Tag: surveillance
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telecommunication breakdown
riaa uses local cops in oregon raidfrom slashdot: Fake cops employed by the RIAA started acting like real police officers quite a while ago — one of the earliest examples unfolded in Los Angeles in 2004. From a distance, the bust, ‘looked like classic LAPD, DEA or FBI work, right down to the black “raid”…
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google ranked ‘worst’ on privacy
from bbc: Google has the worst privacy policy of popular net firms, says a report. Rights group Privacy International rated the search giant as “hostile” to privacy in a report ranking web firms by how they handle personal data. The group said Google was leading a “race to the bottom” among net firms many of…
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news on the march
macho mistakes at ground zerofrom new york times: As more and more workers who inhaled the dust at ground zero fall ill, it has become increasingly clear that much of the problem can be traced to the Giuliani administration’s failure to insist that all emergency personnel and construction workers at the site wear respirators… uk…
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today is ‘wiretap the internet day’
from wired: May 14th is the official deadline for cable modem companies, DSL providers, broadband over powerline, satellite internet companies and some universities to finish wiring up their networks with FBI-friendly surveillance gear, to comply with the FCC’s expanded interpretation of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act. Congress passed CALEA in 1994 to help…
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april clearinghouse
china to force rain ahead of olympics could global warming be halted by controlling the weather? the mystery of the 9/11 car bombs rosie pledges allegiance to seeking ‘truth’ about 9/11 security contractor faces growing protest over 824-acre base street closed to look for 9/11 remains drill angers conservatives prof who criticized bush added to…
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orwell’s house surrounded by cctv cameras
from bunch of nerds/this is london: A depressing reminder of Orwell’s classic novel, ‘1984’, a recent study into CCTV camera usage for surveillance in Britain has came out with some startling results. Britain has over 4.2 million CCTV cameras on it’s streets, one for every 14 people in the country, and accounting for over 20%…
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uk govt predicts 1⁄3 of people will resist ID checks
from register uk: One in three people will resist identity checks according to Government figures. The just-released statistics predict a widespread revolt over identity cards, but the Home Office has dismissed the figures as irrelevant and out of date… The figures show that 30 per cent of people were predicted by the Government to refuse…
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March Clearinghouse
terror database has quadrupled in four years feds select new nuclear warhead design new autopilot will make another 9/11 impossible uk children to be mass fingerprinted fbi: extremists seek school bus work why the towers fell: two theories 10 false flags that changed the world reuters counts 9/11 hijackers as 9/11 victims how 9/11 skeptic…
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conspiracy theory or marketing for nine inch nails?
from mtv: A dystopian civilization in the throes of extinction. A government poisoning its own citizens through the drinking water. Military police raiding private residences. The end of civil liberties. The creation of a Church-State. Mind control. The contents of some conspiracy theorist’s personal manifesto? The plot of a rote first-person shooter? The results of…
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nypd spied broadly before ’04 convention
from raw story/ny times: “For at least a year before the 2004 Republican National Convention, teams of undercover New York City police officers traveled to cities across the country, Canada and Europe to conduct covert observations of people who planned to protest at the convention, according to police records and interviews,” the New York Times…
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big brother state
from you tube: An animated short about public surveillance by David Scharf
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homeland security revives supersnoop
from washington times: Homeland Security officials are testing a supersnoop computer system that sifts through personal information on U.S. citizens to detect possible terrorist attacks, prompting concerns from lawmakers who have called for investigations. The system uses the same data-mining process that was developed by the Pentagon’s Total Information Awareness (TIA) project that was banned…
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news on the march
giuliani invokes 9/11 in latest SC visitfrom the state: Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani met with firefighters and police officers in Spartanburg on Wednesday, using the forum to discuss the Sept. 11 terror attacks that earned him national attention. “The first people that arrive on the scene of the bombing or the anthrax attack ……
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who watches the watchers in surveillance society?
from information week: In some cities in Europe and the United States, a person can be videotaped by surveillance cameras hundreds of times a day, and it’s safe to say that most of the time no one is actually watching. But the advent of “intelligent video” – software that raises the alarm if something on…
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attorney general promises to detail spying program
from npr: Attorney General Alberto Gonzales tells Congress that he will hand over some legal documents describing the Bush administration’s domestic surveillance program. The pledge ends a two-week standoff between Congress and the White House. Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Arlen Specter (R-PA), the senior members on the panel, asked for more details about documents…