Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry
February 28th, 2013It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that this amounts to a “nothing-to-see-here” assessment of what is happening. Consider what William Binney and Mark Klein have said and written, and what NSA is building, and then tell me if you believe that only three dozen people have access to the domestic intercepts. Come on. […]
PBS NOVA Rise of the Drones
February 24th, 2013Via: PBS: Related: Drone ‘Nightmare Scenario’ Now Has A Name: ARGUS
The Drones Come Home
February 20th, 2013Via: National Geographic: What Jay Stanley of the ACLU calls his “nightmare scenario” begins with drones supporting “mostly unobjectionable” police raids and chases. Soon, however, networks of linked drones and computers “gain the ability to automatically track multiple vehicles and bodies as they move around a city,” much as the cell phone network hands calls […]
DARPA’s Active Authentication Program
February 18th, 2013Via: Foreign Policy: The Active Authentication program is aimed at verifying your identity based on your online behavior instead of an easily guessed or stolen password. “The program focuses on the development of new types of behavioral biometrics focused on the user’s cognitive processes,” Richard Guidorizzi, DARPA program manager, explained in an email to Killer […]
Drones Are Taking to the Skies in the U.S.
February 18th, 2013Via: Los Angeles Times: While a national debate has erupted over the Obama administration’s lethal drone strikes overseas, federal authorities have stepped up efforts to license surveillance drones for law enforcement and other uses in U.S. airspace, spurring growing concern about violations of privacy. The Federal Aviation Administration said Friday it had issued 1,428 permits […]
Intel’s New TV Box Watches You
February 14th, 2013Via: Register: Intel has confirmed it will be selling a set-top box direct to the public later this year, along with a streaming TV service designed to watch you while you’re watching it. … Huggers points out that the camera will have a physical shutter on the front, which can be closed, and that having […]
Pentagon Inks Deal for Smartphone Tool That Scans Your Face, Eyes, Thumbs
February 14th, 2013In other words, expect cops to be be using this on Americans. Via: Wired: In a few years, the soldier, marine or special operator out on patrol might be able to record the facial features or iris signature of a suspicious person all from his or her smartphone — and at a distance, too. The […]
Obama Signs Cybersecurity Executive Order
February 14th, 2013Via: ZDnet: President Obama signed an executive order aimed at bolstering U.S. cybersecurity prior to tonight’s State of the Union address. The Order precedes a House Homeland Security Committee hearing on “new threats.” It is the government’s latest move in attempting to deal with cyber threats, and the order has not undergone any public technical, […]
Raytheon’s Graphical Object Browser for Tracking People Over Social Networks
February 11th, 2013Via: Guardian: A multinational security firm has secretly developed software capable of tracking people’s movements and predicting future behaviour by mining data from social networking websites. A video obtained by the Guardian reveals how an “extreme-scale analytics” system created by Raytheon, the world’s fifth largest defence contractor, can gather vast amounts of information about people […]
DHS May Seize Electronic Devices from Americans Up to 100 Miles Inland from U.S. Borders
February 9th, 2013Via: Wired: The Department of Homeland Security’s civil rights watchdog has concluded that travelers along the nation’s borders may have their electronics seized and the contents of those devices examined for any reason whatsoever — all in the name of national security. The DHS, which secures the nation’s border, in 2009 announced that it would […]
