Tag: surveillance
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Police State Updates: CCTV, Census & Complaints
Beyond Orwell: The Electronic Police State, 2010 // 20 signs that the US is rapidly becoming totalitarian big brother police state // UK schoolkids ‘routinely monitored’ by cctv // Video: DHS unveils mobile mind screening checkpoints // ‘Minority Report’ digital billboard ‘watches consumers shop’ // Tracking electric use could allow utilities to track you, too
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Defcon 3/9: Einstein, CyberShield & Serious Defects
Obama’s cybersecurity initiative puts NSA in driver’s seat // Fmr DNI calls for ‘re-engineering’ the internet // Time’s running out – Einstein’s coming: Cybershield disclosed by White House // Uncle Cyber Scam wants you // Cyberczar Schmidt says ‘there is no cyberwar’
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Interview w/Albert Lanier on ‘The Octopus’
This special interview episode from Media Monarchy covers the explosive case of a freelance journalist, who at the time of his death in 1991, was researching an insidious & wide-ranging conspiracy that he called ‘The Octopus’.
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Police State Updates: Homeland Amerika, Contractors & Quotas
1 in 4 Germans wants microchip under skin // ‘Suspicious substance’ at Utah IRS building was fake but the terror was real // Original tenant of Stack attack building was microelectronics & computer tech corp // New Mexico state police ordered to write tickets or face punishment // Suspected Colorado school gunman participated in strange…
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Defcon 2/25 – Cryptome, Catastrophe, Echelon & CERN
Microsoft takes down whistleblower site, Cryptome.org* Update: Cryptome restored after Microsoft change of heart* Cyber attacks will ‘catastrophically’ spook public, warns GCHQ* Intel hit by cyber attack* Playstation 3: The future of big brother surveillance?* Chinese programmer fingered in Google attacks* US pinpoints coder behind Google attack* Echelon computers can’t cope with bad lines* Italian…
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New World Next Week #20
This week we go into schools spying on students via webcams, Obama’s rebranding of the Iraq War as political semantics and, finally, some good food news from Oregon.
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School Spied On Kids Via Webcams On School-Supplied Laptops
from pcworld: In case you haven’t been following the plot of Webcamgate, starring the Lower Merion School District in Southeastern Pennsylvania and a cast of thousands, here’s the skinny: Last week the Robbins family, whose son Blake attends LMSD’s Harriton High, filed a class-action suit against the district alleging that it’s been spying on its…
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2/18 Newspurge: Get Outta Yr Bed, You Gotta Wake Up
The depressing truth about anti-depressants: No better than placebos // Onion article on financial system actually reveals the truth // Mossad hit squad stole UK ID’s to kill Hamas leader // French soldiers used as ‘nuclear guinea pigs’
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police state updates: emergencies, subversives & private arms collections
yes, america is still in an official state of emergency* go back to sleep, there’s no new world order* s. carolina now requires ‘subversives’ to register* homeschooling german family granted US asylum* video: eye scanner technology going to colorado police* suspicious subjects beware – citizens on patrol* residents fumed over weekend alcohol, firearm ban* pennsylvania…
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be evil: google to enlist nsa to help it ward off cyberattacks
google re-establishes relationship with government spies from danger room: The company once known for its “don’t be evil” motto is now in bed with the spy agency known for the mass surveillance of American citizens. The National Security Agency is widely understood to have the government’s biggest and smartest collection of geeks — the guys…
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fbi invoked ’emergencies’ to illegally get 1000s of phone records
from washington post: The FBI illegally collected more than 2,000 U.S. telephone call records between 2002 and 2006 by invoking terrorism emergencies that did not exist or simply persuading phone companies to provide records, according to internal bureau memos and interviews. FBI officials issued approvals after the fact to justify their actions. E-mails obtained by…
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censorship, searches, browsers & the spectrum band
china monitoring billions of texts as censorship increasesfrom telegraph: Customers of China’s two largest mobile phone networks, China Mobile and China Unicom, have had their texting service blocked after sending risqué messages, the state media claims. The disclosure comes as the country is embroiled in a dispute with Google. On Tuesday the internet giant said…
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police state updates: drones, guns, abuse & arrests
video: houston police dept using spy drones from news junkie post: KPRC in Houston recently filmed a secret experiment by law enforcement agencies, including Homeland Security, of a drone intended to spy on Americans. north american security perimeter on the horizon video: el paso police get m4 semi-automatic rifles from kfoxtv: On Tuesday, the El…