Tag: surveillance
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terror watch uses local eyes in colorado
from denver post: Hundreds of police, firefighters, paramedics and even utility workers have been trained and recently dispatched as “Terrorism Liaison Officers” in Colorado and a handful of other states to hunt for “suspicious activity” – and are reporting their findings into secret government databases. It’s a tactic intended to feed better data into terrorism…
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military satellites to spy on domestic disasters
from raw replay: MSNBC’s Alex Witt talked to Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff about a new proposal by the Bush administration to use satellites for domestic surveillance. Isikoff told MSNBC, “The Homeland Security Department is talking about expanding the program to use military satellites really, for domestic purposes. They say the primary driver is natural disasters -…
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spying across the pond: nau/eu to trade private data
from new york times: The United States and the European Union are nearing completion of an agreement allowing law enforcement and security agencies to obtain private information — like credit card transactions, travel histories and Internet browsing habits — about people on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. The potential agreement, as outlined in…
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hatch calls fisa critics 9/11 inside job tinfoil hatters
from kurt nimmo: Don’t like the idea of the government walking with muddy shoes all over the Fourth Amendment and snooping your telephone calls, reading your email, rifling through credit and medical records? Well, obviously, you’re a conspiracy nut. Because the government loves you, it would never disrespect the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.…
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change we can spy on
obama supports telecom amnestyfrom threat level: Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama supports the spy bill compromise passed by the House Friday, despite having opposed retroactive amnesty to telecoms that helped with the President’s secret, warrantless wiretapping. The measure expands the government’s ability to install blanket wiretaps inside domestic communication infrastructure and frees the nation’s…
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new wiretapping bill a ‘repugnant’ ‘capitulation’
from thinkprogress: Under a “compromise” wiretapping bill the House is expected to approve tomorrow, U.S. phone companies that cooperated with President Bush’s warrantless wiretapping program after Sept. 11 “could be shielded from lawsuits” as long as “there is written certification that the White House asked a phone company to participate and assured it” of the…
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ny’s spy choppers & ‘rapid organ recovery’ ambulances
unmarked chopper patrols nyc from high abovefrom ap: “They don’t even know we’re here,” said crew chief John Diazo, speaking into a headset over the din of the aircraft’s engine. The helicopter’s unmarked paint job belies what’s inside: an arsenal of sophisticated surveillance and tracking equipment powerful enough to read license plates – or scan…
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carlyle, cops, main core, youtube, turnpikes & redlights
carlyle group to acquire booz allen hamiltonfrom deseret news: Carlyle Group, the private-equity firm run by David Rubenstein, agreed to acquire Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.’s U.S. government-consulting business for $2.54 billion, its biggest buyout since the credit markets collapsed in July… The Booz Allen government-consulting unit has more than 18,000 employees and annual sales of…
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pnac, un, nra, ocp, at&t, apra & bg
pnac site goes downfrom thinkprogress: Eleven years ago, the neoconservative Project for a New American Century (PNAC) set out its statement of principles advocating the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, putting the country on the road to a preventative invasion of Iraq. Signatories included future Iraq war architects Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, and Elliott…
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uk police says cctv boom fails to cut crime
from raw replay: CCTV cameras have failed to bring about a reduction in crime despite billions of pounds being spent on the network, a senior police officer said Tuesday. Detective Chief Inspector Mike Neville – who leads Scotland Yard’s Visual Images, Identifications and Detections Office (Viido) – said the system was an “utter fiasco” as…
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NYPD May Get ‘Pistol Cams’
The makers of a small, digital camera that attaches to the barrel of a gun say the device would have ended any dispute about what happened in the Sean Bell shooting. Now, a former Bronx homicide prosecutor who helped develop the Pistol Cam wants the NYPD to consider putting the audio and video gadget on…
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uk crossing guards join the surveillance state
from danger room: “If you wanted a sure sign that the Orwell-ization of Great Britain is underway, then look no further than this,” says Gizmodo. “Lollipop ladies, those kindly old women who man the main roads next to school, similar to the US crossing guard, have been issued video cameras to record lollipop rage -…
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cleveland increasing surveillance on trains & buses
from ap: More & more, trains & bus riders in the Cleveland area are being watched. The Regional Transit Authority is working toward installing cameras on all 700 of its buses. Rapid trains are next, with most to be equipped by the end of the year. The chief of the RTA’s police force, John Joyce,…
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buffalo crime cam program
from buffalo news: Buffalo has launched its anti-crime surveillance camera initiative following an eight-month installation and “tweaking” process… “We will be one of the elite camera systems in the United States of America”… In the longer term, the Police Department hopes to expand the surveillance system by obtaining viewing rights to cameras that the school…
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thoughtcrime, hydrant cams, recycle cops & dc detectors
could soldiers be prosecuted for thoughtcrime?from danger room: The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is funding a number of technologies that tap into the brain’s ability to detect threats before the conscious mind is able to process the information. Already, there is Pentagon-sponsored work on using the brain’s pattern detection capabilities for enhanced goggles…