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Here are some excerpts from this week's current Consumer Reports October issue entitled

Your Privacy for Sale.

CR exposes a pattern among the 30,000 companies which exist solely to dig into, mine, collect, cross-reference, and re-sell the most intimate of our personal and private data. That pattern includes a cavalier disregard of the safety and privacy of We the People, arrogance about their right to go about doing so, and refusal to correct faulty, damaging data even when exposed.

Get a load of these sample quotes:

One company here in North Atlanta disclosed the information of 165,000 Americans to a fraud ring of Nigerians who have been systematically using the info to defraud people since. The Federal Trade Commission suit led to the largest fine ever levied by that agency. The $10.million fine was only one percent of ChoicePoint's annual revenues, however. CR states "ChoicePoint is only one entity in a vast and secretive data industry that feeds on private information about you and millions of other Americans. Its inhabitants include corporate mastodons with access to millions of public records, swarms of private investigators, some of whome lie to obtain confidential information; and hundreds of companies selling background checks, profiles, and address lists" A ChoicePoint spokesperson had the audacity to state "More than two thirds of what we do is regulated by state and/or federal law." {If you and I do the math right, does than not mean that one third of all they do is not regulated by those laws ?} "the company released data to crooks whose requests used commercial mail drops as business addresses, an 'obvious red flag'. " U.S. Attorney Brian Hoffstadt said "For the consumers involved, there could be a ripple effect, and we may not know the true impact for quite a while."

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that Congress should require info resellers to safeguard all sensitive personal info.

"CR's three-month investigation found that the practices of the data collectors can rob you of your privacy, threaten you with ID theft, and profile you as, say, a deadbeat or a security risk. Worse, there's no way to find out what they are telling others about you. When our reporters requested their own records, they were told that they could not see everything that was routinely sold to businesses. The meager information they did receive was punctuated with errors.

Data brokers say, however, that they are not in the business of correcting inaccuracies. A letter accompanying the report from LexisNexis, for example, says "we do not examine or verify our data, nor is it possible for our computers to correct or change data that is incorrect."

Is there any part of what is being said and done here infuriating to you ? Do you think that it is a great window of opportunity to have the media supply We the People with this kind of undeniable evidence as to the extent of the damage ?

When I was a child during the Second World War I remember seeing Peter Lorre and other actors portraying Nazi administrators arrogantly going about their business of enslaving people and compiling info on everyone, including one another, for use in intimidating and eliminating opposition. Then came the Cold War and the similar practices of the
elite manipulators who administered their various states.

At this point we are simply refuting and preparing to stop our
corporate enemies from pursuing our ruin in favor of their profits. Our government has passed laws which empower us to assert our rights and take back control of our own property.

Though there are a dozen other quotes and accusations, the point is well made. It is a privilege for each one of us who know this info to gather about ourselves an emerging army of concerned fellow citizens. As we build our basic foundation of advocates, we can then count on the media to help us explode to huge numbers of Americans.

Update..............................

Pick up this months Consumer Reports and look at heading on top of cover about our Privacy being sold to highest bidder.

Timing is everything in the world of business opportunities, so don't overlook how powerful the Privacy Army is and how well positioned we are.

One company, Choice Point, a major information broker did over a billion dollars last year, and this is just one of over 30,000 companies doing the same thing to all of us.

If there is a billion dollars being earned from just one of these companies, imagine the potential of suing all of them for violating our Constitutional Rights of privacy and what the total awards and settlements will be? Billions, maybe, hundreds of millions, obviously, so how much do you want of this class action fund pool?

Bottom line, WAKE UP, this is better than any HYIP you will ever lose money in. For next to nothing you can share in this fund pool and it will build and grow every month, every year, for many years as this industry is not going to vanish anytime soon. We want to get paid back on bases upon profits being earned on the sale of our personal private data.

