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...Ashcroft's antiterror campaign has already irked civil libertarians. Two weeks ago the Attorney General quietly rewrote federal rules to allow feds to monitor communications between inmates and their lawyers. To trigger the eavesdropping, the Attorney General need have only a "reasonable suspicion" that an inmate may try to transmit terrorism instructions through his attorney. Justice Department officials pointed out that the fruits of the eavesdropping would be used only to prevent imminent attacks and that the information could not be used in court--at least not without a judge's approval. But civil libertarians and defense lawyers were furious...
Congressional squabbles have also slowed progress on another key issue: international-flight manifests. Most airlines transmit passenger lists to U.S. Customs as flights take off, so they can be checked against databases at 24 federal agencies, including the FBI and the INS, and compared with terrorist watch lists. But Saudi Air--where most of the Sept. 11 hijackers came from--has resisted. Attempts to require manifests as a condition of landing in the U.S. have stalled on procedural grounds. Congressional backers say they will keep trying...
...little RFID (short for radio-frequency identification) wands are proving far more popular and practical than the much promoted use of cell phones to shop on the Net. Only 6% of all mobile-phone owners use theirs to purchase stock, transmit payments, make travel arrangements or buy small items, according to the Personal Communications Industry Association. More Americans may soon be able to use their cell phones in conjunction with the RFID tags. The key, says Nokia m-commerce expert Tom Zalewski, will be enabling retailers to reach out to phone users with short messages when they are within...
...commerce chips, when scanned by a reader, transmit a unique code, your ID, which zips down the Internet to an account sitting in a computer at a transaction-processing company. No credit-card information is transmitted between the reader and the tag, so that information cannot be hijacked. 2Scoot bills your credit card of choice, while FreedomPay uses a debit system that deducts money from an "electronic purse" set up in advance using either cash or a credit card...
...vaccinate 30-50 percent, the group that doesn’t get vaccinated is protected by the group that gets vaccinated,” Coley said, explaining that if more students are vaccinated, there are fewer students who can transmit the flu to others...