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Apple Says Audiobooks Must Have DRM
DRM doesn’t work. We know it, you know it and even the RIAA knows it . The FCC has had hearings on it, and even the retailers agree that it is useless, which was why Apple removed DRM from their music.
Continue reading »Court Kills ‘Round-The-Clock’ Surveillance Case
Welcome to the tinfoil hat club. That’s what a federal appeals court is telling Scott Tooley of Kentucky in dismissing his civil rights lawsuit. Tooley believes the government put him under blanket surveillance after he said the word bomb to an airline agent.
Continue reading »Teacher Claims Fingerprinting Is ‘Mark of the Beast’
A 22-year veteran kindergarten teacher in the Texas Bible Belt could lose her job for refusing, on religious grounds, to give fingerprints under a state law requiring them. The evangelical Christian, Pam McLaurin, is fighting a looming suspension, claiming that fingerprinting amounts to the “ Mark of the Beast ,” and hence is a violation of her First Amendment right to practice her religion . Her case is similar to a lawsuit by a group of Michigan farmers , some of them Amish, challenging rules requiring the tagging of livestock with RFID chips, saying the devices are also the devil’s mark.
Continue reading »Feds at DefCon Alarmed After RFID’s Scanned
LAS VEGAS – It’s one of the most hostile hacker environments in the country –- the DefCon hacker conference held every year in the summer in Las Vegas. But despite the fact that attendees know they should take precautions to protect their data, federal agents at the conference got a scare on Friday when they were told they might have been caught in the sights of an RFID reader. The reader, connected to a web camera, sniffed data from RFID-enabled ID cards and other documents carried by attendees in pockets and backpacks as they passed a table where the equipment was stationed in full view.
Continue reading »Giving people control over Spy Chips
A Q&A designed to warn people against possible risks attached to RFID tags, sometimes called spy chips, was issued today by EU Commissioner for Information Society Viviane Reding. People shouldn’t have to carry them in anything, “without being informed precisely what they are used for, with the choice of removing or switching it off at any time,” she says. “Radio-frequency identification (RFID) is the use of an object (typically referred to as an RFID tag) applied to or incorporated into a product, animal, or person for the purpose of identification and tracking using radio waves,” says the Wikipedia .
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