Tag: surveillance
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Black Boxes, Cyber Autonomy, Superfood Inflation
new world next week: episode075 – black boxes, cyber autonomy, superfood inflation Welcome to the 75th episode of New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report & Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in alternative news & open source intelligence. This week: Story #1: Coming Soon – ‘Automotive…
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Coming Soon: ‘Automotive Black Boxes’ for Every Vehicle
Next month, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is expected to declare that all vehicles must contain an event data recorder, known more commonly as a “black box.”
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5/19 Defcon: Blockage, Bills, Threats & Storms
Obama DOJ tries to block unclassified info from NSA leaker trial* new yorker mag sheds new light on nsa’s warrantless wiretapping & data mining* senate bill requires warrant for email, cloud content* senate bill makes illegal internet streaming a felony* bill clinton: create internet agency* US secret service questions 13yr-old over facebook ‘threat’* twitter feed…
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domestic surveillance court approved all 1,506 warrants in 2010
from threat level: The secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court approved all 1,506 government requests to electronically monitor suspected “agents” of a foreign power or terrorists on U.S. soil last year, according to a Justice Department report released under the Freedom of Information Act. The two-page report, which shows about a 13 percent increase in the…
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As Smartphone Scandal Grows, Tech Firms Run For Cover
Recent revelations that Apple’s iPhone and iPad, Google’s Android and Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 operating systems collect, store and transmit records of users’ physical locations to central databases–secretly, and without consent–have ignited a firestorm over Americans’ privacy rights in an age of hypersurveillance.
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FBI Tracking “Suspects” Online
A Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request made in 2007 by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), reveals FBI using secret spyware.
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4/28 defcon: guilt trips down the surveillance highway
obama on manning: ‘he broke the law’ – so much for fair trial* video: ‘pentagon papers’ whistleblower daniel ellsberg says bradley manning can’t get fair trial after obama’s comment* some fbi cyber agents lack adequate skills, report finds* tomtom apologies for giving customer driving data to cops* android data tied to users? some say yes*…
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Syrian Subversion, Spurlock Sold, Goodbye Google
Welcome to the 70th episode of New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report & Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in alternative news & open source intelligence.
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4/14 Defcon: Opt-Out Botnet & Fakebook Revolutions
Law would let you ‘opt-out’ of online web tracking // In a surprise appeal: TJX hacker claims US authorized his crimes as ‘key undercover secret service informant’ // ‘Facebook revolutions’ & people-powered coups: US trains activists to evade security forces
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dna ‘genetic patdown’ introduced to airports by dhs
from activist post: A new level of invasive screening is scheduled for airports this summer: a portable DNA scanner to conduct on-site, real-time genetic testing. This technology is being implemented under the cover of combating human trafficking, illegal immigration, and finding missing persons, but Richard Seldon of NetBio, creator of the scanners, clearly states that…
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corbett report: episode176 – 30 ways you are being spied on
from corbett report: This week we explore the myriad ways that governments and corporations are tracking, databasing, monitoring, logging, recording and generally spying on your every movement. Is there any hope for personal freedom in the technological surveillance society? download episode176/subscribe the latest corbett report videos: sunday update – feb20: activism rising the last word…
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house extends key patriot act provisions
“patriot act” extension lands on “president’s” desk from threat level: The House voted Monday to extend to December three expiring provisions of the Patriot Act spy legislation. The measure’s passage, by a 275-144 vote, was expected. The three provisions are expiring at month’s end. Rather than seriously debate or alter them, the House punted —…
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1/27 Defcon: Congress, Connections & ‘The Company’
‘Protecting cyberspace as a national asset act of 2010’ – Bill to give president right to shutdown net back in Congress // Google comes under fire for ‘secret’ relationship with NSA // Social networks under attack as tide of cyber-scepticism sweeps US; They don’t connect people – they isolate them // Internet down in Egypt…
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obamessiah & the apostles of war – christmas 2010 edition
obama preps executive order for indefinite detention* george w bush unharmed after security scare; sports car careens onto bush’s dallas front lawn for reasons unknown* plan to turn post office trucks into stasi data collection nodes* in an era of heightened security theater, foreign diplomats & tsa share bumpy relationship* passengers & aclu critique random…
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US govt storing info on americans in vast surveillance database
from washington post: Nine years after the terrorist attacks of 2001, the United States is assembling a vast domestic intelligence apparatus to collect information about Americans, using the FBI, local police, state homeland security offices and military criminal investigators. The system, by far the largest and most technologically sophisticated in the nation’s history, collects, stores…