Big Brother News Archive
Iris Scanners Create the Most
Secure City in the World.
Welcome, Big Brother
When these residents catch a
train or bus, or take out money
from an ATM, they will scan
their irises, rather than
swiping a metro or bank card.
Full-Body Scan Technology
Deployed In Street-Roving Vans
As the privacy controversy
around full-body security scans
begins to simmer, it’s worth
noting that courthouses and
airport security checkpoints
aren’t the only places where
backscatter x-ray vision is
being deployed.
Connecticut S chool
Considers Tracking Devices for
Students
In the tony town of
New Canaan,
students might someday get
tracking tags along with their
textbooks.
Germany to roll out ID cards
with embedded RFID
The card will also have extended
functionality, including the
ability to enable citizens to
identify themselves in the
internet by using the ID card
with a reading device at home
Big
Brother: the series that made
surveillance acceptable
We might be forgiven for feeling
paranoid about this. But
paranoia is actively encouraged
by governments or organisations
that like to wield complete
power over the lives of its
citizens.
Personal Census Form Questions Upset Hawaii Residents
New
vending machines require finger
print, retina scan
Next Generation
Vending and Food Service is
experimenting with biometric
vending machines that would
allow a user to tie a credit
card to their thumbprint.
Feds
admit storing checkpoint body
scan images
For the last few years, federal
agencies have defended body
scanning by insisting that all
images will be discarded as soon
as they're viewed
“Top
Secret America”: The Rest Of The
Story
On the surface, the Post report
appears to be a valiant effort
by a major mainstream newspaper
(second in influence to only the
New York Times) to expose
widespread government abuse and
chicanery. But don’t get too
excited yet.
White
House Backs Bill to Collect
Employee Pay Information from
Businesses
The Obama administration is
backing
legislation
that includes regulations
requiring U.S. businesses to
provide to the government data
about employee pay as it relates
to the sex, race and national
origin of employees.
Google's Wi-Spying and
Intelligence Ties Prompt Call
for Congressional Hearing
Citing new information about
Google's classified government
contracts and the Internet
giant's admitted Wi-Spying
activity, Consumer Watchdog
today said it is more imperative
than ever for the Energy and
Commerce Committee to conduct
hearings into possible privacy
violations by Google.
Philadelphia Plans “Street-level
Intelligence” Fusion Center
The feds have set aside $20
million for a homeland security
headquarters in South
Philadelphia, according to city
officials who are seeking
approval from the city council
to lease the old Army
Quartermaster Corps complex.
NYC's
Bloomberg in London to view
transit CCTV
New York City Mayor Michael
Bloomberg is in
London to observe the
network of
security cameras on the
city's transport system.
Sen.
Shelby: Financial Reform
Violates Privacy
en. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.),
senior Republican on the Senate
Banking Committee, said that
provisions in the new financial
regulatory bill violate privacy
rights by allowing the
government to collect any
financial information it wants
from any financial institution
it wants.
Orwellian Big Brother Tax
Collection Commercial Airs in
Pennsylvania
We’re not living in an Orwellian
Police state; it’s all just a
conspiracy theory
Elderly Community Turns To Big
Brother For Help
New Jersey Assisted Living
Community Using High-Tech
Monitoring System To Watch
Residents
Facebook under privacy
microscope
Regulators globally are
grappling with a conundrum: how
to contend with the rise of an
internet phenomenon that five
years ago did not exist?
Government Lied: Naked Body
Scanners CAN Transmit Images
Earlier this year, as the
government began to roll out in
force its dangerous and
intrusive naked body scanners at
airports around the country, we
were told the machines are
unable to save images. For
instance, the claim is made in
the Associated Press report
below.
DHS Global Biometric Plan, Facial Recognition Billboards
U.S.
aviation security pick favors
Israeli model
President Barack Obama's
nominee to oversee security at
U.S. airports said on Tuesday he
wants to shift screening closer
to the Israeli model to include
more behavior detection in a bid
to thwart terrorism plots.
Parents
Angry Over CCTV In School
Toilets
Outraged parents have hit out at
a school in Birmingham after
pupils discovered CCTV cameras
in the school's toilets.
Spy
chips hidden in 2.5 MILLION
dustbins: 60pc rise in
electronic bugs as council
snoopers plan pay-as-you-throw
tax
More than 2.5million homes now
have wheelie bins fitted with
microchips to weigh their
contents.
