U.S.-China Surveillance

A Sunday LA Times story, “Public Wi-Fi may turn your life into an open notebook,” describes just how easy it is for others to see what we’re doing and thinking when using public wireless access points like coffee shops or parks, using “free software available online.”
“When people are on a public wireless connection, they have [...]

Form Wired’s Threat Level (27BStroke6) blog:
Montana forcefully rejected on Tuesday the requirements of pending federal identity document rules that would create a de facto national identity card, as Governor Brian Schweitzer signed into law a bill forbidding the state from implementing the rules and requiring reports to the government if the feds try to enforce [...]

From china.org.cn:
“By collecting the identity information of China’s 1.3 billion population in five years, through an investment amounting to tens of millions yuan, we have succeeded in collating the world’s biggest ID database in full compliance with international standards,” said Lu Subing, vice director of NCIIC.
Full article  at http://www.china.org.cn/english/China/206827.htm.

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This article, by Alexandra Marks of the Christian Science Monitor, provides an excellent summary of the privacy challenges in the U.S. after 9/11:
The trade-off was one plenty of citizens and lawmakers willingly made after 9/11: less individual privacy for better national security. Five and a half years later, many are rethinking, even challenging, the government’s [...]