Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
Humans ‘Will be Implanted with Microchips’
January 31st, 2009Via: NineMSN: All Australians could be implanted with microchips for tracking and identification within the next two or three generations, a prominent academic says. Michael G Michael from the University of Wollongong’s School of Information Systems and Technology, has coined the term “uberveillance” to describe the emerging trend of all-encompassing surveillance. “Uberveillance is not on […]
UK Education Authorities: Homeschooling Could be a Cover for Abuse
January 25th, 2009Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher’s Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling by John Taylor Gatto (UK): John Taylor Gatto’s Weapons of Mass Instruction focuses on mechanisms of familiar schooling that cripple imagination, discourage critical thinking, and create a false view of learning as a by-product of rote-memorization drills. Gatto’s earlier book, Dumbing […]
Obama Sides With Bush in Spy Case
January 25th, 2009Via: Wired: The Obama administration fell in line with the Bush administration Thursday when it urged a federal judge to set aside a ruling in a closely watched spy case weighing whether a U.S. president may bypass Congress and establish a program of eavesdropping on Americans without warrants. In a filing in San Francisco federal […]
Tice: Wiretaps Were Combined with Credit Card Records of U.S. Citizens
January 24th, 2009See MAIN CORE: The U.S. Government has, almost certainly, established a database and tracking system for something like eight million Americans who have been designated as threats to national security. The system is called MAIN CORE and it is being run under the auspices of highly classified Continuity of Government (COG) operations. MAIN CORE uses […]
Intelligence Agencies’ Databases Set to Be Linked
January 23rd, 2009Heterogeneous data structures. Spread out all over the place. HAHA. The article makes it sound like it’s actually going to work. I suppose anything is possible with enough billions of dollars. I’ve seen some hilarious nonsense on IT projects in my day, but nothing like the antics in .gov/.mil circles. And if you’ve spent any […]
Whistleblower: NSA Spied on Everyone, Targeted Journalists
January 22nd, 2009Via: Rawstory: Former National Security Agency analyst Russell Tice, who helped expose the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping in December 2005, has now come forward with even more startling allegations. Tice told MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann on Wednesday that the programs that spied on Americans were not only much broader than previously acknowledged but specifically targeted journalists. “The […]
Throw Your Hard Drive Away, Google’s Gdrive Arriving in 2009
January 21st, 2009Oh sure. Via: TG Daily: Gdrive is basically online storage where Google servers have enough capacity to hold the entire contents of your hard drive. It will likely also come with enough brains to do cool tricks now with bigger things down the road – like booting your computer from online drive to load the […]
Obama to Defend Telco Spy Immunity
January 20th, 2009Via: Wired: The incoming Obama administration will vigorously defend congressional legislation immunizing U.S. telecommunication companies from lawsuits about their participation in the Bush administration’s domestic spy program. That was the assessment Thursday by Eric Holder, President-elect Barack Obama’s choice for attorney general, who made the statement during his confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee. […]
UK: Face Scanners to be Installed in Schools
January 10th, 2009Via: Telegraph: Schools could be fitted with futuristic face scanners which screen pupils’ faces with an invisible infra-red light as they attempt to enter the building to keep out strangers. The system, which is being trialled in a UK school next week, can also be used to allow children to take out library books and […]
Coming Soon to Cellphones: Free, Over-the-Air TV
January 8th, 2009I have obtained pre-release footage of the new system in operation: Via: USA Today: Millions of consumers by year’s end should be able to watch free, over-the-air television on cellphones, PDAs and other portable digital devices as the result of initiatives that will be unveiled today by some of the nation’s largest TV station owners […]
