The evil Napolitano (as opposed to the good one) speaks to Australians about why they should be aligned and supportive of the US military-industrial-surveillance-security complex. Reader Chris Bieber writes, “Mussolini said the same thing…only in Italian.”

Surprise, surprise – a license plate database free-for-all. The government is photographing license plates and matching the scans up to massive databases. But it is to protect us from … bank robbers and kidnappers. Thanks to Michael Ostrolenk for the tip.

According to the New York Post, the Department of Education Detainment …has taken a giant step toward creating a de facto national student database that will track students by their personal information from preschool through career. …The department’s eagerness to get control of all this information is almost palpable. But current federal law prohibits a [...]

Reader Brent Petersen points out some of the usual government nonsense from bill H.R. 5345, or, the ‘Consumer Auto Safety Enhancement Act of 2010.’ For the 2012 model year, cars that are due to hit the market in a few months, congress wants an event recorder of specs yet to be determined in every new [...]

Here’s a good blog on the evils of E-Z Pass, the creepy kind of stuff they have out east. Illinois also has this, or something similar, which is why I hate the drive from Detroit to Minneapolis, going around Chicago. Invictus says, I’ve used the E-Z Pass system since its inception, and cannot envision myself [...]

Back some years ago, on more than one occasion, I was asked to submit my resume for an open position in accounting/finance at OnStar Corporation. I was in the auto industry back then (blah!), and I had no desire to work at a quasi-governmental company making Big Brother products. I flat-out refused. Some of my [...]

I caused a scene at the credit union last week. I use a neighborhood credit union that is old-fashioned and still offers personalized service. I’ve had an account there since I was five. I’ve always liked doing business with those folks. However, the tellers and managers seem to come-and-go more often these days, which means [...]

Here’s an old column from a Canadian, Robert J. Sawyer, who reflects on the glories of a world with no privacy – in the name of anti-terrorism and individual “security.” It’s a great example – and reminder – of post-September 11, 2001 lunacy. His idea: But imagine a permanently activated recorder: a small implant, say, [...]

Our man in cyberliberty, Declan McCullagh, on the Rockefeller bill to get control of the Internet under the guise of a “national emergency.” Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet. They’re not much [...]

The government used the crushing financial crisis to fund one of its most totalitarian programs ever – the system of health information spy networks – under the cloak of “efficiency.” The U.S. government on Thursday announced grants of almost $1.2 billion to help hospitals and health care providers implement and use electronic health records. Since [...]