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| U.S. Endorses Merging Telephone, Internet Numbers |
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| ascetic |
| 02/14/03 at 14:42:25 |
| What do you guys think of this: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=582&e=4&cid=582&u=/nm/20030213/wr_nm/tech_enum_dc IMHO, this is one more step towards implementing a police state. If this were enforced, tapping online activity will be as easy as tapping phone lines. So someone tapping in can easily follow which sites you visit, what emails you receive and so forth. A scary prospect indeed. [wlm] |
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| jannah |
| 02/15/03 at 01:14:45 |
| [wlm] bro Zahid, I have no doubts it's already being done. It's quite easy to track someone's online activity. From email, to chat, to anything else. Everything that you do online or on your computer can be tracked and watched. Believe me it's quite easy... the articles that talk about spyware and tracking etc are just talking about bringing it into the open, legal and business sphere... |
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| jannah |
| 02/17/03 at 14:31:08 |
| ELECTRONIC TRACKING SYSTEM MONITORS FOREIGN STUDENTS DIANA JEAN SCHEMO, New York Times, 2/17/03 http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/17/national/17STUD.html Mandated after terrorists first bombed the World Trade Center a decade ago and financed after they destroyed it, a vast new electronic tracking system became the central element on Saturday in the government's effort to keep tabs on nearly a million foreign students and scholars in this country. Through the system, the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System, or Sevis, schools, colleges and universities will send the federal government the names, addresses, courses and majors of foreign students, as well as information on any disciplinary actions against them. Institutions that the government has not yet certified to log on to the system may no longer enroll foreign students? For directors of international programs, it means a daunting new role as government watchdogs. They worry that mistakes in advising foreign students or entering data, which might never have been discovered under the old paper-based system, could have drastic consequences for students? Larry Bell, director of international students and scholars at the University of Colorado, got a first-hand look at this new world, after local immigration agents detained a half-dozen Iranian students in Colorado during special registration. One of those students, Yashar Zendehdel, had fallen below the minimum course load for a full-time student when he switched majors and dropped a course. The law allows foreign students to do that with university approval, but Mr. Bell said local immigration officials appeared unfamiliar with the law, and threatened to deport Mr. Zendehdel. "It's had a fairly chilling effect on students," Mr. Bell said. Far from home, they take care to follow the rules, he said. "Then they hear of students who did everything right and still get the book thrown at them," he said? Mr. Zendehdel said that, for him, American policy boiled down to his 40 hours with immigration agents he saw as intent on forcing him out of the country. While he once urged his brother, sister and friends to study in the United States, he said, he now advises them to go elsewhere. |
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| ascetic |
| 02/17/03 at 15:27:08 |
| [slm] This is very very unnerving. As it is, students coming directly from abroad are a little edgy because they experience culture shock on arrival. Hidden surveillance, reporting to the INS every year etc. will not help them feel any better. If this was the case when I first came to study here, I would seriously consider whether it is worth studying in the US. If the surveillance turns into harassment and students start going to the UK/Canada etc, then I think the ultimate loser will be the US because it will lose a lot of very bright students to these intimidating policies. [wlm] |
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