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UK's Information Commissioner gets expanded powers in Criminal Justice and Immigration Act -- will be able to impose steep fines on organizations

2008-05-15 00:00:00 by Shannon Kellogg in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...Immigration Act of 2008, the 1998 DPA was updated to enable the Information Commissioner to impose serious fines on organizations. This change in the UK's data protection law was spurred by a string of high-profile breaches of personally-identifiable information in the U.K. over the last year, including the large-scale data breach at Her...
 
Tags: information commissioner, information, fines, immigration act, criminal justice, organizations, levy fines, data protection act, large-scale data breach
 
 
 
 
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Giving Drivers Licenses to Illegal Immigrants

2008-02-13 05:57:39 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...immigration status. Issuing them doesn't make us any less secure, and refusing puts us at risk The state driver's license databases are the only comprehensive databases of U.S. residents. They're more complete, and contain more information - including photographs and, in some cases, fingerprints - than the IRS database, the Social Security...
 
Tags: licenses, driver licenses, illegal immigrants, licenses helps, licenses andor, deny licenses, driver, law, respects law enforcement
 
 
 
 
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TSA Misses the Point, Again

2008-01-29 15:13:57 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...immigration charges ID checks have nothing to do with airport security. And even if they did, anyone can fly on a fake ID. And enforcing immigration laws is not what the TSA does In related news, look at this page from the TSA's website: We screen every passenger; we screen every bag so that your memories are from where you went, not how you...
 
Tags: tsa, tsa screeners, tsa agent, tsa document checker, screeners, passenger ids, passenger, screeners inspect, airport
 
 
 
 
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Terrorism as a Tax

2008-05-12 06:29:47 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...immigration officials. And here is the ultimate irony: "More respondents were worried about U.S. immigration officials (70 percent) than about crime or terrorism (54 percent) when considering a trip to the country In Beyond Fear I wrote: Security is a tax on the honest If it werent for attackers, our lives would be a whole lot easier. In a...
 
Tags: tax, security, security risks, security countermeasures, security trade-offs, fear tax falls, security lines, beefed-up security forces, percent decline
 
 
 
 
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How Well "See Something, Say Something" Actually Works

2008-01-08 07:53:50 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...immigration officials for deportation, Mr. Browne said And as long as we're on the topic, read about the Spanish couple branded as terrorists in the UK for taking photographs in a mall. And this about a rail fan being branded a terrorist for trying to film a train. (Note that the member of the train's crew was trying to incite the other...
 
Tags: line, front-line security personnel, calls, hot line, calls led, people, suspicious people, browne, normal people
 
 
 
 
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Security vs. Privacy

2008-01-29 05:21:41 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...immigration into the former East Germany and modern-day China. While it's true that police states like those have less street crime, no one argues that their citizens are fundamentally more secure We've been told we have to trade off security and privacy so often -- in debates on security versus privacy , writing contests , polls , reasoned...
 
Tags: privacy, security, security affects privacy, people, people choose security, choose security, anti-privacy, afford privacy, security theater
 
 
 
 
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CISSP

2007-09-05 14:08:00 by Allen Baranov, CISSP in Security Thoughts
 
...immigration It is easy for headhunters to spot. And match up with The ISC2 is a problematic organisation CISSP is not for everyone. Of course, I have my bit to add Terry Pratchett writes amazing stories with some deep concepts. One word he created (or at least a Witch of his Disk World created) is headology . Basically, a witch will never...
 
Tags: information security professional, information security, security, cissp, security bloggers network, security people, sums, brother andy sums, terry pratchett writes
 
 
 
 
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2008 Budget - On biometrics at Heathrow

2008-03-12 14:38:07 by Stuart King in Stuart King's Security and Risk Management Blog
 
From today's budget speech : Today I can announce new measures at Heathrow and other airports to ensure that a greater use of biometric technology speeds up the time it takes passengers to get through immigration control. Whoppee (see my blog from a couple of weeks ago)! Bet I'll still get stuck in the queue behind the person who the machine...
 
Tags: biometric technology speeds, immigration control, budget speech, weeks ago, takes passengers, heathrow, ensure, bet, time
 
 
 
 
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"The Kite Runner" will change how you think about Afghanistan

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2008-04-29 11:16:44 by HASH0x8acb904 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...immigration experience is such a great influence on the world. We have the ability to take people from anywhere and they become Americans. The father in the movie goes from being a man of power and wealth in Kabul, to working in a gas station here. The father-in-law was a general in Afghanistan, but just a lower middle class worker here. But...
 
Tags: people, afghan people real, muslim world, world, afghanistan, movie tells, movie, kite runner, american view
 
 
 
 
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Security Briefing: June 10th

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2008-06-10 14:47:41 by Dave Lewis in Liquidmatrix Security Digest