N.S.A. Collecting Millions of Faces From Web Images
• nytimes.com, By JAMES RISEN and LAURA POITRASFor more than a decade there have been sightings of unusual high-speed watercraft patrolling up and down the Columbia River.
Contents Pages by Subject
Surveillance
LAPD adds drones to arsenal, says they'll be used sparingly
• http://www.latimes.com, By Joel RubinThe Los Angeles Police Department has acquired some eyes in the sky. .
Do Personal Computers Come With NSA Surveillance Devices Built-In As Standard?
• TechDirtThe GCHQ's actions immediately raise a troubling thought: that most or all mainstream computers routinely contain various components that can be used to spy on us.
Glenn Greenwald: NSA documents on Middle East to be disclosed
• english.al-akhbar.comNumerous documents focusing on partnerships and surveillance tactics between America's National Security Agency and regional security apparatus' in the Middle East, especially the Gulf region, will be released soon, according to the journalist leadin
New federal database will track Americans' credit ratings, other financial information
• washingtonexaminer.comAs many as 227 million Americans may be compelled to disclose intimate details of their families and financial lives -- including their Social Security numbers --
NBC Censors Snowden's Critical 9/11 Comments from Prime Time Audience
• Daily Paul.com"They found that we had all of the information we needed as an intelligence community... to detect this plot"
No Place To Hide
• by Andrew P. NapolitanoWith heart-pounding suspense, John le Carre-like intrigue and Jeffersonian fidelity to the principles of human freedom, Glenn Greenwald has just published No Place to Hide.
The empire strikes back: How Brandeis foreshadowed Snowden and Greenwald
• http://www.salon.com, Andrew O'Hehir.So-called liberals attack the whistle-blower duo -- and a brilliant Supreme Court justice saw it all coming
Greenwald's Finale: Naming Victims of Surveillance
• http://www.realclearpolitics.com, By Toby HarndenThe man who helped bring about the most significant leak in American intelligence history is to reveal names of US citizens targeted by their own government in what he promises will be the “biggest” revelation from nearly 2m classified files.
Google Is Thinking About Buying A Company That Makes WiFi Cameras...
• http://www.businessinsider.comGoogle Is Thinking About Buying A Company That Makes WiFi Cameras That Record Everything In Your Home
How the US institutionalized surveillance
• http://america.aljazeera.com, by Kirsten WeldInformation is power. This is the logic — or at least the aspiration — behind the U.S. government’s current approach to intelligence gathering: the more data (or metadata) in hand, the more control.
No Place to Hide review...
• http://www.theguardian.com, Henry PorterNo Place to Hide review – Glenn Greenwald's compelling account of NSA/GCHQ surveillance
Butterfleye smart surveillance camera keeps watch with your iPhone
• gizmag.comButterfleye is a wireless home surveillance camera that’s joining the growing ranks of intelligent, smartphone connected webcam systems designed to keep watch while you’re out and about.
Greenwald's Finale: Naming Victims of Surveillance
• realclearpolitics.comThe man who helped bring about the most significant leak in American intelligence history is to reveal names of US citizens targeted by their own government in what he promises will be the “biggest” revelation from nearly 2m classified files.
EXPERT: Obamacare In Place For American Bio-Surveillance
• http://www.prisonplanet.comAlex is joined by president and co-founder of Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom, Twila Brase. Ms. Brase talks with Alex about the threat of biometrics and the unmitigated failure of Obamacare.
05/15/14 Philip Giraldi
• scotthorton.orgFormer CIA officer Philip Giraldi discusses why Israel is serious about spying but not about peace:
Police use cellphone spying device
• http://www.myfoxny.com,The Erie County sheriff says he's done making public comments about a cellphone surveillance device used by his police agency to gather information on persons of interest.
The War on America s Military Veterans, Waged with SWAT Teams, Surveillance and Neglect
• http://www.lewrockwell.com, By John W. WhiteheadJust in time for Memorial Day, we’re once again being treated to a generous serving of praise and grandstanding by politicians and corporations eager to go on record as being supportive of our veterans.
The Only Email System The NSA Can't Access
• ForbesWhen the NSA surveillance news broke last year it sent shockwaves through CERN, the particle physics laboratory in Switzerland. Andy Yen, a PhD student, took to the Young at CERN Facebook group with a simple message:
Secrets, lies and Snowden's email: why I was forced to shut down Lavabit
• The GuardianFor the first time, the founder of an encrypted email startup that was supposed to insure privacy for all reveals how the FBI and the US legal system made sure we don't have the right to much privacy in the first place.
The NSA records every call made in the Bahamas - Including Oprah
• Next News NetworkWikileaks recently released documents showing the National Security Agency records every single phone call made in the Bahamas. This includes every personal phone call made from Oprah Winfrey, who owns a seaside mansion there. The NSA is recording
Everyone should know just how much the government lied to defend the NSA
• http://www.theguardian.com, Trevor TimmA web of deception has finally been untangled: the Justice Department got the US supreme court to dismiss a case that could have curtailed the NSA's dragnet. Why?
Did The Justice Department Lie to the Supreme Court…And Get Away With It?
• Jonathan TurleyTwo Senators accused the Justice Dept of lying about NSA warrantless surveillance to the US supreme court last year, and those falsehoods all but ensured that mass spying on Americans would continue.
Everyone should know just how much the government lied to defend the NSA
• The GuardianThe supreme court ruled, 5-4, the case is dismissed because the plaintiffs didn't have "standing" – the ACLU's couldn't prove their clients, including journalists and human rights advocates, were targets of surveillance,
More Government Snoop Dogs
• .Lawmakers want to monitor and control speech on radio, television and the Internet for “hate” and material that government snoops deem to be encouraging “violent acts.” The Act does not specify what constitutes “hate”
Never Forgetting a Face
• http://www.nytimes.com, By NATASHA SINGERJoseph J. Atick cased the floor of the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington as if he owned the place.
No Place to Hide: A Conservative Critique of a Radical NSA
• http://www.theatlantic.com, Conor FriedersdorfGlenn Greenwald's new book is far more grounded in traditional American norms, laws, and values than the surveillance programs it is critiquing.
How the NSA & FBI made Facebook the perfect mass surveillance tool
• venturebeat.comThe National Security Agency and the FBI teamed up in October 2010 to develop techniques for turning Facebook into a surveillance tool.
Glenn Greenwald: from Martin Luther King to Anonymous...
• http://www.theguardian.com, Glenn GreenwaldDon't believe the argument that mass surveillance is only a problem for wrongdoers. Governments have repeatedly spied on anyone who challenges their power, says Glenn Greenwald in an extract from his book about Edward Snowden and the NSA, No Place to
Book Reveals Wider Net of U.S. Spying on Envoys
• http://www.nytimes.com, By CHARLIE SAVAGEIn May 2010, when the United Nations Security Council was weighing sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program, several members were undecided about how they would vote.
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