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U.S. SCHOOL USED SECRET LAPTOP WEBCAMS TO SPY ON PUPILS AND PARENTS AT HOME

A U.S. school district used laptop webcams to spy on students at home, potentially catching them and their families in compromising situations.

Officials in Philadelphia can activate webcams on the computers without students' knowledge or permission, a lawsuit alleges. Plaintiffs Michael and Holly Robbins suspect the cameras captured students from Harriton High School and family members as they undressed and in other embarrassing situations, it has been alleged. Lower Merion School District officials said the laptops 'contain a security feature intended to track lost, stolen and missing laptops,' and that the feature was deactivated yesterday. 'We can categorically state that we are and have always been committed to protecting the privacy of our students,' he said. Tom Halpern, a 15-year-old from Wynnewood, said students are 'pretty disgusted' and have started putting masking tape over their computer webcams and microphones. 'This is just bogus,' Halpern said. 'I just think it's really despicable that they have the ability to just watch me all the time.'

The accusations amount to potentially illegal electronic wiretapping, said Witold J. Walczak, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania, which is not involved in the case. 'School officials cannot, any more than police, enter into the home either electronically or physically without an invitation or a warrant,' Walczak said. A school district statement released late yesterday said the tracking feature would not be reactivated 'without express written notification to all students and families.'

The affluent district prides itself on its technology initiatives, which include giving laptops to each of the approximately 2,300 students at its two high schools. Superintendent Christopher W. McGinley did not immediately return a message left yesterday. The Robbinses said they learned of the alleged webcam images when Lindy Matsko, an assistant high school principal, told their son that school officials thought he had engaged in improper behavior at home. The behaviour was not specified in the suit.

Matsko 'cited as evidence a photograph from the webcam embedded in minor plaintiff's personal laptop issued by the school district,' the lawsuit states. Matsko later confirmed to Michael Robbins that the school had the ability to activate the webcams remotely, according to the lawsuit, which was filed Tuesday and which seeks class-action status. The Robbinses declined to speak with an Associated Press reporter at their home Thursday. Their lawyer, Mark S. Haltzman, did not return messages.

The U.S. Supreme Court reaffirmed the privacy of the home when it ruled in 2001 that police could not, without a warrant, use thermal imaging equipment outside a home to see if heat lamps were being used inside to grow marijuana. Technology or no, Supreme Court precedents draw 'a firm line at the entrance to the house,' Justice Antonin Scalia wrote, quoting an earlier case.

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But not for the masonic companies getting contracts to supply and maintain these spy networks for the state. CCTV like defence contractors are a multi-billion pound industry for the corporate giants getting billions in public money to kill and spy for the state.

AIRPORT BODY SCANNERS MAY BE (ARE)UNLAWFUL

Human rights commission warns of possible breach of discrimination laws

THE use of body scanners at UK airports may be unlawful, the Equality and Human Rights Commission warned today. Scanners already in place at Heathrow and Manchester Airports may be breaking discrimination law as well as breaching passengers’ rights to privacy, the commission said. It has now expressed its concerns in a letter to Transport Secretary Lord Adonis.

In it, the commission said it recognised the threat posed by terrorists but that it had concerns “about the apparent absence of safeguards to ensure the scanners are operated in a lawful, fair and non-discriminatory manner”. It added that it also had “serious doubts that the decision to roll this (body scanning) out in all UK airports complies with the law”. The commission’s chairman, Trevor Phillips, said today: “The right to life is the ultimate human right and we support the UK Government’s review of security policies.

“But, without proper care, such policies can end up being applied in ways which do discriminate against vulnerable groups or harm good community relations. “National security policies are intended to protect our lives and our freedoms, but it would be the ultimate defeat if that protection destroyed our other liberties.” Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Chris Huhne MP said: “The government seems intent on pressing ahead with the use of body scanners without addressing any of the privacy concerns raised by the Liberal Democrats and others.

“The commission is right to suggest that security measures cannot simply be introduced without due respect for the rule of law.” Matthew Knowles, spokesman for aerospace, defence and security trade organisation ADS, said: “It is absolutely right to ensure that the use of security equipment is in full accordance with the law. “However, the reason for the need for such equipment should not be forgotten. Terrorism poses a real threat.”

He went on: “The country urgently needs a wide-ranging debate to determine what the travelling public’s views are about aviation security, what their concerns are and what they regard as the necessary measures with which to keep them safe.” A spokesperson for the Department for Transport said: “The safety of the travelling public is our highest priority and we will not allow this to be compromised. However, we are also committed to ensuring that all security measures are used in a way which is legal, proportionate and non-discriminatory. “Given the current security threat level, we believe it was essential to start introducing scanners immediately.”

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HEATHROW AIRPORT DENIES SHAHRUKH KHAN'S BODY SCANNER CLAIM

BAA has disputed a claim by Bollywood star Shahrukh Khan that his naked image was printed and circulated by body scanner operators at Heathrow Airport.

The airport owner said the claims made by the My Name Is Khan star on the Friday Night with Jonathan Ross show were “completely factually incorrect”. The 44-year-old pin-up, nicknamed ‘SRK’, said female security staff at the London airport had printed his naked image, as captured by the newly-installed body scanner. He even claimed he had autographed the pictures, although it is not clear if his comments were intended as a joke.

The star’s claims have resonance because his latest film, My Name Is Khan, which is about racial profiling of Muslims at airports after the September 11 2001 terror attacks. A report last August that he was detained for questioning at Newark Liberty Airport near New York City sparked outrage in India. Appearing on the BBC chat show, he told Mr Ross of his experiences with the new body-scanners, that were introduced at Heathrow on the orders of the UK government in the wake of the transatlantic Christmas Day terror attack on a plane as it neared Detroit.

