Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
The Homegrown Terrorists Are Coming
September 11th, 2010In other news: Mossad Impersonating U.S. Intelligence Operatives and Trying to Recruit Arab Americans. Via: McClatchy: The United States faces a more homegrown, hard-to-predict terrorist threat today than it did nine years ago, and the U.S. government isn’t well-equipped to understand it, an expert panel said Friday. Terrorism today is more likely to come as […]
California Students Get Tracking Devices
August 31st, 2010Make sure that the little zombies-in-training get a breakfast stick or two to start the day off right. *sigh* Similar: In-School Suspension Program Via: San Jose Mercury News / AP: California officials are outfitting preschoolers in Contra Costa County with tracking devices they say will save staff time and money. The system was introduced Tuesday. […]
Full-Body Scan Technology Deployed In Street-Roving Vans
August 26th, 2010Via: Forbes: As the privacy controversy around full-body security scans begins to simmer, it’s worth noting that courthouses and airport security checkpoints aren’t the only places where backscatter x-ray vision is being deployed. The same technology, capable of seeing through clothes and walls, has also been rolling out on U.S. streets.
The U.S. Government Can Attach GPS Transmitter to Your Vehicle, Track Your Movement; No Warrant Necessary
August 26th, 2010Absolute maniac fascism. Via: Time: 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 […]
U.S. Scans Afghan Inmates for Biometric Database
August 25th, 2010Via: Wired: Every detainee who comes into Parwan leaves basic information with the Detainee Services Branch during in-processing: Name; father’s name; residence. A mark of any identifying scars, marks or tattoos. Residence of record. After a shower and a medical exam, the DSB scans their irises and collects prints from all of their fingers, rolling […]
U.S. Military’s Top Secret X-37B Shuttle ‘Disappears’ for Two Weeks, Changes Orbit
August 25th, 2010Realtime track of X-37B. Via: news.com.au: AMATEUR astronomers are enjoying a cat-and-mouse game with the US military in keeping track of its secret space plane, the X-37B. The X-37B was launched in April amid much publicity, but scant detail about its true use. Built by Boeing’s Phantom Works division, the X-37B program was originally headed […]
Murdered British Spy Found Stuffed Into Sports Bag in Bath of London Flat
August 25th, 2010Real Headline: MI6 Codebreaker Gareth Williams ‘Probably Locked Himself Into Sports Bag’ Mmm hmm. Sure. It’s incredible what someone might get up to inside a gym bag… inside an MI6 safehouse. Via: Telegraph: MI6 codebreaker Gareth Williams probably locked himself into the sports bag where his naked body was found and was not the victim […]
Steve Jobs Is Watching You: Apple Seeking to Patent Spyware
August 24th, 2010Via: Electronic Frontier Foundation: It looks like Apple, Inc., is exploring a new business opportunity: spyware and what we’re calling “traitorware.” While users were celebrating the new jailbreaking and unlocking exemptions, Apple was quietly preparing to apply for a patent on technology that, among other things, would allow Apple to identify and punish users who […]
Germany to Roll Out ID cards with Embedded RFID; They Will Also Be Used for Establishing Identity Online
August 23rd, 2010Via: International Business Times: The production of the RFID chips, an integral element of the new generation of German identity cards, has started after the government gave a 10 year contract to the chipmaker NXP in the Netherlands. Citizens will receive the mandatory new ID cards from the first of November. The new ID card […]
Frederick Forsyth Claims NSA Wrecked Wife’s Computer by Remote
August 22nd, 2010I’d like to know more about what happened to her computer. Via: BBC: Frederick Forsyth, bestselling author of thrillers like The Day of the Jackal and The Dogs of War, was in the West African state of Guinea-Bissau last year when the president was assassinated. His presence there, he now believes, led suspicious US intelligence […]
