Microchips Being Implanted Into Humans: Concerns About Privacy and Civil Liberty
rudkla - 17. Feb, 10:26
Big Brother - NWO
Freitag, 17. Februar 2006
Mittwoch, 15. Februar 2006
UK is "sleepwalking towards a surveillance state"
Compulsory ID cards for UK citizens within five years:
Critics warn UK is "sleepwalking towards a surveillance state"
http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39156423,00.htm
From Information Clearing House
Critics warn UK is "sleepwalking towards a surveillance state"
http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39156423,00.htm
From Information Clearing House
rudkla - 15. Feb, 12:07
Dienstag, 14. Februar 2006
Montag, 13. Februar 2006
RFID tags injected into workers for security
rudkla - 13. Feb, 11:34
Sonntag, 12. Februar 2006
Vodafone embroiled in Greek phone-tapping scandal
Vodafone's mobile phone operation in Greece has become embroiled in a phone-tapping scandal, nicknamed the Greek Watergate, after it discovered its network was being used to eavesdrop on the country's political and military elite.
http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1703702,00.html
Suicide complicates Greek mobile phone spying conundrum
The suicide of a Greek telecommunications expert added to the murkiness surrounding the explosive revelations that eavesdroppers listened in on Greece's entire political and military elite, including the prime minister, for almost a year.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2006/02/06/2003291808
From Information Clearing House
Attention in NSA Debate Turns to Telecom Industry
Though much of official Washington has been caught up in the debate over the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program, one set of major players has kept a discreet silence: the telecommunications corporations.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021106E.shtml
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US Suspected of Tapping Greek Leaders' Phones
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1544661/
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This is what it takes:
One of “THEM” gets tapped,
All hell gets raised.
They never thought, or cared, we might suffer by having one of the masts practically in our bedroom.
So, Why didn’t WE buy these guys “TO DO THIS” years ago?
If we had, we would not have a health problem today.
So true.
Best.
Agnes.
http://www.mast-victims.org
Greece phone tap leads to new law
Mr Karamanlis announced tough new measures for the telecoms industry
Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis has announced tough new rules for mobile phone operators in his country.
It follows revelations that the mobile phones of the prime minister and other high-ranking officials were tapped for more than a year.
The prime minister said the new rules would provide greater privacy in communications and harsh punishments for those caught eavesdropping.
It is not yet known who was behind the phone tapping scandal.
Tough measures
The prime minister warned that mobile phone operators could face fines of up to 2m euros ($2.4m; £1.4m) and a temporary suspension of their licence.
"(We are) preparing more effective safeguards... and harsher penalties for those who are involved in such crimes, and for those who make use of the products of these crimes," the prime minister said in a televised address.
The tapping is said to have begun before the Athens Olympics in 2004 and lasted until March last year.
It was detected by a telephone company manager dealing with customers who had reported technical problems.
About 100 mobiles belonging to politicians from both parties are thought to have been monitored.
The new rules could pose problems for Vodafone Greece, the network provider targeted in the tapping.
The British company is Greece's second-largest mobile phone provider, and has 4.4m subscribers.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4709756.stm
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A burst of energy after recovering from a tummy bug becuase the e-mail from Sue was so far out! I just had to follow it up and do a Google. The Guardian Unlimite Article below gives more detail but there are some amazing conspiracy theories on the Internet to do with this.... Anyway how are the British Government paying for this? Would it be by letting the mobile phone companies do what they want in Britain with no controls at all?
Sue's original
Note: Did anyone see the feature in one of the colour supplemets of the d mail on sunday. It waas about an employee of vodaphone in greece, who supposedly committed suicide. A scandal is following because it appears that vodaphone have been bugging the Greeks, including the Premier, at the instigation of the British. It seems that the employee may have found out about this and that is why he was bumped off.
sue g
Vodafone Greece
To see this story with its related links on the Guardian Unlimited Business site, go to http://business.guardian.co.uk
Vodafone embroiled in Greek phone-tapping scandal Helena Smith in Athens Tuesday February 07 2006 The Guardian
Vodafone's mobile phone operation in Greece has become embroiled in a phone-tapping scandal, nicknamed the Greek Watergate, after it discovered its network was being used to eavesdrop on the country's political and military elite.