He said: “I'm always stopped by the security, because of the name. And I think its okay: the western world is a little bit worried, paranoid and touchy, I guess – and freely when they're frisking you. “I was in London recently going through the airport and these new machines have come up, the body scans. You've got to see them. It makes you embarrassed – if you're not well endowed. “You walk into the machine and everything – the whole outline of your body – comes out.”

He added: “I was a little scared. Something happens [inside the scans], and I came out. Then I saw these girls – they had these printouts. I looked at them. I thought they were some forms you had to fill. I said 'give them to me' – and you could see everything inside. So I autographed them for them.” However, a BAA spokeswoman said the claims were “completely factually incorrect” because the body-scanning equipment had no capability to print images. She stressed that images captured by the equipment could not be stored or distributed in any form. She also added that the scanners had only been brought into use four days before the chat show was recorded and was only used for departing passengers, making it unlikely – although not entirely impossible – that the Bollywood actor would have used them in any case.

She said there would be no investigation into his claims because they "simply could not be true". Khan was not immediately available for comment on the BAA denial. He has appeared in more than 70 films, and has consistently topped popularity rankings in India for the past several years.

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SHAHRUKH KHAN ON HEATHROW'S BODY SCANNER IMAGES HE WAS ASKED TO SIGN(VIDEO)

SHAHRUKH KHAN ON HEATHROW'S BODY SCANNER IMAGES HE WAS ASKED TO SIGN VIDEO

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Airport denies body scanner photo claim by Bollywood star Shahrukh Khan

TAGZAPPER, RFID WASHERS AND DE-ACTIVATORS

Wary of RFID tags giving your location away? Trick those trackers with one of these two devices: the TagZapper (photo, at left) from West End Laboratories is a lightweight, handheld device for deactivating RFID tags, preventing RFID scanners from working their magic. Likewise, the RFID washer also detects and destroys RFID in its tracks. Look for both devices to be in production by the end of this year.

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UK AIR TRAVELLERS WHO REFUSE BODY SCANS TO BE BLOCKED FROM FLYING

If you're planning on flying from any British airport, better get comfortable with the idea of a stranger looking at you naked.

That's the new rule which went into effect at airports across the United Kingdom at the beginning of February, even as three dimensional body scanners were just being brought online. Not even children are exempt.

Not all passengers will be affected, however. British publication Daily Mail noted that the new transportation security rules would only mandate a body scan for a small percentage of passengers. British Transport Secretary Lord Adonis said in a Feb. 1, 2010 statement to parliament that a strict code of conduct would govern how nude images of passengers are handled. However, he contended, "given the current security threat level, the Government believes it essential to start introducing scanners immediately." "The Department for Transport has published an interim code of practice for the scanners," the Mail reported. "The officer operating the machine never sees the image, and the employee viewing the scan must be in another room. The scan cannot be saved, printed or transmitted. Passengers can also demand that only officers of their sex see their image."

The high-tech body scanners can detect hidden objects, such as explosives, even when they are concealed by clothing, unlike the metal detectors passengers walk through in airports worldwide to access flight gates. The scanners are already online at the Heathrow and Manchester airports. A third, Birmingham, will begin using the scanners next month, the Mail added. A prior prohibition against forcing minors to step into the scanners has been removed, the report noted. The scanners had once been snagged in British laws against child pornography, though the Mail's report does not detail how the roadblock was overcome.

"The image generated by the body scanner cannot be stored or captured nor can security officers viewing the images recognize people," the head of Manchester airport's customer service told the BBC. The British Department of Transportation published a Code of Practice for operation of the scanners, available here. Some selection criteria were not published, The Register noted, because it details allegedly "sensitive" security information. In the United States, 19 airports already use body scanners and more are expected to purchase the technology in the wake of a failed bombing attempt aboard a Christmas Day flight into Detroit.

"The US alone has 450 airports with about 2,000 security lanes, which gives an idea of the potential" of the market, said Joe Reiss, a spokesman with American Science and Engineering (ASEI), one of the world's four leading makers of full-body scanners, in an interview with AFP. The other manufacturers are two US companies, L-3 Communications and Rapiscan Systems, a unit of OSI Systems, and British rival Smiths Detection. Shares in all the body scanner manufacturers world wide skyrocketed following the failed Christmas Day bombing attempt.

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WHO'S GETTING RICH FROM THE NAKED FULL-BODY SCANNER BOOM?

CANADIAN CUSTOMS WANTS YOUR LAPTOP DATA

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FIRST AIRPORT BODY SCANNERS WHAT NEXT RECTAL EXAMINATIONS?

The BBC have just run a story on London airports using body scanners as well as interviewing various travellers about the impact on their travelling experience. As ever the BBC use the complete and utter numpties who think this is a GOOD idea, convinced that this is for their own security. How far down the road do these people have to go before they say NO NO NO. How about the next step that might be a full rectal examination with NWO thugs shoving torches up their asses , will they still be saying 'WELL ITS FOR MY SAFETY AND SECURITY'. It is quite incredible that travel is becoming almost impossible were you are being FORCED to pass the gauntlet of ever more intrusive technology that the NWO mobsters demand while making massive profits for the Zionist firms producing these machines .

Just like military equipment suppliers, surveillance and ID systems are a huge money making scam for those companies that are getting the contracts providing STATE spying and for any traveller that still wants to fly anywhere they must pass the demands of systems that Hitler would be proud of. The many dissenters and activists who see the bigger picture and who have resisted these massive changes to our privacy and who now face insurmountable problems when tyrannical regimes are using flying and passport controls to invade our privacy even to the point that they are demanding the disclosure and access to laptops and memory sticks were many of our personal communications are of a sensitive nature and NOT for the eyes of the Nazi's that have taken over many countries governments. A shocking next step in the New World Order planners.

GATWICK AIRPORT TO USE FULL BODY SCANNERS (VIDEO)

WHO'S GETTING RICH FROM THE NAKED FULL-BODY SCANNER BOOM?

