Be prepared if a customs official seizes your PC at the airport
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A lawsuit filed last week over warrantless searches of […]
Your Globalnomads editorial team have been reading with much interest the scandalous news from the Principality of Liechtenstein.
The German government have admitted paying “up to five million euros” for information stolen in 2002 from LGT Treuhand in Liechtenstein. LGT Treuhand is associated with LGT Bank, the chairman of which is Prince Philipp of Liechtenstein. LGT […]
Now here’s some pure, wholesome entertainment for you. Vera Verba, a Chicago publishing house most famous for publishing one of our favourite books A Lodging of Wayfaring Men, has just released their Conspiracy Hunt 2007.
By way of introduction, they permitted us to reproduce for our readers the introduction, which we think makes a lot of […]
In an alarming piece PopSci.com writer Catherine Price reports her attempts in (re-)establishing citizen privacy for a single week in California, which is, after all, the United States’ nation leader in privacy protection. Unsurprisingly, her experiment patently didn’t pan out. Next time you read another lukewarm headline of the “Are we heading towards an Orwellian state” ilk in the mainstream media, permit yourself a ghastly chuckle or three - no way we’re heading there: It’s arrived years ago and hardly anyone has bothered to take notice.
More anti-freedom news from the US today, and a great reason to use only pre-paid, anonymous phone service, as Global Nomads has alwars recommended.
After more than a year of heated political wrangling, the Senate handed the White House a major victory Tuesday by voting to broaden the government’s spy powers after giving legal protection to […]
“High taxes don’t redistribute wealth, they redistribute taxpayers.”
That’s what one of our friends said in reaction to the latest controversy surrounding the British government’s plan to introduce a new tax for resident but non-domiciled foreigners, a.k.a. tax exiles who use the UK as their business base almost tax free. (The UK is a great offshore […]
Mr Akhtar, from Yardley, Birmingham, said: “We have never been accused of taking personal information about individuals from the DNA database. What we are accused of is taking the database itself, not the information.”
Here’s what can happen when we mistakenly trust the bureaucrats with confidential information. And a good reason why you should be thinking […]
