Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano “Opts Out” of X-Ray Scan
October 23rd, 2010Via: New York Daily News: Airline passengers might want to consider a trip to the gym before heading to the airport now that high-tech body scanners have been unveiled at Kennedy Airport. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano yesterday hailed them as an important breakthrough for airport security and the fight against terrorism. Yet […]
DHS Will Work with NSA and Military in Carrying Out Domestic Cyberwar Operations
October 21st, 2010Via: New York Times: The Obama administration has adopted new procedures for using the Defense Department’s vast array of cyberwarfare capabilities in case of an attack on vital computer networks inside the United States, delicately navigating historic rules that restrict military action on American soil. The system would mirror that used when the military is […]
Britain Revives Surveillance Plan, Making Service Providers Responsible for Data Retention
October 21st, 2010Via: Telegraph: Every email, phone call and website visit is to be recorded and stored after the Coalition Government revived controversial Big Brother snooping plans. It will allow security services and the police to spy on the activities of every Briton who uses a phone or the internet. Moves to make every communications provider store […]
NSA’s Newest Recruiters: Cartoon-Leopard Twins
October 20th, 2010Via: Wired: Dudes and dudettes: You know what’s totally radical? Reading your neighbors’ e-mail! So don’t you wanna be a junior National Security Agency deputy? If so, the surveillance and cryptology crew at NSA has the right online companions for you: Cy and Cyndi, a pair of anthropomorphic snow leopards now kickin’ it with the […]
Robotic Privacy Curtain
October 20th, 2010*har*
Satellites Spot 3 Miles of NATO Supply Trucks Bottlenecked in Pakistan
October 18th, 2010Via: Wired: Pakistan’s 10-day blockade against NATO convoys has ended, but a new video released by a commercial satellite company shows just how massive the consequences were: a sprawling, three-mile bottleneck of oil tankers and supply trucks, some parked in a dry riverbed, waiting to cross the Torkham border pass into Afghanistan.
Pilot to TSA: ‘No Groping Me and No Naked Photos’
October 18th, 2010Via: Lew Rockwell: Pilot to TSA: ‘No Groping Me and No Naked Photos’ by Michael Roberts October 15, 2010 – My name is Michael Roberts, and I am a pilot for ExpressJet Airlines, Inc., based in Houston (that is, I still am for the time being). This morning as I attempted to pass through the […]
Department of Homeland Security’s “Social Networking Monitoring Center”
October 14th, 2010Via: EFF: Narcissistic tendencies in many people fuels a need to have a large group of “friends” link to their pages and many of these people accept cyber-friends that they don’t even know. This provides an excellent vantage point for FDNS to observe the daily life of beneficiaries and petitioners who are suspected of fraudulent […]
Canada: Secret Cold War Plan Included Mass Detentions
October 14th, 2010Via: CBC: At the height of the Cold War, the Canadian government crafted a top-secret plan to detain thousands of citizens with Communist links in the event of a national security threat, according to a joint CBC/Radio-Canada investigation. The secret contingency plan, called PROFUNC, allowed police to round up and indefinitely detain Canadians believed to […]
Increasing Use of RFID Tracking for Students
October 12th, 2010Can we get these kids some breakfast sticks? Via: Houston Chronicle: Radio frequency identification — the same technology used to monitor cattle — is tracking students in the Spring and Santa Fe school districts. Identification badges for some students in both school districts now include tracking devices that allow campus administrators to keep tabs on […]
