Tag: surveillance
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chicago video surveillance gets smarter
from ap: A car circles a high-rise three times. Someone leaves a backpack in a park. Such things go unnoticed in big cities every day. But that could change in Chicago with a new video surveillance system that would recognize such anomalies and alert authorities to take a closer look. On Thursday, the city and…
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10,000 cctv cameras, 80% of crime unsolved
from this is london: London has 10,000 crime-fighting CCTV cameras which cost £200 million, figures show today. But an analysis of the publicly funded spy network, which is owned and controlled by local authorities and Transport for London, has cast doubt on its ability to help solve crime. A comparison of the number of cameras…
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microchip implants cause tumors in lab animals
damning research could spell the end of VeriChipfrom inteldaily: The Associated Press will issue a breaking story this weekend revealing that microchip implants have induced cancer in laboratory animals and dogs, says privacy expert and long-time VeriChip opponent Dr. Katherine Albrecht. As the AP will report, a series of research articles spanning more than a…
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judge strikes down part of patriot act
from ap: A federal judge struck down parts of the revised USA Patriot Act on Thursday, saying investigators must have a court’s approval before they can order Internet providers to turn over records without telling customers. U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero said the government orders must be subject to meaningful judicial review and that the…
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August 2007 Clearinghouse
‘noble’ is good, not grand brainwashing the hero-worshiping society warren buffett sees silver lining in market chaos bbc drops fictional terror attack to avoid offending muslims suspicious man seen before virginia tech massacre US army to launch new video game book tells of philharmonic’s nazi ties robert fisk: even i question the ‘truth’ about 9/11…
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outrage at 500,000 dna database mistakes
from telegraph: Civil liberties campaigners and MPs have raised doubts about the national DNA database after the Home Office confirmed it contained more than 500,000 false or wrongly recorded names. Suspects arrested over any imprisonable offence, including rape and murder, can have their DNA held even if they are not charged or are acquitted. The…
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news on the march
chatter about west coast ‘incident’ at all time highfrom wayne madsen report: Chatter picked up by WMR’s sources in the nation’s capital and in California point to unusual events that could be a prelude to a 9/11-like false flag “incident” during the Labor Day weekend, possibly one focused on the San Francisco Bay Area. The…
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US spy satellites to be used on americans
from wall street journal: The U.S.’s top intelligence official has greatly expanded the range of federal and local authorities who can get access to information from the nation’s vast network of spy satellites in the U.S. The decision, made three months ago by Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell, places for the first time some…
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police state surveillance: made in china
in china, a high-tech plan to track peoplefrom new york times: At least 20,000 police surveillance cameras are being installed along streets here in southern China and will soon be guided by sophisticated computer software from an American-financed company to recognize automatically the faces of police suspects and detect unusual activity. Starting this month in…
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senate passes bush-backed spy bill
from reuters: The Democratic-led U.S. Senate, amid warnings of further attacks on the United States, approved a bill on Friday that would allow President George W. Bush to maintain his controversial domestic spying program. On a vote of 60-28, the Senate sent the measure to the Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives for consideration as early…
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pentagon to implant microchips in soldiers
from press esc: The Department of Defense is planning to implant microchips in soldiers’ brains for monitoring their health information, and has already awarded a $1.6 million contract to the Center for Bioelectronics, Biosensors and Biochips (C3B) at Clemson University for the development of an implantable “biochip”. Soldiers fear that the biochip, about the size…
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surveillance cameras win broad support
from abc: Crime-fighting beats privacy in public places: Americans, by nearly a 3-to-1 margin, support the increased use of surveillance cameras – a measure decried by some civil libertarians, but credited in London with helping to catch a variety of perpetrators since the early 1990s. Given the chief arguments, pro and con – a way…
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indonesia debates microchipping hiv patients
from bbc: Legislators in the Indonesian province of Papua are debating whether to approve a bill allowing microchips to be implanted in people with HIV. The measure has been put forward as a way of preventing the spread of HIV in the Indonesian province. But the move is facing stiff opposition from health workers. About…
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data on americans mined for terror risk
from ap: The FBI is gathering and sorting information about Americans to help search for potential terrorists, insurance cheats and crooked pharmacists, according to a government report obtained Tuesday. Records about identity thefts, real estate transactions, motor vehicle accidents and complaints about Internet drug companies are being searched for common threads to aid law enforcement…
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doctors back plan to microchip you
from yahoo/afp: Doctors could soon be storing essential medical information under the skin of their patients, the American Medical Association says. Devices the size of a grain of rice that are implanted with a needle could give emergency room doctors quick access to the records of chronically ill patients, the nation’s largest doctors group said…