Big Brother News Archive
McCain: I'd Spy on
Americans Secretly, Too
If elected president, Senator John McCain would
reserve the right to run his own warrantless
wiretapping program against Americans
Germany to
give police more surveillance powers
Rights groups said the new law would further curb
privacy rights
Chertoff keen on Israeli
airport security technology
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff
said on Thursday he will seek to adopt novel Israeli
methods, like behaviour-detection technologies, to
better secure America's airports
Orwellian Ubiquitous Computing May Build Ultimate Surveillance
Society
It may seem like a vision of a
distant science fiction world, but this scenario laid out by Adam
Greenfield, author of "Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous
Computing", is just around the corner.
Surveillance System Tracks
Shopper Movement
The firm’s FootPath system allows shopping centre
managers/owners, airport and railway station
managers, exhibition centres, art galleries and
museums to obtain data about the path that their
visitors take
Talking cameras 'a success'
TALKING CCTV cameras look set to become a permanent
fixture in an East Coast town after being hailed as
a vital tool in the fight against crime
The Technocratic Control
Grid Advances
The technological enslavement system is now being
implemented on a grand scale by the architects of
the global scientific dictatorship
Richmond installs 'smart'
crime cameras
Seeking to thwart crime and keep
terrorists and copper thieves away from its aging
seaport, Richmond unveiled a squadron of
surveillance cameras Wednesday said to be blessed
with an unusual intelligence
Airport-style scanners on
the streets
Police are to use hundreds of airport-style and
hand-held weapon detectors in the crackdown on knife
crime
UK Political "Tension
Monitor Committees" Map Race and Religion
More than 10 million people are to
have their everyday disputes, their politics and
their business lives checked by new "tension
monitoring" committees
Domestic spying far
outpaces terrorism prosecutions
As more Americans are watched, fewer cases are made.
The trend concerns civil liberties groups as well as
some lawmakers and legal experts
Billions spent on CCTV have
failed to cut crime
The billions of pounds spent covering Britain with
CCTV cameras has been an "utter fiasco" and failed
to slash crime
City video surveillance may
carry high privacy cost
A resident quoted in a recent Buffalo News article
about the city’s new video surveillance system
likened the cameras to candy, saying everybody wants
more
The
Manhattan Project: New York’s High Tech Panopticon
Indeed, New York has launched an ambitious
panopticon plan, one the rest of the country will
soon enough follow
Chertoff To Demonstrate New
Checkpoint At BWI
According to the Web site, the checkpoints will
feature soothing music to calm passengers
Face scans for air
passengers to begin in UK this summer
Airline passengers are to be screened with facial
recognition technology rather than checks by
passport officers
Father fined for
overfilling bin
A father-of-four has been left with a criminal
record for overfilling his wheelie bin by four
inches
In
Florida, Snooping Cops Disguise Cameras as Fire
Hydrants
It’s
like something dreamed up by East Germany’s Stasi
UK to get 300 new terror
police
Jacqui
Smith, the Home Secretary, today announced an extra
300 police officers to fight terrorism and
radicalisation within communities
Pharmacists suggest
monitoring system to detect painkiller abuse
The guild's president Tim Logan says he would prefer
to see pharmacists use a computer monitoring system
to detect people who are buying too much of the drug
Video surveillance to be
installed at school entrances
Video surveillance equipment will be installed at
the gates of Beijing primary and secondary schools
and kindergartens
Enhanced Tracking
Technology May Propel Adoption of RFID
A Los Angeles start-up says it has developed a way
to dramatically expand the range of a popular
wireless tracking technology
Six US cities tamper with
traffic cameras for profit
Six U.S. cities have been found
guilty of shortening the amber cycles below what is
allowed by law on intersections equipped with
cameras meant to catch red-light runners
Police database adds
further 1,000 children
The details of almost 1,000 Sussex children were
added to the DNA database in only three months, new
figures have revealed
Met Police officers to be
'microchipped' by top brass in Big Brother style
tracking scheme
Every single Metropolitan police officer will be 'microchipped'
so top brass can monitor their movements
Documents prove FBI has national eavesdropping program that tracks IMs, emails and cell phones
University library the new
'Big Brother'
"Librarians don't use the patriot act - it uses us."