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Can people tell what I search for online?
9/12/2006 12:51:17 PM

By ANICK JESDANUN
AP Internet Writer

Q. Can people really tell what I search for over the Internet?

A. You may be searching from the privacy of your home, but when it comes to just about anything online, there's no guarantee of privacy.

Your Internet service provider may know about the controversial group you just researched. Your search engine may know about the divorce you're contemplating. And if you're surfing from work, your boss may know about the disease you just looked up.

Some advice from Lauren Weinstein, a veteran computer scientist and privacy advocate: ''Assume that everything you put into those search engines is being saved and might be handed out to somebody, someday, perhaps linked to your identity.''

All of the major search engines, which sometimes keep data for months or even years, acknowledge that they will hand over records when served with a court order, search warrant or subpoena, although Google Inc. earlier this year successfully fought to limit the scope of a Justice Department request.

Short of demanding that companies erase all data immediately or that Congress strengthen privacy laws, consumers can't be assured of any privacy, Weinstein said.

But Peter Eckersley, staff technologist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said there are measures consumers can take to reduce the risks:

_ Be careful what you type in. Avoid putting in personal information such as your name or credit card number. If you truly want to know what's being said about you online, do a ''vanity search'' for your name from a different computer so it's not tied to your other searches.

_ Don't use the search engine provided by your Internet service provider, because searches then can be potentially tied to customer records.

_ If you use e-mail or other services that require logging in, use a search engine from a different company or use a different browser to avoid data linkage. For instance, if you use Microsoft Corp.'s Hotmail, be careful when searching through the company's MSN search.

_ Configure your browser to block data files called ''cookies,'' or when that's not possible, periodically clear existing cookies from your browser. Cookies often have a unique identifier that can link your searches from one session to the next.

Even if consumers take all of those steps, searches can still be tied to a computer's numeric Internet Protocol, or IP, address, which can be traced back to you with a service provider's cooperation. That's less of a worry for dial-up users, because the address changes every time. High-speed users may need to reset their modems now and then, assuming they hadn't been assigned a permanent, or static, IP address.

The ultimate protection, Eckersley said, is to use anonymizer services such as Tor, whose development was partly funded by the EFF. With the free service, traffic gets routed through a number of computers, and no single one knows fully the path a packet of data takes. The search engine would only record the last computer relaying the information, not the user's real computer.

Using anonymizers, however, can slow down performance, and you're trusting that the system works as promised.

It may be possible with some poorly configured anonymizers for law-enforcement authorities to simply go to their operators with a subpoena, said Ari Schwartz, deputy director with the Center for Democracy and Technology. Although they aren't supposed to retain data, they can be asked to store information on a particular customer from a given point forward, he said.

For those reasons, Weinstein shuns anonymizers completely.

''All those things you do are chipping away at the edges of the problem, and the problem is still there glaring at us,'' he said. ''That information is being collected, and the IP numbers are there with varying degrees of ease for tracking down.''

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Subject: Saturday morn 100,000 people will hear us

At 9a.m. this Saturday morn October 7th over 100,000 people will hear about the Privacy Army from our leadership.
It is a live broadcast introducing that many new people to our worthy cause. Because it has been arranged by our own team,
our team will benefit from it. Others can arrange similar opportunities for their teams to benefit as well.

Because of the nature of the audience, the host of the broadcast expects tens of thousands to respond by going to our new "Give Me Privacy" website. We have been anticipating the full functionality of this website so that we can accelerate our outreach. Those who respond by going to this free registration website will notice the opportunity to learn more by being contacted by an advocate of the Privacy Army on request. Those double-respondees will be distributed to each of us who are on stream and who can convey the simple message. The call also serves as a shakedown cruise to perfect the interview, question-and-answer format for future broadcasts. This anticipates our Chairman George Blake's personal outreach to the editors of the major newspapers and wire services in America with the same message. The effects of those will be on a national scale and will benefit all advocates of the Privacy Army who have already enrolled people. Each conversation will have been requested specifically by the new person who is already a part of the Privacy Army and who has already submitted their data to the common pool.

