Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
UK: Children as Young as Five to be Fingerprinted in Schools
August 6th, 2007Via: Daily Mail: Schools have been given the go-ahead to take fingerprints from children as young as five – without asking their parents first. Ministers issued guidance allowing heads to collect pupils’ biometric data to use when taking the register, paying for lunch or using the library. Schools can also take retina and iris scans […]
Enemy Collaborator U.S. Congress Passes Bush Domestic Surveillance Bill
August 5th, 2007Imagine my shock. Via: Reuters: The Congress yielded to President George W. Bush on Saturday and approved legislation to temporarily expand the government’s power to conduct electronic surveillance without a court order in tracking foreign suspects. Civil liberties groups charged the measure would create a broad net that would sweep up law-abiding U.S. citizens. But […]
Survey: Americans Broadly Support Surveillance Cameras
July 31st, 2007No measure of number of Americans who have fled the U.S., never to return? Via: ABC News: Crime-fighting beats privacy in public places: Americans, by nearly a 3-to-1 margin, support the increased use of surveillance cameras — a measure decried by some civil libertarians, but credited in London with helping to catch a variety of […]
Zeitgeist
July 30th, 2007Zeitgeist is an extremely impressive film that delivers a vast amount of fascinating information in a coherent way. It’s definitely worth setting aside a couple of hours of interruption free time to watch this. If you know any people who don’t quite “get it” yet, this will rattle their cages. Who produced this??? They’ve made […]
NSA Surveillance: FBI Director Contradicts Gonzales’ Testimony
July 27th, 2007Via: CNN: FBI Director Robert Mueller told Congress Thursday that the confrontation between then-White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales and then-Attorney General John Ashcroft in Ashcroft’s hospital room in 2004 concerned a controversial surveillance program — an apparent contradiction of Senate testimony given Tuesday by Gonzales. Mueller said he spoke with Ashcroft soon after Gonzales left […]
U.S. Will Collect Extremely Personal Information from Millions of European Travelers
July 23rd, 2007I can’t believe that anyone would submit to this. Via: Guardian: Highly sensitive information about the religious beliefs, political opinions and even the sex life of Britons travelling to the United States is to be made available to US authorities when the European Commission agrees to a new system of checking passengers. The EC is […]
Manhattan Takes Cue from London’s ‘Ring of Steel’
July 11th, 2007Via: International Herald Tribune: By the end of this year, police officials say, more than 100 cameras will have begun monitoring cars moving through Lower Manhattan, the beginning phase of a London-style surveillance system that would be the first in the United States. The Lower Manhattan Security Initiative, as the plan is called, will resemble […]
Top U.S. Politicians Call for British-Style Surveillance State
July 2nd, 2007Via: New York Daily News: The attempted terror attacks in Britain prove the U.S. needs its domestic spying program and more surveillance cameras in American cities, two powerful lawmakers said yesterday. Sen. Joseph Lieberman called for an end to the “petty, partisan fighting” over the National Security Agency’s warrantless wiretapping and e-mail spying efforts. “I […]
United States Court of Appeals Judge Richard Posner: Secret Trials for Terrorists
June 29th, 2007The mask is off the maniac fascist Nazi loving liberals. This is it. The sum of all fears. Total, overt fascism. A senior federal judge calling for warrantless surveillance and secret trials! It will be interesting to see how many people will allow themselves to be taken alive, and how many won’t. My guess, based […]
Turley: Avoid Bush’s Executive Privilege Claim by Investigating NSA Program as a Crime
June 29th, 2007Sure. Via: ThinkProgress: Yesterday, after years of White House stonewalling, the Senate Judiciary Committee issued subpoenas to the Bush administration for documents related to the warrantless domestic surveillance program. Today, during a background discussion with reporters, senior Bush administration officials indicated that they would invoke executive privilege in order to deny the NSA documents to […]
