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National Defense February 2013 Stew Magnuson |
DHS Pushes Back REAL ID Deadline Again to Accomodate Cash-Strapped States The Department of Homeland Security moved the goal posts back in December again when it granted a third extension for 37 states to comply with the REAL ID Act of 2005. |
InternetNews May 11, 2005 Michael Singer |
'Real ID' Under Fire States and privacy groups mull a legal fight against a bill requiring national IDs citing the high cost and risk of identity theft. |
InternetNews May 8, 2007 Roy Mark |
Leahy Raises REAL ID Act Revolt Vermont senator says Congress should reconsider law that calls for national identification standards. |
InternetNews March 2, 2007 Roy Mark |
REAL ID Deadline Evaporates Under Pressure The Department of Homeland Security postpones implementation of controversial law mandating standardized state driver's licenses linked in databases. |
Reason May 2007 David Weigel |
Hold Your Cards If the federal government gets its way, every state will have to comply with the Real ID Act as of May 11, 2008. Each American will have an ID card encoded with vital information using an undefined machine-readable technology, with the same specs from San Diego, California, to Bangor, Maine. |
BusinessWeek May 29, 2006 Aaron Bernstein |
Hiring Illegals: Inside The Deal Ahead Business is getting behind a new system of verification - and steep fines. |
Searcher November 2012 Irene E. McDermott |
Internet Express - Stop the Vote: Voting Rights in the 2012 Election The author documents some of the historical and current attempts to restrict the vote and provides links to websites that help citizens register to vote. |
Reason December 2001 |
Guarding the Home Front Will civil liberties be a casualty in the War on Terrorism? A panel of experts discuss which civil liberties they think are most at risk in what has been called America's first 21st century war... |
U.S. Banker January 2004 Karen Krebsbach |
Biometrics Takes Hold Overseas, But Not in U.S. U.S. banks, tied to legacy systems, are reluctant to start over with what many consider untested technology. Then there's the real bugaboo: privacy. |
BusinessWeek August 8, 2005 |
Big Brother Britain? The Blair Administration's proposal for biometric ID cards looked like a goner - until the July 7 attacks in London. But critics still worry about their intrusiveness. |
Reason April 2009 Matt Welch |
The Liberaltarian Jackalope The liberal-libertarian rapprochement is probably dead on arrival. |
National Defense March 2006 |
`Real ID' Controversy Heats Up Lines are being drawn in the battle over what new standards will be put in place when the Real ID Act of 2005 goes into effect two years from now. |
IEEE Spectrum January 2006 Erico Guizzo |
Loser: Britain's Identity Crisis Proposed biometric ID cards won't prevent fraud or terrorism |
Reason March 2006 Veronique de Rugy |
Are We Ready for the Next 9/11? The sorry state -- and stunning waste -- of homeland security spending. |
Reason August 2003 Brian Doherty |
Suspected Terrorist Multimillionaire John Gilmore is suing the government to remain anonymous. Is this the last stand for privacy? |
Managed Care January 2002 Michael S. Victoroff |
May I Please See Some Identification? Out of the darkness of terrorism, America's focus on homeland security casts new light on national ID cards. Conceivably, this could reanimate the stagnant debate over Universal Medical Record Identifiers... |
Reason March 2009 Brian Doherty |
Follow Up: ID and Surveillance The techniques and practices for a universally tracked and databased America using RFID technology are out there and could be just five years away. |
Reason September 2005 Jacob Sullum |
Rant: ID Card Trick Can we count on the DMV to foil terrorists? If the government can't reliably distinguish those who should get ID from those who shouldn't, how can we believe it will be worth the trouble? |
National Defense March 2005 Joe Pappalardo |
U.S.-Canadian Border Crossings to Tighten Security The bridges and border control stations on the U.S.-Canada border are undergoing strategic overhauls, not only to increase security but also to ensure rapid throughput of commercial traffic, leaders from both nations recently announced. |
Geotimes September 2003 David Applegate |
Opposition to Evolution Takes Many Forms A 1987 Supreme Court decision forced evolution opponents to reassess their approach and seek alternative strategies that would not run afoul of the constitutional wall of separation between church and state. In the intervening years, two such strategies have emerged. |
National Defense February 2009 Stew Magnuson |
DHS Leaders Inherit Litany of Procurement Woes There is a new administration and a new Congress. But will it be a new day for the way the Department of Homeland Security acquires technology? |
PC World October 16, 2002 Michelle Madigan |
ACLU Campaign Challenges Patriot Act Privacy unnecessarily threatened under broad surveillance powers, civil liberties group charges. |
Managed Care August 2006 Lola Butcher |
For Kansas, It's All In the (ID) Cards Inaccurate data on patient ID cards is the top headache that a Kansas commission has decided to address using improved information technology. |
National Defense August 2010 Eric Beidel |
Technology Immediately Identifies the 'Bad Guys' Defense ID is a simple scanner than can keep beer away from minors and terrorists off planes. |
Wired January 2004 |
Start How to have a national ID card that doesn't threaten civil liberties... As far as the US Department of Justice is concerned, computer crime is a lot like crack cocaine... The algorithm method: Demaine adds value at MIT... etc. |
