Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
U.S. Spies Want to Find Terrorists in World of Warcraft
February 27th, 2008Practice models for SEAS? It’s too early for April Fools… Via: Wired: Be careful who you frag. Having eliminated all terrorism in the real world, the U.S. intelligence community is working to develop software that will detect violent extremists infiltrating World of Warcraft and other massive multiplayer games, according to a data-mining report from the […]
White House Admits NSA Intercepts of Traffic Inside U.S. Are Ongoing
February 25th, 2008Mmm hmmm. Via: Reuters: The Bush administration said on Saturday U.S. telecommunications companies have agreed to cooperate “for the time being” with spy agencies’ wiretaps, despite an ongoing battle between the White House and Congress over new terrorism surveillance legislation. The Justice Department and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued a joint […]
Lockheed Gets $1 Billion FBI Biometric Database Contract
February 17th, 2008Via: CNN: The FBI has awarded a nearly $1 billion contract to Lockheed Martin to help create a massive computer database of people’s physical characteristics as part of an effort to better identify criminals and terrorists. The overall deal is worth between $850 million to $1 billion and could run as long as 10 years, […]
Britain: Arrested, Caged and DNA Tested — for Using MP3 Player
February 15th, 2008This is the result of Stazi programming that people in Britain are subjected to day and night. Darren Nixon is lucky to be alive. Via: Metro: A commuter was arrested at gunpoint and had his DNA and fingerprints taken simply for listening to his MP3 player while waiting for a bus. Darren Nixon was surrounded […]
EU Plans to Require Biometrics of All Non-European Visitors
February 12th, 2008Via: IHT: BRUSSELS: All non-Europeans would need to submit biometric data before crossing Europe’s frontiers under sweeping European Union proposals to combat illegal migration, terrorism and organized crime that are to be outlined this week. The plans – arguably the biggest shake-up of border management in Europe since the creation of an internal travel zone […]
Bush Orders Clampdown on Flights to U.S.
February 11th, 2008Via: Guardian: The US administration is pressing the 27 governments of the European Union to sign up for a range of new security measures for transatlantic travel, including allowing armed guards on all flights from Europe to America by US airlines. The demand to put armed air marshals on to the flights is part of […]
The FBI and InfraGard
February 9th, 2008Via: Progressive: Today, more than 23,000 representatives of private industry are working quietly with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. The members of this rapidly growing group, called InfraGard, receive secret warnings of terrorist threats before the public does—and, at least on one occasion, before elected officials. In return, they provide information to […]
Surveillance Drift Nets to Be Legalized
February 8th, 2008Blah, blah. Total surveillance. Blah, blah. Via: Wired: In a Senate floor speech, Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-West Virginia) inadvertently made plain that the proposed changes to the nation’s spying laws radically expand how the government wiretaps inside the United States. Rockefeller was decrying an amendment that would require the government to discard non-emergency evidence if […]
Britain Is Slithering Down the Road Towards a Police State
February 8th, 2008Via: Guardian: The machine is out of control. Personal surveillance in Britain is so extensive that no democratic oversight is remotely plausible. Some 800 organisations, including the police, the revenue, local and central government, demanded (and almost always got) 253,000 intrusions on citizen privacy in the last recorded year, 2006. This is way beyond that […]
NSA to Monitor Computer Networks of All Federal Agencies
February 6th, 2008Via: Washington Post: President Bush signed a directive this month that expands the intelligence community’s role in monitoring Internet traffic to protect against a rising number of attacks on federal agencies’ computer systems. The directive, whose content is classified, authorizes the intelligence agencies, in particular the National Security Agency, to monitor the computer networks of […]
