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'Feds Radiating Americans' with Scanners at Road Checkpoints: Is It True?
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Sept. 29) -- Are scanners being employed at roadway checkpoints to "radiate Americans" with dangerous X-rays designed to peer inside their vehicles? Yes, according to Alex Jones conspiratorial website Prison Planet, and this time, the mainstream media agrees, at least in part. In his most recent Google Trends coup, Alex Jones encouraged users to repeatedly search the phrase "feds radiating Americans," to draw attention to Prison Planet reporter Paul Joseph Watson's new article. In it, the author claims that instead of dedicating their efforts to control illegal immigration and drug ...
Google Buzz Spawns Class-Action Lawsuit
By David Knowles - AOL News(Feb. 18) -- This was not the buzz that Google wanted to hear. A class-action lawsuit was filed at a San Jose, Calif., federal court on Wednesday, alleging that Google's new e-mail and social networking hybrid, Buzz, violated privacy laws. Google, which is based in Mountainview, Calif., launched Buzz on Feb. 9 and within hours had received a wave of bad press and user complaints regarding the way the program automatically shared potentially private information without a user's approval. Initially, when a person signed up for Buzz, the program generated a list of contacts with whom a user ...
Airport Security Scanners Can Store and Transmit Images, Despite TSA Statements
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyDocuments obtained by a privacy group reveal that full-body airport security scanners do have the ability to store and transmit images, despite repeated claims by the The Transportation Security Administration that they do not. The Electronic Privacy Information Center said the documents show the TSA specified two years ago to the vendor that scanners must have image storage and sending capabilities while in test mode, CNN reported. The TSA has claimed in press releases and on its Web site that images cannot be stored on the machines, which which can see beneath people's clothing. The ...
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