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5-11 Campaign wraps operations

beatthechip@gmail.com (Sheila Dean ) — Sat, 18 May 2013 16:09:00 PDT

OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF RELEASE @ 511Campaign.org WHO: 5-11 Campaign advocacy carried over from BeatTheChip.org WHAT: The operations and public service wraps this May after 5 years....

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TWIC port card pilot program on the ropes

beatthechip@gmail.com (Sheila Dean ) — Sat, 18 May 2013 11:42:00 PDT

c/o HSToday.us "Data collected by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) during a pilot for readers of transportation worker identification cards is so bad that Congress should ignore...

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Creative Ways to Beat the Developing Global Surveillance State

beatthechip@gmail.com (Sheila Dean ) — Thu, 16 May 2013 19:00:00 PDT

"Surveillance takes far more from the people than it gives." BTC Commentary -- As device and mass public surveillance seems to know no bounds, we have to be the ones to recognize our own...

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Louisiana Senate plies Real ID license language in Public Safety bill HB 395

beatthechip@gmail.com (Sheila Dean ) — Thu, 16 May 2013 15:06:00 PDT

c/o WLOX (AP reports) BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana driver's licenses would be used to comply with federal law requiring each state to create a national identification card for air...

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"Biometric Database of All Adult Americans Hidden in Immigration Reform"

beatthechip@gmail.com (Sheila Dean ) — Fri, 10 May 2013 11:25:00 PDT

c/o WIRED The immigration reform measure the Senate began debating yesterday would create a national biometric database of virtually every adult in the U.S., in what privacy groups fear could be...

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Real ID still a problem for States

beatthechip@gmail.com (Sheila Dean ) — Thu, 09 May 2013 17:00:00 PDT

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, FIXING WHAT ISN'T BROKEN BY BREAKING IT BTC - Here is what it looks like when a George Mason analyst for D.C. city politics proposes a nationalized ID system, like Real ID,...

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DEAR TRANSHUMANISTS: Respecting Seattle's animal uprising

beatthechip@gmail.com (Sheila Dean ) — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 11:11:00 PDT

BTC - This is a letter sent to columnist Monica Guzman on The future of credentials: Will degrees and resumes make room for the badge Monica, I occasionally read your column in The...

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REDUX: E-Verify substitution bill, CISPA & More

beatthechip@gmail.com (Sheila Dean ) — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 19:48:00 PDT

House bill would replace H-2A, E-Verify programs Immigration reforms that would replace H-2A visas with an agricultural guest worker program under the U.S. Department of Agriculture would provide...

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These are not the databases you are looking for, Joe Public.

beatthechip@gmail.com (Sheila Dean ) — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 19:05:00 PDT

BTC - The following is filed under Op-Ed, comments not published at a Seattle Times story: Lawmakers take aim at CIA's use of fake licenses from state. At the moment, local lawmakers are...

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Missouri lawmaker pursues answers, investigates Real ID problems

beatthechip@gmail.com (Sheila Dean ) — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 19:00:00 PDT

c/o KOMU JEFFERSON CITY - U.S. Representative Blaine Luetkemeyer will be talking to lawmakers Monday about how much personal data is being used by the state when Missourians apply for state...

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Washington States secret drivers license program outed over police, CIA use

beatthechip@gmail.com (Sheila Dean ) — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 10:44:00 PDT

The program within the Department of Licensing (DOL) has been operating in relative secrecy for years, without legislative approval. (i.e. IT'S NOT LAW... YET.) c/o Seattle Times A Washington...

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BIG GIANT REAL ID STORY: Missouri's Concealed Carry dropped onto database

beatthechip@gmail.com (Sheila Dean ) — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 17:34:00 PDT

c/o Red State's Dana Loesch (nice job, btw) Missouri Governor Jay Nixon has some explaining to do. Earlier today during a hearing led by state Senator Kurt Schaefer, Col. Ron Replogle of the...

