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As of last week, there is now a U.S. Government national security agency called the Biometrics Identity Management Agency (BIMA).  It supersedes a Biometrics Task Force that was established in 2000.Though nominally a component of the Army, the biometrics agency has Defense Department-wide responsibilities.“The Biometrics Identity Management Agency leads Department of Defense activities to prioritize, integrate, and synchronize biometrics technologies and capabilities and to manage the Department of Defense’s authoritative biometrics database to support the National Security Strategy,” according to a March 23 Order (pdf) issued by Army Secretary John M. McHugh that redesignated the previous Biometrics Task Force as...

The most extensive collection of writings about the Book of Mormon published between 1829 and 1844 has been made available as an online database. The collection, “19th-Century Publications About the Book of Mormon (1829–1844),” includes nearly 600 publications, with close to 1 million words of text. It is intended to comprise everything published during Joseph Smith’s lifetime relating to the Book of Mormon. For more than 10 years, Matthew Roper, a research scholar at Brigham Young University’s Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship and head of the project, has been collecting this literature. Through the auspices of the...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A national database that allows consumers to view the history of used vehicles went into effect this year, but federal official said Tuesday that some states are not contributing vehicle records to the system. The National Motor Vehicle Title Information System allows potential used car buyers to check the title, odometer reading, accident history and other information for a fee of less than $5. The system was first proposed in the early 1990s, but was stalled until consumer protection agencies took legal action forcing the federal government to enact the program. It is currently administered by the...

Britain has built the world's biggest DNA database without proper political debate and police routinely arrest people just to get their DNA profiles onto the system, the genetics watchdog said in a report on Tuesday. The Human Genetics Commission, which advises the government on the social, legal and ethical aspects of genetics, called for a review of the database and said new laws must be passed to govern its use. In a damning report, the commission said "function creep" had transformed the system from a DNA store for offenders into a database of suspects. More than three-quarters of young black...

A searchable map detailing 40 years of Israeli archaeological work in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, developed for the USC Digital Library, has won the 2009 Open Archaeology Prize from the American Schools of Oriental Research.A nonprofit organization founded in 1900 and located at Boston University, the American Schools of Oriental Research support the study and public understanding of peoples and cultures of the Near East. The prize, to be presented today at a professional meeting in New Orleans, recognizes “the best open-access, open-licensed, digital contribution to Near Eastern archaeology by an ASOR member.” Project leaders Lynn Swartz Dodd...

Anti-war protesters and train spotters arrested under anti-terror laws could have their DNA kept for life under Home Office plans. In contrast, those innocent of any other suspected crime will be kept for a maximum of six years. The proposals have been drawn up in the wake of a European Court of Human Rights ruled last year that a blanket policy of retaining profiles of innocent people indefinitely was illegal. Up to a million innocent people are currently held on the national database. As part of a climb-down, the Home Office now plans to keep the profiles of children innocent...

In Utah, the National Security Agency is building a $2 billion storage facility that will house and analyze all forms of electronic communication...a potential yottabyte of everyone's (formerly) personal data. So how big is a yottabyte? CrunchGear puts it well: There are a thousand gigabytes in a terabyte, a thousand terabytes in a petabyte, a thousand petabytes in an exabyte, a thousand exabytes in a zettabyte, and a thousand zettabytes in a yottabyte. In other words, a yottabyte is 1,000,000,000,000,000GB. In terms of data on current human scales, a yottabyte is nearly infinite (though I'm sure the NSA will manage...

The NYPD is amassing a database of cell phone users, instructing cops to log serial numbers from suspects' phones in hopes of connecting them to past or future crimes. In the era of disposable, anonymous cell phones, the file could be a treasure-trove for detectives investigating drug rings and other criminal enterprises, police sources say. "It's used to help build cases," one source said of the new initiative. "It doesn't replace the human element, like debriefing prisoners, but it's another tool to use that we didn't have in the past." A recent internal memo says that when cops make an...

Lt. Col. Brian Coleman, adviser to the Iraqi Army's Director of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Program, takes questions from Iraqi officers about the Iraqi Army Maintenance Program, an electronic database designed to assist the maintenance workshops with organizing work orders and documenting inventory, at Camp Taji, Sept. 30. Photo by Sgt. Keith VanKlompenberg, 13th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary). < CAMP TAJI — Iraqi Army (IA) maintenance sites, called Medium Workshops, recently transitioned from handwritten orders and logs to the new Iraqi Army Maintenance Program (IAMP) computerized database. U.S. Army Soldiers met here with Iraqi Army (IA) officers to discuss the progress...

