A new bill would give the President emergency authority to halt web traffic and access private data.
—By Steve Aquino
Thu April 2, 2009 12:33 PM PST
Should President Obama have the power to shut down domestic Internet traffic during a state of emergency?
Senators John Rockefeller (D-W. Va.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) think so. On Wednesday they introduced a bill to establish the Office of the National Cybersecurity Advisor—an arm of the executive branch that would have vast power to monitor and control Internet traffic to protect against threats to critical cyber infrastructure. That broad power is rattling some civil libertarians.
... Read more: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/04/should-obama-control-internet
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Census GPS-tagging your home's front door
Coordinates being taken for every residence in nation
Posted: May 05, 2009
8:32 pm Eastern
By Bob Unruh
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
According to an online Yahoo program, the Global Position System coordinates for the White House, probably one of the best-known publicly owned buildings in the world, are 38.898590 Latitude and -77.035971 Longitude. And since you know that, it's no big deal for the White House to know the coordinates for your front door, is it?
Some people think it is, and are upset over an army of some 140,000 workers hired in part with a $700 million taxpayer-funded contract to collect GPS readings for every front door in the nation.
... Read more: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=97208
Posted: May 05, 2009
8:32 pm Eastern
By Bob Unruh
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
According to an online Yahoo program, the Global Position System coordinates for the White House, probably one of the best-known publicly owned buildings in the world, are 38.898590 Latitude and -77.035971 Longitude. And since you know that, it's no big deal for the White House to know the coordinates for your front door, is it?
Some people think it is, and are upset over an army of some 140,000 workers hired in part with a $700 million taxpayer-funded contract to collect GPS readings for every front door in the nation.
... Read more: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=97208
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