National Defense December 2007 Stew Magnuson |
Port Worker ID Card Criticized as Wasteful and Ineffective The Transportation Security Administration and Coast Guard in October began enrolling port workers in a long delayed identity card program even though the technology to read the cards may be years away. |
Searcher November 2005 Carol Ebbinghouse |
Another Phine Kettle of Phish: Identity Theft Prevention Ten things to do today to protect yourself against identity theft. |
National Defense April 2007 Stew Magnuson |
Defense, Law-Enforcement Agencies Seek Advanced Surveillance Tools Suicide bombers, improvised explosive devices and the threats of chemical or biological weapons are creating increased demand for cutting edge technologies that can detect or survey potential hazards from stand-off distances. |
Geotimes September 2005 Nisbet & Nisbet |
Evolution & Intelligent Design: Understanding Public Opinion Tensions in American society over religious and scientific accounts of human origins are centuries old, and the divide between the two contending worldviews continues today as part of an escalating political conflict over science education. |
Bank Technology News March 2005 Matthew de Paula |
Privacy Versus Profits: For Consumers, Not Sharing Is Caring Fear of ID theft along with new regulation are compelling banks to reconcile the conflicting goals of protecting privacy and optimizing information for marketing purposes. |
Reason March 2006 Jacob Sullum |
Rocking the Bus Here's how Deborah Davis, a middle-aged Colorado woman with four grown children and five grandchildren, ended up getting dragged off a bus by federal security officers, who handcuffed her, took her to their station, and cited her for two misdemeanors. |
InternetNews November 30, 2004 Colin C. Haley |
Pakistan Faces Security Challenge with Viisage When it comes to fighting fraud and terrorism, you can never have enough technology. That's the message from Pakistan, which has tapped Viisage Technologies as part of an upgrade of its smart passport and national ID program. |
National Defense January 2008 Stew Magnuson |
DHS Pressing On With Troubled Technology Programs Whether it is program delays, public uproars over its policies, court challenges or accusations of mismanagement, nothing ever seems to go smoothly for DHS. Many of these controversial programs involve the development of new technologies. |
Reason October 2008 Matt Welch |
Illegal Editor Immigration restrictions hurt legal residents. |
Wired October 2004 Evan Ratliff |
The Crusade Against Evolution In the beginning there was Darwin. And then there was intelligent design. How the next generation of "creation science" is invading America's classrooms. |
InternetNews June 7, 2006 Roy Mark |
Net Neutrality Time on The Floor The moment of truth for network neutrality may arrive as early as tomorrow in the U.S. House of Representatives. |
Geotimes February 2006 Kathryn Hansen |
Victory for Evolution in Dover A Pennsylvania judge ruled that the Dover School District's science curriculum, which required the presentation of intelligent design (ID) as an alternative to evolution, is unconstitutional. Just two weeks after the decision, schoolboard members voted to remove ID from its curricula. |
AskMen.com Ross Bonander |
4 Steps: Voting The following four steps largely explain the administrative process of voting. |
New Architect December 2002 Bret A. Fausett |
Your Money or Your Life? With the advent of digital IDs, crooks will have a choice. |
InternetNews February 4, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
Napolitano Urged to Act on Border Laptop Seizures Homeland security advisers press for greater oversight by privacy officials. |
National Defense November 2012 Valerie Insinna |
License Plate Reader Technology Sparks Lawsuit The American Civil Liberties Union sued two departments, including Homeland Security, 38 states and the District of Columbia in September over documents related to the federal government's use of automatic license plate readers. |
InternetNews May 11, 2006 Roy Mark |
Bush Goes After ID Theft on National Level President Bush signed an executive order Wednesday afternoon creating a national Identity Theft Task Force... FTC circumspect on national data breach disclosure law... Chertoff says interoperability problems are jurisdictional, not technological... |
InternetNews February 28, 2005 Roy Mark |
Feds Approve New Smart Card Standards Federal employees and government contractors will eventually be given cards with digital photos and fingerprints. |
Geotimes December 2005 Kathryn Hansen |
Victory for Evolution in Dover A Pennsylvania judge ruled that the Dover Area School District's science curriculum, which required the presentation of intelligent design -- a religious theory -- as an alternative to evolution, is unconstitutional. |
InternetNews September 8, 2004 Jim Wagner |
MARID Floats Sender ID Compromise With a seemingly impassible fissure between the open source community and Microsoft delaying authenticated e-mails, a workaround might be the answer. |
InternetNews June 18, 2004 Roy Mark |
House Approves $10B Accenture Deal One last effort to kill a potential $10 billion deal between Accenture and the Department of Homeland Security failed Friday on a largely partisan 221-182 vote in the U.S. House of Representatives. |
Entrepreneur September 2002 Melissa Campanelli |
Calling Security Are you taking advantage of the post-9/11 boom in security technology? |