Security plan for WTC means
army of cops, barriers and traffic hell
Secret NYPD anti-terror plans would turn Ground Zero
into Fort WTC - a bulked-up, battened-down,
barricaded Ring of Steel, the Daily News has learned
DHS reckons US cops' access
to sat-surveillance is go
US Homeland Security overlord Michael Chertoff has
told reporters that he believes plans for increased
use of satellite surveillance by American
law-enforcement agencies are ready to move forward
Twila Brase on DNA Warehouse and Ownership
Video: Kids have to thumbscan for school lunch - total conditioning
CIA enlists Google's help
for spy work
Google has been recruited by US intelligence
agencies to help them better process and share
information they gather about suspects
Worldwide video
surveillance market to reach $46 billion in 2013
The worldwide video surveillance market is
experiencing strong growth, and is foreseen to reach
from about $13.5 billion in total revenues in 2006
to $46 billion in 2013
Flashback:
Dutch open Big
Brother-style prison
Cell microphones are linked to the control centre
with sounds analysed by emotion recognition software
to alert guards to any violence
Therapeutic Cloning Works in Mice With
Parkinson's
Therapeutic cloning successfully treated Parkinson's disease in
mice, researchers report.
China: Surveillance in Line
With Norms
China dismissed a recent U.S. warning about
surveillance on Beijing Olympics visitors, saying it
was "irresponsible" because the country's security
measures do not violate international standards
Will Homeland Security
the Militarized Police State Shock You Into
Submission?
Upon activation of the electric shock device,
through receipt of an activating signal from the
selectively operable remote control means, the
passenger wearing that particular bracelet receives
the disabling electrical shock from the electric
shock device.
States Claiming Ownership of Newborn's DNA
RFID tech
turned into spy chips for clandestine surveillance
Nox Defense creates chips (and even RFID Dust) for
tracking property and people
CCTV in class spies on
teachers, says union
Schools are becoming "Orwellian" societies where
CCTV cameras in classrooms monitor pupil behaviour
and staff performance, teachers will warn today
DNA database plans for children who 'could become criminals'
The Suspect Society
Listen to the
program
here
(Real audio)
All UK citizens in ID database by 2017
All British citizens
will have their fingerprints and photographs registered on a
national ID database within 10 years under plans outlined by the
Government
National Dragnet Is a Click Away
Several thousand law enforcement agencies are creating the
foundation of a domestic intelligence system through computer
networks that analyze vast amounts of police information to fight
crime and root out terror plots
Government surveillance harms society, UF law
professor warns
“Privacy concerns seem to be very secondary to the government when
it’s engaging in these kinds of surveillance programs
Big brother is watching you frag
Who's collecting our behavioural data?
Roadside cameras that detect BLOOD will catch lone drivers who abuse car-sharing lanes
System will report suspicious acts
Using state-of-the-art technology that can interpret facial
expressions and hand gestures, the program will identify suspicious
behaviours and flash an alert to authorities
Big Business as Big Brother?
We are inreasingly being monitored everywhere, including at work
Doctors, Teachers to Act as Nanny State
Informers in UK
Doctors, teachers and social workers will be told to act as
informers to identify potential violent offenders for monitoring by
the police and other agencies
Council Announced that Covert Agents To Prowl
Dublin City
Dublin City Council yesterday announced it will use taxpayers money
to launch covert operations, not to target criminals but ordinary
people.
Lockheed Secures Contract to Expand
Biometric Database
The
FBI yesterday
announced the award of a $1 billion, 10-year contract to
Lockheed Martin to
develop what is expected to be the world's largest crime-fighting
computer database of biometric information
New Jersey E-ZPass Tracks Drivers Not on Toll
Roads
Drivers who use E-ZPass toll transponders are having their movements
recorded even when driving on free public roads.
New York to
Install Surveillance Cameras in Parks
Brother may soon be watching - at
your local playground
Exclusive! The FBI Deputizes Business
Today, more than 23,000 representatives of private
industry are working quietly with the FBI and the
Department of Homeland Security
British Government Orders
Mandatory Water Meters in Homes
Millions of
families face soaring water bills under Government
plans to introduce compulsory meters.
CIA Mines YouTube for
Intelligence
"We’re looking now at YouTube, which carries some
unique and honest-to-goodness intelligence,"
FBI wants palm prints, eye
scans, tattoo mapping
The FBI is gearing up to create a massive computer
database of people's physical characteristics, all
part of an effort the bureau says to better identify
criminals and terrorists
Who's listening?
Which official bodies in this country have the power to
look into your private mail, your telephone records, or
your internet communications - and in what circumstances
can they do it?
Congress Passes Extension of
Surveillance Law
The House and Senate yesterday approved a 15-day
extension of an expiring intelligence surveillance law
Researchers Announce '100%
Accuracy' In Facial Recognition
Psychology researchers from Glasgow University have just
announced that they've developed a facial recognition
algorithm that's 100% accurate in their testing.
RFID Panopticon
For autocrats, a world embedded with a constellation of
ubiquitous RFID sensors would be ideal
FISA 2.0 Called 'Atrocious'
Privacy Violation
privacy advocates say the proposal being offered by the
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is "atrocious."