All dogs in Britain will be fitted with microchips which contain their owner’s details, under cross party plans designed to track family pets. Owners will be forced to install the microchip containing a barcode that can store their pet's name, breed, age and health along with their own address and phone number. The barcode's details would then be stored on a national database which local councils could access in a bid to easily identify an owner’s pet. The new scheme, supported by the Tories and Labour, is designed to curb the trade in stolen dogs, prevent the use of animals...

This is funny...but could become very true under the Obama Czaristic Administration

A couple of days ago I discovered that when I clicked on MY PROFILE , somebody else's profile which hasn't been accessed in 4 year appears . There is no problem with my HOME page , and all my info / pic links / etc are still in EDIT PROFILE . I contacted MYSPACE but have not heard back from them as yet . Anybody got an idea as to what happened or what I can do about it ?

India is planning to provide its 1.1 billion-plus citizens with ID cards. Entrepreneur, Nandan Nilekani has been chosen to lead the ambitious project which will be the second largest citizens' database in a democracy, with China being the biggest. The government believes the scheme, which will be finalised over three years, will aid the delivery of vital social services to the poorest people who often lack sufficient identification papers. It also sees the scheme as a way to tackle increasing amounts of identity fraud and theft and, at a time of increased concern over the threat of militant violence, to...

Officers are targeting children as young as 10 with the aim of placing their DNA profiles on the national database to improve their chances of solving crimes, it is claimed. The alleged practice is also described as part of a "long-term crime prevention strategy" to dissuade youths from committing offences in the future. The claim comes amid widespread criticism of government proposals to store DNA profiles of innocent people, including some children, on the database for up to 12 years. Civil liberty campaigners have condemned the tactic of as "diabolical" and said it showed contempt for children's freedom. A Metropolitan...

DENVER — Area legislators hailed Thursday’s passage of Colorado’s version of Katie’s Law as a means of protecting the public and exonerating the innocent. “We created legislation that is going to save people’s lives,” Rep. Scott Tipton, R-Cortez said Thursday, just before Gov. Bill Ritter inked Senate Bill 241 into law. “I couldn’t be more pleased or excited to see the bill go through.” Tipton, with Rep. Steve King, R-Grand Junction and Sen. John Morse, D-Colorado Springs, sponsored the bill, which requires DNA samples from anyone arrested on suspicion of a felony. The law is named for Katie Sepich, a...

It is time for conservatives in South Carolina to begin seriously asking themselves whether or not we can continue to tolerate Senator Lindsey Graham's increasing betrayal of our values. The Senator is now an accomplice to an anti-gun bill gaining steam in the Congress. Senate bill S.391 would vastly expand the role of the government in our private lives and place our most personal medical information into a central, anti-gun database, preventing certain citizens from purchasing firearms based solely on their medical history. Thus, when your pediatrician asks your child about the firearms you keep in your home, beware if...

Government plans to track the correspondence of millions on social networking sites have been met with fierce criticism The private correspondence of millions of people who use social networking sites could be tracked and saved on a “big brother” database, under new plans being drawn up by the UK government. Ministers revealed yesterday that they were considering policing messages sent via sites such as MySpace and Facebook, alongside plans to store information about every phone call, e-mail and internet visit made by everyone in the United Kingdom. There was immediate uproar from opposition parties, privacy campaigners and security experts who...

Films and details of campaigners and journalists may breach Human Rights Act Shocking footage shot by police, accompanied by their own critical commentary, shows how their officers monitored campaigners and the media – and demanded personal information – at last August's climate camp demonstration in Kent Link to this videoPolice are targeting thousands of political campaigners in surveillance operations and storing their details on a database for at least seven years, an investigation by the Guardian can reveal. Photographs, names and video ­footage of people attending protests are ­routinely obtained by surveillance units and stored on an "intelligence system". The...

DNA samples taken from 1.1million children are being held on an ever expanding government database. The figures, revealed yesterday, show that 1.09million DNA profiles of people aged under 18 were held on the database with 337,000 under 16. The Metropolitan Police has added the largest number of profiles to the register including 117,000 boys and 33,000 girls. The new figures come as it was claimed ministers are sneaking sweeping powers to collect and retain more DNA samples. The Tories said the Government was attempting to give itself a 'blank cheque' to store swabs and fingerprints of criminals and those cleared...

This Global database is marked with a numbering system. Each RFID microchip has a 16 digit number on it that links it to the database. That is where the power to control everything on earth is located. The power is in the database. He who controls the database will control the world very soon... A spider web is being built around us right now. The Real ID is designed to be the main system to pull in the masses. December 31, 2009 is the date by which it becomes law. It's the point of the spear designed to pierce our...