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Recycle or Else? Big Brother to Pick Through Trash

Big Brother has gotten down and dirty to make sure Cleveland residents recycle.

If Clevelanders don’t recycle enough of their garbage, the city now has the power to issue $100 fines.

“Our whole force here is to encourage residents to properly use their containers and, when they do, that makes our system more efficient,” Waste Collection Commissioner Ronnie Owens said.

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New Vending Machines Require Thumb Print, Retina Scan

MYFOXNY.COM – Your thumbprint might soon be the key to an afternoon candy bar. A Massachusetts based vending machine company is joining the growing ranks of companies that are field-testing new technologies.

Next Generation Vending and Food Service is experimenting with biometric vending machines that would allow a user to tie a credit card to their thumbprint.

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Theme Parks Collect Fingerprints of Unassuming Guests

Recently, your NSLF chief blogger visited Sesame Place in Langhorne, Pa. and discovered that hordes of unassuming visitors willfully submitted themselves to fingerprint scanning upon entry to the theme park. Luckily, yours truly did not purchase a season pass that requires giving-up my biometrics data to Big Bird and Co., but it was fascinating to see how many otherwise ‘private’ citizens did so without hesitation or questioning the legality and potential risks associated with the process.

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Portland lemonade stand runs into health inspectors, needs $120 license to operate

It’s hardly unusual to hear small-business owners gripe about licensing requirements or complain that heavy-handed regulations are driving them into the red.

So when Multnomah County shut down an enterprise last week for operating without a license, you might just sigh and say, there they go again.

Except this entrepreneur was a 7-year-old named Julie Murphy. Her business was a lemonade stand at the Last Thursday monthly art fair in Northeast Portland. The government regulation she violated? Failing to get a $120 temporary restaurant license.

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Google and CIA Fund Political Precrime Technology

More evidence has emerged revealing Google’s spook connections. Noah Shachtman, writing for Wired, details how the CIA’s technology investment operation, In-Q-Tel, and Google are supporting a company that monitors the web in real time. The company, Recorded Future, scans tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find imputed relationships between people, organizations, actions and incidents. Recorded Future claims it can utilize this information to predict the future.

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Dollywood the only Theme park with NO bag searches, no thumb scans, not even retinal scans

Most theme parks condition you to accept the Police State but at Dollywood they did not do Thumb Scans, not even bag searches.

While I was at Universal Studios, Disney World, and Kennedy Space Center they did one or more of the following to me while I was there:

1. Searched my bags
2. Checked my cameras to make sure they were cameras by forcing me to turn them on and show them the display screen.
3. Made me go through a Thumb Scan
4. Made me give some form of Identification or personal information

I had went through tyranny in 3 theme parks and it is all for the guise of National Security and stopping Terrorism.

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Walmart Means To Spy On Clothing Use

Walmart (NYSE: WMT) plans to put radio chips into clothing including underwear. The big box retailer wants to know what and how much people buy so it can order enough inventory. Walmart will be, of course, accused of spying on its customers, but the question is whether there is any harm in it. The move should certainly improve the company’s supply chain management.The new system will allow Walmart to see right down to the size level which clothing in about to go out of stock. If it is effective, all the Walmart locations will probably use the technology.

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Senate bill would make airport body scanners mandatory

A bipartisan bill introduced in the Senate requiring all airports to use full-body scanners lacks sufficient privacy safeguards, says a prominent watchdog group.

The Electronic Privacy Information Center says the bill, introduced in the Senate by Sen. Bob Bennett (R-UT) and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), “contains particularly weak privacy provision[s] that ignore many of the problems with the devices already uncovered.”

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Columbia University: Body Scanners Increase Risk Of Skin Cancer

Airport body scanners could lead to an increase in skin cancers according to scientists at Columbia University, who warn that the dose emitted by the naked x-ray devices could be up to 20 times higher than originally estimated, in another clear example of how the scanners are completely illegal, dangerous to public health, and need to be removed immediately.

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KGB Successor To Have Powers To Summon People Who “Are About To Commit A Crime”

MOSCOW, June 11 (Reuters) – Russia’s parliament on Friday voted to boost the powers of the successor to the Soviet KGB, allowing it to summon people it believes are about to commit a crime and threaten jail for those who disobey its orders.

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