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Citizens' Protection in Federal Databases Act Introduced
SewersOfRivendell writes "Quote from http://boingboing.net/: 'EFF, EPIC, CDT, ACLU and Free Congress have drafted a bill that's been introduced by Senator Wyden today, for a new law called "The Citizens' Protection in Federal Databases Act." This is a hell of a law. It finds that various species of spooks are making avid use of commercial and governmental databases, merging them and aggregating them, without transparency, accountability, or any real understanding of the danger to civil liberties involved in this practice. Accordingly, it requires any Fed agency using non-Fed databases to cut it out and make a full report to Congress on who they're buying database and database-services from, what they're doing to preserve privacy, why they're doing what they're doing, and whether they actually have a realistic chance of catching any bad guys. And it calls into account Feds who abuse their authority and limits the kind of doomsday hypotheticals that can be used to justify such abuse.' PDF draft of the bill here."
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living in America these days is this:
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America of 2003 is a far far cry from America of 1776.
Rights? Gone, sold to the highest corporation.
Freedoms? Sold to foreign interests.
Protections? Only protecting Big Business from you.
These laws, while a nice idea, are like a band aid on a broken arm. No matter how many you apply, the basic problem(s) still exist. And until those problems are solved, laws like these won't help.
There is only one thing that secures my freedoms, rights and privacy: My
So rise up, all ye lost ones, as one, we'll claw the clouds.
By Gareth Cook, Globe Staff, 7/29/2003
here are many things to remember when operating a nuclear reactor, but one rule is paramount: Stay awake.
Between 6:09 and 6:15 on the morning of June 29, however, the only operator in the control room of the MIT Nuclear Reactor Laboratory, in the heart of Cambridge, was snoozing. There was never any threat to the public, scientists say, but the incident could bring a fine from the US government and is an embarrassment for a university proud of its technical prowess.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology's 4.9-megawatt reactor, used for research and housed in 2-foot thick concrete walls on Albany Street, is usually run around the clock by two-person teams. But while the operator slept that morning, his partner was locked out -- and tried to reach him by radio, by phone, by pager for 25 minutes, according to a letter filed with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. With the MIT Police on the way, and the partner close to flipping a remote emergency shutoff switch, the operator finally woke up.
University officials, who declined to name the napper, expect a report from the NRC in the next few weeks. In the meantime, said Alice Gast, MIT vice president for research, the facility is considering a number of measures for operators on the overnight shift -- including a buzzer in the control room.
This story ran on page B1 of the Boston Globe on 7/29/2003.
© Copyright 2003 Globe Newspaper Company.
no, Bush likes privacy when it pertains to releasing documents from his father's administration, classified 9/11 reports, or his VP's meetings with Enron execs. Now, THAT is privacy!
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