The web site is Tom Chenault's www.tomchenault.com On the lower right there is a rectangle to click and listen to our broadcast at 9a.m. Eastern time Saturday. For those who cannot hear it at that time, it will be available on that same web site by clicking another link for one entire week. Good opportunity to spread the word and test the response for yourself. This is going to explode as people learn the truth about their privacy being illegally violated.

We are a Family
of "Digital Clones"

Created by Corporate America
to Target and Monitor...
EVERYONE OF US.
Our Family Name...
is being contaminated by misuse of our personal data. Our personal risk, finacial losses and emotional stress must be stopped. How does this make you feel?


Our Family Has No Voice With Congress...
or standing in court. We have not asserted our rights and until now we could not prove damages when our personal data is sold.
Let's vote for change, ok?


Did You Know...

• Your Car's "Black Box" Can Testify Against You?
• Your Cell Phone Can Be Used to Track You?
• Your Tax Return Data May Be Sold?
• Your Medical Records Must Be Available Online?

American Families
Must Unite...
and our collective Ignorance and Apathy must be replaced by Knowledge and Action. Together we can get this done, can't we?

Our Family is Being Targeted...
and monitored beyond our wildest imaginations -- with the worst to come.

• Our Children are being profiled.
• Our Private Property is being sold.
• Our Habit Patterns are being tracked.

This needs to stop,
don't you agree?


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"The Future of Privacy"

By: Satvik Suryanarayana

The thought-provoking talk on “The Future of Privacy in the Age of Information” by Bruce Schneier attracted as many as 600 people to the Rozsa center on October 2. Schneier has extensive knowledge in the field of cryptography and security threats. He is an internationally renowned security expert, referred to as a “security guru” by the Economist. “Security is one of the coolest things to work on,” stated Schneier as he began his talk. He emphasized on the fact that our ways of living are going to change drastically in the near future. Surveillance, data mining and data storage technologies are advancing at a lightning pace. As a result, it would be worthwhile to devote more time to think about the privacy of our data in the coming days. Schneier tried to make the public aware of the fact that surveillance is increasing at an alarming rate and one day every action of ours might be watched by someone. There are many types of surveillance: audio and video, satellite and Internet surveillance. An instance of aerial surveillance is the Baltimore city government’s practice of taking aerial photos every six months to look out for violation of building permit rules. Amazon.com is an example of Internet surveillance that keeps a track of the categories of items one browses through and what one finally buys. Similarly, credit card companies can keep a track of purchasing habits.

A new concept called wholesale surveillance is also picking up fast in this insecure world. The police prefer to “watch everybody” so that they can track criminals and terrorists easily. “Follow every car” and “listen to everyone’s phone calls” are the new buzzwords in security agencies.
The invention of the Radio Frequency Identification has made it easier to track people. RFID tags contain a transponder with a digital memory chip. They can transmit information to sensors when they enter the electromagnetic zone of the tag reader. Amazingly, such a tag can be read without the knowledge of the individual. So tomorrow, we could be leaving our entry and exit times at every place we visit. RFID tags are being embedded in passports issued by many countries. The first RFID passports (“e-passports”) were issued by Malaysia in 1998. Within the United States, the Colorado passport office is already issuing RFID passports and by the end of 2006, all passport offices across United States would be following in step. All this seems harmless in the first thought, as it promises to make the world a “safer” place, by helping government catch criminals easily. But what if the same advanced technology is used by miscreants to collect our private data? The consequences of our vital and confidential data falling into nefarious hands could be disastrous. The implications of this are tough to even imagine.

The most important fact of the day is that: thanks to the latest advances in technology, vital data about anyone could be collected, consolidated and sold. Ironically, it’s cheaper to save data than throw it away. The collected data might fetch value to someone in the future. As technology improves, the data storage cost would reduce further and more data would accumulate. The point of concern is that the collected data could also be used for nefarious activities.

