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The latest revelations further buttress accusations that Joe Biden’s work as senator and vice president frequently converged with and assisted Hunter Biden’s business interests. Whether it be getting the Ukrainian prosecutor investigating his son’s company fired or meeting one of his son’s business partners while on a diplomatic trip to China in 2013, Joe Biden’s political activities in relation to his son Hunter have continued to garner scrutiny. While Hunter was still at the firm, in late February 2007, then-Sen. Joe Biden reached out to DHS, expressing concern over the department’s proposed chemical security regulations. The regulations were in accordance...

JACKSON – A prior requirement calling for additional fingerprinting for firearm applicants after a two year period is no longer being enforced by the township’s police department. Council President Rob Nixon clarified the issue during a May 28 Council meeting where a firearms organization took aim at Township Police Chief Matthew Kunz for requiring multiple fingerprinting for firearm applicants. Hightstown resident Alex “Aljandro” Roubian, the president and managing editor of the New Jersey Second Amendment Society (NJ2AS) questioned Nixon before and during the evening’s session concerning what the chief’s policy was. According to the organization’s website, the NJ2AS is a...

Authorities will in the future be allowed to take the fingerprints of refugee children as a young as six when they first enter Germany, interior ministers agreed on Wednesday. State and federal interior ministers, who met in Dresden on Wednesday, said that the current minimum age for taking the fingerprints of a child would be lowered from 14 to six. The move was justified as a means of preventing asylum seekers from applying twice for protection. But the change was harshly criticized by legal experts. “We don’t have a security problem among children,” said Sven Rebehn, chairman of the German...

A new kind of tracking tool, canvas fingerprinting, is being used to follow visitors to thousands of top websites, from WhiteHouse.gov to YouPorn. First documented in a forthcoming paper by researchers at Princeton University and KU Leuven University in Belgium, this type of tracking, called canvas fingerprinting, works by instructing the visitor’s Web browser to draw a hidden image. Because each computer draws the image slightly differently, the images can be used to assign each user’s device a number that uniquely identifies it. Like other tracking tools, canvas fingerprints are used to build profiles of users based on the websites...

What if you were forced to “register” in order to buy groceries? And what if, through that registration, the food you bought could be tracked and quantities could be limited? That’s exactly the plan in Venezuela right now. The AP reports that in an effort to crack down on “hoarding” that ID cards will be issued to families. These will have to be presented before foodstuffs can be purchased.

The European Commission wants to fingerprint anyone who enters the EU under its “smart borders” proposal, but critics say it is too costly, disproportionate, and risks violating numerous privacy rights. The commission says the system is necessary to update border control checks, reduce waiting times, and help border guards better implement EU border rules by pooling the personal details of any non-EU citizen over the age of 12 into a database. All ten fingerprints would be scanned to ensure that anyone who tosses their ID can still be identified if necessary. The package includes the Entry/Exit system (EES) and the...

Abstract. We investigate the degree to which modern web browsers are subject to "device fingerprinting" via the version and con figurtion information that they will transmit to websites upon request. We implemented one possible fingerprinting algorithm, and collected these fingerprints from a large sample of browsers that visited our test site, panopticlick.eff.org. We observe that the distribution of our fingerprint contains at least 18.1 bits of entropy, meaning that if we pick a browser at random, at best we expect that only one in 286,777 other browsers will share its fingerprint. Among browsers that support Flash or Java, the situation...

ANNAPOLIS (AP) — Gov. Martin O'Malley urged lawmakers to require DNA samples from people who are arrested for violent crimes and burglary, a significant expansion of current state law. Lawmakers questioned whether the proposal was too broad. Mr. O'Malley described the measure as a badly needed crime-fighting tool for Maryland. He asked lawmakers yesterday to "move to the next generation of what I like to refer to as the modern-day, next-generation fingerprint." "We are the fourth-most violent state in the union, and there's really no good reason for it," Mr. O'Malley testified. "We all need to fight back against violent...

All visitors to Britain requiring visas have to be fingerprinted from todayLast updated at 11:47am on 14th January 2008 Fingerprints will be required on all UK visas from now on All visitors to Britain requiring visas will have to be fingerprinted from today.  Immigration Minister Liam Byrne said a programme for installing biometric visa controls has been completed three months ahead of schedule. He said: "It is done three months early and it is done several million pounds under budget. "We now check everybody's fingerprint wherever they apply for a visa around the world." Mr Byrne said the new system...

If you're ticketed by Green Bay police, you'll get more than a fine. You'll get fingerprinted, too. It's a new way police are cracking down on crime. If you're caught speeding or playing your music too loud, or other crimes for which you might receive a citation, Green Bay police officers will ask for your drivers license and your finger. You'll be fingerprinted right there on the spot. The fingerprint appears right next to the amount of the fine. Police say it's meant to protect you -- in case the person they're citing isn't who they claim to be. But...