Last week, an inquiry was ordered by Costas Karamanlis, the prime minister, who was among the targets. It will focus on how spy software was installed within Vodafone's Greek mobile network before the 2004 Olympics. The spyware, understood to have been lurking within software bought from Ericsson, was spotted by the mobile phone operator last spring. When found, Vodafone disabled it and passed all the information on to the authorities.
The illegal device enabled the eavesdroppers, who are still to be traced, to monitor phones owned by Mr Karamanlis, as well as his foreign, defence and public order ministers from June 2004 to last March. Mobiles belonging to the heads of the armed forces, secret services and judiciary were also "tapped". Most of the bugging is believed to have taken place around the time of the Olympics in August, when Greece faced heavy pressure to step up security.
George Koronias, Vodafone Greece's chief executive, who is expected to be among the chief witnesses, said that he removed the device because it was his duty "towards my country and my company".
Critics, however, contend that by deactivating the device, which diverted calls to 14 "shadow" phones connected to a recording machine, Mr Koronias made it impossible for authorities to trace the interceptors.
The Greek authorities are also expected to look into the suicide of Kostas Tsalikides, Vodafone Greece's network planning manager, who took his own life on March 9 last year, shortly after the eavesdropping came to light. Vodafone however has made it plain that his death had nothing to do with the eavesdropping software.
Copyright Guardian Newspapers Limited
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Did anyone see the feature in one of the colour supplemets of the d mail on sunday. It was about an employee of vodaphone in greece, who supposedly committed suicide. A scandal is following because it appears that vodaphone have been bugging the Greeks, including the Premier, at the instigation of the British. It seems that the employee may have found out about this and that is why he was bumped off.
sue g
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=phone-tap
http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1703702,00.html
Suicide complicates Greek mobile phone spying conundrum
The suicide of a Greek telecommunications expert added to the murkiness surrounding the explosive revelations that eavesdroppers listened in on Greece's entire political and military elite, including the prime minister, for almost a year.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2006/02/06/2003291808
From Information Clearing House
Attention in NSA Debate Turns to Telecom Industry
Though much of official Washington has been caught up in the debate over the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program, one set of major players has kept a discreet silence: the telecommunications corporations.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021106E.shtml
--------
US Suspected of Tapping Greek Leaders' Phones
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1544661/
--------
This is what it takes:
One of “THEM” gets tapped,
All hell gets raised.
They never thought, or cared, we might suffer by having one of the masts practically in our bedroom.
So, Why didn’t WE buy these guys “TO DO THIS” years ago?
If we had, we would not have a health problem today.
So true.
Best.
Agnes.
http://www.mast-victims.org
Greece phone tap leads to new law
Mr Karamanlis announced tough new measures for the telecoms industry
Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis has announced tough new rules for mobile phone operators in his country.
It follows revelations that the mobile phones of the prime minister and other high-ranking officials were tapped for more than a year.
The prime minister said the new rules would provide greater privacy in communications and harsh punishments for those caught eavesdropping.
It is not yet known who was behind the phone tapping scandal.
Tough measures
The prime minister warned that mobile phone operators could face fines of up to 2m euros ($2.4m; £1.4m) and a temporary suspension of their licence.
"(We are) preparing more effective safeguards... and harsher penalties for those who are involved in such crimes, and for those who make use of the products of these crimes," the prime minister said in a televised address.
The tapping is said to have begun before the Athens Olympics in 2004 and lasted until March last year.
It was detected by a telephone company manager dealing with customers who had reported technical problems.
About 100 mobiles belonging to politicians from both parties are thought to have been monitored.
The new rules could pose problems for Vodafone Greece, the network provider targeted in the tapping.
