A Texas woman who said she was forced to remove a nipple ring with pliers in order to board an airplane called Thursday for an apology by federal security agents and a civil rights investigation.
— Greg Risling AP
If this wasn’t so disturbing then it might be funny. I am still trying to figure out how one would take down an entire commercial airliner with two nipple rings? Just one more example of the man keeping us down. How dare we want to travel and keep our privates… umm well private.I guess that this could be just a couple idiots that work in Lubbock (God knows they have their share), but then that begs the question, are these the kinda of people who could even recognize a terrorist if they saw one? As long as they weren’t wearing nipple piercings they should be ok.
Categories: Big Brother · Police State
Tagged: Police State, Terrorism, TSA
More from Wired today, don’t worry they didn’t tap your phone lines everything is ok. The Telecom companies just love Congress so much they wanted to tip them.
“Political action committees for telecoms being sued for privacy violations gave more than $10,000 on average to each Congress member who voted to give amnesty to telecoms being sued for illegally helping the government spy on Americans, according to an analysis done by MapLight.org, an organization devoted to using new technology to show the influence of money on government.”
— By Ryan Singel @ Wired Magazine
Categories: Big Brother · Telecom
Tagged: Congress, Telecom, Wire-tapping
Engineers Test Highly Accurate Face Recognition
“You can take off that ninja mask now. A new facial-recognition algorithm created by researchers at the University of California at Berkeley and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is able to recognize faces with 90-95 percent accuracy, even if the eyes, nose and mouth are obscured.”
Categories: Big Brother · Face Recognition
Tagged: Big Brother, Facial Recognition
Comcast Cameras to Start Watching You?
“If you have some tinfoil handy, now might be a good time to fashion a hat. At the Digital Living Room conference today, Gerard Kunkel, Comcast’s senior VP of user experience, told me the cable company is experimenting with different camera technologies built into devices so it can know who’s in your living room.”
[Update] Check out Comcast’s Response
Categories: Big Brother · Comcast · Telecom
Tagged: Big Brother, Comcast, Telecom
