Tag: surveillance
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at&t offers gps & rfid child tracking
from digital trends: There’s no doubt that schools and teachers can face significant challenges trying to keep track of hundreds of students and assure their safety while simultaneously teaching them something… Now AT&T is looking to apply technology to the problem, offering a comprehensive child-tracking solution for the K-12 education market combining RFID and GPS…
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anti-radar group destroys french speed cameras
from times online: French anti-terrorist police are hunting a “guerrilla” organisation that is blowing up speed cameras and demanding a ransom from the State. Police are taking seriously claims from the Nationalist Revolutionary Army Faction (FNAR) that it is responsible for the destruction of six radar installations on roads in the Paris region over the…
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new film ‘look’ made entirely of surveillance footage
from alternet: Look, which has already won major kudos on the film festival circuit and will be in theaters this Friday, is sure to be a thought provoking and controversial film. It purports to be made entirely out of surveillance footage shot without the knowledge the people involved. According to the film’s director Adam Rifkin,…
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fdny being trained as homeland stasi
from telegraph: A scheme to train firefighters in major cities to look out for terrorists has raised fears that their iconic standing in American society could be damaged. Unlike police, firemen and paramedics do not need warrants to get into homes and other buildings during technical inspections of emergency facilities, making them particularly useful for…
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daniel ellsberg’s dire warning
from thought criminal: Daniel Ellsberg, the former Defense Department analyst who leaked the secret Pentagon Papers history of the Vietnam War, offered insights into the looming attack on Iran and the loss of liberty in the United States at a recent American University symposium… “Let me simplify … and not just to be rhetorical: A…
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police to deploy spy drones in texas
from danger room: An attempt by police in Texas to hold a secret test of spy drones was foiled by a local TV station, which tracked the unmanned aerial vehicles, forcing law enforcement officials to disclose some of their plans… The best part of this story is that – in true spy vs. spy tradition…
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rfid coming to dc driver’s licenses
from dc examiner/total411: Privacy advocates are alarmed by a D.C. Department of Motor Vehicles initiative to embed SmarTrip computer chips inside every new D.C. driver’s license, making it easier than ever to track D.C. residents on their travels through the transit system. The DMV will spend $830,000 a year to install SmarTrip chips in all…
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whistleblower: nsa monitors all web traffic
from raw story: A former technician at AT&T, who alleges that the telecom forwards virtually all of its internet traffic into a “secret room” to facilitate government spying, says the whole operation reminds him of something out of Orwell’s 1984. Appearing on MSNBC’s Countdown program, whistleblower Mark Klein told Keith Olbermann that a copy of…
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uk police retain dna of ‘petty crime suspects’
from telegraph: Suspects accused of trivial “crimes” such as picking wild flowers or defacing coins can have their DNA stored for life on a national database, police guidelines reveal. A report by police chiefs lists more than 5,000 offences that qualify for lifelong inclusion on the database. Anyone arrested for any of the crimes will…
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october clearinghouse
gary hart warns iran that ‘we provoke provocations’* nist admits total collapse of twin towers unexplainable* thom hartmann’s hypocrisy for israel* anti-gay church ordered to pay $10.9 million for funeral protest* fox news accuses ron paul campaign of using botnets* dod to carry out ‘military missions’ during wmd/pandemic* actor mark ruffalo ‘baffled’ at collapse of…
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declassified: US spying could top $50b
from jason rhyne: The tab for US non-military spying in 2007 is a whopping $43.5 billion, according to figures released today (35kb PDF) by National Director of Intelligence Mike McConnell. Disclosure of that amount marks the first time in nine years that funds budgeted for national intelligence activities have been publicly aired, and comes amid…
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pentagon & fbi misusing secret info requests
from raw story: The Department of Defense has conspired with the FBI to “circumvent the law” in accessing hundreds of Americans’ telephone, e-mail and financial records, say two civil liberties groups that released reams of new documents obtained in a contested public records request. The American Civil Liberties Union, which has challenged the Bush Administration’s…
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robochoppers, robobugs, radiohead & rudy
boeing robo-chopper for darpa’s super-spyeyefrom uk register: Arms’n’airliners behemoth Boeing has announced that its autonomous robotic stealth chopper, the A160T, will be the initial carrying platform for a new US airborne surveillance payload. The radical new spy system will not be so much an aerial camera as an all-seeing insect-style compound bugeye able to simultaneously…
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nsa punishes qwest for refusing to spy on americans
from thinkprogess: Documents released in an insider trading trial yesterday reveal that “the National Security Agency and other government agencies retaliated against Qwest because the Denver telco refused to go along with a phone spying program.” In the documents, former Qwest CEO Joe Nacchio is quoted as saying “the request was both inappropriate and illegal,…
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maryland city passes camera law
aberdeen agencies may now require surveillance devices in developments or, as bad cop news puts it: crazed aberdeen maryland city council passes ordinance to require cameras linked to police on private property… from baltimore sun: Hoping to deter crime by expanding the use of surveillance cameras, Aberdeen passed a measure that empowers the city government…