The British company is Greece's second-largest mobile phone provider, and has 4.4m subscribers.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4709756.stm
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A burst of energy after recovering from a tummy bug becuase the e-mail from Sue was so far out! I just had to follow it up and do a Google. The Guardian Unlimite Article below gives more detail but there are some amazing conspiracy theories on the Internet to do with this.... Anyway how are the British Government paying for this? Would it be by letting the mobile phone companies do what they want in Britain with no controls at all?
Sue's original
Note: Did anyone see the feature in one of the colour supplemets of the d mail on sunday. It waas about an employee of vodaphone in greece, who supposedly committed suicide. A scandal is following because it appears that vodaphone have been bugging the Greeks, including the Premier, at the instigation of the British. It seems that the employee may have found out about this and that is why he was bumped off.
sue g
Vodafone Greece
To see this story with its related links on the Guardian Unlimited Business site, go to http://business.guardian.co.uk
Vodafone embroiled in Greek phone-tapping scandal Helena Smith in Athens Tuesday February 07 2006 The Guardian
Vodafone's mobile phone operation in Greece has become embroiled in a phone-tapping scandal, nicknamed the Greek Watergate, after it discovered its network was being used to eavesdrop on the country's political and military elite.
Last week, an inquiry was ordered by Costas Karamanlis, the prime minister, who was among the targets. It will focus on how spy software was installed within Vodafone's Greek mobile network before the 2004 Olympics. The spyware, understood to have been lurking within software bought from Ericsson, was spotted by the mobile phone operator last spring. When found, Vodafone disabled it and passed all the information on to the authorities.
The illegal device enabled the eavesdroppers, who are still to be traced, to monitor phones owned by Mr Karamanlis, as well as his foreign, defence and public order ministers from June 2004 to last March. Mobiles belonging to the heads of the armed forces, secret services and judiciary were also "tapped". Most of the bugging is believed to have taken place around the time of the Olympics in August, when Greece faced heavy pressure to step up security.
George Koronias, Vodafone Greece's chief executive, who is expected to be among the chief witnesses, said that he removed the device because it was his duty "towards my country and my company".
Critics, however, contend that by deactivating the device, which diverted calls to 14 "shadow" phones connected to a recording machine, Mr Koronias made it impossible for authorities to trace the interceptors.
The Greek authorities are also expected to look into the suicide of Kostas Tsalikides, Vodafone Greece's network planning manager, who took his own life on March 9 last year, shortly after the eavesdropping came to light. Vodafone however has made it plain that his death had nothing to do with the eavesdropping software.
Copyright Guardian Newspapers Limited
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Did anyone see the feature in one of the colour supplemets of the d mail on sunday. It was about an employee of vodaphone in greece, who supposedly committed suicide. A scandal is following because it appears that vodaphone have been bugging the Greeks, including the Premier, at the instigation of the British. It seems that the employee may have found out about this and that is why he was bumped off.
sue g
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=phone-tap
rudkla - 12. Feb, 15:01
Samstag, 11. Februar 2006
ADVISE: altes US-amerikanisches Überwachungsprogramm unter neuem Namen
Sammeln und Verbinden von gigantischen Datenmengen http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/22/22021/1.html
rudkla - 11. Feb, 22:16
Every move they make, mum’s watching
Marketing ploys for kids and cell phones
From Tower Sanity Alliance:
The Sydney Morning Herald, Feb. 11, 2006
Every move they make, mum’s watching
By Louise Williams February 11, 2006
IT’S not quite Big Brother, more like Big Mother.
Avalon lawyer Meredith Kelly doesn’t have a hope of getting to the school on time, but she knows exactly when her eight-year-old son, Michael, walks through the school gate. So too does her husband, Peter, even if he is away in China on business.
Michael’s the first kid on his northern beaches block to have a new child’s mobile phone that doubles as a tracking device. He is the red blip on his parents’ computer screen or their mobile phone displays. If he wanders out of one of three “safe zones” his parents have nominated, his phone texts theirs and tells them something is up and where he is. The system even keeps a record of everywhere he has been for the previous 30 days.