Arizona: The Surveillance State
For years Arizona has been known
as the “sunset state,” but
lately some residents simply
call it the “surveillance
state.”
‘Covert’ surveillance cameras
coming to Chicago
Blue-light surveillance cameras
in Chicago's high-crime
neighborhoods will someday be
augmented by "covert" cameras
that "fit inside of a match box"
and keep the bad guys guessing,
Police Supt. Jody Weis said.
Feds
push for tracking cell phones
Whether state and federal police
have been paying attention to
Hollywood, or whether it was the
other way around, cell phone
tracking has become a regular
feature in criminal
investigations.
Radiation Safety Group Says
Naked Body Scanners Increase
Risk Of Cancer
An influential international
radiation safety organization
has warned that the naked body
scanners currently being rolled
out in airports across the world
increase the risk of cancer and
birth defects and should not be
used on pregnant women or
children.
NSA
Teams With Google Over
Cybersecurity
The electronic surveillance
agency of the US government, the
National Security Agency (NSA),
will soon be assisting search
engine giant Google, to improve
the company’s cyber security in
order to prevent any further
cyber attacks on the company’s
corporate infrastructure,
similar to the one, which was
reported by Google several weeks
ago.
CCTV in
the sky: police plan to use
military-style spy drones
Police
in the UK are planning to use
unmanned spy drones,
controversially deployed in
Afghanistan, for the "routine"
monitoring of antisocial
motorists, protesters,
agricultural thieves and
fly-tippers, in a significant
expansion of covert state
surveillance.
Texas
Schoolkids Tagged With GPS
Tracking Devices
Latest evidence that schools are
now youth internment centers
training kids to accept the
prison planet
FBI
broke law for years in phone
record searches
The FBI illegally collected more
than 2,000 U.S. telephone call
records between 2002 and 2006 by
invoking terrorism emergencies
that did not exist or simply
persuading phone companies to
provide records, according to
internal bureau memos and
interviews
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg says
privacy is no longer a 'social
norm'
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg
has denounced privacy as a
‘social norm’ of the past as
social networking's popularity
continues to grow.
Mind-reading systems could
change air security
As
far-fetched as that sounds,
systems that aim to get inside
an evildoer's head are among the
proposals floated by security
experts thinking beyond the
X-ray machines and metal
detectors used on millions of
passengers and bags each year.
Richard
Clarke: Detroit Patsy Incident
What We Need to “Get Over”
Privacy Fears
Clarke, a former government
bureaucrat, is part of this
cynical effort to roll out these
tyrannical devices in imposed a
high-tech surveillance and
control grid on the American
people.
Government Surveillance Of
Social Networks Challenged
The U.S.
government's use of social
networks as an investigatory
tool is being challenged by two
legal advocacy organizations.
Health and safety snoops to enter family
homes
Health and safety inspectors are to be given unprecedented access to
family homes to ensure that parents are protecting their children
from household accidents
Video: Implantable RFID advertisement
EU funding 'Orwellian' artificial
intelligence plan to monitor public for "abnormal behaviour"
The European Union is spending millions of pounds developing
"Orwellian" technologies designed to scour the internet and CCTV
images for "abnormal behaviour".
Cameras keep track of all cars
entering Medina
Cameras installed at Medina
intersections monitor every
vehicle coming into the city
Outrage
as police chiefs are secretly
told to hang on to unlawful DNA
Police have secretly been told
to continue with the unlawful
'Big Brother' policy of
indefinitely storing DNA samples
taken from entirely innocent
people.
Video: Government Website cars.gov Takes Over Your Computer Forever
Sin
Bins for Worst Families
THOUSANDS of the
worst families in England are to
be put in “sin bins” in a bid to
change their bad behaviour, Ed
Balls announced yesterday
How
Wired Gadgets Encroach on
Privacy
With Every High-Tech Gadget We
Buy, We Give up a Little More of
our Privacy
Big
Brother state wants even more
spy powers
Ministers were attacked by their
own surveillance watchdog last
night for wanting to make it
easier for public bodies to spy
on the public.
The
school with 100 spy cameras:
'Big Brother' system watches
pupils everywhere
A school has installed nearly
100 security cameras to monitor
classrooms, corridors and play
areas, it emerged yesterday.
