US anti-terror act sparks credit card cutoff in distant Marshall Islands
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Tourists and residents were unable to use their credit cards at many businesses in the Marshall Islands after links between the central Pacific nation's main bank and a key partner bank were cut because of the US Patriot Act.
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Complaints that poor and expensive communications in the Marshall Islands are holding back development have prompted a push to break up the government&#39;s telecommunications monopoly.
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If you're among the millions of Americans who took airline flights in the months before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the FBI probably knows about it &#151; and possibly where you stayed, whom you traveled with, what credit card you used and even whether you ordered a kosher meal.
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia  - A key U.S.  anti-terrorism law threatens the privacy of Canadians and  rigorous steps are needed to protect private medical and  financial information, a government study said on Friday.
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A US judge on Thursday struck down a law allowing federal anti-terrorism agents to access financial, telephone and Internet records without a warrant.
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Hilton hotels in Indonesia ratcheted up security on Thursday but said they were seeing few cancellations amid warnings from Western governments that one of their chain could be attacked by militants.
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Former paramilitaries have been threatened with deportation from the United States since new anti-terrorism laws were introduced after Sept. 11, 2001.
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A senior Bush administration official on Tuesday played down claims by rights activists that the federal government assigns terror risk scores to millions of people who enter or leave the United States.
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A provision buried deep in the defense authorization bill passed by Congress this week could release hundreds of millions of dollars now beyond the reach of victims of terrorist attacks struggling to collect damages from foreign governments. But experts say it also may undermine one of the...
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The bill is part of a measure aimed at curbing what some consumer advocates say are deceptive lending practices aimed at people with low incomes or poor credit histories.
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A new RFID-chipped passport card that can be read up to 30 feet away -- and on which the data's not encrypted -- has drawn censure from the Centers for Democracy and Technology, which foresees covert location tracking and an increase in ID theft on the horizon. (If you filed an objection to this program already, by the way, the government says you just don't understand it.)
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Most U.S. visitors are not fully screened for terrorist or criminal ties, according to a Justice Department watchdog. The reason: Bush administration agency infighting over such things as how many fingers to print.
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(InfoWorld) - The U.S. Secret Service has cracked down on an international ID theft ring that is responsible for more than $14 million in fraud losses, the agency said Monday. On June 12, French National Police arrested four on online fraud charges, acting on information provided by the Secret Service, the agency said in a statement. The arrests were part of an undercover investigation into the activities of an online criminal known by the alias, "Lord Kaisersose," who is "associated with Internet sites known for identity theft and financial fraud activities," the Secret Service said. Investigators found more than 28,000 stolen credit- and bank-card numbers as a result of this operation, the Secret Service said. "Fraud losses associated with this investigation have exceeded $14 million," the Secret Service said. At the same time the Secret Service, working with local authorities, closed down an illegal credit card-selling activity based out of Canada and France. This action, called Operation Hard Drive, led to the arrest of two suspects, who are allegedly behind more than $1 million in credit card fraud. French police arrested an unnamed man, who went by the alias THEEEEL on credit card-selling Web sites, on charges relating to ID theft. The second man, Nicholas Joehle, of Calgary, Alberta is alleged to have sold fake credit card readers, known as "skimmers" over the Internet. These devices are often illegally used by employees at legitimate businesses that accept credit cards and are becoming a growing problem in the U.S. Calgary Police recovered 100 such skimmers, a skimmer-making lab, and $30,000 in U.S. and Canadian currency, the Secret Service said.
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Cash couriers and more sophisticated  international counterfeiting are emerging issues in the  struggle to cut sources of funds for terror groups and others,  a U.S. official said Wednesday.
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Radical Islamic cells in Europe are using an ingenious way to finance terror networks that's virtually impossible to trace: withdrawing hundreds of thousands of dollars a month from cash machines with fake credit cards, according to France's top anti-terrorism judge.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia The US is one of several western nations issuing terror warnings for Indonesia during the holiday season. Australia says it has &quot;credible information&quot; militants could target the Hilton Hotel chain in Indonesia.
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US lawmakers have introduced legislation that would implement recommendations of a bipartisan federal commission aimed at preventing another terrorist attack on the United States.