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The House members who voted 301-118 to reauthorize the vast spying powers in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Amendments Act don't seem to understand what they were doing. The same thing happened in 2008, when Congress first
Secret, standardless, extra-judicial administrative “watchlists” of supposed terrorists aren’t just being used to decide who to “watch” — they are now being used as the basis for preventive detention.
Most people don't realize that Facebook can continue to monitor their internet activity, even if they are no longer logged into the site.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has reached a milestone in the development of their Next Generation Identification (NGI) program and is now implementing the intelligence database in unidentified locales across the country, New Scientist reports i
A tiny amendment buried in the federal transportation bill to be signed today by President Barack Obama will put operators of roll-your-own cigarette operations in Las Vegas and nationwide out of business at midnight. Robert Weissen, with his brot
How a defense-based industry is preparing to fill the home skies with robots
Each person has unique feet, and ways of walking. Sensors in the bio-soles check the pressure of feet, monitor gait, and use a microcomputer to compare the patterns to a master file for that person. If the patterns match the bio-soles
Since Jan. 1 of this year the Federal Aviation Administration has authorized 106 federal, state and local government “entities” to fly “unmanned aircraft systems,” also known as drones, within U.S. airspace.
The principal function of government since 9/11, even if unintentional, has been to develop strategies to reduce individual liberties and transfer power to the government while not appearing to do so.
Big Brother's got a brand new bag.
Ever wondered why your cell phone reception becomes terrible at protests? Or worry that police could intercept mobile data while you are in the streets exercising your rights? You might be on to something.
Who flies the robotic skies? Drones have evolved from the U.S. military's battlefield scouts into the hottest new gadgets for Homeland Security and local police departments.
Most of us don’t think much about it, but the truth is that people are being watched, tracked and monitored more today than at any other time in human history.
Scanning the crowd from 160 feet away
Understanding the Surveillance State, how it operates -- most importantly, figuring out how to challenge it and undermine it, and subvert it -- is an absolute prerequisite to any sort of meaningful activism, to developing strategies and tactics for h
The head of the powerful National Security Agency, General Keith Alexander, said the US must adopt a law to protect the country from cyberattacks while insisting that it would respect privacy. Faced with ever-increasing Internet traffic and the mo
Back in February Congress directed the Federal Aviation Administration to fast-track the integration of unmanned aerial systems into the U.S. national airspace, but it didn’t tell the FAA how exactly to do this.
So here's the scary number: the major wireless carriers (Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and a couple little guys like U.S. Cellular and Cricket) revealed that in total, in 2011, they received 1.3 million requests for user data from law enforcement
Ubiquitous in the modern world, the cell phone is a very personal item and, perhaps predictably, at has become one of the favorite targets for US law enforcement fishing expeditions, according to new data released by cell phone companies.
With the use of domestic drones increasing, concern has not just come up over privacy issues, but also over the potential use of lethal force by the unmanned aircraft.
U.S. law enforcement agencies are tracking more cellular devices than ever these days but obtaining fewer wiretapping warrants, according to a report by Eric Lichtblau, published in Sunday’s New York Times.
Parrot's second-gen recreational drone packs new hardware that makes for a smoother, more controlled piloting experience
Google sent out an email to Google Adwords customers saying that they are going to pull all Google Shopping results for guns, ammunition, gun optics and gun accessories (Shopping results, not general search results).
Students at MIT’s Humans and Automation Lab and researchers at Boeing Research & Technology, Boeing’s advanced, central R&D unit, are working to prove that a smart phone can be used to quickly and safely fly miniature unmanned aircraft.
Intelligence agency sought to limit U.S. spy satellite sharing with Israel
A grand jury in a US District Court in California has indicted Ryan Cleary, suspected member of LuzSec, the CIA backed hacking group, of hacking into websites such as Fox Entertainment, PBS and Sony Pictures Entertainment, as well as into servers run
Search engine company has said there has been a troubling increase in requests to remove political content from the internet
The War on Drugs has been threatening the fundamental rights of ordinary Americans, and greatly impinging upon states rights, as agencies like the DEA continue to claim that their federal authority supersedes local decisions. Despite protections a
British authorities unveiled an ambitious plan to log details about every email, phone call or text message in the U.K., and the nation's top law enforcement official accused those worried about it of being criminals or conspiracy theorists.
People in the D.C. area are buzzing after pictures began popping up online showing what many believed to be a 'UFO' in transport along the Capitol Beltway.
