Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon’s Secret World
February 12th, 2009UPDATE: Contest Results The target was a picture of my ancient, tattered Audio Technica headphones sitting on the concrete floor. There were no direct hits, but 9 of 13 submissions had something to do with round things. For days, it looked like Evil Chopsticks was going to be the closest one, since he or she […]
The “Stimulous” Includes a National Electronic Healthcare Database
February 12th, 2009What are “meaningful users”? Via: Bloomberg: Republican Senators are questioning whether President Barack Obama’s stimulus bill contains the right mix of tax breaks and cash infusions to jump-start the economy. Tragically, no one from either party is objecting to the health provisions slipped in without discussion. These provisions reflect the handiwork of Tom Daschle, until […]
UK Environment Czar Looking at Limiting Holiday Trips to Save CO2
February 10th, 2009Escape the UK by any means necessary. Just flee, while you still can. Save up your fart credits, your collapsing pounds, get tracked, traced, scanned, probed and recorded—do whatever is necessary—and run for your life. Via: ATW Daily News: The UK’s so-called “environment czar” last week raised the possibility of rationing air travel, limiting UK […]
Secret Police Unit to Spy on British ‘Domestic Extremists’
February 9th, 2009This is a British Stasi force. Via: Mail on Sunday: A secret police intelligence unit has been set up to spy on Left-wing and Right-wing political groups. The Confidential Intelligence Unit (CIU) has the power to operate across the UK and will mount surveillance and run informers on ‘domestic extremists’. Its job is to build […]
And Now… The Terrorist White List
February 9th, 2009Via: Wired: The House overwhelmingly adopted legislation this week mandating the creation of a new kind of terrorist watchlist: a database of people who aren’t terrorists, but are routinely flagged at airports anyway. The U.S. government maintains a list of about a million names of suspected terrorists that is crosschecked with passenger names ahead of […]
New Database Will Store Details for All 250 Million Passenger Movements In and Out of the UK Each Year
February 8th, 2009Via: Times: THE government is building a secret database to track and hold the international travel records of all 60m Britons. The intelligence centre will store names, addresses, telephone numbers, seat reservations, travel itineraries and credit card details for all 250m passenger movements in and out of the UK each year. The computerised pattern of […]
House of Lords Report on British Surveillance State
February 7th, 2009Via: Guardian: The House of Lords report on Britain’s surveillance society is a devastating analysis of the systems that have been installed by the authoritarian Labour government and the controlling forces emerging in local government. There is no question now that Britain’s free society is under threat, and it is time for the public and […]
And Now… Google Offers Service to Track People via Their Mobile Phones
February 4th, 2009The surveillance side of this is the chickenfeed. There’s something far more sinister than the simple surveillance… an angle we haven’t heard about yet. Tice never did tell his story to Congress about this different aspect of the program. Well, my guess is that it has something to do with providing surveillance data for this […]
War Driving San Francisco Cloning RFID Passports
February 2nd, 2009Via: Engadget: Chris Paget just did you a service by hacking your passport and stealing your identity. Using a $250 Motorola RFID reader and antenna connected to his laptop, Chris recently drove around San Francisco reading RFID tags from passports, driver licenses, and other identity documents. In just 20 minutes, he found and cloned the […]
When You Watch These Ads, They Watch You
January 31st, 2009Via: AP: Watch an advertisement on a video screen in a mall, health club or grocery store and there’s a slim — but growing — chance the ad is watching you too. Small cameras can now be embedded in the screen or hidden around it, tracking who looks at the screen and for how long. […]
