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Surveillance
U.S. Air Force reveals ‘neighborhood watch' spy satellite program
• http://news.yahoo.com, By Irene KlotzThe United States plans to launch a pair of satellites to keep tabs on spacecraft from other countries orbiting 22,300 miles above the planet, as well as to track space debris, the head of Air Force Space Command said.
Seattle Police To Use DHS-Funded Facial Recognition Program
• http://www.infowars.com, By Mikael ThalenThe Seattle Police Department is preparing to purchase a new facial recognition software program with a federal grant from the Department of Homeland Security.
Capital One: We Can Visit Cardholders at Home, Work
• ..Capital One's new update for credit card holders contains some language that sounds pretty alarming: it "may contact you in any manner we choose"—including a "personal visit" that could be "at your home and at your place of employment."
Inside Russia's Ridiculous Sochi Security Scanner
• http://www.popsci.com, By Kelsyy B. Atherton"Vibraimage - system that can do anything in human detection!"
Snowden Documents Reveal Covert Surveillance and Pressure Tactics...
• By Glenn Greenwald and Ryan GallagherTop-secret documents from the National Security Agency and its British counterpart reveal for the first time how the governments of the United States and the United Kingdom targeted WikiLeaks and other activist groups with tactics ranging from covert
Following the Bodies: “We Are at the Precipice of Something So Big, It Will Shake the Financial ...
• shtfplan.comEditor’s Note: In the investigative report below, Douglas Hagmann of the Northeast Intelligence Network delves deep into a world that most only believe exists in the realm of cinematic thrillers. It’s one of intrigue, corruption and murder, and it in
Snowden: NSA can track hidden online presence
• thehill.comEdward Snowden warns in a new TV interview that the National Security Agency can track people no matter how well they hide their online presence.
10 Prison Security Techniques Being Implemented on the American People
• govtslaves.infoAmericans are not typically aware of how their federal and state prison systems work. What we think we know, we learned from watching television.
Feds want to track your DNA like a license plate
• WNDThe government is planning an even more invasive spy program using “physiological signatures” to track down individuals. The goal is to detect and categorize – unique traits to “identify, locate and track specific individuals or groups of people.”
NSA's Australian allies spied on Indonesia-contracted US law firm
• .An American law firm advising Indonesian government on trade disputes with the United States has been reportedly caught up in yet another tangle of the National Security Agency espionage dragnet.
Oregon Police Give Nightclubs ID Scanners to Datamine Customers
• http://www.prisonplanet.com, Mikael ThalenPolice blame bar owners for not knowing law after getting caught pushing them into surveillance program
Homeland Security to Activate ‘National License Plate Recognition Database’
• infowars.comUK version of spy system was used to target political activists
Law: Shops must install video systems, give cops access
• USA TodayA new law requires certain merchants to install and maintain digital video camera systems to view and record quality video of everyone who enters, and to make those videos available to police on demand.
Rand Paul to sue Obama administration over NSA
• CNN's Dana DavidsenSen. Paul will sue President Obama and top officials in the NSA over surveillance. Paul's political action committee, RandPAC, announced plans by the Kentucky senator and potential 2016 presidential candidate to file a class-action challenge on Wed
Putting Big Brother in the Driver’s Seat: V2V Transmitters, Black Boxes & Drones
• rutherford.org“It’s a future where you don’t forget anything…In this new future you’re never lost…We will know your position down to the foot and down to the inch over time…
Jeremy Scahill: Death by Meta Data
• Daily PaulCell Phone Death - NSA to JSOC: ‘We Track ’Em, You Whack ’Em.’
The Next Big Thing You Missed: A Would-Be Dropbox Meant to Thwart the NSA
• Wired.comBitTorrent was best known as an internet protocol that let people swap pirated movies and music at the expense of big Hollywood studios and record labels.
‘The Day We Fight Back’ against NSA spying is Tuesday - Today!
• Levi Sumagaysay, Silicon BeatThe Day We Fight Back, a day of online protests to oppose mass spying, is scheduled for Tuesday. Even though the movement is mainly aimed at pushing the U.S. to take action, more than 5,000 websites have committed to participating to speak up for pri
Why a Railroad Merger May Get the Supreme Court to Rule on NSA Spying
• Wired.comThere are some events that bookies won’t accept wagers on, because the outcome is considered all but certain.
House Members Renew Call For The Capture Of Snowden As “Traitor” and Spy
• jonathanturley.orgMembers of Congress are shocked, shocked this week. No this Claude Rains moment was not over the hundreds of billions spent on unpopular wars or the creeping economy or the evisceration of civil liberties in America.
Report: NSA Phone Data Guides Drone Strikes Which Kill Innocents
• Jamie Condliffe on GizmodoPhone data from NSA phone surveillance is regularly used to carry out drone strikes—which have killed innocents along the way. . . the CIA orders a strike based on the activity and location of the mobile phone a person is believed to be using.
ALERT! New Symbol On Your Credit & Debit Cards (Video)
• http://www.dailypaul.com, by emalviniCheck your newer credit cards for the Wi-Fi Symbol on it.
I’m Rushing Out To Buy a Swatch!
• Lew Rockwell blog“The eccentric” — love it!–”chief executive officer of Swatch Group, one of the world’s top watchmakers, was so incensed by recent allegations of mass U.S. spying that he chastised a top New York official over the matter in a letter late last year.”
New App Allows Strangers to ID You Just by Looking at You
• .The information listed could include your name, occupation, any social media profiles you have set up and whether or not you have a criminal record ("CRIMINAL HISTORY FOUND" pops up in bright red letters according to the demo).
New surveillance technology can track everyone in an area for several hours at a time
• Washington PostShooter and victim were just a pair of pixels, dark specks on a gray streetscape. Hair color, bullet wounds, even the weapon were not visible in the series of pictures taken from an airplane flying two miles above.
Has the NSA Wiretapping Violated Attorney-Client Privilege?
• .A document leaked by Edward Snowden, along with interviews with lawyers representing terrorism suspects, reveal a disturbing loophole in this once-sacred legal principle.
Lawmakers ‘Disturbed and Angered’ After Classified Briefing Reveals Extent of Snowden Defense Leaks
• http://pjmedia.com, by Bridget JohnsonLeading members of the House Armed Services Committee emerged from a classified briefing on the Edward Snowden leaks Wednesday afternoon “shocked” at the amount of information he reportedly leaked beyond the NSA surveillance programs.
Tech’s biggest players hire first NSA lobbyist
• http://www.politico.com, By TONY ROMMApple, Google, Facebook and five other technology giants that have banded together in their calls for surveillance reform officially registered a Washington lobbyist on Thursday.
New York Police Department is beta-testing Google Glass
• http://venturebeat.com, Richard Byrne ReillyGoogle Glass may soon become a favored tool for law enforcement agencies in the United States.
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