People tracking is no longer just the stuff of covert military operations or spy movies. Putting mobile phones and GPS together is an ideal technological marriage, says an expert in the technology, Associate Professor Andrew Dempster of the University of NSW.
Globally, we’re on the verge of a boom in over-the-counter locator devices, he says of the first child-tracker to hit the Australian market.
In the US, all mobile phones are now required to double as locators for emergency services, he says. Phone companies must be able to pinpoint any individual handset to within 150 metres so the emergency services can respond, even if the caller can’t tell them where he or she is. In Japan, the technology is being tailored to user-pay location services, like mobile phones and cars that can lead you to your destination. But children are also being remotely monitored. Japanese manufacturers began incorporating GPS locators into school bags in 2004, eyeing the growing market of parents anxious about rising crime.
The Australian distributor of the new iKids phone, Mark Gullickson, said most buyers were from Sydney and Melbourne where many families often have both parents working, or a single parent.
The phone costs $300, plus $28 a month, even though it limits children to calling four preset numbers.
“Michael is getting to an age where he can walk home himself, but I feel more comfortable if he’s in contact with me,” said Ms Kelly. Most days he is still picked up from school, but the Kellys also juggle a younger child and demanding jobs. “When my husband is overseas and I’m out with the kids, he can even use the phone to find us,” Mrs Kelly said. While the Kellys are thrilled with the extra assurance the phone offers, they have had a “mixed reaction” at the school gate, including outright disapproval of mobiles for young children.
“There’s nothing as good as responsible adult supervision,” said Sharryn Brownlee, president of the NSW Federation of Parents and Citizens’ Associations. “Technology can lull us into a false sense of security. It’s easy for the phone to be lost, stolen, or even traded.
“But we do have to recognise that mobile phones have transformed our lives and it’s now a vital communication tool for many kids and their parents.”
The executive officer of Kidsafe, Greg Stead, was less enthusiastic: “You simply need to know where primary school-age kids are. They should be under parental or adult supervision. Nothing replaces that. We should treat tracking devices with caution.”
But more and more parents are relying on mobile phones as safety devices. A Nielsen/NetRatings survey last year found 89 per cent of parents felt safer knowing their child had a mobile phone. Half of children have their own mobile, but only 16 per cent of six- to 11-year-olds have a phone, compared with 87 per cent of 15- to 17-year-olds.
An iKids teen phone is planned, but teenagers may be less enthusiastic about being followed on a virtual map by Mum and Dad. And for adults, affordable tracking technology is a looming privacy minefield.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/every-move-they-make-mums-watching/2006/02/10/1139542402618.html
Source: http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/index.php?p=381
From Tower Sanity Alliance:
The Sydney Morning Herald, Feb. 11, 2006
Every move they make, mum’s watching
By Louise Williams February 11, 2006
IT’S not quite Big Brother, more like Big Mother.
Avalon lawyer Meredith Kelly doesn’t have a hope of getting to the school on time, but she knows exactly when her eight-year-old son, Michael, walks through the school gate. So too does her husband, Peter, even if he is away in China on business.
Michael’s the first kid on his northern beaches block to have a new child’s mobile phone that doubles as a tracking device. He is the red blip on his parents’ computer screen or their mobile phone displays. If he wanders out of one of three “safe zones” his parents have nominated, his phone texts theirs and tells them something is up and where he is. The system even keeps a record of everywhere he has been for the previous 30 days.
People tracking is no longer just the stuff of covert military operations or spy movies. Putting mobile phones and GPS together is an ideal technological marriage, says an expert in the technology, Associate Professor Andrew Dempster of the University of NSW.
Globally, we’re on the verge of a boom in over-the-counter locator devices, he says of the first child-tracker to hit the Australian market.
In the US, all mobile phones are now required to double as locators for emergency services, he says. Phone companies must be able to pinpoint any individual handset to within 150 metres so the emergency services can respond, even if the caller can’t tell them where he or she is. In Japan, the technology is being tailored to user-pay location services, like mobile phones and cars that can lead you to your destination. But children are also being remotely monitored. Japanese manufacturers began incorporating GPS locators into school bags in 2004, eyeing the growing market of parents anxious about rising crime.