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Welcome to the frog boil: "Non-citizen" drivers licenses & You

beatthechip@gmail.com (Sheila Dean ) — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 19:51:00 PDT

BTC Commentary- Some people are finding it tougher and tougher to just let legal people, be legal. It's a fact, if you are a legal migrant, you are permitted to drive in this country. Why...

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E-Verify provokes hunger strike in San Diego

beatthechip@gmail.com (Sheila Dean ) — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 19:33:00 PDT

c/o Un!te Here Hotel workers have spent the last year trying to organize a union at the Hilton Mission Valley and suddenly in late March when a new management company took over, the hotel began...

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Federal biometrics program, NextGen Identity, gets served in an EPIC way

beatthechip@gmail.com (Sheila Dean ) — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 19:14:00 PDT

c/o PC World A privacy watchdog has filed a lawsuit contending the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has failed to provide requested technical information about a biometric...

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iDoctor "Your body under surveillance by your cellphone"

beatthechip@gmail.com (Sheila Dean ) — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 19:10:00 PDT

BTC - "The new medicine is plugged into you," according to smart phone health data advocate Dr. Topol. "You can make it a lab on a chip." While it is amazing science, our forecast is that patients...

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Tennessee court rejects student ID bill

beatthechip@gmail.com (Sheila Dean ) — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 19:00:00 PDT

c/o CR80 News A proposed bill that would enable student IDs issued by Tennessee state colleges and universities to double at voting credentials has failed to pass. According to...

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Real ID's schizophrenic justification surfaces in Missouri

beatthechip@gmail.com (Sheila Dean ) — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 12:28:00 PDT

c/o Missourinet The Blog Let’s see if we can summarize and overly-simplify the events leading up to today. For purposes of over-simplification, we’re skipping some things. Congress...

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Why Real ID is about to happen to you

beatthechip@gmail.com (Sheila Dean ) — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 20:26:00 PDT

FROM THE EDITOR "In a database state, citizens are targeted for political oppression and institutional sanctions by their government." BTC -- Some years ago there was a massive national...

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REDUX: NSTIC national driver license database anchors in VA

beatthechip@gmail.com (Sheila Dean ) — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 11:52:00 PDT

"The DMV has entered the implementation stage of a multi-year identity management plan that starts with sharing authentication data across agencies so that citizens can log in once and access...

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More student claims of illness due to RFID badges

beatthechip@gmail.com (Sheila Dean ) — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 19:17:00 PDT

BTC - Andrea Hernandez, a student expelled for refusing to wear an RFID badge, recently submitted comment at public hearing on a bill to ban RFID in Texas schools [HB 101] claiming the...

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REDUX: Real ID, NSTIC passes sequester cuts, E-Verify

beatthechip@gmail.com (Sheila Dean ) — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 21:04:00 PDT

First what *sounds* like an apology from the State of Missouri for taking Real ID $$$ .... "Some of my constituents have inquired about a lawsuit that was filed this week in Stoddard County in...

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REDUX: E-Verify, Brainware tattoos & Texas news

beatthechip@gmail.com (Sheila Dean ) — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 22:06:00 PST

Truthout TV With David Bacon on E-Verify and Sexual Harassment Here is second life for news that matters: David Sarasohn: On surveillance, what you don't know can hurt...

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Missouri Lt Gov outs DMV use of Real ID database

beatthechip@gmail.com (Sheila Dean ) — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 20:09:00 PST

Database funnelling information to DHS, increased inquiry of gun owners BTC - According to the Lt. Gov Peter Kinder, a Missouri local applying to renew a license filed a complaint with the State...

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Economic justice starts at the office

beatthechip@gmail.com (Sheila Dean ) — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 13:11:00 PST

ATTN: Readers We are making some production shifts to welcome better returns on our investments. BeatTheChip is scaling back the amount of hours to produce content online. This move...

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