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Controversial: Florida School District Scanned Students’ Irises Without Parents’ Permission, Outrage Ensues (video)

| June 17, 2013

  This is straight out of a futuristic horror movie… a Florida school district has apologized after hundreds of elementary school children had their irises scanned without parents’ permission. News stories about high-tech invasion of privacy through facets of our government are becoming more frequent and alarming. From Fox News, Report: School district scanned children’s [...]

Obama’s FCC Program: AT&T to Issue Wireless Emergency Alerts from Pres. Obama That Can’t Be Turned Off

| June 16, 2013

  If you thought it was invasive and disturbing that Verizon has given the federal government millions of cell phone records, outrageous that the NSA is using PRISM software to collect data from millions of Americans using Google, Yahoo, Facebook, and more, and that it’s downright creepy that Verizon’s DVR patent permits listening in on [...]

Happy Father’s Day! Interactive Google Father’s Day Animated Doodle Honors Dads Today (video)

| June 16, 2013

“You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s.” ~ Robert Frost For fathers and father figures around the world, Google has created a clever, amusing interactive Father’s Day doodle in their honor. By clicking the pop up letter “O” in today’s fathers-themed logo, an animated picture match-up show of [...]

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