Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
Britain: A Request to Snoop on Public Every 60 Seconds
August 10th, 2009Via: Telegraph: Councils, police and other public bodies are seeking access to people’s private telephone and email records almost 1,400 times a day, new figures have disclosed. The authorities made more than 500,000 requests for confidential communications data last year, equivalent to spying on one in every 78 adults, leading to claims that Britain had […]
All Cars Would Carry GPS to Track Miles Under Blumenauer Bill
August 9th, 2009Via: Daily Emerald: On July 23, Oregon Rep. Earl Blumenauer introduced legislation that would fund a pilot program demonstrating the potential viability of replacing a national gas tax with a national mileage fee to generate more money for the construction of highways. Opponents say the mileage fee would increase taxes, but Blumenauer said the increase […]
Texas: NSA’s New Data-Mining Facility in San Antonio
August 6th, 2009Can you hear me now? Via: Current: Surrounded by barbwire fencing, the anonymous yet massive building on West Military Drive near San Antonio’s Loop 410 freeway looms mysteriously with no identifying signs of any kind. Surveillance is tight, with security cameras surrounding the under-construction building. Readers are advised not to take any photos unless you […]
British Government Installing CCTV Cameras Inside Private Homes
August 3rd, 2009Via: Wired: 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 private citizens. […]
UK’s (Voluntary for Now) National ID Card Unveiled
July 30th, 2009Via: BBC: Home Secretary Alan Johnson has unveiled the final design of the controversial national identity card. The card will be offered to members of the public in the Greater Manchester area from the end of this year. Ministers plan to launch the £30 biometric ID card nationwide in 2011 or 2012 – but it […]
NSA Using Cloud Model for Intelligence Sharing; Open Source Software; Commodity Hardware
July 22nd, 2009Whooooo weeeee, a lot of bozos are going to draw salary for years off of this boondoggle. (Assuming the whole damn show doesn’t go up in flames before then.) Via: Information Week: The National Security Agency is taking a cloud computing approach in developing a new collaborative intelligence gathering system that will link disparate intelligence […]
The NSA Wiretapping Story Nobody Wanted
July 18th, 2009Full text backup below. Via: ComputerWorld: The NSA Wiretapping Story Nobody Wanted Whistleblower Mark Klein tells in his new book of how he was ignored. He spoke with IDG News. By Robert McMillan July 17, 2009 07:35 PM ET They sometimes call national security the third rail of politics. Touch it and, politically, you’re dead. […]
Health Care Bill Will Fund State Vaccine Teams to Conduct ‘Interventions’ in Private Homes
July 16th, 2009Via: CNSNews: There is a knock at the front door. Peeking through the window, a mother sees a man and a woman, both in uniform. They are agents of health-care reform. “Excuse me, ma’am,” says the man. “Our records show that your eleven-year-old daughter has not been immunized for genital warts.” “And your four-year-old still […]
India to Issue all 1.2 Billion Citizens with Biometric ID Cards
July 15th, 2009Via: Times Online: It is surely the biggest Big Brother project yet conceived. India is to issue each of its 1.2 billion citizens, millions of whom live in remote villages and possess no documentary proof of existence, with cyber-age biometric identity cards. The Government in Delhi recently created the Unique Identification Authority, a new state […]
Why the NSA-Twitter Rumor Is Dumb
July 15th, 2009The NSA wouldn’t have to ask Twitter for permission to install a dump feed because NSA already has it. It’s very safe to assume that NSA is already splitting everything off from NTT/Verio, Twitter’s hosting provider. In other words, the NSA had the capability in place long before Twitter was even a glimmer. There’s no […]
