Eye in the Sky
• http://www.radiolab.org,Ross McNutt has a superpower -- he can zoom in on everyday life, then rewind and fast-forward to solve crimes in a shutter-flash. But should he?
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Surveillance
Adviser to Cyber Program at NYU's UAE Campus Linked to Spy Tech Used to Repress Activists
• https://firstlook.org, By Lee FangHacking Team, the surveillance company notorious for helping repressive governments spy on their own citizens, partnered with Cyberpoint International, a U.S. defense contractor, to sell spyware to the United Arab Emirates, according to documents rev
Spying on the Internet is Orders of Magnitude More Invasive Than Phone Metadata
• https://firstlook.org, By Micah LeeWhen you pick up the phone, who you're calling is none of the government's business.
WikiLeaks: NSA Targeted German Chancellery, Merkel Aides
• http://abcnews.go.comWikiLeaks on Wednesday published a new list of German phone numbers it claims showed the U.S. National Security Agency targeted phones belonging to Chancellor Angela Merkel's close aides and chancellery offices for surveillance.
Amazon Knows Who Your Author Friends Are
• http://motherboard.vice.comIf Amazon's commitment to monitoring your shopping, reading, and social networking habits weren't enough of a bellwether for this bit of news, here's a thing for you: Amazon knows who your writer friends are and no, you can't post reviews for
School Administrators in Iowa to Monitor Students with Body Cameras
• Prison PlanetCameras to record "student movement" as well as "parent and student interactions"
Big Brother "Pay-by-the-Mile" Track and Tax Driving Scheme Being Rolled Out Now!
• http://truthstreammedia.comIt's here. We're finally starting to see the electronic big brother control grid of the technocrats' wildest dreams being rolled out.
Despite it Being Ruled Illegal, Obama's Secret Court Just Let the NSA Keep Spying on Your Phone
• http://truthstreammedia.comAnother 4th of July has come and gone, and another president has demonstrated that the idea of freedom under American democracy is an illusion. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court, at the request of President Obama, ruled on June 2
Technocratic Elite Domination via Mind Control and Mass Surveillance: Brzezinski Called It...
• http://truthstreammedia.com45 Years Ago.Truthstream Media | Former National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter, infamous geopolitical "strategist" (read: al-Qaeda architect), and current Barack Obama advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski called it nearly half a century ago.
NSA: Visualize Everything
• http://www.thedailybell.comThe National Security Agency, while primarily occupied by sweeping up billions of phone calls, emails, texts and social media messages each day, wants better visual information about the earth and its residents, too, Admiral Michael Rogers said Wedne
U.S. court rules NSA can temporarily resume bulk phone data collection
• Warren Strobel, YahooA U.S. court has ruled that the eavesdropping National Security Agency can temporarily resume its bulk collection of Americans' telephone records, according to documents made public on Tuesday.
Man Spies on a Suburban Town With Its Own Security Camera
• Wired.comRoughly 20 percent of the 245 million surveillance cameras in the world are network cameras that transmit live, often unsecure, feeds online.
Shooting a Drone Down Is Illegal, Court Rules
• http://blogs.discovermagazine.comSure, there's concern that the emergence of drones will come at the cost of personal privacy, but that doesn't mean we can turn our skies into the Wild West.
The Race Is On To Surround The Earth With Satellites That See Almost Everything
• http://www.popsci.comJust last year, three startups threw down the gauntlet in the race to dethrone Google Earth as the king of satellite imaging.
Orwell's Triumph: How Novels Tell the Truth of Surveillance
• firstlook.org/theinterceptWhen government agencies and private companies access and synthesize our data, they take on the power to novelize our lives.
Google's 'listening network' could be vulnerable to US govt, NSA ??" Falkvinge to R
• http://rt.comVoice recognition technologies are part of the future, but should trigger concern that IT companies are essentially building "listening networks" which can be exploited by the likes of the NSA, Swedish Pirate Party founder Rick Falkvinge told RT.
Churches use facial recognition software to track congregants
• http://rt.comChurches are joining the widening club of entities using Big Brother-style facial recognition software to track people. And they are doing so in secret, according to a producer of a specialized program designed for religious institutions.
Keep the Tinfoil Handy
• http://www.thedailybell.comThe FBI assured Congress in an unusual, confidential briefing that its plane surveillance program is a by-the-books operation short on high-definition cameras -- with some planes equipped with binoculars -- and said only five times in five years ha
What Is the Big Secret Surrounding Stingray Surveillance?
• http://www.scientificamerican.comState and local law enforcement agencies across the U.S. are setting up fake cell towers to gather mobile data, but few will admit it
'Widowmaker' Is the Five Eyes Spy Collective's Most Tasteless Codename
• http://motherboard.vice.comThe stash of secret documents provided to journalists by Edward Snowden has been a treasure trove of classified codenames from the spy agencies of the Five Eyes, the allied intelligence collective that includes the United States, the United Kingdom,
US embassy in Paris is 'home to secret spy nest'
• http://www.thelocal.frReports in France suggest the US spied on French presidents from a secret spy nest on the roof of its embassy in Paris, which stands just a stone's throw from the Elysée palace.
The federal government could be taking pictures of you in your car
• popularliberty.com"In addition to tracking license plates, the federal government has been taking and sharing photos of drivers and passengers inside the cars, documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union show."
Google Secretly Spying On Computer Users Via Microphones
• http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph WatsonInfowars first warned of PC microphone snooping nearly a decade ago
PLEASE DON'T PUT A CAMERA IN THE APPLE WATCH
• http://www.wired.com, BRIAN BARRETTDear Apple, IT HAS COME to my attention that you might possibly maybe potentially be mulling adding a video camera to the next Apple Watch. Ha ha, good prank! (I hope.)
Former traffic camera COE admits to bribing officials in Columbus, Cincinnati
• http://popularliberty.com, By bytejockeyKaren L. Finley of Cave Creek, Arizona admitted in federal court that through her former company, Redflex Traffic Systems, she funneled campaign contributions to officials in the two cities between 2005-13, according to a U.S. Justice Department news
The US defense industry is reeling after the latest massive cyber attack
• http://www.businessinsider.comU.S. weapons industry executives say they are disappointed and frustrated about a massive U.S. cyber breach that exposed sensitive information about millions of Americans, including many thousands who work on high-security arms projects.
Prisons Without Walls: We're All Inmates in the American Police State
• http://www.thedailybell.com3 "It is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison and yet not free--to be under no physical constraint and yet be a psychological captive, compelled to think, feel and act as the representatives of the national state, or of some p
Bush's Failed Biometric Surveillance Program
• http://motherboard.vice.com/read/bushs-failed-biomWould you trust a government surveillance program with an Illuminati-esque logo with hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars? Well, that already happened long ago.
America hates its whistle-blowers: The tortured legacy of Edward Snowden
• http://www.salon.comOn the second anniversary of his historic act of civil disobedience, we review what has changed (and what has not)
Should Companies Do Most of Their Computing in the Cloud? (Part 1 of 3)
• Schneier on SecurityI simply don't trust large corporations with my data. In America, they can sell my data at will and disclose it to whomever they want. It can be made public inadvertently by their lax security. My government can get access to it without a warrant.
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