Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
With Police Present, Private Research Group Tries to Take Blood, Breath and Saliva Samples from Motorists at Checkpoint
September 21st, 2007Hundreds of people complied! Via: Denver Post: The Gilpin County Sheriff’s Office was apologizing Monday after a weekend effort to help a research group led to complaints about what appeared to be a DUI checkpoint – but wasn’t. Sheriff’s officials who participated in the stops now acknowledge that the nonprofit organization requesting voluntary DUI and […]
U.S. Airport Screeners Are Watching What You Read
September 21st, 2007Via: Wired: International travelers concerned about being labeled a terrorist or drug runner by secret Homeland Security algorithms may want to be careful what books they read on the plane. Newly revealed records show the government is storing such information for years. Privacy advocates obtained database records showing that the government routinely records the race […]
The Department of Homeland Security and Russian Mind-Control Research
September 21st, 2007Via: Wired: The future of U.S. anti-terrorism technology could lie near the end of a Moscow subway line in a circular dungeon-like room with a single door and no windows. Here, at the Psychotechnology Research Institute, human subjects submit to experiments aimed at manipulating their subconscious minds. Elena Rusalkina, the silver-haired woman who runs the […]
U.S. Government’s Plan to Protect You From Terrorist Livestock
September 19th, 2007It’s baaaaaaaaack. Actually, it never left. But we knew that. Via: Alternet: NAIS would compel all owners of such animals to register their premises and personal information in a federal database, to buy microchip devices and attach them to every single one of their animals (each of which gets its very own 15-digit federal ID […]
Australia: Mobile Phone and Internet Surveillance Without a Warrant, Even for Non Terror Investigations
September 17th, 2007No worries, mate! Via: Sydney Morning Herald: SECURITY agencies would be able to secretly track people via their mobile phones and monitor their internet browsing for up to three months without obtaining a warrant under new laws due to go before the Senate this week. The powers could be used in a range of even […]
Chip Implants Linked to Malignant Tumors
September 11th, 2007Would you like some NutraSweet/aspartame with that? Via: Yahoo / AP: When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved implanting microchips in humans, the manufacturer said it would save lives, letting doctors scan the tiny transponders to access patients’ medical records almost instantly. The FDA found “reasonable assurance” the device was safe, and a sub-agency […]
FBI Data Mining Reached Beyond Initial Targets
September 9th, 2007Imagine my shock. Via: New York Times: The F.B.I. cast a much wider net in its terrorism investigations than it has previously acknowledged by relying on telecommunications companies to analyze phone-call patterns of the associates of Americans who had come under suspicion, according to newly obtained bureau records. The documents indicate that the Federal Bureau […]
Spy Satellites Turned on the U.S.
September 7th, 2007Bird’s eye view of the next “event”? Via: ABC News: Traditionally, powerful spy satellites have been used to search for strategic threats overseas ranging from nuclear weapons to terrorist training camps. But now the Department of Homeland Security has developed a new office to use the satellites to secure U.S. borders and protect the country […]
Judge Wants Everyone in UK on DNA Database
September 6th, 2007Via: Guardian: The entire UK population and every visitor to Britain should be put on the national DNA database, a top judge said today. Lord Justice Sedley, one of England’s most experienced appeal court judges, described the country’s current system as “indefensible”. “We have a situation where if you happen to have been in the […]
“State Police Intelligence Units on Steroids”
September 5th, 2007Via: My San Antonio: The Congressional Research Service earlier this summer prepared a report to Congress on anti-terrorism efforts at state law enforcement “fusion centers,” including the one run by DPS. A focus of the report was on computer systems such as TDEx used by the fusion centers to connect the dots in criminal activity. […]
