Tag: surveillance
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billboard liberation front touts at&t & nsa collaboration
from threat level: The Billboard Liberation Front has struck again – this time rewriting a billboard in San Francisco’s Mission District that was hosting AT&T’s latest ad campaign touting the breadth of its network coverage. The billboard now reads: “AT&T works in more places, like NSA Headquarters.” Formerly the sign bragged of service in Chilondoscow.…
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robotwars, saic, target cities, l-rad & vampire cams
automated killer robots ‘threat to humanity’from afp: Increasingly autonomous, gun-totting robots developed for warfare could easily fall into the hands of terrorists and may one day unleash a robot arms race, a top expert on artificial intelligence told AFP. “They pose a threat to humanity,” said University of Sheffield professor Noel Sharkey ahead of a…
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UK School Had Cameras In the Bathroom
A school has been forced to remove CCTV cameras they installed in the students’ toilets after furious protests from pupils and parents.
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US ‘to shoot down spy satellite’
from bbc: The US military is planning to shoot down a broken spy satellite due to crash land on Earth in the next few weeks, US news agency AP reports. Pentagon officials are quoted as saying they want to fire a missile from a US Navy ship to destroy the satellite before it enters the…
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west virginia bill turns traffic cameras into spy cameras
from the newspaper: Cameras once proposed solely for the purpose of monitoring the level of traffic on freeways may soon have a new mission in West Virginia following unanimous state House passage of the “Guardian Angel Video Monitoring Act” last Wednesday. Introduced by state House Majority Leader Joe DeLong (D), the bill authorizes the state’s…
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spy cams go live in the district of criminals
from washington post: D.C. police are now watching live images from dozens of surveillance cameras posted in high-crime parts of the city, hoping to respond faster to shootings, robberies and other offenses and catch suspects before they get away. Since August 2006, the city has installed 73 cameras across the city, mostly on utility poles,…
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small west virginia town installs spy cameras
from ap: Digital surveillance cameras are being installed in downtown Bluefield, West Virginia, to fight crime.Bluefield Police Chief Joe Wilson says two cameras are operational and three more are planned. Wilson says the cameras will help any investigation of criminal activity in the downtown area. They also could help investigations of traffic accidents. The city…
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wv’s rockefeller let’s slip the spying truth
from threat level: In a Senate floor speech, Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-West Virginia) inadvertently made plain that the proposed changes to the nation’s spying laws radically expand how the government wiretaps inside the United States. Rockefeller was decrying an amendment that would require the government to discard non-emergency evidence if a court later finds that…
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enjoy the super bread & circus bowl!
i hope the red team doesn’t win… fetzer fears a super bowl attackfrom i-newswire: Multiple reports that internet cables connecting Iran to the rest of the world have been “cut” are raising suspicions in the minds of experts on 9/11 that something serious may be in the works. According to James H. Fetzer, founder of…
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cctv camera microphones to be axed
but not literally this time… from telegraph: Hidden microphones mounted on CCTV cameras which can eavesdrop on private conversations in the street are set to be outlawed, The Sunday Telegraph can disclose. Richard Thomas, the Information Commissioner, believes that the cameras are a serious breach of civil liberties. Britain has 4.5million CCTV cameras which capture…
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nyc’s subway spycam network stuck in the station
from danger room: New York City’s plan to secure its subways with a next-generation surveillance network is getting more expensive by the second, and slipping further and further behind schedule. A new report (68kb PDF) by the New York State Comptroller’s office reveals that “the cost of the electronic security program has grown from $265…
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scientology, spy drones, tasers & insider trading
will smith boosting scientologyfrom ny daily news: Will Smith has joined the ranks of Hollywood power players actively recruiting for the Church of Scientology… Smith, who is best buddies with Scientology booster Tom Cruise, has never confirmed that he joined the church. But he told “Access Hollywood” last month: “I was introduced to it by…
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microsoft readies hal 9000
“Just what do you think you’re doing… ? I really think I’m entitled to an answer to that question.” from register: It gives a whole new meaning to the word “micromanager.” Judging from a recent patent application, Microsoft hopes to build some sort of “activity monitoring system” that keeps an eye on worker productivity using…
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operation falcon, profiling, fingerprinting & vandalism
operation falcon: police state america in real timefrom pan-african news: Mike Whitney won a 2008 Project Censored Award for his February, 2007 article titled “Operation FALCON and the Looming Police State.” In it, he reported that the Bush administration “carried out three massive sweeps in the last two years, rolling up more than 30,000 minor…
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dhs finalizing plans for domestic spy satellite program
congress has not been updated since civil liberties concerns delayed satellite spying from raw story: A plan to dramatically widen US law enforcement agencies’ access to data from powerful spy satellites is moving toward implementation, as Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff expects to finalize a charter for the program this week, according to…