Archive for January, 2009
Saturday, January 31st, 2009
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/technolog...ith-microchips All Australians could be implanted with microchips for tracking and identification within the next two or three generations, a prominent academic says. Michael G Michael from the University of Wollongong's School of Information Systems and Technology, has coined the term "uberveillance" to describe the emerging trend of all-encompassing surveillance. "Uberveillance is not on the outside looking down, but on the inside looking out thr
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Saturday, January 31st, 2009
JEFFERSON DEMOCRAT Save-the-Date The Capital Corridor/Thousand Island Bridge Authority The Capital Corridor announces a symposium on April 2, 2009 “New Governments, New Border? Effects of Border Policy on Economic Development, Tourism and Trade.” U.S. Ambassador Visits Thousand Islands Bridge David H. Wilkins, U.S. Ambassador to Canada, visited the Thousand Islands Bridge on Monday, Sept. 29. This year marks the 70th anniversary of the opening of the bridge - the Ambassasdor’s visit served to p
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Saturday, January 31st, 2009
Canadians who travelled to the United States in 2008 are advised to check their credit-card statements and watch for signs of identity theft after a massive security breach at a U.S.-based company that processes millions of credit cards.
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Saturday, January 31st, 2009
I have arrived in Vegas yesterday (January 30th) after more than 20 hours spent in flying and hanging around on airports. I have boarded in Sofia, Bulgaria, the city where I live (at least most of the time) and as I usually do, I’ve landed in New York, the city I spend as much of my time as I can. I love living in New York. This time however I’ve stayed only less than 24 hours in NYC, enough to visit two of my favorite going out places - a Thai restaurant and a small Irish pub - both in Hell’s K
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Saturday, January 31st, 2009
MANHATTAN -- Kansas State University is notifying 45 students who were enrolled in an agricultural economics class in spring 2001 that some personal information was inadvertently exposed on the Internet through a K-State departmental Web site.
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Saturday, January 31st, 2009
Thursday 29 January 2009, Manchester The Home Secretary visits Manchester to explain how useful ID cards will be: While in Manchester the Home Secretary visited Newall Green High School in Wythenshawe to meet young people who could be some of the first to be able to apply for cards from 2010. Together they discussed how identity cards will help young people strike out on their own by opening their first bank account, renting their first flat, or perhaps travelling to Europe for the first t
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Saturday, January 31st, 2009
A breach of data security at one of the nation’s largest credit providers has led several local credit unions to issue new credit and debit cards to their customers.
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Saturday, January 31st, 2009
DALLAS – Latino advocates sued the Texas Department of Public Safety on Wednesday over new rules affecting which non-U.S. citizens can obtain driver’s licenses and identification cards.
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Saturday, January 31st, 2009
Noticias de Rupia | Nouvelles de Roupie | Rupiennachrichten | новости рупии | 卢比新闻 | Roepienieuws | Rupi Nyheter | ルピーニュース | Notizie di Rupia | PAKISTAN LEDGER | پاکستاني کھاتا | RUPEE NEWS | January 30th, 2009 | Moin Ansari | معین آنصآرّی | اخبار روپیہ |Have you heard about the poor Faridkot village idiot who could speak several languages– English, Hindi and Marhati–and wrote in the Devanagri script?Bharat’s(aka India’s) banal, and bilious brouhaha has blown up in Delhi’s face. The world has n
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Friday, January 30th, 2009
HONOLULU — The U.S. Coast Guard reports this week high compliance rates at ports in Hawaii and American Samoa where port workers will be required to have a Transportation Workers Identification Credential, or TWIC card, by Feb. 12, 2009. Port workers holding U.S. Coast Guard licenses or merchant mariners documents are required to obtain a Transportation Workers Identification Credential, also known as a “TWIC card,” if they access secure areas of waterfront facilities. The card is an effort b
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Friday, January 30th, 2009
Identity management is one helluva paradox. In your daily work life you don't sweat things like smart cards, one-time password tokens and USB tokens. Once you go home as a consumer you're straining to remember your 20th log-in and password. Google's Cem Paya, who serves on the search giant's security team, highlighted the obvious at Wharton's Information Security Best Practices conference: ...
