The Government’s New Right to Track Your Every Move With GPS
Adam Cohen | Time.com Government agents can sneak onto your property in the middle of the night, put a GPS device on the bottom of your car and keep track of everywhere you go. This doesn’t violate your Fourth Amendment rights, because you do not have any reasonable expectation of privacy in your own driveway [...]
Report Calls for “Infiltration” of 9/11 Sites
911blogger.com A new report released by a think tank called Demos warns of the hazardous effects of conspiracy theories on society and recommends strategies for governments to mitigate these effects, including the infiltration of websites. The report, called The Power of Unreason: Conspiracy Theories, Extremism and Counterterrorism, says “most notoriously and influentially, the ‘9/11 truth [...]
4th Amendment Violating Mobile X-Ray Scanners Hit The Streets
Paul Joseph Watson | PrisonPlanet.com As we warned at the beginning of the year, X-ray body scanners currently being used and abused in airports across the world are set to hit the streets as American Science & Engineering reveals that “more than 500 backscatter x-ray scanners mounted in vans that can be driven past neighboring vehicles [...]
Obama White House To Harvest Personal Data From Social Networking Websites
Ken Bohem | NLPC.org NLPC has uncovered a plan by the White House New Media operation to hire a technology vendor to conduct a massive, secret effort to harvest personal information on millions of Americans from social networking websites. The information to be captured includes comments, tag lines, emails, audio, and video. The targeted sites [...]
The NSA Wiretapping Story That Nobody Wanted
Robert McMillan | PCWorld.com They sometimes call national security the third rail of politics. Touch it and, politically, you’re dead. The cliché doesn’t seem far off the mark after reading Mark Klein’s new book, “Wiring up the Big Brother Machine … and Fighting It.” It’s an account of his experiences as the whistleblower who exposed a secret room [...]
Tiburon may install license plate cameras
Demian Bulwa | SFGate.comWelcome to Tiburon.Click.Your presence has been noted.The posh and picturesque town that juts into San Francisco Bay is poised to do something unprecedented: use cameras to record the license plate number of every vehicle that crosses city limits.Some residents describe the plan as a commonsense way to thwart thieves, most of whom [...]
Obama goes to bat for Bush wiretap program
Bob Egelko | SFGate.com President Obama is adamant about maintaining the secrecy of a wiretapping program authorized by George W. Bush, an administration lawyer told a federal judge in San Francisco on Wednesday. Obama “does not intend to use the state-secrets privilege to cover up illegal activities,” said Justice Department attorney Anthony Coppolino. But in [...]
Following Bush lead, Obama moves to block challenge to wiretapping program
John Byrne | RawStory.com The Obama Administration’s full motion to dismiss can be read here (PDF). President Barack Obama invoked “state secrets” to prevent a court from reviewing the legality of the National Security Agency’s warantless wiretapping program, moving late Friday to have a lawsuit that challenged the program dismissed. The move — which holds that information [...]
Obama administration defends telecom immunity
Rachel Oswald | RawStory.com The Obama Justice Department continues to stand behind a Bush era law meant to prevent lawsuits against telecommunications companies accused of illegally sharing private customer information with intelligence agencies. In a brief filed late Wednesday obtained by Raw Story, the Department of Justice provided its views to Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn [...]
Napolitano debates Real ID
*Looks like we will find ourselves the center of attention as much of the REAL ID ACT has gotten a facelift with the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative program.* Audrey Hudson | Washington Times As governor of Arizona, Janet Napolitanowas no fan of the Real ID program that sets federal standards for state-issued driver’s licenses which will be [...]
Bill proposes ISPs, Wi-Fi keep logs for police
Declan McCullagh |CNet.com Republican politicians on Thursday called for a sweeping new federal law that would require all Internet providers and operators of millions of Wi-Fi access points, even hotels, local coffee shops, and home users, to keep records about users for two years to aid police investigations. The legislation, which echoes a measure proposed by one [...]
NSA even collected credit card records
On Wednesday night, when former NSA analyst Russell Tice told MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann that the Bush administration’s National Security Agency spied on everyone in the United States, specifically targeting journalists, the Countdown host was so flabbergasted that Tice was invited back for a second interview. On Thursday, he returned to the airwaves with expanded allegations [...]
Whistleblower: NSA spied on everyone, targeted journalists
David Edwards & Muriel Cane | RawStory.com Former National Security Agency analyst Russell Tice, who helped expose the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping in December 2005, has now come forward with even more startling allegations. Tice told MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann on Wednesday that the programs that spied on Americans were not only much broader than previously acknowledged [...]
Air Force Creates “Counter Blog” Response Plan To Quell Online Dissent
Steve Watson | InfoWars.com The US Air Force has announced a “counter-blog” response plan aimed at fielding and reacting to material from bloggers who have “negative opinions about the US government and the Air Force.” The plan, created by the public affairs arm of the Air Force, includes a detailed twelve-point “counter blogging” flow-chart that dictates [...]
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Obama’s Black Widow
Nat Hentoff | VillageVoice.com Thanks to Bush and Obama, the National Security Agency now knows more about you. Barack Obama will be in charge of the biggest domestic and international spying operation in history. Its prime engine is the National Security Agency (NSA)—located and guarded at Fort Meade, Maryland, about 10 miles northeast of Washington, D.C. [...]
Homeland Security Detects Terrorist Threats by Reading Your Mind
Allison Barrie | FoxNews.com Click here for an exclusive look at MALINTENT in action. Baggage searches are SOOOOOO early-21st century. Homeland Security is now testing the next generation of security screening — a body scanner that can read your mind. Most preventive screening looks for explosives or metals that pose a threat. But a new [...]
Conflict Over Spying Led White House to Brink
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Cops Need Warrant for Cellphone Location Data, Judge Rules
WIRED By Ryan Singel September 11, 2008 The government cannot force your cellphone provider to turn over stored records about your location without proving to a judge there is probable cause you have violated the law, a federal district court ruled Wednesday. The ruling (.pdf) from Judge Terrence McVerry of the Western Pennsylvania U.S. [...]
Schoolchildren recruited by councils to spy on neighbours who commit ‘environmental crimes’
By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 2:12 PM on 06th September 2008 United Kingdom – Army of spies: Children are being trained by councils to report neighbours who drop litter or commit ‘bin crimes’ Children are being offered money by councils to spy on neighbours and report petty offences such as ‘bin crimes’ and [...]
