Profound Quotes

"Neither is it that US foreign policy is cruel because American leaders are cruel. It's that our leaders are cruel because only those willing to be inordinately cruel and remorseless can hold positions of leadership in the foreign policy establishment; it might as well be written into the job description. People capable of expressing a full human measure of compassion and empathy toward faraway powerless strangers - (let alone American soldiers - do not become president of the United States, or vice president, or secretary of state, or national security adviser or secretary of the treasury. Nor do they want to." From 'Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower' by William Blum

From "9-11, Six Years Later": "If one looks at the credentials of skeptics compared to the credentials of defenders of the official line, it is impossible to dismiss skeptics as kooks. There are many people with strong imaginations on the Internet, but serious skeptics stick to known facts, known violations of standard procedures and the laws of physics. The vast majority of the people who call skeptics "kooks" are themselves ignorant of physics and have little comprehension of the improbability that such an attack could succeed without either the complicity or complete failure of government agencies. " Paul Craig Roberts

"Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular? But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right." Martin Luther King, Jr.

Categories
« SteveLendmanBlog: Imperial Warrior Kerry at State  
  The Ultimate Logic of a Society Built on Mass Murder | Black Agenda Report »

Privacy rights advocates worried about Canada’s ‘biometric’ data requirements | The Hook

Canada will soon start collecting fingerprints and photographs from citizens of certain nations trying to enter the country. Critics raise concerns about how the government will safeguard the privacy of those whose data it has collected.

Citizen and Immigration Canada announced 10 days ago a list of “29 countries and one territory” whose nationals applying for a visitor visa, study or work permit will be required to provide so-called biometric information at the time of application. For now that means fingerprints and photo portraits, but the term biometric can also include DNA samples and other physical measures to confirm identities.

Biographic information such as a person’s name, date of birth, and identity documents “can be easily stolen, forged or altered, resulting in multiple or false identities,” said the official government newspaper, the Canada Gazette. The immigration program faces a challenge: “reliably, accurately, and efficiently verifying an applicant’s identity.”

But the measure is not only aimed at identifying frauds who want to enter the country.

The RCMP will store the biometric information to check matches between immigration fingerprints and fingerprints of people of interest to law enforcement. All the information collected could be matched against unidentified prints; for example those collected from a crime scene, or also fingerprints of persons convicted of an offence, “or other prints of interest to law enforcement agencies,” said the Gazette.

Privacy rights advocates worried about Canada’s ‘biometric’ data requirements | The Hook.

December 20th, 2012 | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment |

Leave a Reply

You can use these HTML tags

<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

Security Code: