Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
UK: People who fail to tell the authorities of a change of address or amend other key personal details within three months will face fines of up to £1,000 per offense
November 25th, 2008Madness. Or comedy gold? The crazed fascist nature of this is over the top, but the sections that pertain to transgendered and homeless people are priceless. Via: Guardian: People who fail to tell the authorities of a change of address or amend other key personal details within three months will face civil penalty fines of […]
U.S. Taps Online Youth Groups to Fight Crime, Terrorism
November 25th, 2008Via: AFP: The US State Department announced plans on Monday to promote online youth groups as a new and powerful way to fight crime, political oppression and terrorism. Drawing inspiration from a movement against FARC rebels in Colombia, the State Department is joining forces with Facebook, Google, MTV, Howcast and others in New York City […]
Every plate is photographed, time-stamped, labeled on a GPS map and automatically logged into an Arizona Department of Public Safety database.
November 23rd, 2008Via: Arizona Republic: Officer David Callister parks his patrol car under a shady interstate overpass, angling his cameras to target a flurry of passing traffic. Then he waits. Infrared units mounted to the front of Callister’s vehicle scan the license plates of a Casa Grande firefighter, an Ohio State football fan and everyone else who […]
Noosphereoogle Detects Flu Outbreaks Faster Than CDC
November 12th, 2008It’s the Noosphere. It’s Google. It’s the Noosphereoogle. Here are some comments from a previous post called, Astonishing Security Breach at South African Nuclear Facility: There’s a google tool anyone can use to observe meme saturation over time. It’s interesting stuff. http://www.google.com/trends Maybe .mil/.gov has a way of excluding the influence of crap culture and […]
FBI Finds Most Terrorism Threat Reports Baseless
November 8th, 2008Captain Obvious strikes yet again. Via: Reuters: The FBI tracked about 108,000 potential terrorism threats or suspicious incidents from mid-2004 to November 2007, but most were found groundless, a Justice Department review found on Friday. The department’s office of inspector general gave the figure in an audit of the FBI’s terrorism case-tracking system, called Guardian, […]
Bletchley Park Saved for Posterity
November 7th, 2008Via: Guardian: Bletchley Park – the code breaking centre made famous for its role in cracking the Enigma code during the second world war – looks set to be saved from extinction after a £330,000 grant from English Heritage. Bletchley made its name by playing host to a team of mathematicians who used an early […]
NSA and Army Seeking Quantum Computing Algorithms to Solve “Hard Computational Problems”
October 29th, 2008The word encryption doesn’t appear anywhere below, but that could just be hind titty. How about teleportation? They tell researchers to, “Presuppose the existence of a fully functional quantum computer and consider what algorithmic tasks are particularly well suited to such a machine.” Obviously, people have been thinking about quantum computing issues for years. Wouldn’t […]
UK: Parents to be Fingerprinted by Nursery Schools
October 29th, 2008Why would anyone who thinks that it’s ok to send a three-month-old baby to a day care center have any problem with this? In general, people’s baseline values are so f*cked up now that the core dystopian elements can flow through society, filling in any gaps of sensibility that a person might have managed to […]
Is Britain On Its Way to Becoming a Surveillance Society? Or Has it Already Arrived?
October 28th, 2008Via: BBC Panorama: We are the CCTV capital of the world and more data is being held on us than ever before, with our phones, our computers, our bankcards and even our cars busily giving away information about where we go and what we do. The government gathers more data on us than anyone else […]
UK: Police Will Use New Device to Take Fingerprints in Street
October 27th, 2008Via: Guardian: Every police force in the UK is to be equipped with mobile fingerprint scanners – handheld devices that allow police to carry out identity checks on people in the street. The new technology, which ultimately may be able to receive pictures of suspects, is likely to be in widespread use within 18 months. […]