When we ponder over this whole issue, we would soon realize that we are walking through our lives leaving digital footprints. “Most of the prints left behind are not controlled by you,” cautioned Schneier. Schneier pointed out that the primary usage of data might be benign and that it is the secondary usage that we have to be wary about. Data collected for one purpose could be used for another without regard to the purpose for which it was collected in the first place. Presently, we are living in a unique epoch of time as we can still see the surveillance devices and are aware that we are being watched. But a few years down the lane, technology would advance to such an extent that it would be tough for us to even realize that we are being watched. Unfortunately, the legal system is not keeping pace with technological improvements. Even the administration and infrastructure need to hurry up to be at par with technology.

The call of the hour is the imperative need to formulate and implement more laws and regulations regarding the automatic collection of data and its usage. The European Union has already come up with a Data Protection Act: a comprehensive law governing the collection and usage of data. Schneier explained that all this finally boils down to a debate of liberty versus control.
Liberty is due to forced openness in the government and control can be attributed to forced openness in the people. On similar lines, secrecy would give more power to the government and privacy would give more power to the masses. The crux of the whole issue lies is ensuring real security for the citizens through a balanced combination of liberty and privacy.

Schneier is the author of eight books, including the latest best seller “Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly about Security in an Uncertain World, Secrets and Lies, and Applied Cryptography.” He has also published hundreds of academic articles and papers. The popular monthly newsletter Cryptogram published by him is read by over 130,000 people across the world. The Cryptogram has been translated into eight languages: Danish, Greek, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

At the end of the talk, most of the students and faculty took the opportunity to talk to Schneier personally and many also took the privilege of getting his autograph on a copy of his latest best seller.

The event was organized by the Committee for Campus enrichment and Valerie Pegg, Director of Rozsa center, was one of the main organizers who helped make the event a grand success. The Van Evera Distinguished Lecture series Endowment had sponsored the event. Most of the students and faculty who attended the event seemed to be excited by it. “It was an intriguing talk. It raised lots of questions in our minds about the subject of personal security versus data collection,” said Shawn Sullivan, a student at Tech.

The talk also seemed to have stimulated many to give a thought to the whole issue of privacy in the future. “The talk provided us with relatively new information. It was mainstream news and was very thought provoking,” said Carl Knauss, a senior student at Tech.

Just a matter of time and Your Privacy is lost..............Fight Back

Privacy under attack, but does anybody care?
It's vanishing, but there's no consensus on what it is or what should be done


Mon/Oct16, 2006

BREAKING NEWS on MSNBC this morning - U.S. say air samples confirm North
Korea conducted a nuclear test - while the Techology & Science feature is the first in a series of articles regarding the loss of privacy in the United States of America:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15221095/

If you're not one of the tiny fraction of Americans - 7 percent, according to a recent survey by The Ponemon Institute - who will change any behavior in an effort to preserve your privacy, the key question is:

Does that matter? For many Americans, the answer apparently is "no."

However, when pollsters ask Americans about privacy, most say they are concerned about losing it. An MSNBC.com survey, which will be covered in detail on Tuesday, found an overwhelming pessimism about privacy, with 60 percent of respondents saying they feel their privacy is "slipping away, and that bothers me."

If you're one of the 60 percent who just feels bothered and pessimistic, you still may need to get really ticked off before you will take action!

Do you have children or grandchildren? If so, spend about 30 minutes on the website Our Family is Under Attack. Take time to view and read the links to print and TV media at: www.giveusprivacy.com. Take note of which corporation owns the patent for identification and tracking of persons using RFID-tagged items.

The long-term personal impact is frightening when you realize that the next phase of privacy invasion is to implant RFID spychips into products, passports (Colorado now, nationwide by year's end), paper money, a federal driver's license and eventually people, to increase monitoring and tracking efficiency.

