But a judge ruled on Thursday that the former Minnesota governor's concerns about modesty, personal freedom and constitutional rights were misplaced when he filed a federal lawsuit in St. Paul last January.
Police in London possess a surveillance technology that sounds like something straight out of science fiction: a mobile GSM device that pretends to be a cellular tower, tricking nearby phones into connecting to it, then intercepting all their communi
More than a year after the FBI busted a Russian spy ring, the bureau is releasing surveillance videos, documents and photographs from the investigation that led to one of the biggest spy scandals since the end of the Cold War. The trove, the bureau s
In North Scottsdale this morning for at least 3 hours that we know of, all commercial vehicles were forced to exit. The SPD has not been available or returned communications. City Council staff is now investigating. (UPDATE KFYI Talk Show)
Looking through walls is no longer something we read about in comic books or watch in Superman movies. MIT presented a new radar technology that would allow humans to see through a solid wall.
Top-ranking Obama administration officials, including the U.S. copyright czar, played an active role in secret negotiations between Hollywood, the recording industry and ISPs to disrupt internet access for users suspected of violating copyright law,
Imagine that you couldn't drive on major highways without agreeing to put a camera in your car -- one that could film either the occupants or the vehicle’s surroundings and transmit the images back to a central office for inspection.
You don't hav
The most optimistic researchers believe that these storehouses of “big data” will for the first time reveal sociological laws of human behavior — enabling them to predict political crises, revolutions and other forms of social and economic instabilit
Children are to be banned from taking part in traditional Christmas games, from blowing up balloons to blowing on party whistles, because of new EU safety rules that have just entered into force.
Any antivirus tool worth its salt should offer you comprehensive protection against malware created by bad guys who are out to do you harm. But what about protecting you against governmental backdoors or “lawful interception” police Trojans?
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Testifying yesterday in Congress, FBI Director Robert Mueller and National Counterterrorism Center director Matthew Olsen both agreed that the seldom used “lone wolf” provision of the USA PATRIOT Act, a provision which allows broad intelligence gathe
The FBI by mid-January will activate a nationwide facial recognition service in select states that will allow local police to identify unknown subjects in photos, bureau officials told Nextgov.
Be careful where you decide to park your car.
Massapequa Park will be the first Long Island municipality to use electronic sensors embedded in the street to detect illegally parked vehicles.
Police can quickly slap a $25 fine on the vehicle aft
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is permitted to include people on the government’s terrorist watch list even if they have been acquitted of terrorism-related offenses or the charges are dropped, according to newly released documents.
John Adams lost the 1800 presidential election to Thomas Jefferson in large part because Adams, in 1798, pushed through Congress the Alien and Sedition Acts that punished any of the new Americans who stirred up "sedition within the United States" by
Navigation-and-emergency-services company OnStar is notifying its six million account holders that it will keep a complete accounting of the speed and location of OnStar-equipped vehicles, even for drivers who discontinue monthly service.
Homeland Security’s See Something, Say Something snitch campaign is now so pervasive that Big Sis has extended the message to coffee cups, recruiting jittery coffee drinkers to spot terrorists. DHS funds to purchase the ads.
The FBI is now instructing store owners to report many new forms of “suspicious activity” to them. According to the document, “suspicious activity” now includes… paying with cash
The $2.8 billion Desert Schools FCU in Phoenix plans to begin using this fall a new voice biometrics solution from Finivation Software of New York City.
This newly proposed DHS Watchlist Service will combine four different DHS systems of records including the TSA-managed [9] Transportation Security Threat Assessment System [10] and TSA's Secure Flight [11]
Smart Meters – You Can Stop the Invasion! Smart Meters are a surveillance device and are a danger to your health. Radio frequency meters can be used to create confusion and lethargy.
The new technology allows the government to “track your eye movements, capture and record your facial dimensions for face-recognition processing, bathe you in X-rays to look under your clothes, and even image your naked body using...
Aware, today announced that it has won a competitive contract to provide the "TSA" of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security with a (commercial off-the-shelf) Fingerprints System" and associated installation support, training, and maintenance.
The BAT-A system includes an enrollment kit consisting of a laptop and attached biometric collection devices capable of enrollment, verification and identity detection, together with mobile handheld devices for collecting, storing...
Canucks Fans: TURN ON GigaTag and try to break the World Record of the Most People Tagged in One Online Photo which currently belongs to The FA Cup Final 2011 with 23,900+ tags. Find yourself and your friends in the Game 7 crowd, then tag and share o
Manufactured by Fujitsu under the trade name PalmSecure, it's a system that requires no hardware on the user side. If you've got hands and you can wave them in front of a detector, you can use it to make purchases.