One of NSA's Biggest Contractors Will Now Be Recording Your License Plate Numbers

08-25-2014 • alternet

.... . Raytheon is one of the National Security Agency's biggest contractors. Early last year, in the wake of the Edward Snowden leaks, documents emerged providing details on "Perfect Citizen," a controversial program coordinated by Raytheon and the NSA to protect the U.S. power grid from cyber attacks. While the aim of the program is laudable on the surface, the methods deployed provoked some pointed questions. The NSA repeatedly claimed the project was purely research based and did not involve monitoring communications or using sensors to monitor utility company's computer systems. But evidence later emerged that the exact opposite was true? "Project Citizen" did in fact use computer sensors that could detect illegitimate cyberactivity, yet another way the mammoth security agency engaged in intrusive digital monitoring. ...