During a CNN interview, the president of Verichip is confident that our willingness to accept implanted RFID chips for monitoring and tracking people is only a matter of time and a foregone conclusion. You can view his reassuring presentation and demonstration of an implanted RFID Verichip chip in his body contrasted to a tragic period of human suffering and recent history at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2udoNmQkR4

Is this sufficient information for you to want to learn about how to protect yourself and your family? Time is running out.

Get Educated For FREE............................

TONIGHT/Oct19 at 9:20pm EST!
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PRIVACY ALERTS (selected from many) - Week of Oct 16

• Privacy: does anyone care?
• http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15221095/
• On privacy, talk & actions are poles apart
• http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15221100/
• "La Difference" is in EU, US privacy laws
• http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15221111/
• Where rubber meets the road in privacy debate
• http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15130989/
• Loss of data at 19 federal agencies raises privacy concerns
• http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascitystar/news/politics/15756604.htm

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 23, 2006


CONSUMER WATCHDOGS DEMAND RECALL OF SPYCHIPPED CREDIT CARDS
CASPIAN Advises Consumers to Immediately Remove Cards from Wallets

Consumer watchdog group CASPIAN is demanding a recall of millions of RFID-equipped contactless credit cards in light of serious security flaws reported today in the New York Times. The paper reports that a team of security researchers has found that virtually every one of these cards tested is vulnerable to unauthorized charges and puts consumers at risk for identity theft.

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a controversial technology that uses tiny microchips to transmit information at a distance. These RFID microchips have earned the nickname "spychips" because the data they contain can be read silently and invisibly by radio waves without an individual's knowledge or consent. The technology has long been the target of criticism by privacy and civil liberties groups.

"For these financial institutions to put RFID in credit cards, one of the most sensitive items we carry, is absolute lunacy," said Dr. Katherine Albrecht, founder and director of CASPIAN, a consumer group with over 12,000 members in 30 countries worldwide.

Researchers are showing how a thief could skim information from the cards right through purses, backpacks and wallets. This information includes the cardholder's name, credit card number, expiration date and other data that would be sufficient to make unauthorized purchases. They say the information could even be used to identify and track people, a scenario Albrecht and co-author Liz McIntyre lay out in their book, "Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Purchase and Watch Your Every Move."

Despite earlier assurances by the issuing companies that the data contained in the credit cards would be secure, researchers found that the majority of cards they tested did not use encryption or protect the data in any way. The information on them was readily available to unauthorized parties using equipment that could be assembled for as little as $50, the researchers said.

"We cautioned companies against using item-level RFID, and they didn't heed us. Now the credit card industry is facing an unprecedented PR and financial disaster," says McIntyre, who is also a former bank examiner. She points to the astronomical cost to replace the cards, not to mention the potential financial losses, litigation expenses, and erosion of consumer trust.

Albrecht and McIntyre are calling on the industry to issue a public alert detailing the dangers of the cards they've issued, institute an active recall, and make safe versions without RFID available to concerned consumers.

"This recall has to be very clear and very directed since consumers may not know their cards contain RFID tags," says Albrecht. "The industry has repeatedly resisted calls to clearly label the cards. Rather, they've given the cards innocent-sounding names like 'Blink.'"

CASPIAN is advising consumers to immediately remove the credit cards from their wallets and call
the 800 number on the back to insist on an RFID-free replacement card. The group is cautioning consumers not to mail the cards back or simply throw them away due to the risk of their personal information being skimmed.

Today's New York Times article by John Schwartz can be found here: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/23/business/23card.html?ref=business
A research report detailing the findings can be found here:
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/business/20061023_CARD/techreport.pdf

WAKE UP PEOPLE............................................ ......

Tonight on CNBC at 9:00 and 12:00 EST you will want to watch this special on how our personal private data is being harvested and sold without our knowledge and billions are being made on our personal property.

The problem of our data being stolen is growing every day and it is in the news every week where data banks are violated, from banks to hospitals, our data is being ripped off with identity fraud on the rise, you need to get educated on how to protect your family and yourself.

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