Tag: surveillance
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US Govt. Uses Fake Cell Towers, Flown on Airplanes, to Harvest Phone Data
from extremetech.com: Proving yet again that the US government can show a surprising soupçon of tenacity when it comes to gross invasion of privacy while occasionally catching a terrorist, a new report claims that, since 2007, the US Marshals Service has been criss-crossing the country with small airplanes equipped with fake cell towers. These small aircraft (fixed-wing Cessnas) intercept…
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GCHQ’s Dark Arts: Leaked Documents Reveal Online Manipulation and Facebook, YouTube Snooping
from zdnet.com: GCHQ has developed a toolkit of software programs used to manipulate online traffic, infiltrate users’ computers and spread select messages across social media sites including Facebook and YouTube. The UK spy agency’s dark arts were revealed in documents first published by The Intercept, and each piece of software is described in a wiki…
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UK Moves to Legalize Mass Surveillance
from commondreams.org: The UK government is pushing to pass an emergency law that would allow for storing and tracking the public’s phone calls, text messages, and internet use. The bill, which is set for inter-party reforms later this week and is expected to pass, was created as a response to alleged domestic terrorism threats — although…
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US Pushing Local Cops To Stay Mum On Surveillance
from yahoo.com: The Obama administration has been quietly advising local police not to disclose details about surveillance technology they are using to sweep up basic cellphone data from entire neighborhoods, The Associated Press has learned. Citing security reasons, the U.S. has intervened in routine state public records cases and criminal trials regarding use of the…
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Facebook can now officially eavesdrop on you
from androidpit.com: The Facebook app was recently updated in the USA, adding a feature which turns on the device microphone in order to record background sound to know what is happening around you. Facebook sees this feature as a win for users, since status updates can be posted even quicker. On the other hand, skeptics…
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Anti-surveillance mask lets you pass as someone else
from cnet.com: Uncomfortable with surveillance cameras? “Identity replacement tech” in the form of the Personal Surveillance Identity Prosthetic gives you a whole new face. If the world starts looking like a scene from “Matrix 3” where everyone has Agent Smith’s face, you can thank Leo Selvaggio. His rubber mask aimed at foiling surveillance cameras features…
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Cell Phone Privacy: Justices Confront a New World Order
from pulse.ncpolicywatch.org: The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court — the youngest of whom is 54 — confronted their own technological limits yesterday and struggled with creating new parameters for the right to privacy in a world where a person’s whole life can be documented on a cell phone… The justices’ questions themselves revealed varying…
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode190 – Follow The LEEDIR, Mainstream Conspiracies, Nyet GMO
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode190 – Follow The LEEDIR, Mainstream Conspiracies, Nyet GMO Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: Los Angeles Law Enforcement Looking To Crowdsource Surveillance Corbett Report Flashback: Episode…
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Google & Facebook Used Lobbying Groups to Oppose Internet Surveillance Restrictions
from vice.com: Revelations about the National Security Agency’s most controversial surveillance program, which centers on the bulk collection of hundreds of billions of records of Americans’ phone conversations, were quickly greeted with calls for reform by major internet powerhouses like Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo last year. But all four companies, along with dozens of…
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Dirigible Drones Will Watch the World From 13 Miles Up
from wired.com: With UAVs crowding navigable airspace and plans underway to put giant mega-satellites into orbit, it was just a matter of time before a drone-satellite hybrid was developed to fit between the two spaces. StratoBus, a new project out of France, is conceptualized to do just that. Designed to be about the length of a…
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Washington State House Passes Drones Restriction Bill
from sfgate.com: Two bills that would restrict the use of drones and government surveillance in Washington state have been passed by the House. House Bill 2178 passed by a vote of 92-6 Monday. It would ban the unauthorized use of drones, or other unmanned aircraft with sensing devices, in the airspace above private property. Under…
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Germany to beef up counter-espionage against US, Western allies – report
from rt.com: Following decades of a heavily subdued program, Germany is planning to resume counter-espionage against both the US and other Western allies in response to ongoing revelations surrounding NSA’s global surveillance practices, Der Spiegel reports. Another primary motivation for the resumption of surveillance is US reluctance to agree to a no-mutual-spying treaty desired by…
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Concerns over privacy raised in wake of Osaka facial recognition experiment
from apperspective.net: Privacy concerns have been raised over an upcoming surveillance project slated to take place at the Osaka Station. A 2-year experiment that involves monitoring the movements of people arriving at the Osaka train station through a facial recognition system. The test will be conducted by the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology,…
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Interview w/ Michael Vail of StratRisks on Sochi, TPP, Ukraine
For our first installment of ‘Geopolitiks’ – a new series examining the real “news of the world” – we’re joined by Michael Vail of the indispensable StratRisks.com to help us look at the five-ring Sochi circus, the looming Trans-Pacific Partnership and the shaky situations in the Ukraine, South Sudan and more. “Read all about it!”…