Source: Daily Mail
Town halls are installing cameras inside suburban homes to spy on the neighbourhood.
The Big Brother tactic – which is allowed under the anti-terrorist Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act – is being used by Croydon council in South London to catch those suspected of ‘anti-social behaviour’.
The CCTV cameras are placed inside the house of [...]
By WILLIAM M. BULKELEY
Extensive Surveillance System Integrates Nonpolice Video, Raises Concerns About Possible Privacy Abuses
IBMWorkers in Chicago’s Office Of Emergency Management
A giant web of video-surveillance cameras has spread across Chicago, aiding police in the pursuit of criminals but raising fears that the City of Big Shoulders is becoming the City of Big Brother.
While many [...]
In a case that raises questions about online journalism and privacy rights, the U.S. Department of Justice sent a formal request to an independent news site ordering it to provide details of all reader visits on a certain day.
The grand jury subpoena also required the Philadelphia-based Indymedia.us Web site “not to disclose the existence of [...]
Spying on Americans: Obama Endorses Bush Era Warrantless Wiretapping
Antifascist Calling… – 2009-11-05
by Tom Burghardt
President Barack Obama instructed Justice Department attorneys to argue last week in San Francisco before Federal District Judge Vaughn Walker, that he must toss out the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Shubert v. Bush lawsuit challenging the secret state’s driftnet surveillance of Americans’ [...]
NSA Supercenters to Store Americans’ Private Data Permanently
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Written by Thomas R. Eddlem
Wednesday, 28 October 2009 08:30
The National Security Agency is building huge new storage facilities to store the unconstitutionally gained data on the American people’s telephone calls and Internet traffic permanently, including new buildings in suburban Salt Lake City, Utah, and San [...]
Source: Therearenosunglasses’s Weblog – Mark Thomas
I was sent the now notorious “police spotter card” through the post. It’s an official laminated card for “police eyes only” and labelled as coming from “CO11 Public Order Intelligence Unit”. The card contained the photographs of 24 anti-arms trade protesters, unnamed but lettered A to X. My picture appeared [...]
Secret State Monitors Protest, Represses Dissent
By Tom Burghardt
October 12, 2009 “Dissident Voice” — As social networking becomes a dominant feature of daily life, the secret state is increasingly surveilling electronic media for what it euphemistically calls “actionable intelligence.”
Take the case of Elliot Madison. The 41-year-old anarchist was arrested in Pittsburgh September 24 at the height [...]
Source: BNet
Novartis and Proteus Biomedical are not the only companies hoping to implant microchips into patients so that their pill-popping habits can be monitored. VeriChip of Delray Beach, Fl., has an even bolder idea: an implanted chip that links to an online database containing all your medical records, credit history and your social security ID.
As [...]
BY Rocco Parascandola
DAILY NEWS POLICE BUREAU CHIEF
Thursday, October 8th 2009, 4:00 AM
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The NYPD is instructing cops to log serial numbers from suspects’ phones.
The NYPD is amassing a database of cell phone users, instructing cops to log serial numbers from suspects’ phones in hopes of connecting them to past or future crimes.
In the era of disposable, [...]
Source: Daily Mail
Its vivid colour is clearly designed to appeal to youngsters. But this watch is really aimed at their parents.
For its key selling point is a satellite positioning system that locates the wearer to within ten feet.
The makers claim the GPS tracking device will offer anxious parents peace of mind and allow children the [...]
The government has buried its nose in Bari Lynne Williams’s personal business.
Almost literally.
Twenty-four hours a day, whether she’s jogging, sleeping or managing a pool hall, Williams wears a high-tech sensor on her ankle that can detect the faintest whiff of alcohol in her perspiration. If she sneaks a drink, the device will know it — [...]
Boston’s Immunization Surveillance Tests Digital Registry
BTC – We spoke with Boston Globe city reporter Stephen Smith yesterday to update information about current innoculation programs. The story to follow was published 11/28/08 – last year. The information, after checking with the Boston Public Health Commission’s, Ann Scales, is still current and factually sound. We are now [...]
Status update: Barack Obama is archiving your opinions and personal information
Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Wednesday, Sept 16, 2009
If you’re a user of twitter, facebook, myspace, youtube or flickr, and you visit the White House page at any of the sites, you are at risk of having your personal data archived without your consent or knowledge.
The Obama White House [...]
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 10 September 2009 18.03 BST
Surveillance system in the Amish town of Lancaster will be bigger than cities such as Boston and San Francisco
A security camera is mounted on a utility pole in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Photograph: Carolyn Kaster/AP
Horses drawing buggies regularly clop [...]
Web-monitoring software gathers data on kid chats
By DEBORAH YAO (AP) – 3 days ago
Parents who install a leading brand of software to monitor their kids’ online activities may be unwittingly allowing the company to read their children’s chat messages — and sell the marketing data gathered.
Software sold under the Sentry and FamilySafe brands can read [...]
Source: Rense.com – Jim Kirwan
“By 2005, the Pentagon had already amassed 34 million names and information, on young people, creating the largest repository of information on 16 to 25 year old youth, in the country” says the US military.
By 2005, the Pentagon and the SECRET government programs that had begun spying on the American public [...]
By Andrew J. Blumberg and Peter Eckersley, August 2009 Source: EFF
Also available as a PDF
Over the next decade, systems which create and store digital records of people’s movements through public space will be woven inextricably into the fabric of everyday life. We are already starting to see such systems now, and there will be many [...]
Changes Would Pose Serious Threat To Americans’ Personal Information, Says ACLU
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ACLU
CONTACT: (202) 675-2312; media@dcaclu.org
WASHINGTON – The American Civil Liberties Union submitted comments today to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) opposing its recent proposal to reverse current federal policy and allow the use of web [...]
Source: Daily Mail
Police have secretly been told to continue with the unlawful ‘Big Brother’ policy of indefinitely storing DNA samples taken from entirely innocent people.
It is more than seven months since European judges ruled that DNA taken from 850,000 people who were not convicted of any crime could not be stored for life.
But a leaked [...]
Source: PR.com
DAILY RFID releases RFID vehicle access control system with high identification accuracy, designed to track and manage vehicles in parking areas or gated communities to allow for accurate vehicle tracking as well as easy in-and-out access for drivers.
The new RFID vehicle access control system consists of passive UHF RFID windshield sticker tags attached to [...]
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