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GATWICK AIRPORT TO USE FULL BODY SCANNERS VIDEO

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BIG BROTHER ATTACKS ACROSS THE UK

A Summer of MADness?

Motorists Against Detection, the vigilante anti-speed camera group have announced a summer of MADness which will see them target for destruction all speed cameras in the UK. It’s now going to be a period of zero tolerance against all speed cameras, said their campaigns director Capt Gatso. The group claims speed cameras are just money-making machines and they have give More..n the authorities long enough to prove their worth. The first camera to fall in the summer campaign is in south east London on the A2 at the Sun in the Sands roundabout on-slip heading northbound towards the Blackwall Tunnel. Capt Gatso, the group's campaigns director, said: "We have completely pulled it out of the ground, it is now lying flat. You can see some of our handiwork posted on www.speedcam.co.uk. He added: In many areas the cameras have not saved one life - the statistics for road deaths haven't gone down. In some areas they have actually gone up - in Essex, for instance, which has a high density of cameras there are more people being killed. We are now planning to target any and all cameras until the Government sees sense and rethinks its road safety policy. Before we had speed cameras we had the safest roads in Europe - since their introduction this is no longer true.

The announcement will surprise many in road safety circles since the group has publicly declared it would not attack cameras outside schools or on high streets. But Capt Gatso said: We need to focus attention on what the cameras are about. We’ve said we wouldn’t attack the ones in built up and urban areas but that’s not where most of the cameras are. There are a lot of frustrated people among our members who have seen the number of cameras increase while road safety levels have fallen. Indeed, the only thing the cameras have done successfully is to reduce the number of traffic officers patrolling our roads and lose a lot of decent people their driving licences and their livelihoods. MAD is the UK’s only direct action anti-speed camera group and it’s been going since summer 2000. In that time they have taken out just over 1,000 cameras. Their membership who are normally law-abiding people - vary in numbers but there is a hard core of around 200 people throughout the UK who use Internet chat forums, encrypted email and pay as you go phones to keep in touch and plan campaigns. The group says it has perfected a new and quick way of destroying speed cameras which will enable them to destroy a roadside camera in just a few seconds. Capt Gatso added: The Government and the camera partnerships have failed to spin out via their PR campaigns to convince people that the cameras are there for road safety. Motorists know that they aren’t. All it’s done is further damage the police/public relationship and further alienating communities which they desperately need onside at this time. Many cameras have gone up on busy roads without any history of accidents despite that being the main criteria for installation.And all the time the partnerships and the Treasury rake in millions of extra revenue.

Capt Gatso pointed out that the group is not encouraging dangerous driving or speeding on Britain’s roads. He said: We have said from the beginning that drivers should drive according to the conditions of the road. The police say we need more training and patrols but the Government says we need more fines. But not everyone is paying the fines. Drive a foreign registered car or alter your number plate slightly and you’ll get away with it too. One of the future PR exercises for the shadowy group is for drivers to participate in a day of action called ‘National Cover-Up Your Number Plates Day’ to frustrate parking, bus lane, anpr, congestion and speed cameras. Capt Gatso told us: It will be pandemonium for the authorities. What are the chances of being stopped? We have by default, in the form of number plates on the front and back of our vehicles, a mobile ID card. Now we’ve declared open season on the cameras just keep an eye open for what happens next. This will be civil disobedience on a grand scale covering all areas and people of the country. One thing drivers might consider is that when there’s a police car behind you with its blue lights and sirens on think about family members or friends getting points for going marginally over the limit and don’t let the police past if you don’t think it is safe to do so. Our members don’t. We are always straight out of the way for ambulances and fire engines because we admire the sterling work they do.

Capt Gatso is a family man from north London. He’s in his 40s, a professional he owns a BMW M3 and is a keen motorcyclist. He said: Most of the organising group are just ordinary blokes with families who are sick of us heading towards a police state. He added that the group’s members were all good drivers, most have a professional driving qualification or ride powerful motorbikes on a regular basis and their aims are to encourage the partnerships to clamp down on speeding in built-up areas and near to schools and hospitals. Capt Gatso, the motorists’ friend, said: What we ultimately want to see is all the UK camera partnerships dissolved into a central ticket office which only concentrates on serious and serial offenders. Each case should be treated as a proper crime and properly investigated. We should be stopping the idiots who get behind the wheel of a car who will speed anywhere but won’t get caught if they avoid main roads and motorways. We want to see a higher police presence of trained officers patrolling the roads and put Britain back at the top of the road safety league where it was before the introduction of these infernal cameras.

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WHO'S GETTING RICH FROM THE NAKED FULL-BODY SCANNER BOOM?

The TSA has a dismal record of enriching private corporations with failed technologies. Will the "digital strip search" device just bring more of the same?

Scan, baby, scan. That’s the mantra among politicians at all levels in the wake of the thwarted terrorist attack aboard a Detroit-bound passenger jet. According to conventional wisdom, the would-be “underwear bomber” could have been stopped by airport security if he’d been put through a full-body scanner, which would have revealed the cache of explosives attached to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s groin. Within days or even hours of the bombing attempt, everyone was talking about so-called whole-body imaging as the magic bullet that could stop this type of attack. In announcing hearings by the Senate Homeland Security Commitee, Joe Lieberman approached the use of scanners as a foregone conclusion, saying one of the "big, urgent questions that we are holding this hearing to answer" was "Why isn’t whole-body-scanning technology that can detect explosives in wider use?" Former Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff told the Washington Post, "You’ve got to find some way of detecting things in parts of the body that aren’t easy to get at. It’s either pat downs or imaging, or otherwise hoping that bad guys haven’t figured it out, and I guess bad guys have figured it out."