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Friday, January 30th, 2009
Why the password system hasn’t died (yet) Posted by Larry Dignan @ 9:19 am Categories: General, Google, Security Tags: Password, Larry Dignan ’’ Identity management is one helluva paradox. In your daily work life you don’t sweat things like smart cards, one-time password tokens and USB tokens. Once you go home as a consumer you’re straining to remember your 20th log-in and password. Google’s Cem Paya, who serves on the search giant’s security team, highlighted the obvious at Wharton’s Inf
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Friday, January 30th, 2009
While the Home Office is hoping ID cards will one day be used for everything from claiming benefits to opening bank accounts, the UK financial services industry has its doubts over how useful the cards will prove. The UK payments association Apacs - whose members includes the UK's major high street banks - is worried that security features that would have made the card useful for checking ...
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Friday, January 30th, 2009
New I-9 Forms Are Effective on February 2, 2009 For New Hires Posted on January 30, 2009 by Daniel Schwartz As if human resources professionals didn't have enough on their plate this month (with changes to the ADA and FMLA), Groundhog Day will bring about another change. Although I've covered it before, it is important for employers to understand because it will affect employers of all sizes, regardless of whether they are in Connecticut or beyond. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Se
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Friday, January 30th, 2009
Hey cruisers, it’s time to get a passport!by Anita Dunham-PotterPassport quandary“The State Department has changed the regulations so many times that it is nearly impossible to keep up,” says travel agency owner John Frenaye. Indeed, the U.S. State Department’s Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) passport rule, which goes into effect on June 1, 2009, has been delayed three times creating much confusion regarding passport requirements.When researching this article I was given the wrong in
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Friday, January 30th, 2009
It s not yet known if Heartland Payment Systems newly disclosed data breach will count as the largest card heist ever. But some analysts say what is clear is that the Payment Card Industry data security standard that Visa and MasterCard require isn t sufficient to ensure cardholder data is safeguarded.
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Friday, January 30th, 2009
The city is one of several areas under consideration as a test bed for the scheme, in which people will be able to volunteer and get a card from November
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Friday, January 30th, 2009
DALLAS – Latino advocates sued the Texas Department of Public Safety on Wednesday over new rules affecting which non-U.S. citizens can obtain driver’s licenses and identification cards.
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Friday, January 30th, 2009
Secure Digital (SD) is a flash (non-volatile) memory card developed by Matsushita, SanDisk and Toshiba for use in portable devices including digital cameras,
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Friday, January 30th, 2009
January 29, 2009© 2008 - NewsWithViews.com For many years, Dr. Edwin Vieira has worked with patriots in the State of New Hampshire to get what is called an ‘honest money bill’ through their General Court. Unfortunately, due to politics instead of reason and sanity, no version of the bill has passed. Here is a brief history of the drafting and the language. Additionally, please take the time over the weekend to
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Friday, January 30th, 2009
The Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles will soon begin issuing redesigned driver's licenses with enhanced security measures to prevent tampering and fraud.
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Thursday, January 29th, 2009
There’s a reason bloggers like me are always harping about the need for identity theft protection services like those offered by LifeLock: it’s because so many nitwits are in charge of your personal information.Before I begin my rant, let me start by saying the folks in the Madison, Wisconsin Human Resources Department are probably good people. Like their imaginary Minnesota neighbors of Lake Wobegon, they’re probably a bunch of strong women, good-looking men and the parents of above-average chi
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Thursday, January 29th, 2009
LaserCard Corporation (NASDAQ:LCRD), a leading supplier of secure ID solutions, today announced its financial results for its fiscal 2009 third quarter ended December 31, 2008.
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Thursday, January 29th, 2009
A Biloxi man pleaded guilty today in federal court to conspiring to forge U.S. resident alien cards.
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Thursday, January 29th, 2009
Over the years, on my other blogs, I wrote and ranted extensively about things like the Verichip and it’s evil twin, the AMA, National ID Cards, the Patriot Act and the Dept. of Homeland Security, Big Pharma and the eroding of our freedoms and privacy. And I’ve actually been called a nut job when I’ve had the nerve to bring up ideas like the Avian flu “epidemic’ and other “Must Have” vaccines just being vehicles for Darker Powers That Be to advance their agendas, and chip us for tracking and
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