Tag: fbi
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#FBI sued over secretive facial recognition program
from RT.com: Soon the FBI will be done building a database containing the photographs, fingerprints and other biometric data for millions of Americans, but the agency has been far from forthcoming with the details. A new lawsuit filed this week aims to change that. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit digital rights group based out…
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WikiLeaks Volunteer Was a Paid Informant for the FBI
from Wired.com: On an August workday in 2011, a cherubic 18-year-old Icelandic man named Sigurdur “Siggi” Thordarson walked through the stately doors of the U.S. embassy in Reykjavík, his jacket pocket concealing his calling card: a crumpled photocopy of an Australian passport. The passport photo showed a man with a unruly shock of platinum blonde…
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FBI Calls Destruction of GMO Sugar Beets in Oregon ‘Economic Sabotage’
from GreenMedInfo.com: In a breaking development, the FBI confirms that 1,500 GM Sugar Beet plants were destroyed this month in Oregon, in what they are calling an act of “Economic Sabotage.” When GM pollen blows into a non-GM farmer’s fields and irreversibly contaminates his crop with ‘biopollution,’ who does the law side with? Historically, Monsanto.…
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FBI director admits domestic use of #drones for surveillance
from RT.com: The FBI uses drones for domestic surveillance purposes, the head of the agency told Congress early Wednesday. Robert Mueller (pictured), the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, confirmed to lawmakers that the FBI owns several unmanned aerial vehicles, but has not adopted any strict policies or guidelines yet to govern the use…
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Through a #PRISM, Darkly: Tech World’s $20 Million Nightmare
from mashable.com: If you’re still not feeling queasy after reading Thursday’s revelations about the National Security Agency tapping Internet records, you’re probably not paying close enough attention. In short: a leaked intelligence presentation, verified by multiple major news sources, claimed to reveal the existence of an NSA program called PRISM. This program allegedly lets the…
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U.S. Intelligence Mining Data From Nine U.S. Internet Companies In Broad Secret Program
from washingtonpost.com: The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio, video, photographs, e-mails, documents and connection logs that enable analysts to track a person’s movements and contacts over time. The highly classified program, code-named PRISM, has not been disclosed publicly before.…
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Alleged Anonymous hacker raided by FBI after exposing Ohio rape scandal
from RT.com: A 26-year-old Kentucky man says the FBI raided his home earlier this year in an attempt to investigate two hacker groups and the role they played in exposing the players linked to a controversial rape case in Steubenville, Ohio. An aspiring rapper from Winchester, KY named Deric Lostutter revealed Thursday that agents with…
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LulzSec arrest in Australia
from Guardian.co.uk: Federal police charge IT worker, 24, with attacking government website and say he has claimed to be a leader of hacker group. Australian police have arrested a man they say is affiliated with the international hacking collective LulzSec on a charge of attacking and defacing a government website. The 24-year-old senior IT worker,…
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode0144 – Blemished Banquet, Monsanto Patents, Insider Ketchup
Story #1: UN Offers Banquet Of Blemished Food To Highlight Waste // Story #2: Justices Skeptical Of Farmer Who Planted Patented Monsanto Seeds // Story #3: FBI Probes Suspected Insider Trading In H.J. Heinz Buyout
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FBI Probes Suspected Insider Trading In H.J. Heinz Buyout
The FBI has launched a probe into suspected insider trading activity that took place one day before H.J. Heinz announced that it would be acquired for $28 billion by a private investment consortium.
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode143 – Big Brother Buses, G7 Currency War, Executive Cybersecurity
Story #1: People Talk, TriMet Buses Are Listening // Story #2: G7 Tries to Put Currency Genie Back in the Bottle // Story #3: Executive Order Aims to Facilitate Sharing of Information on Threats
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How Sandy Hook Massacre Went Down
Andrew McGregor, a constable from Australia, writes his theory of “How the Sandy Hook Massacre went down.”
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Megaupload Boss Wins Right To Sue New Zealand
Kim Dotcom, internet tycoon and Megaupload founder, has won the right to sue New Zealand’s foreign intelligence agency for unlawful spying by a US led probe on online piracy which led to his arrest earlier this year.
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode133 – Pharaoh Morsi, African Blackwater, Droning On
Egypt’s Political Turmoil Dimming Chances Of Democratic Transition // Blackwater Founder Erik Prince Seeks Asian Investors For South Sudan Defense Projects // Obama Team Made Attempt To Solidify Drone Policy In Event of Romney Win