Since the alternative is being groped by airport screeners, the scanners might sound pretty good. The Transportation Security Administration has claimed that the images "are friendly enough to post in a preschool," though the pictures themselves tell another story, and numerous organizations have opposed them as a gross invasion of privacy. Beyond privacy issues, however, are questions about whether these machines really work -- and about who stands to benefit most from their use. When it comes to high-tech screening methods, the TSA has a dismal record of enriching private corporations with failed technologies, and there are signs that the latest miracle device may just bring more of the same. Known by their opponents as "digital strip search" machines, the full-body scanners use one of two technologies -- millimeter wave sensors or backscatter x-rays -- to see through clothing, producing ghostly images of naked passengers. Yet critics say that these, too, are highly fallible, and are incapable of revealing explosives hidden in body cavities -- an age-old method for smuggling contraband. If that’s the case, a terrorist could hide the entire bomb works within his or her body, and breeze through the virtual strip search undetected. Yesterday, the London Independent reported on "authoritative claims that officials at the [UK] Department for Transport and the Home Office have already tested the scanners and were not persuaded that they would work comprehensively against terrorist threats to aviation." A British defense-research firm reportedly found the machines unreliable in detecting "low-density" materials like plastics, chemicals, and liquids -- precisely what the underwear bomber had stuffed in his briefs.

Yet the rush toward full-body scans already seems unstoppable. They were mandated today as part of the "enhanced" screening for travelers from selected countries, and hundreds of the machines are already on order, at a cost of about $150,000 apiece. Within days of the bombing attempt, Reuters was reportingthat the "greater U.S. government shift toward using the high-tech devices could create a boom for makers of security imaging products, and it has already created a speculative spike in share prices in some companies." Which brings us to the money shot. The body scanner is sure to get a go-ahead because of the illustrious personages hawking them. Chief among them is former DHS secretary Michael Chertoff, who now heads the Chertoff Group, which represents one of the leading manufacturers of whole-body-imaging machines, Rapiscan Systems. For days after the attack, Chertoff made the rounds on the media promoting the scanners, calling the bombing attempt "a very vivid lesson in the value of that machinery" -- all without disclosing his relationship to Rapiscan. According to the Washington Post:

Chertoff’s advocacy for the technology dates back to his time in the Bush administration. In 2005, Homeland Security ordered the government’s first batch of the scanners -- five from California-based Rapiscan Systems. Today, 40 body scanners are in use at 19 U.S. airports. The number is expected to skyrocket at least in part because of the Christmas Day incident. The Transportation Security Administration this week said it will order 300 more machines. In the summer, TSA purchased 150 machines from Rapiscan with $25 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds.

The Washington Examiner last week ran down an entire list of all the former Washington politicians and staff members who are now part of what it calls the "full-body scanner lobby":

One manufacturer, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, is American Science & Engineering, Inc. AS&E has retained the K Street firm Wexler & Walker to lobby for "federal deployment of security technology by DHS and DOD." Individual lobbyists on this account include former TSA deputy administration Tom Blank, who also worked under House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Chad Wolf -- former assistant administrator for policy at TSA, and a former aide to Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Tex., a top Senate appropriator and the ranking Republican on the transportation committee -- is also lobbying on AS&E’s behalf. Smiths Detection, another screening manufacturer, employs top transportation lobbying firm Van Scoyoc Associates, including Kevin Patrick Kelly, a former top staffer to Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., who sits on the Homeland Security Appropriations subcommittee. Smiths also retains former congresswoman Helen Delich Bentley, R-Md. Former Sen. Al D’Amato, R-N.Y., represents L3 Systems, about which Bloomberg wrote today: "L-3 has ‘developed a more sophisticated system that could prevent smuggling of almost anything on the body,’ said Howard Rubel, an analyst at Jefferies & Co., who has a ‘hold’ rating on the stock."

In forecasting the fate of the full-body scanners, we can turn to recent history, which saw the rapid rise -- and decline -- of the previous "miracle" screening technology. In the years following 9/11, dozens of explosive trace portals (ETPs) were installed in airports across the country, at a cost of about $160,000 each. These "puffer" machines -- so called because they blow air on passengers to dislodge explosive particles -- were once celebrated as the "no-touch pat down." But in a Denver test by CBS in 2007, a network employee was sprayed with explosives and then walked through the airport’s three puffers without any trouble. The machines also set off false alarms, and they frequently broke down, leading to sky-high maintenance costs. After spending more than $30 million on the puffer machines -- most of them purchased from GE -- the TSA announced earlier this year that it was suspending their use. Only about 25 percent of the machines were ever even deployed at US airports. A report last month from the Government Accountability Office found that the TSA had not adequately tested the puffers before buying them. What will happen if the full-body scanner goes the way of the puffer? Well, there’s always the next generation of security equipment: the Body Orifice Security Scanner, or BOSS chair. This contraption, which has an uncomfortable resemblance to an electric chair, is used in prisons, mostly in the UK, for tracing cell phones, shivs, and other dangerous contraband that’s been swallowed or inserted into body cavities by inmates. So far, it only detects metal, but you never know. Give me a friendly German Shepherd any day.

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AIRPORT STRIP SEARCH MACHINES TEAR APART DNA

The latest airport security trend is the backscatter x-ray machine, touted as a powerful way to virtually frisk a traveler for contraband without the embarassment of a strip search.

Though touted as completely safe because the level of radiation is so low, travelers have been nervous about the devices -- and not just because it shows off a nice outline of their privates to the people manning the machines -- but because they remain scared of the health problems they might propose.

Looks like a little healthy paranoia might have been a good thing. While the conventional wisdom has held that so-called "terahertz radiation," upon which backscatter x-ray machines are based, is harmless because it doesn't carry enough energy to do cellular or genetic damage, new research suggests that may be completely wrong. Specifically, researchers have found that terahertz radiation may interfere directly with DNA. Although the force generated is small, the waves have been found to "unzip double-stranded DNA, creating bubbles in the double strand that could significantly interfere with processes such as gene expression and DNA replication." I'm not a doctor, but that just doesn't sound good.

