Tag: surveillance
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#PRISM barely scratches the surface… 50 years of global surveillance
RINF Alternative News looks at the reality of the global surveillance network and explains how PRISM is just a small part in a decades-long agenda to monitor citizens. Sources: http://www.duncancampbell.org/content…http://www.duncancampbell.org/menu/jo…http://www.nickyhager.info/ebook-of-s…http://www.nickyhager.info/exposing-t…http://www.cyber-rights.org/intercept…http://retro.nrc.nl/W2/Lab/Echelon/st…http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_suyRP…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF5mrw…http://www.fas.org/irp/program/proces…http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/2/2889…http://www.zdnet.com/dutch-government…
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Nothing to Hide, Nothing to Fear
from The Corbett Report: “If you have nothing to hide, then you have nothing to fear.” We’ve all heard this argument a million times when talking to people about the latest revelations of government snooping or the latest roll-out of creepy Orwellian technology. The implication is that the only people who complain about having their…
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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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The Great American Dragnet: Over 200 Million People Are in the Facial Recognition Database
from BlacklistedNews.com: You are probably participating in the facial recognition database whether you want to or not. Most likely, your visage is there to be easily identified, without your consent, even if you’ve never committed a crime. Using the vague criteria of “law enforcement purposes”, the United States has more than 200 million Americans filed…
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Spy Drone Can See What You Are Wearing From 17,500 Feet
A new camera developed by the Pentagon’s research arm was highlighted in a recent special on PBS’ “Nova” in an episode called “Rise of the Drones.” It’s a camera system so detailed it can discern specific movements and even what a subject is wearing. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA’s) Autonomous Real-Time Ground Ubiquitous…
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New World Next Week: Episode157 – NSA Catch-22, Bankster Bail-Ins, Less Peace
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode157 – NSA Catch-22, Bankster Bail-Ins, Less Peace 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: Snowden, ‘Catch-22’ And The Dehumanization Of Our Nation NSA Snooping Was Only the…
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NSA Spying: False Hope vs. Real Solutions
James Corbett goes off on NSA in Boiling Frogs Report. Corbett pleas with viewers in attempt to slap hypnotic masses out of trance. High tech tools to gather – real time – info are clearly biggest threat yet to individual liberty. These high tech programs (see previous posts) are major efforts to place us all…
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After #PRISM, ‘Boundless Informant’ tool comes to light
from CNet.com: Meet the U.S. National Security Agency’s global intelligence tracking tool, Boundless Informant, the latest intelligence secret exposed by leaked information. The stream of leaks revealing the U.S. National Security Agency’s secrets carries on with the public outing of a powerful intelligence tracking tool. In a fresh wave of documents obtained by The Guardian,…
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#Prism – US surveillance leaker Edward Snowden ‘not afraid’
from theaustralian.com.au: The 29-year-old government contractor who turned whistleblower to reveal vast US surveillance programs says he is not afraid, despite the intelligence authorities’ threat to hunt him down. In footage shot by The Guardian newspaper, Edward Snowden said he packed his bags for Hong Kong three weeks ago, leaving behind a “very comfortable…
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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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Google Will Help Police to Track “Extremist Websites” Through its Search Results
from Guardian.co.uk: Google’s indexing of extremist websites helps police track their activity and will continue, the company’s chief told an audience at the Hay festival. Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google, was asked to act to take down terrorist-sympathising websites from his search engines during a question and answer session at the literary festival on…
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Australian Police Use Drones to “Combat Crime” Ahead of G20
The Courier-Mail can reveal Police Minister the aircraft in time for the trans-national G20 conference in November next year.