The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)
• http://www.wired.com, By James BamfordThe spring air in the small, sand-dusted town has a soft haze to it, and clumps of green-gray sagebrush rustle in the breeze.
Contents Pages by Subject
Surveillance
"GLOBAL SPYING". WASHINGTON'S "WEAPONIZED DATA" SYSTEM
• http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Tom BurghardtFrom driftnet surveillance to data mining and link analysis, the secret state has weaponized our data, "criminal evidence, ready for use in a trial," as Cryptohippie famously warned.
FOIA Docs: US Cities Plan Spy Drone Fleets
• http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason DitzLawsuit Provides Glimpse Into America's Drone-Filled Future
Is America a Free Country?
• http://original.antiwar.com, by Justin RaimondoThe “war on terrorism” has inaugurated a new era in the American polity, a sea-change that has not only threatened to overturn traditional limits on government power but also corrupted the political culture – and opened the way to the terminal crisis
Chip lets smartphones see through walls, clothes
• AFPResearchers at a Texas university have designed a chip that could give smartphones the long-envied ability of comic book her Superman to see through walls, clothes or other objects. A team at University of Texas at Dallas tuned a small, inexpensiv
Demographic Data Mining in Bars: Cool or Creepy?
• Yahoo! News blogBar & Club Stats, appropriately enough, and they sell ID scanners and software that both verifies your ID and collects your demographic data for the bar or club to collect. [and share instantaneously with the cops?]
"The NSA Is Lying": U.S. Government Has Copies of Most of Your Emails Says NSA Whistleblow
• YouTube.comHe estimates the NSA has assembled 20 trillion "transactions" — phone calls, emails and other forms of data — from Americans. This likely includes copies of almost all of the emails sent and received from most people living in the United States.
Regulating domestic drones on a deadline
• Washington PostHow do you put large numbers of unmanned systems in the air without endangering commercial and general aviation? Who can fly a UAV — not to mention, of what size, how high and how far — without its posing a threat? What rules should apply, and how sh
EU may reject ACTA
• http://rt.comThe controversial pan-global anti-piracy agreement, ACTA, may soon be dead in the water.
House Intel Chair: Google Secretly Backs CISPA
• http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason DitzGoogle Declines Official Comment on Controversial Bill
Activists Aim To Crush Internet Censorship Bill
• http://www.prisonplanet.com, Steve WatsonWeek of protests against CISPA begins
Web freedom faces greatest threat ever, warns Google's Sergey Brin
• http://www.guardian.co.uk, Ian KatzThreats range from governments trying to control citizens to the rise of Facebook and Apple-style 'walled gardens'
Japan bank to install palm-reading ATMs
• phys.orgA file picture of an employee of Hitachi demonstrating the company's latest auto teller machine (ATM) using a biometric security system to read patterns of users' fingers in Tokyo. A regional bank in central Japan will become the country's first fina
UAE Signs Deal to Integrate National IDs Into Mobile Phones
• www.eff.orgThe UAE has had a national ID system since 2004, with IDs carrying a chip similar to one on a credit card and holding a person's name, birthday, gender, photograph, fingerprint, and ID number.
Miami-Dade PD Releases Information about Its Drone Program; Will the FAA Follow Suit?
• www.eff.orgMiami-Dade PD records include the Federal Aviation Administration-issued Certificate of Authorization (COA) to fly the MDPD drones. This appears to be the first time a law enforcement agency has made its COA available to the public without redactions
The 'Special Collective Service' Is The US Spy Agency Nobody Has Ever Heard Of
• http://www.businessinsider.com, D.B. GradySoon, Congress will begin drafting legislation reauthorizing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which serves as the legal framework for domestic espionage against external threats.
California lawmaker pushes to end warrantless cell phone tracking
• RawstoryCalifornia state Sen. Mark Leno (D) introduced legislation on Tuesday that would prohibit law enforcement agencies in the state from using a person’s cell phone to track their movement, unless they first got a warrant. “Our modern day smart phones
Spying on Europe’s farms with satellites and drones
• http://www.bbc.co.uk, By Laurence PeterFarmers who claim more EU subsidies than they should, or who break Common Agricultural Policy rules, are now more likely to be caught out by a camera in the sky than an inspector calling with a clipboard.
SPYING ON AMERICANS: Obama's Backdoor "Cybersecurity" Bills Threatens Political and Pr
• Tom Burghardt, Global ResearchUnder the guise of "cybersecurity," the new all-purpose bogeyman to increase the secret state's already-formidable reach, the Obama administration and their congressional allies are crafting legislation that will open new backdoors for even more intr
SPYING ON AMERICANS: Obama's Backdoor "Cybersecurity" Wiretap Bill
• http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Tom BurghardtUnder the guise of "cybersecurity," the new all-purpose bogeyman to increase the secret state's already-formidable reach, the Obama administration and their congressional allies are crafting legislation that will open new backdoors for even more intr
Feds Want Way to Hack Xboxes and Wiis for Evidence
• By Kim Zetter, WiredDHS has launched a research project to find ways to hack into gaming consoles to obtain sensitive information about gamers stored on the devices. Gaming consoles can store sensitive information such as passwords, credit card numbers and addresses.
13 Ways Government Tracks Us
• http://govtslaves.info, Bill QuigleyPrivacy is eroding fast as technology offers government increasing ways to track and spy on citizens.
Feds Want Access To Your Xbox And Wii Video Game Systems
• http://govtslaves.info, Kim ZetterThink twice if you live outside the U.S. and plan to sell your used gaming console.
'Civil liberties? They're safe.' And if you believe that…
• http://www.guardian.co.uk, John NaughtonThe government has yet to show why we should trust the security forces with sweeping new powers of surveillance.
'Cyber Czar' wants Homeland Security to patrol America's Internet borders
• http://rt.comLawmakers in Washington are divided as to how to implement cybersecurity legislation to protect against infiltration from hackers, but one insider says the answer is simple: just establish border patrol for the Internet in America.
Our government is watching us more
• http://www.southernstandard.com, By NAT HENTOFFNot long before Dick Armey -- a conservative Republican constitutionalist -- retired as House majority leader, he gave a speech expressing his worry about the government's increasing blanket surveillance over We the People.
TOWARDS GLOBAL DISORDER: How the Corporate Rights System Straddles the World
• ://www.globalresearch.ca, by Prof. John McMurtryTHE LIFE-AND-DEATH WAR OF RIGHTS SYSTEMS DEFINED
21 Signs That The UK Is Being Transformed Into A Hellish Big Brother Surveillance Society
• http://endoftheamericandream.comWhy would anyone want to live in the UK at this point?
Canada's Privacy czar sounds alarm on drones patrolling U.S. border
• Ottowa NotebookWith the so-called “Three Amigos” meeting in Washington, Ottawa’s privacy czar is expressing fears that unmanned aircraft could soon be peering down onto all three countries in North America.
Powerful Senators Demand Giant Spy Blimp
• http://www.wired.com, By Noah ShachtmanIt’s a story so convoluted, only Washington could serve it up. Eighteen months ago, the Pentagon’s chief ordered the Air Force to start building a king-sized blimp that could spy on whole Afghan villages at once.
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