Tag: surveillance
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New World Next Week: Episode181 – Bankster Suicides, Sochi Circus, Academic Torrents
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode181 – Bankster Suicides, #Sochi Circus, Academic Torrents 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: Harvard Economist Is Pulling All His Money From Bank Of America Harvard Economist…
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Avoiding Sochi Snoopers: Using Tor, Common Sense and Nail Polish to Prevent Russian Authorities Spying on Journalists
from ibtimes.co.uk: The Russian authorities are planning to monitor the online activity of every athlete, organiser and journalist during the Winter Olympics in Sochi, which begin later this week. Last year Russian prime minister Dimitry Medvedev signed into law a decree which, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, authorises the government to “collect telephone…
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Stupor Bowl or Snooper Bowl: Police State Technology Ready to Play Big Game
Police State Gets Ready for Super Bowl XLVIII from infowars.com: Super Bowl XLVIII is a level one national security event declared by the Department of Homeland Security allowing Homeland Security Presidential Directive 5 to kick in. The directive means the federal government considers the game to be a possible terrorist target and provides authority for…
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Spy Agencies Scour Phone Apps for Personal Data
from ndtv.com: When a smartphone user opens Angry Birds, the popular game application, and starts slinging birds at chortling green pigs, spies could be lurking in the background to snatch data revealing the player’s location, age, sex and other personal information, according to secret British intelligence documents.
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New World Next Week: Episode177 – GMO-free Cheerios, NSA Catalog, Celeb Shilling
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode177 – GMO-free Cheerios, NSA Catalog, Celeb Shilling 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: Original Cheerios to Go GMO-Free Non-GMO Cheerios More Marketing Boon Than Health Boost?…
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NSA Phone Spying ‘Almost Certainly’ Unconstitutional
from online.wsj.com: A federal judge on Monday ruled against the National Security Agency’s collection of phone records, saying the program “almost certainly does violate” the Constitution. However, the ruling will have little immediate effect and faces a lengthy future of court proceedings. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon, who was nominated to the Washington, D.C., bench…
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Even Your Avatar Can’t Escape NSA Surveillance
from aclu.org: It seems that literally no one is safe from the NSA. Even digital alter egos living in fantasy realms in the online gaming world are being caught up in the NSA’s surveillance dragnet. A newly leaked internal document reveals that the NSA and British intelligence agency GCHQ have developed mass collection capabilities enabling…
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DARPA Designs Giant Foldable Satellite Capable of Surveilling 40% of Earth at Once
from dailymail.co.uk: The Pentagon has designed a massive spy satellite that will dwarf any space telescope ever launched – and it point its sensitive lens back at us. The Membrane Optical Imager for Real-Time Exploitation (MOIRE) will be capable of capturing 40 percent of the surface of the Earth at once. It will be able…
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NRO Spy Logo’s Octopus Says “Nothing Is Beyond Our Reach”
from vigilantcitizen.com: On December 5th, the National Reconnaissance Office launched a new spy satellite called NROL-39 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Its logo features a giant octopus engulfing the world with the ominous words “Nothing is Beyond our Reach” underneath. Is there a better way to portray a nightmarish, big-brotherish totalitarian government? No.…
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Tech Giants Call on #Obama, #Congress to Rein in Internet Spy Programs
from mercurynews.com: In an unusual joint statement, leading Internet companies called Monday for new legal restrictions on government spy programs that the companies view as an increasing threat both to their customers’ privacy and their own business interests. “The U.S. government should take this opportunity to lead this reform effort and make things right,” Facebook…
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#Twitter, #Facebook Demand Sweeping Changes to US #Surveillance
from theguardian.com: The world’s leading technology companies have united to demand sweeping changes to US surveillance laws, urging an international ban on bulk collection of data to help preserve the public’s “trust in the internet”. In their most concerted response yet to disclosures by the National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook,…
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LG Says: You Caught Us! Our Smart TV’s Really DO Spy On You
from theregister.co.uk: South Korean electronics giant LG has confirmed that some of its smart TVs have been logging their owners’ viewing habits without their permission and has promised a patch. Hull, UK–based developer Jason Huntley, aka “DoctorBeet,” was first to notice the spying behavior when he analyzed network traffic coming from his LG TV and…
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Seattle Police Deactivate Downtown Wi-Fi Spy Network
from ap.org: The Seattle Police Department has agreed to deactivate a downtown WiFi network that some worried could be used to spy on residents. The ACLU raised concerns last week about the network, which has equipment visible on utility poles. KOMO reports the wireless mesh network was installed with Homeland Security money and was intended…
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If a Young Child Wanders, Technology Can Follow
from nytimes.com: Most parents have experienced that feeling of fear when a young child wanders off at the playground or disappears during a trip to the supermarket. New technology, in the form of voice watches and miniature sensing devices, is aimed at thwarting such distress by keeping track of children who are too young to…