Police Use Cellphone Spying Device
• myfoxny via rense.comA stingray is a device that mimics a cell tower and thereby tricks all wireless devices on the same network into communicating with it. Erie County, New York has used one since 2008.
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Surveillance
Secret Radio: A Neglected Freedom Strategy
• The Daily AnarchistSecret radio provides an alternative means by which to network and to spread information. Especially radios that run on batteries can substitute for the internet and for phones. My alternative communication system includes a ham radio and a short-wav
Matchstick-sized sensor can record your private chats
• newscientist.comA sensor previously used for military operations can now be tuned to secretly locate and record any single conversation on a busy street
Experiments Show How Light Bulbs Can Spy On You
• activistpost.comAn LED light can be used to spy on someone and hear everything that they are saying in their home. Don't believe? Here's your proof!
Is your TV watching you? New hi-tech hacks target locks, webcams and TVs
• Yahoo! News blog“Smart TVs” can be hacked allowing attackers to “watch” families through webcams, and working even if the victims try to turn the set off. More than 80 million Smart TVs sold around the world in 2012, but, “we hardly see security research
TSA Searches Valet Parked Car (!?!)
• WHEC New York via Rense.comRunning late for a flight, why not valet-park your car, rather than search for a spot in the garage...?
License Plate Readers Track You for Profit
• http://www.wired.com, By David KravetsAs license plate readers proliferate, law enforcement and private business are pooling surveillance data in light of conflicting guidelines on how long they may retain the data, which often is marketed for profit, according to a report by the America
Millions in US tax dollars go to Big Data for wiretap capabilities
• Russia TodayAT&T charges the government a $325 “activation fee” for each individual wiretap and a daily fee of $10 to maintain it. Verizon charges government eavesdroppers $775 for the first month of monitoring an individual then $500 in a month
Truth About Facebook (Check out new Link to Arizona Activist project today)
• YouTube.comWanna Project?... These were distributed today 10-04-2012... Sneak Peek
Members of Congress Who Reauthorized Warrantless Wiretapping Bill Don't Understand What It Does
• MotherJonesThe 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 “watchlist” used as basis for preventive detention
• Identity ProjectSecret, 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.
How To Stop Facebook From Tracking You
• http://www.businessinsider.com, Samantha FelixMost people don't realize that Facebook can continue to monitor their internet activity, even if they are no longer logged into the site.
FBI begins installation of $1 billion face recognition system across America
• RT.comThe 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
Government destroys Roll-Your-Own cigarette businesses
• BETH KARUSCHAK LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNALA 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
At America's Biggest Drone Show, The Focus Shifts Toward Domestic Skies
• http://www.popsci.com, By Clay DillowHow a defense-based industry is preparing to fill the home skies with robots
New lab working on security shoe sole to ID people
• APEach 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
FAA Has Authorized 106 Government ‘Entities’ so far to Fly Domestic Drones
• CNS NewsSince 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.
Drones Overseas Lead to Drones at Home
• antiwar.com/Philip GiraldiThe 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.
NSA's Accumulo
• https://www.google.com/searchBig Brother's got a brand new bag.
Activist Communications Compromised by IMSI "Catchers"
• PrivacySOS.orgEver 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.
REVEALED: This Is Where To Report On US Domestic Drone Deployments
• InnovationNewsDaily StaffWho 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.
14 Incredibly Creepy Surveillance Technologies That Big Brother Will Be Using To Spy On You
• http://www.prisonplanet.com, Michael SnyderMost 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.
This Laser Can Instantly, Remotely Scan You For Drugs or Explosives
• http://www.popsci.com, By Clay DillowScanning the crowd from 160 feet away
Glenn Greenwald: How America's Surveillance State Breeds Conformity and Fear
• AlternetUnderstanding 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
NSA chief backs cybersecurity law
• AFPThe 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
Army's Smart 'Sense and Avoid' System Key to Letting Drones Cruise Domestic Skies
• http://www.popsci.com, By Clay DillowBack 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.
In First U.S. Accounting of Wireless Phone Surveillance...
• http://www.popsci.com, By Dan NosowitzSo 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
US Cell Phone Companies See Surveillance Requests Soar
• http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason DitzUbiquitous 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.
Groups Concerned Over Arming Of Domestic Drones
• http://washington.cbslocal.comWith 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.
Report: Police spying on more cell phones than ever
• http://www.rawstory.com, Stephen C. WebsterU.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.
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