The question now is whether this is or isn't safe. Terahertz waves occur naturally in the environment, and we're hit with them all the time. But should we bombard ourselves with them willingly every time we pass through an airport? No one knows how much terahertz radiation is OK for the body to absorb: Just like sunlight, a little may be fine, while a lot may be deadly. Where does the line get drawn? Who knows? I, for one, am given a little pause by the news, and hope research continues on before these machines become commonplace.

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MEET THE MEN FROM SERCO WHO REALLY RUN BRITAIN

YOU will probably never have heard of Serco, but they almost certainly have heard of you.

Serco will be watching if you speed through traffic lights, they will be keeping an eye on you as you fly off on holiday and help monitor your children's school attendance records. Oh, and they'll have emptied your bins, run your sports centre, tidied your park and made sure that Britain's nuclear deterrent is up and running. And in their spare time Serco organises the Queen's flights around the world and makes sure that Greenwich Mean Time is ticking over nicely. Never mind Big Brother ... this is Big Mother, a company that has so many fingers in so many pies it is almost impossible to pin them down. Run by two reclusive multi-millionaires Serco is, literally, everywhere. From an office overlooking the Thames in Richmond, southwest London, Kevin Beeston and Chris Hyman manage an empire that runs... just about everything Serco started out in 1929 when Radio Corporation of America founded a UK branch called RCA Services to support the cinema industry.

Today its tentacles stretch to operating National Rail Enquiries, managing Royal Navy ports, providing IT for the National Crime Squad and transport in Liverpool, London and Manchester. Over 46,000 employees in 37 countries, including 29,000 here in the UK make sure Serco - an abbreviation of Service Company - keep Britain going. Beeston and Hyman, virtually unknown outside the world of big business, cashed in on a government drive to harness private expertise for public services.

Beeston, 43, is the son of an Ipswich motor mechanic and joined the company in 1988. He's had a role in most of the corporation's sections before becoming executive chairman in 2002. He is married with three children, and lives in Shepperton, Middlesex.

Chief executive Christopher Rajendran Hyman, 42, is a born-again Christian who grew up under the apartheid regime in South Africa. After qualifying as an accountant, he moved to Britain where "colour is not an issue" in the late 1980s. A teetotal fitness fanatic, he is married with two children and lives in Oxshott, Surrey. "My faith is very strong. My whole life, I believe, is driven by God," he says. "I'm no genius. What I'm successful for is listening to God." And in the meantime, Hyman, Beeston and presumably God, have run up vast profits...

Last year Serco posted a 22 per cent rise in firsthalf profits and revealed it has £12.9billion worth of contracts in its order book. But despite the company's huge success Chris Hyman isn't especially interested in the bottom line. Service is the thing. "I tell people here... don't give me a proposal that makes a shed-load of money - instead, will it be a better place when you leave than when you arrived?"

Hyman doesn't like to talk about it much, but he was in the World Trade Center when the terrorists struck on 9/11. He will only admit that it made a substantial personal impact on him. "I decided to do things that previously I'd thought a bit naff, like taking my wife's birthday off to go shopping. I mean, how naff is that?" Not many days off though - his company aims to further expand its already huge network. But until Serco decides where to get involved next, here's what it's up to now:

SERCO rakes in vast sums from the Ministry of Defence. It has defence contracts worth more than £2.5billion. One of the firm's first high-profile projects was running the UK Ballistic Early Warning System at RAF Fylingdales. Serco is now directly responsible for maintaining the UK's nuclear warheads and dismantling redundant weapons - a £1.7billion contract. Another major earner for Serco are the contracts to service naval and marine operations around the world, mainly for the Royal Navy. Its technology is also used to provide global satellite communications for the UK armed forces.

SERCO has around 7,000 offenders in its care every day, as it runs several jails and youth detention centres and is in charge of escorting thousands of prisoners to and from court. Offenders with electronic tags often come under the control of Serco. Four out of 10 people with tags in England and Wales are monitored by the company. The corporation also helps to catch crooks through its contracts with the National Crime Squad. One of its biggest projects is ChildBase, a state-of-the-art image recognition technology to tackle internet paedophiles.

SERCO is involved in a huge range of transport projects - from the awardwinning to the controversial. It imports Gatso speed cameras from Holland, which account for around 85 percent of the 6,000 cameras on Britain's roads, but was recently forced to admit that the cameras can give false readings. Britain's first toll motorway - a 27-mile stretch of the M6 near Birmingham - is also operated by Serco. Most traffic lights in London are managed by the company, as is 60 per cent of motorway systems technology. Thousands of rail commuters also rely on Serco services every day. The company has a lucrative £400million contract to run the award-winning Docklands Light Railway in east London.

It also runs the Manchester Metrolink and Merseyrail, a 75-mile network in Liverpool. And it has secured a deal to operate Northern Rail, a new franchise covering the north of England. SERCO has a hand in flights made by almost every passenger from the Queen and Prince Charles to ordinary holidaymakers. It supports the Ministry of Defence at RAF Northolt, the base of the Queen's Flight and which is regularly used by Prince Charles. It employs air traffic controllers around the world who handle six million aircraft movements every year.

Newquay airport in Cornwall and Scatsta airport on Shetland are operated entirely by Serco staff. And experts from the company run the International Fire Training Centre in Teesside, which trains aviation firefighters to deal with air disasters. PATIENTS at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and Wishaw General Hospital might be treated by doctors and nurses but almost every other aspect of their care is down to workers from Serco.

The company has a contract to provide catering, security, laundry, cleaning and waste disposal at the hospitals. Scientists from Serco also help cancer patients. It operates the National Physical Laboratory, which makes sure cancer patients receive the right dose of radiotherapy. SERCO helps manage the local education authorities in Bradford and Walsall and provides the technology to make it easier for schools to keep track of timetables, student and staff records and assessments.