The Australian distributor of the new iKids phone, Mark Gullickson, said most buyers were from Sydney and Melbourne where many families often have both parents working, or a single parent.
The phone costs $300, plus $28 a month, even though it limits children to calling four preset numbers.
“Michael is getting to an age where he can walk home himself, but I feel more comfortable if he’s in contact with me,” said Ms Kelly. Most days he is still picked up from school, but the Kellys also juggle a younger child and demanding jobs. “When my husband is overseas and I’m out with the kids, he can even use the phone to find us,” Mrs Kelly said. While the Kellys are thrilled with the extra assurance the phone offers, they have had a “mixed reaction” at the school gate, including outright disapproval of mobiles for young children.
“There’s nothing as good as responsible adult supervision,” said Sharryn Brownlee, president of the NSW Federation of Parents and Citizens’ Associations. “Technology can lull us into a false sense of security. It’s easy for the phone to be lost, stolen, or even traded.
“But we do have to recognise that mobile phones have transformed our lives and it’s now a vital communication tool for many kids and their parents.”
The executive officer of Kidsafe, Greg Stead, was less enthusiastic: “You simply need to know where primary school-age kids are. They should be under parental or adult supervision. Nothing replaces that. We should treat tracking devices with caution.”
But more and more parents are relying on mobile phones as safety devices. A Nielsen/NetRatings survey last year found 89 per cent of parents felt safer knowing their child had a mobile phone. Half of children have their own mobile, but only 16 per cent of six- to 11-year-olds have a phone, compared with 87 per cent of 15- to 17-year-olds.
An iKids teen phone is planned, but teenagers may be less enthusiastic about being followed on a virtual map by Mum and Dad. And for adults, affordable tracking technology is a looming privacy minefield.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/every-move-they-make-mums-watching/2006/02/10/1139542402618.html
Source: http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/index.php?p=381
rudkla - 11. Feb, 10:55
Freitag, 10. Februar 2006
"Abschleifen der Hemmschwellen": Datenschutzbeauftragter Schaar wirft Regierung den Bruch von Zusagen vor
10.02.06
Der Bundesdatenschutzbeauftragte Peter Schaar warnt vor einer "Rundumüberwachung" in Deutschland. Schaar verwies am Donnerstag auf die "vielfältigen Möglichkeiten" der Datensammlung etwa durch die Autobahnmaut, die Telekommunikation und die so genannten RFID-Chips. Schaar wandte sich gegen Überlegungen in der großen Koalition, Maut-Daten auch für Fahndungszwecke zu nutzen. Die "Geschäftsgrundlage" dafür, dass dieses System überhaupt akzeptiert wurde, sei die sehr strikte Zweckbindung gewesen. Diese schließe eine Verwendung der Maut-Daten für Strafverfolgungszwecke generell aus.
Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=12905
Der Bundesdatenschutzbeauftragte Peter Schaar warnt vor einer "Rundumüberwachung" in Deutschland. Schaar verwies am Donnerstag auf die "vielfältigen Möglichkeiten" der Datensammlung etwa durch die Autobahnmaut, die Telekommunikation und die so genannten RFID-Chips. Schaar wandte sich gegen Überlegungen in der großen Koalition, Maut-Daten auch für Fahndungszwecke zu nutzen. Die "Geschäftsgrundlage" dafür, dass dieses System überhaupt akzeptiert wurde, sei die sehr strikte Zweckbindung gewesen. Diese schließe eine Verwendung der Maut-Daten für Strafverfolgungszwecke generell aus.
Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=12905
rudkla - 10. Feb, 22:54
"Mobile Tracking": Orwell zum Selbermachen?
"Mach mir nichts vor, ich weiß, wo du bist"
http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/22/22007/1.html
http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/22/22007/1.html
rudkla - 10. Feb, 22:41
