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 [...]
Germany to roll out ID cards with embedded RFID
The card will also have extended functionality, including the ability to enable citizens to identify themselves in the internet by using the ID card with a reading device at home. After registering an online account bonded to the ID card, are able to do secure online shopping, downloading music and most importantly interact with government [...]
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 [...]
Full-body scans of passengers to start at Sea-Tac in September
Carol Pucci | Seattle Times.com Sea-Tac International Airport passengers will soon begin undergoing full-body scans as the federal government installs equipment that will help identify terrorist threats but poses concerns about privacy, health risks and longer waits in security lines. The first advanced-imaging technology (AIT) units should be installed at security checkpoints in mid- to [...]
Google Alarm for Firefox Screams Every Time Google Spies You
Jesus Diaz | Gizmodo.com Not many people are aware about how many times Google collects personal browsing data whenever you visit a web page. If you have Firefox, now you can install Google Alarm and make this fact painfully and annoyingly clear. The Google Alarm Firefox add-on will scream and show an alert every time [...]
Smart dust’ aims to monitor everything
John Sutter | CNN.com In the 1990s, a researcher named Kris Pister dreamed up a wild future in which people would sprinkle the Earth with countless tiny sensors, no larger than grains of rice. These “smart dust” particles, as he called them, would monitor everything, acting like electronic nerve endings for the planet. Fitted with [...]
Exposed: Naked Body Scanner Images Of Film Star Printed, Circulated By Airport Staff
Paul Joseph Watson | PrisonPlanet.com Claims on behalf of authorities that naked body scanner images are immediately destroyed after passengers pass through new x-ray backscatter devices have been proven fraudulent after it was revealed that naked images of Indian film star Shahrukh Khan were printed out and circulated by airport staff at Heathrow in London. UK [...]
Google to enlist NSA to help it ward off cyberattacks
Ellen Nakashima | WashingtonPost.com The world’s largest Internet search company and the world’s most powerful electronic surveillance organization are teaming up in the name of cybersecurity. Under an agreement that is still being finalized, the National Security Agency would help Google analyze a major corporate espionage attack that the firm said originated in China and [...]
Microsoft’s Police State Vision? Exec Calls for Internet “Driver’s Licenses”
Posted at InterestingPeople.net Begin forwarded message: From: Lauren Weinstein Date: February 1, 2010 7:11:50 PM EST To: dave@farber.net Subject: Microsoft’s Police State Vision? Exec Calls for Internet “Driver’s Licenses” Microsoft’s Police State Vision? Exec Calls for Internet “Driver’s Licenses” http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000676.html Greetings. About a week ago, in “Google and the Battle for the Soul of the Internet” [...]
Pirate Party protests ‘naked’ scanners in their underpants
TheLocal.de Despite the frigid temperatures outside, the protesters assembled nearly naked groups at airports in Berlin, Frankfurt and Düsseldorf on Sunday afternoon. The participants stripped down to their underpants, marching behinds signs that read: “No need to scan us – we’re already naked.” A statement on the party’s website said they opposed the new [...]
NSA Supercenters to Store Americans’ Private Data Permanently
Thomas Eddlam |NewAmerican.com The National Security Agency is building huge new storage facilities to store the unconstitutionally gained data on the American people’s telephone calls and Internet traffic permanently, including new buildings in suburban Salt Lake City, Utah, and San Antonio, Texas. The NSA has been keeping permanent records of all American’s telephone call habits and [...]
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 [...]
Britain To Put CCTV Cameras Inside Private Homes
Charlie Sorrel | Wired.com As an ex-Brit, I’m well aware of the authorities’ love of surveillance and snooping, but even I, a pessimistic cynic, am amazed by the governments latest plan: to install Orwell’s telescreens in 20,000 homes. £400 million ($668 million) will be spend on installing and monitoring CCTV cameras in the homes of [...]
Enviornmental Police in NYC
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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 [...]
Want A Job? Hand Over Your E-Mail Login
Bozeman, Montana Tells Applicants To Provide Facebook, Google “Usernames And Passwords,” Which Some Find A Bit Too Invasive Declan McCullagh | CBSNews.com If you’re planning to apply for a job with the city of Bozeman, Montana, be prepared to hand over much more than your references and résumé. The Rocky Mountain city instructs all job [...]
Wisconsin court upholds GPS tracking by police
Ryan Foley | ChicagoTribune.com Wisconsin police can attach GPS to cars to secretly track anybody’s movements without obtaining search warrants, an appeals court ruled Thursday. However, the District 4 Court of Appeals said it was “more than a little troubled” by that conclusion and asked Wisconsin lawmakers to regulate GPS use to protect against abuse [...]