And if you live in Winchester, Serco staff empty your bins, in Bolton they run your leisure centres - and in Moscow they're dismantling your old nuclear reactors. All in a day's work for Serco.

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NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY TOOK PART IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF WINDOWS 7

The National Security Agency (NSA) acknowledged having worked with Microsoft on the development of Windows 7 , as testified on 17 November 2009 by Richard Schaeffer, the NSA’s information assurance director, before the U.S. Senate’s Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland Security.

The cooperation between the NSA and Microsoft has been an open secret since a the judiciary agreement was reached between the U.S. Government and the computer giant. It is however the first time that official mention of this has been made. In terms of cyber security, over and above the issue of protection from external intrusions, the crux of the matter lies in who is the doorkeeper. In other words, while it is NSA’s prerogative to have sole security access control over the most-widely used software equipment inside the United States, the fact remains that Windows 7 is marketed globally. Undoubtedly, this opens up considerable opportunities for U.S. cyber espionage beyond its borders.

As for Microsoft, while it has denied that the NSA has the possibility to access Windows 7, it is not in a position to guarantee it. To date, no state is known to have barred Windows 7 software in order to protect its citizens from U.S. espionage.

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COUNCIL SNOOPERS WATCH US ON 60,000 CCTV CAMERAS

The number of town hall-controlled Big Brother CCTV cameras has trebled in a decade, it emerged last night. There are now 60,000 cameras trained on members of the public by council snoopers - one for every 1,000 people in the UK. The huge increase has cost hundreds of millions of pounds, including at least £170million in Home Office grants - although there are doubts over whether the cameras actually help catch criminals.

Many images are so poor they cannot be used to identify violent thugs, while police have admitted as few as one crime is solved for every 1,000 cameras. Privacy campaigner Big Brother Watch uncovered the scale of CCTV use by local authorities using Freedom of Information requests. Director Alex Deane said CCTV was seen as a 'cheap alternative to policing' but its 'ability to deter or solve crimes is sketchy at best'. 'The quality of footage is frequently too poor to be used in courts, the cameras are often turned off to save money and control rooms are rarely manned 24-hours-a-day,' he added. 'We would all feel safer with more police on the beat, there would be fewer crimes and those crimes that do occur would be solved faster.' The study, entitled Big Brother is Watching, found that 418 local authorities control 59,753 cameras. Ten years ago similar research found the total was 21,000.

The councils with most cameras are Portsmouth and Nottinghamshire, which each control 1,454, the study showed. And barely a part of the country has been left untouched by the rise of the surveillance cameras. Even the remote Outer Hebrides has an astonishing eight CCTV cameras for every resident.

Big Brother Watch said CCTV is designed merely to appease neighbourhoods suffering from anti-social behaviour problems. The group also warned that, as the number of CCTV cameras increases, so does the potential number of people being watched and the number of council officers watching - with implications for personal privacy and data security. The total of nearly 60,000 cameras excludes thousands used by private companies and central government - with the overall total estimated to be 4million.

Ministers have said CCTV is an 'important tool' in crime fighting. But a raft of reports have cast doubt on how effective CCTV is. Government research said that instead of catching criminals, the cameras were being used to trap and fine motorists who stray into bus lanes. More than eight out of ten of the cameras do not provide satisfactory images for officers to use, it added.

Also, very few cameras are positioned in a place that would tackle terrorism, or spot reconnaissance missions by fanatics. Mike Milks, chief executive of Scyron, which helps police analyse CCTV images, said: 'We estimate that about half of the CCTV cameras in the country are next to useless when it comes to safeguarding the public against crime and assisting the police to secure convictions.' Shadow Justice Secretary Dominic Grieve said CCTV must be proportionate and effective.

'A Conservative government would ensure CCTV is fit for purpose - with appropriate safeguards and sanctions to prevent misuse,' he added. A Local Government Association spokesman said CCTV makes residents feel safer and deters crimes such as burglary.

'It was footage from these cameras which helped bring the failed July 21 London bombers to justice,' he added. 'In tough financial times, councils are not going to spend money on installing CCTV cameras unless they genuinely believe doing so will help reduce crime, catch criminals and make people feel safer.'

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SOCIAL NETWORKS OR SPY NETWORKS?

The government is increasingly monitoring Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites for tax delinquents, copyright infringers and political protesters. A public interest group has filed a lawsuit to learn more about this monitoring, in the hope of starting a national discussion and modifying privacy laws as necessary for the online era.

Law enforcement is not saying a lot about its social surveillance, but examples keep coming to light. The Wall Street Journal reported this summer that state revenue agents have been searching for tax scofflaws by mining information on MySpace and Facebook. In October, the F.B.I. searched the New York home of a man suspected of helping coordinate protests at the Group of 20 meeting in Pittsburgh by sending out messages over Twitter. In some cases, the government appears to be engaged in deception. The Boston Globe recently quoted a Massachusetts district attorney as saying that some police officers were going undercover on Facebook as part of their investigations. Wired magazine reported last month that In-Q-Tel, an investment arm of the Central Intelligence Agency, has put money into Visible Technologies, a software company that crawls across blogs, online forums, and open networks like Twitter and YouTube to monitor what is being said.

This month the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law sued the Department of Defense, the C.I.A. and other federal agencies under the Freedom of Information Act to learn more about their use of social networking sites. The suit seeks to uncover what guidelines these agencies have about this activity, including information about whether agents are permitted to use fake identities or to engage in subterfuge, such as tricking people into accepting Facebook friend requests.