Around the clock, government computers and forensic examiners compare fingerprints the U.S. government and its partners in other countries have collected to the prints of foreign nationals entering the United States. Military and intelligence officials have been secretly taking thousands of fingerprints from terrorist safe houses, training camps, bomb factories and battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan. The war zones, the caves in Afghanistan and other places where potential terrorists hide out can be sources of fingerprints, said Robert Mocny, director of the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology Program  also known as US-VISIT.

Speeding: Now you will be finger printedby STEVE DOUGHTY Last updated at 00:17am on 22nd November 2006    . Motorists pulled over by police face the threat of being fingerprinted from today - further inflaming fears over the growth of the Big Brother culture.They will be asked to use a hand-held fingerprint reader which will check their identity against the 6.5million recorded prints of crime suspects. Although the scheme, to be tried out by ten police forces, will be voluntary at first, the Government has admitted it is considering making it compulsory. It would work in the same way...

(AP) ROME, Ga. -- The never-ending march of technology now means school children here can pay for their cafeteria sloppy joes with their fingers. Rome City Schools is switching to a scanning system that lets students use their fingerprints to access their accounts. In the past, students had to punch in their pin numbers. "The finger's better because all you've got to do is put your finger in, and you don't have to do the number and get mixed up," said Adrianna Harris, a second grader at Anna K. Davie Elementary School. The new system speeds lunch lines, said city...

TORONTO: Like many Canadians, Ghazanfar Khan feels his country is far too much under US influence. The 24-year-old man of Pakistani origin, standing for next week's general election, wants to do something to change things. A debut candidate in the January 23 ballot, Khan has a definite agenda for Canada and feels that his country should carve out its own identity that is separate from its superpower neighbour to the south. Instead of jumping on the bandwagon of major parties like the Liberals or the Conservatives, Khan is with the Canadian Action Party, a little-known entity but one he believes...

...Hoping to block the entry of criminals and terrorists into the United States and to improve the enforcement of immigration laws, government officials have... created enormous new repositories of digitally recorded biometric data including fingerprints and facial characteristics that can be used to identify more than 45 million foreigners. Federal agencies have also assembled data on more than 70 million Americans in an effort to speed law-abiding travelers through checkpoints and to search for domestic terrorists. The immigration control and antiterrorism campaign was spurred by the Sept. 11 attacks and subsequent Congressional mandates to improve the nation's security. But the...

/begin my translationTaiwan: Fingerprinting Chinese to Start in the Middle of This Month Taiwan would introduce the measure to fingerprint Chinese to virtually restrict their travel, starting possibly in the middle of this month. According to June 30th report of Hong Kong's Feng-huang TV, which quotes Taiwanese Media, Taiwan's Interior Ministry submitted the report titled, 'The Essential Points on the Project of Fingerprinting Chinese,' at the "Mainland Committee," which is in charge of Chinese affairs on June 28. The fingerprinting is apparently aimed at the improved monitoring of Chinese, and curbing illegal activities of Chinese in Taiwan. Liu De-xun, the vice manager...

If you are not familiar with this subject you've got to hear my interview with Michael Trudeau on Preparing for a Cashless Society. We talk about how things are moving toward this, his concerns, and the advancements in using fingerprinting, Smart or ID cards, and other scanning systems that companies eventually will make it possible for you to walk out of the grocery store with your items without going through a check out counter because all the products will have sensors, as well as you, either by card or implanted chip or tatoo that scanners will pick up as you...

Fingerprinting Policies Condemned by Legislative District 22 Republicans; Mesa Denies Activities One little thumb can open a mighty big can of worms. Make that a mighty big, constitutional can of worms. The City of Yuma requires police officers to fingerprint persons stopped for petty violations – both civil and criminal. The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office recently began instructing its deputies to do likewise. All of which has come to the attention of the constitutionally-minded Legislative District 22 Republicans, who on Thursday night at a regular monthly meeting in Gilbert condemned those actions by resolution. According to the D22 GOP precinct...

U.S. drivers of trucks with hazardous materials must be fingerprinted by federal authorities. WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The federal government on Monday began an anti-terrorism program requiring truckers who haul hazardous materials to submit to fingerprinting and criminal background checks. But it's expected to take five years to check all 2.7 million truck drivers, and truckers fear logjams early in the program because there are few places to be fingerprinted. California has only three fingerprinting sites and Idaho, Oregon, Washington and many other states only have one. Critics of the program also question whether the new regulation will do much to...

POLICE ROUTINELY FINGERPRINTING FOR TRAFFIC STOPSFeb 11, 2005 - FreeMarketNews.comby Michael J. RossJust when you thought it was safe to venture out on the road, visit scenic Lake Michigan, and get away from prying eyes in urban centers and corporate environments, the authorities have come up with a new, intrusive twist. Police in Green Bay, Wisconsin, are now fingerprinting anyone that they pull over at a traffic stop -- even for the most minor of traffic violations. This means that, should you be stopped by the Green Bay police for having a malfunctioning brake light, playing your car stereo too...