory. WHO is “Big Brother”? The precise composition of the snoop depends upon where you live, but in most cases, there is a single source from which this [...]
Schools are increasingly invading student privacy both in school and outside of school. Are schools grooming youth to passively accept a surveillance state where they have no expectation of privacy anywhere?
Here is the story of HB2569 on Scribd below. Follow the money and the story of these capitol offenders in 2010. Meet the "chippers' and ask yourself if you really want people who want to track you like cattle representing you in any capacity whatsoever.
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin (quoted on statue of liberty)
Students at Northern Arizona University will have a hard time skipping large classes next fall because of a new attendance monitoring system. The new system will use sensors to detect students’ university identification cards when they enter classrooms, according to NAU spokesperson Tom Bauer. The data will be recorded and available for professors to examine. [...]
The OK House has agreed to vote to override Governor Brad Henry's veto of HB 2569, the bill prohibiting RFID tags in the OK DL/ID cards.
This vote was originally set for Wednesday, 5/5/10, but has now been moved to Tuesday, 5/11/10.
There is some evidence that the Governor is applying pressure to members of the Democrat caucus not to override his veto on this bill.
4/29/10, 2:45pm URGENT UPDATE ON HB 2569 and OK-SAFE Action Alert dated 4/29/10 OK-SAFE just received word that Governor Brad Henry has vetoed HB 2569, the bill prohibiting RFID tags in the OK DL/ID cards. House author Rep. Paul Wesselhoft needs help asking for a veto override on this bill before Monday, [...]
Representing a firm called HID Global, big government lobbyist Jim Dunlap is wheeling and dealing his way into amending HB 2569, a bill currently working its’ way through the OK legislature and which prohibits imbedding/affixing/adhering a radio frequency identification (RFID) device or RFID-type ink into or on to the OK drivers license or state-issued identification cards. HID Global and lobbyist Jim [...]