Privacy law was largely created in the pre-Internet age, and new rules are needed to keep up with the ways people communicate today. Much of what occurs online, like blog posting, is intended to be an open declaration to the world, and law enforcement is within its rights to read and act on what is written. Other kinds of communication, particularly in a closed network, may come with an expectation of privacy. If government agents are joining social networks under false pretenses to spy without a court order, for example, that might be crossing a line. A national conversation about social networking and other forms of online privacy is long overdue. The first step toward having it is for the public to know more about what is currently being done. Making the federal government answer these reasonable Freedom of Information Act requests would be a good start.

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VeriChip Buys Steel Vault, Creating Micro-Implant Health Record/Credit Score Empire

ANOTHER DANGEROUS STEP NEARER TO THE NWO'S PLANS

THE NWO NOW WANT TO CONNECT HEALTH RECORDS ON A CHIP WITH YOUR CREDIT SCORE UNDER THE NEW NAME POSITIVE ID

VeriChip Corporation Agrees to Acquire Steel Vault Corporation to Form PositiveID Corporation

PositiveID to offer identification tools and technologies for consumers and businesses

DELRAY BEACH, FL – September 8, 2009 -- VeriChip Corporation (NASDAQ:CHIP) ("VeriChip"), a provider of radio frequency identification (RFID) systems for healthcare and patient-related needs, and Steel Vault Corporation (OTCBB: SVUL) ("Steel Vault"), a premier provider of identity security products and services, announced today that VeriChip has agreed to acquire Steel Vault and form PositiveID Corporation to offer identification tools and technologies for consumers and businesses. In conjunction with the merger, VeriChip plans to change its name to PositiveID and continue to trade on the NASDAQ. PositiveID intends to change its ticker symbol to "PSID" upon closing of the transaction.

The formation of PositiveID represents the convergence of a pioneer in personal health records, VeriChip, with a leader in the identity security space, Steel Vault, focused on access and security of a consumer's critical data. The companies believe that joining personal health records and identity security solutions provides a solid foundation for organic growth and a strong, flexible platform for future offers. Under terms of the agreement, Steel Vault stockholders will receive 0.5 shares of VeriChip common stock for every share of Steel Vault common stock held. The outstanding stock options and warrants of Steel Vault will also be converted at the same ratio. This merger is a stock–for–stock transaction, is expected to be a tax free exchange, and is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2009. Regulatory approvals and affirmative stockholder votes are required from VeriChip and Steel Vault. It is expected that Scott R. Silverman, the current Chairman and CEO of VeriChip, will become PositiveID’s Chairman and CEO, and that William J. Caragol, the CEO of Steel Vault, will become PositiveID's President and Chief Operating Officer.

Commenting on the transaction, Mr. Silverman stated, "We believe the acquisition of Steel Vault will provide a powerful platform to differentiate ourselves among both the consumer and medical community. PositiveID will be the first company of its kind to combine a successful identity security business with one of the world's first personal health records through our Health Link business. PositiveID will address some of the most important issues affecting our society today with our identification tools and technologies for consumers and businesses." Continued Silverman, "VeriChip will be able to market its personal health record offerings to the rapidly growing customers of Steel Vault, while Steel Vault should be able to further expand its customer base by offering a unique suite of both security and healthcare offerings. As we focus on securing consumers' financial information and addressing the critical need for secure, online personal health records, we believe we are well positioned to benefit from federal stimulus funding. We will keep patients involved in their health care as medical records migrate to the Internet." Mr. Caragol stated, "We believe this merger provides value for both companies’ stockholders and enables us to offer customers a broader array of value-added services. PositiveID puts people in control of their personal health records and financial security, bridging the gap between secure medical records and identity security. The formation of PositiveID will facilitate cross-marketing opportunities across our customer bases, enabling both organic growth and growth through acquisition of companies and services that provide complementary identification tools and technologies. By combining these two companies, including VeriChip’s solid balance sheet and Steel Vault’s growing revenue producing identity security business, and continuing the expansion of our product offerings, we believe we can continue to increase our customer retention and maximize stockholder value. On a pro forma basis, PositiveID has more than $4 million in cash and no debt."

Identity theft is the number one crime in the United States and as many as 10 million people are victims each year. Additionally, medical errors contribute to countless deaths each year due to a lack of or incorrect patient information. PositiveID will address the significant market need to monitor critical data on an ongoing basis to protect consumers and ensure data integrity and safety. Each of the boards of directors of VeriChip and Steel Vault unanimously approved the merger agreement, based on the unanimous recommendation of the special committee of independent directors of the applicable company. The special committees for VeriChip and Steel Vault each retained independent legal and financial advisors to advise its respective committee. Steel Vault hired Hyde Park Capital Advisors LLC and VeriChip hired Ladenburg Thalmann & Co. Inc. to provide fairness opinions in connection with the transaction.

About Steel Vault Corporation

Steel Vault, formerly known as IFTH Acquisition Corp., is a premier provider of identity security products and services, including credit monitoring, credit reports, and other identity theft protection services. Since 2004, its subsidiary, National Credit Report.com, has specialized in providing a variety of credit information to consumers to help protect them from identity theft and fraud.

About VeriChip Corporation

VeriChip Corporation, headquartered in Delray Beach, Florida, has developed the VeriMed™ Health Link System for rapidly and accurately identifying people who arrive in an emergency room and are unable to communicate. This system uses the first human-implantable passive RFID microchip and corresponding personal health record, cleared for medical use in October 2004 by the United States Food and Drug Administration. For more information on VeriChip, please call 1-800-970-2447, or e-mail info@verichipcorp.com. Additional information can be found online at www.verichipcorp.com.

