The term “Google spies” is connected with stories giving details on Google’s rumored connection with the CIA. Google has been rumored to have been working closely with intelligence networks. Based on some information, it appears that Google is supply
I have spent the last few years learning everything I possibly can about biometrics, RFID and the systems and policies our government is using to stealthily lock us into a national ID. Actually, it’s worse than a national ID, it’s international.
The mandatory iris scanning in order to enter certain buildings is haunting enough, but the larger endgame of this technological grid is much more disturbing and protrusive. GRI went on to state their plan for an Orwellian future.
As the privacy controversy around full-body security scans begins to simmer, it’s worth noting that courthouses and airport security checkpoints aren’t the only places where x-ray vision is being deployed, it has also been rolling out on U.S. streets
Government agents can sneak onto your property in the middle of the night, put a GPS device on the bottom of your car and keep track of everywhere you go. This doesn't violate your Fourth Amendment rights, because you do not have any reasonable expec
The chips will allow the city to monitor how often residents roll carts to the curb. If a chip shows a recyclable cart hasn't been brought to the curb in weeks, a supervisor will snoop through the trash for recyclables. Fines are $100.
Remember Lower Merion School District, the elite Philadelphia school system that was caught spying on its students through the webcams on their mandatory, school-issued MacBooks? Federal prosecutors aren't filing criminal charges. But don't worry,
In an interview Mr Schmidt said he believed that every young person will one day be allowed to change their name to distance themselves from embarrasssing photographs and material stored on their friends' social media sites.
(GRI) announced today that it is rolling out its iris scanning technology to create what it calls "the most secure city in the world." In a partnership with Leon -- one of the largest cities in Mexico, with a population of more than a million...
"There are lots of ordinances where this can be used. In California, where they deal with brush fires, could a satellite image show if a homeowner has brush growing too close to his home? What if someone has junk cars on their lot in violation of...
“Every purchase you make with a credit card, every magazine subscription you buy and medical prescription you fill, every Web site you visit and e-mail you send or receive, every academic grade you receive, every bank deposit you make, every trip...
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Pascua Yaqui Tribe announced the production of the first ever Enhanced Tribal Card (WHTI)-compliant document that formally recognizes tribal membership and U.S. citizenship.
The file exposes the absurdity, waste and pettiness of our national security state. And it seems to indicate that our security agencies prefer to hire those with mediocre or stunted intelligence, dubious morality and little common sense.
The NSA is only going to get bigger: 10,000 more workers over the next 15 years; $2 billion to pay for just the first phase of expansion; an overall increase in size that will bring its building space throughout the Fort Meade cluster to nearly 14 mi
The Homeland Security Department will, effective immediately, assume primary responsibility for making sure agencies comply with federal information security requirements, sidelining the Office of Management and Budget from administrative duties, acc
DHS wants you to have a federally-approved dongle to access the internet. Read their proposal and tell them what you think, or comment on any of the feedback already provided.
Citing the “authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America” is now actively engaging in "lifestyle behavior modification" for American citizens that do not exhibit "healthy behavior."
Yvette Garside wanted to take her children for a swim. But pool attendants in Bolton insisted that Ryan and Jordanna, aged five and two respectively, each had to be accompanied by an adult.
CLUE TIME: It isn't Hate Speech if you hate my right to express my viewpoint. Progressives groups are gang-tackling the FTC and FCC in order to “monitor hate speech;” i.e., shut up viewpoints they don’t agree with.” It's getting ugly out there.
Cass Sunstein wants Internet users to know something very important: you're stupid. At least, you're too stupid to read on the Internet without competing views forced on you. Sunstein hopes websites will play along voluntarily; if not, he says Co
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has created this Surveillance Self-Defense site to educate the American public about the law and technology of government surveillance in the United States, providing the information and tools necessary to eva
School administrators at a suburban Philadelphia school district wrongly captured thousands of images of students using school-issued laptop computer cameras, according to a motion filed in a lawsuit involving one of those students.
[Did you even know this was happening?] The U.S. Justice Department has abruptly abandoned what had become a high-profile court fight to read Yahoo users' e-mail messages without obtaining a search warrant first.
Didn’t like what “cap and trade” legislation will do to your electric bill or the economy? No problem! We’ll just call it “reduction and refund.” It's the same bill with a new name. The Senate’s political hacks go back to 1984.
I will be conducting this course, it is called big brother 101 – tactics. Now I want all of you students to forget about what you have learned in school. Why, because Big Brother told you to. Besides, controlling schools and school books is a tactic
Katherine Albrecht, director of a group called Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering, said she worries that the practice could lead to a switch from a voluntary system to mandatory use of such cards