Warning on Spread of State Surveillance (The Guardian)

[chlamor]

Warning on spread of state surveillance

Richard Norton-Taylor
Thursday April 21, 2005
The Guardian

Governments are building a "global registration and surveillance infrastructure" in the US-led "war on terror", civil liberty groups warned yesterday. The aim is to monitor the movements and activities of entire populations in what campaigners call "an unprecedented project of social control".

The warning came from the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group, including the American Civil Liberties Union, and Statewatch, a UK-based bulletin which tracks developments in the EU.

They point to the system whereby all visitors to the US are to be digitally photographed and fingerprinted. The EU has agreed that member states must fingerprint all passport holders by the end of 2007. The information will be held on databases.

National ID cards, they warn, will become a "globally interoperable biometric passport". The setting up of airlines' passenger name records (PNRs) could include more than 60 different kinds of information, including meal choices which could reveal personal, religious or ethnic affiliations.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1464666,00.html

[Freedom_from_Chains]

1. I saw this earlier today, scary stuff. n/t

[sexybomber]

2. That's some scary shit.

n/t

[grasswire]

3. I've been yakking about databases for years...

...because when dissent is criminalized, the roundup will be easily completed.

[chlamor]

4. Surveillance Nation

The Panopticon

[bandy]

5. Why does this bring to mind

the new "U.S. Gov. Hackers" and all the identity thief's going on in this country? I thought from the beginning of the thiefs that somehow this administration was involved.