Forward Looking Statements

Information contained in this press release may contain forward-looking statements, including, for example, the expectation that VeriChip will change its name and trading symbol after the merger, the expectation that the merger will close in the fourth quarter of 2009, the belief that the joining of personal health records and identity security solutions provides a solid foundation for organic growth and a strong, flexible platform for future offers, the expectation that after the merger Scott R. Silverman will be chairman and CEO and William J. Caragol will be president and chief operating officer of PositiveID Corporation, the belief that PositiveID Corporation will benefit from federal stimulus funding and that it will be well positioned to fill the data monitoring needs for both consumers and businesses, the belief that the merger provides value for both companies’ stockholders and enables PositiveID Corporation to offer its customers with additional value-added services, the expectation that the formation of PositiveID Corporation will facilitate cross-marketing opportunities across the companies’ customer bases, enabling both organic growth and growth through acquisition of companies and services that provide complementary identification tools and technologies, the belief that by combining two similar business models with an expanded product offering, PositiveID Corporation can increase its customer retention and therefore deliver stronger financial results to maximize stockholder value. These forward-looking statements are not statements of historical facts and represent only VeriChip’s and/or Steel Vault’s beliefs regarding future performance, which is inherently uncertain. There are a variety of factors, many of which are beyond VeriChip's and Steel Vault's control, which affect operations, performance, business strategy and results and could cause actual results and experience to differ materially from the expectations and objectives expressed in any forward-looking statements. These factors include, but are not limited to,

(1) the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstance that could give rise to the termination of the Agreement and Plan of Reorganization;

(2) the inability to complete the merger due to the failure to obtain the requisite stockholder approval or the failure to satisfy other conditions to the merger;

(3) those factors set forth in VeriChip’s Form 10-K, Form 10-Q and other filings with the SEC;

(4) those factors set forth in Steel Vault’s Form 10-K, Form 10-Q and other filings with the SEC; and

(5) the risk that expected synergies and benefits of the merger will not be realized within the expected time frame or at all. Many of the factors that will determine the outcome of the subject matter of this communication are beyond VeriChip’s or Steel Vault's ability to control or predict.

Neither VeriChip nor Steel Vault undertake any obligation to revise or update any forward-looking statements, or to make any other forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future results or otherwise.

Additional Information and Where to Find It

In connection with the merger, VeriChip intends to file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) a Registration Statement on Form S-4 that will contain a Joint Proxy Statement/Prospectus of VeriChip and Steel Vault. Investors and security holders are urged to read the Registration Statement and the Joint Proxy Statement/Prospectus carefully when they become available because they will contain important information about VeriChip, Steel Vault and the proposed transaction. The Joint Proxy Statement/Prospectus and other relevant materials (when they become available), and any other documents filed with the SEC, may be obtained free of charge at the SEC’s web site (www.sec.gov). In addition, investors and security holders may obtain a free copy of other documents filed by VeriChip or Steel Vault by directing a written request, as appropriate, to VeriChip at 1690 South Congress Avenue, Suite 200 Delray Beach, Florida 33445, Attention: Investor Relations, or to Steel Vault at 1690 South Congress Avenue, Suite 200 Delray Beach, Florida 33445, Attention: Investor Relations. Investors and security holders are urged to read the Joint Proxy Statement/Prospectus and the other relevant materials when they become available before making any voting or investment decision with respect to the proposed transaction. VeriChip, Steel Vault and their respective directors and executive officers may be deemed to be participants in the solicitation of proxies in connection with the proposed transaction.

VeriChip, Steel Vault and their respective directors and executive officers may be deemed to be participants in the solicitation of proxies in connection with the proposed transaction. Information regarding the interests of these directors and executive officers in the proposed transaction will be included in the Joint Proxy Statement/Prospectus referred to above. Additional information regarding the directors and executive officers of VeriChip is also included in VeriChip's Form 10-K, which was filed with the SEC on February 12, 2009. Additional information regarding the directors and executive officers of Steel Vault is also included in Steel Vault's proxy statement (Form DEF 14A) for the 2009 annual meeting of Steel Vault's stockholders, which was filed with the SEC on February 9, 2009. These documents are available free of charge at the SEC’s website (www.sec.gov) and by contacting Investor Relations at the addresses above.

Contact:
Steel Vault Corporation
Allison Tomek
561-805-8000
atomek@steelvaultcorp.com

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UK GOVERNMENT TO KEEP RECORDS OF ALL EMAILS,PHONECALLS AND TEXTS VIDEO

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MOTORBIKE BATTLES OVER PARKING TAX SPYING SCHEME CONTINUES

To none motorbike riders this may not seem important however this major protest raises the issue of a new form of spying and tax raising network that will affect ALL drivers using any form of transport. Once Westminster gets this permanently in place it will be rolled out across the UK.

In effect every car or motorbike will be forced to phone VERRUS giving their registration, credit card and location details everytime they want to park anywhere in the UK, this is spying by another name. Parking revenue collection then has a dual purpose in locating every motor vehicles position when parked and a sinister next step in the New World Order plans organised by masons working as councillors and senior executives in councils throughout the UK.

As Westminster City Council's unprecedentedly delayed decision regarding the permanence of the Motorcycle Parking Tax Scheme (MPTS) continues, thereby delaying our high Court challenge, we are seizing the initiative of demanding a Public Inquiry into both the set-up, and running of PIP. One can only make an educated guess as to Mr Gilchrist's motives. Described by a WCC Councillor as a "one-man selling machine for Verrus", his plan was simple: ensnare as many road-users as victims, and offer other local authorities to follow suit, incentivised by greater revenues and a "tender-process" circumvention ie, join PIP and simply sign up Verrus!

Well, that was the plan, and with his puppet Councillor Danny Chakley, ready to sign where required, and the oh-so-easily-coerced Built Environment Scrutiny Committee so eager to lap up his silver-tongue phoney justifications, he may well have got away with it were it not for his greed into trying ensnare bikers and scooterists. He certainly did not countenance the community spirit that pervades all motorcycle/scooter riders, and that, unlike car-drivers, we don't take unjust legislation lying down. And, whilst Head of Legal at WCC, Peter Large, may challenge our ability to do anything about the misdemeanours as individuals, he can't stop us from putting our findings in front of those who can.

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