Ministry’s Snoop Wing: the National Applications
Office
Not only is the
surveillance they are contemplating intrusive and
omnipresent, it’s also invisible
Facebook: The New Look of
Surveillance
Facebook users did not recognize how vulnerable their
information was within the site's architecture
Military Industrial Complex
Biometric Surveillance Control Grid Revealing Itself
A vast intelligence program is to establish a global biometric
database known as "Server in the Sky"
FBI seeks international database to carry
iris, palm and finger prints
Allies in the "war against terror" - the US, UK, Australia, Canada
and New Zealand - have formed a working group, the International
Information Consortium, to plan their strategy
Spychief: government must be able to read
all information crossing the internet
Spychief Mike McConnell is
drafting a plan to protect America’s cyberspace that will raise
privacy issues and make the current debate over surveillance law
look like “a walk in the park,”
GPS, RFID Scheme Preps Grade Schoolers for
Control Grid Future
In Middletown, they are getting serious about conditioning the
little ones for the future.
Now, "bugged"
washing machines to help in surveillance of Australian citizens
The Australian Law Reform
Commission has said that washing machines could soon be fitted with
radio frequency identification equipment, known as RFID, which is a
surveillance device that can store information and transmit it to a
data-processing system.
ANTI-CCTV MAN TO
LEAVE 'BIG BROTHER BRITAIN'
An outspoken
campaigner from Dawlish is quitting Britain claiming 'spy cameras'
are driving him out of the country.
California wants to
control home thermostats
Next year in California, state regulators are
likely to have the emergency power to control
individual thermostats, sending temperatures up
or down through a radio-controlled device...
U.S. and Britain:
“Endemic Surveillance Societies”
According to
Privacy International,
a human rights group an watchdog on surveillance
and privacy, Britain and the United States are
in the lowest category when it comes to privacy
and government snooping.
Privacy rights
'fragile' in 2007
Threats to personal privacy got more severe in
2007, a report has claimed.
Dome agreeing to let
cops monitor patrons via in-house cameras
could set precedent, privacy expert fears
The decision to give law enforcement
officials access to surveillance cameras at
the Dome bar complex in downtown Halifax
could mean other bars will be forced to do
the same if they want to keep selling booze,
says a privacy expert.
New super-cameras
mean no hiding for drivers who smoke, eat or
use a phone
Digital speed cameras which capture drivers
smoking or eating at the wheel are being
introduced nationwide in a new move to
hammer motorists.
"Enhanced" RFID
drivers license available soon in Washington
The enhanced drivers' license will be
available in Washington next month and it
is designed to meet the stringent
requirements of Homeland Security.
Angry Populace Burning
British Surveillance Cameras
"MAD is the UK’s only direct action anti-speed
camera group and it’s been going since summer
2000
New York's Total Snoop
Grid Moving Forward
NY1 News reports: New York City police are
moving forward on a multimillion-dollar
counter-terrorism initiative, installing more
than a hundred license plate readers and
eventually thousands of cameras in Lower
Manhattan.
Big Brother Britain:
How much do you earn? Are you gay? Town Hall
chiefs have been ordered to find out
Every town
hall has been ordered to send out surveys
demanding local residents' personal information
and opinions.
Anticipatory
Conformity: Will the Growing Surveillance
Panopticon Cause us to Self-censor?
What sociological and psychological effects will
the trend toward an expanded surveillance
apparatus have on our social interactions?
Keep Your Chip Out of
My Arm
Have you been chipped?
DHS Finalizing Spy
Satellite Program To Watch Americans Without
Congressional Oversight
Plans also include "cyber-security strategy" to
"protect" domestic computer networks
AT&T engineer says Bush
Administration sought to implement domestic
spying within two weeks of taking office
In a New Jersey federal court case, the engineer
claims that AT&T sought to create a phone center
that would give the NSA access to "all the
global phone and e-mail traffic that ran
through" a New Jersey network hub.
Scottish School To Get
Talking CCTV Cameras
A School that was almost burned down by vandals
could get Scotland's first "talking" CCTV
cameras.
Surveillance society
TWENTY years ago the idea that a law abiding
citizen would not be able to walk around
Inverness without being captured on film and
monitored by the authorities would have been
considered ridiculous.
"Look": The First Major
US Film Made Entirely With Surveillance Footage
Look, which has already won major kudos on the
film festival circuit and will be in theaters
this Friday, is sure to be a thought provoking
and controversial film.
US secret court rejects
call to release wiretap documents
The top secret US court overseeing electronic
surveillance programs rejected Tuesday a
petition to release documents on the legal
status of the government's "war-on-terror"
wiretap operations.
Uniqueness lost in
surveillance society
Don’t look now. Somebody’s watching.