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Civil liberties groups from both sides of the Atlantic have joined forces to oppose the proposed introduction and cross-border sharing of biometrics and RFID in more than one billion passports worldwide.
Civil liberties organisation Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) has dismissed a proposal to restrict access to Internet accounts to those that can satisfy a 100 point identity check as "ludicrous".
US vice presidential candidate Joe Biden has a mixed record on technology, spending most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders. His anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP.
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