In Case You Missed It, Congress Takes Your Internet Privacy

by Kristina Chew.   To the disappointent of advocates for civil liberties and internet freedom, the controversial Cyber Intelligence and Protection Act (CISPA) passed the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday by a vote of 288-127. 196 Republicans voted for the measure and almost half the House Democrats. Few would dispute that cybersecurity is not a   ... MORE

FBI: You Might Be A Terrorist If You Breathe

FBI sets a new standard of paranoia.      The FBI published 25 pamphlets and distributed them to people who work in the general public to give them information on how to spot a terrorist based on a number of “suspicious behavior” indicators. People at construction sites, electronic stores, beauty salons, airports and other places were advised on    ... MORE

ACLU Says Reid Gun Bill Could Threaten Civil Liberties

by Vince Coglianese. As Senate Democrats struggle to build support for new gun control legislation, the American Civil Liberties Union now says it’s among those who have “serious concerns” about the bill. Those concerns have the capacity to prove a major setback to Sen. Harry Reid’s current gun bill, which includes language from earlier bills introduced by  ... MORE

VIDEO: Utility Companies - The New Terrorists?

Charles Hurt: Government Has A Few Questions For You

Big Brother seeks to learn everything about you.  Rage over the waste and injustice of agents sent by the federal government to bang on doors of law-abiding citizens to ask probing, creepy questions is normally something that bubbles up only every 10 years. But ever since the federal government became a cancerous leviathan, the outrage is now   ... MORE

Obama Has A Database On Everything About Everybody

Watch Maxine Waters discuss it on video. Here’s Maxine Waters. This was last Sunday on TV One’s Washington Watch with Roland Martin. Maxine Waters, Democrat from California. Her district is basically the Watts area of Los Angeles, and Roland Martin said, “The reality is like anything else, you’d better get what you can while Obama’s there       ... MORE

David Bier: The Coming National Identification System

Big Brother is watching you.      “Maybe we should just brand all the babies.” With this joke, Ronald Reagan swatted down a national identification card — or an enhanced Social Security card — proposed by his attorney general in 1981. For more than three decades since, attempts to implement the proposal have all met with failure, but now         ... MORE

How A Cop Used A State Database To Steal Pain Pills

by Michael McFall.  A former Vernal police detective now faces criminal charges stemming from his alleged theft of a couple’s pain pills, a month after the couple filed a complaint against him in federal court. Ben Marland Murray, 38, was charged Friday in 8th District Court with unlawful use of the controlled substance database and possession of a controlled    ... MORE

Big Brother? License Plate Reader Device Sparks Debate

by Lee Davidson.    Like the fictional "Big Brother" who was always watching, new machines now give police a growing ability to record license plate numbers of vehicles almost anywhere — at crime scenes, on freeways or in parking lots. So a legislative debate has begun about controlling how such data may be used, and how long it may be.   ... MORE

Dave Gahary: Government Crosses New Privacy Line

Feds collect data on those not suspected of crimes.   Documents obtained under Freedom of Information Act requests and interviews conducted with officials at numerous government agencies by The Wall Street Journal uncovered the behind-closed-doors creation this year of “a government dragnet, sweeping up millions of records about U.S.    ... MORE

VIDEO: FOX NEWS - No Warrants Necessary

Mark Steyn: The Doctor Won't See You Now

American health care is in a bureaucratic death grip.    A few years ago, my small local hospital asked a Senate staffer if she could assist them in obtaining federal money for a new building. So she did, expediting the process by which that particular corner of northern New Hampshire was deemed to be “under-served” and thus eligible for the fed gravy.  ... MORE

VIDEO: Do the Cops Know Your Info?

John W. Whitehead: Smile, The Government Is Watching

Next generation identification.     “You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement was scrutinized.”—George Orwell, 1984.   Brace yourselves for the next wave in the surveillance state’s steady incursions into our lives. It’s     ... MORE

Adam Levine: Government's Epic Fail On Privacy

94 Million Americans exposed to identity theft.   When you hear a number like "94 million" in the news, it's usually because somebody won the lottery. This time around, no such luck. This 94 million is the number of Americans' files in which personal information has been exposed, since 2009, to potential identity theft through data breaches at government ... MORE

VIDEO: Should Government Track Your Political Activity?

Technology takes 1974 legislation to a new level.

Richard Adhikari: Who's Watching The FBI Watchers?

New technology offers new opportunity for abuse. The FBI soon will begin offering client software for its nationwide facial recognition database at no charge to law enforcement agencies in the United States. This is the fourth element in its seven-increment Next Generation Identification Program. The facial recognition system was deployed ... MORE

The Inevitable Future Of Electronic Medical Records

by Cynthia J. Koelker, MD.    For the past year now I’ve been using an Electronic Health Record (EHR) and believe the writing is on the wall. These computerized medical records are not about improving health care; they are about control of both the physician and patient. Beginning in 2013, doctors who don’t prescribe electronically will be penalized financially.   ... MORE

R. Dennis Hansen: Losing Our Privacy At A Rapid Rate

Not just the night has a thousand eyes.     I work for a resource management agency. Last year, I attended a government-mandated class on the use of computers during work hours. The instructor pointed out that emails that leave our agency’s network are being scanned for content. Our Internet usage is also being monitored. What they are looking     ... MORE

Where Is The Outrage Over Domestic Use Of Drones?

by Andrew Napolitano.   For the past few weeks, I have been writing in this column about the government's use of drones and challenging their constitutionality on Fox News Channel where I work. I once asked on air what Thomas Jefferson would have done if--had drones existed at the time--King George III had sent drones to peer inside the bedroom   ... MORE