India
to issue all 1.2 billion
citizens with biometric ID cards
The Government in Delhi recently
created the Unique
Identification Authority, a new
state department charged with
the task of assigning every
living Indian an exclusive
number.
Chips
in official IDs raise privacy
fears
Climbing
into his Volvo, outfitted with a
Matrics antenna and a Motorola
reader he'd bought on eBay for
$190, Chris Paget cruised the
streets of San Francisco with
this objective: To read the
identity cards of strangers,
wirelessly, without ever leaving
his car.
Video:
Special
"Q Group" security wing inside
US National Security Agency
Investigative journalist Wayne
Madsen claims the group has
since grown into a
disproportionate
counter-intelligence force,
mainly targeting journalists and
prosecuting whistleblowing
security officials.
World
Wide Wiretap
Recent cyber attacks provide
pretext for sweeping new
internet snooping powers by the
government
Big
brother is watching: The
technologies that keep track of
you
CCTV, RFID tags and GPS-enabled
phones are among the
technologies that can be used to
keep track of your movements.
Navy
Seeks Unblinking Eye for
Battlefield Surveillance
Imagine you had the ultimate
surveillance system: A network
of sensors on the ground and
hovering overhead.
Lancaster, PA
most
closely watched small city in
U.S.
This historic town, where
America's founding fathers
plotted during the Revolution
and Milton Hershey later crafted
his first chocolates, now boasts
another distinction.
Cashless Control Grid Inches
Closer to Reality
Central bankers in Japan are
mulling the abolition of cash.
Richard Jerram, a senior
economist with Macquarie bank,
told investors that “the
proposal has become practical
with the broad penetration of
electronic money and credit
cards in Japan,” reports the
Times Online.
Police
GPS surveillance raises legal
questions
In Connecticut, police don't
need warrant to use GPS tracking
National Licence Plate Surveillance Grid Tracks Anti-War Protesters
Big
Brother isn't working: How £500m
of CCTV cameras does 'next to
nothing' to cut crime
The millions of CCTV cameras on
Britain's streets have done
virtually nothing to cut crime,
Home Office research has
revealed.
Battle
to continue over Carlisle
wiretap arrest
The lawyer for a Carlisle man
who claims he was wrongly
charged with wiretapping for
taping a policeman during a
traffic stop said today that his
client will appeal a federal
judge's dismissal of his lawsuit
against borough police.
Police
Encourage Citizens To Report
People Who Drive Nice Cars
Those who can afford to buy
expensive items and live a nice
lifestyle are probably
criminals, according to UK
authorities
Police
State Study Ranks US As 6th
Worst In The World
UK in 5th, behind
only the most ardent
dictatorships
Asking
a machine to spot threats human
eyes miss
The surveillance cameras at Big
Y, a
Rep. Weiner: Do We Give Obama an Internet On-Off Switch?
Plan to
monitor all internet use
Communications firms are being
asked to record all internet
contacts between people as part
of a modernisation in UK police
surveillance tactics.
In
Warrantless Wiretapping Case,
Obama DOJ's New Arguments Are
Worse Than Bush's
We had hoped this would go
differently.
Obama
Admin Seeks to Legalize And
Expand Government Spying
Advocacy group Electronic
Frontier Foundation (EFF) has
warned that the Obama
administration is seeking to
expand the government’s
authority to carry out
wiretapping under the auspices
of national security.
Police
identify 200 children as
potential terrorists
Two hundred schoolchildren in
Britain, some as young as 13,
have been identified as
potential terrorists by a police
scheme that aims to spot
youngsters who are "vulnerable"
to Islamic radicalisation.
London
Police Encourage Citizens To
Report Contents Of Each Others'
Bins To Prevent Terrorism
Looking back at big brother
cameras is also terrorism
Council
uses spy plane with thermal
imaging camera to snoop on homes
wasting energy
Now snooping on the public has
reached new heights with local
authorities putting spy planes
in the air to snoop on
homeowners who are wasting too
much energy
Big
Brother legislation could mean
prosecution, fines up to $1
million
Some small farms and organic
food
growers could be placed under
direct supervision of the
federal government under new
legislation making its way
through Congress
Smart Grid: Government spying targets Rural America
Mobile
prison cells will cage criminals
on the beat
They will allow officers to
process criminals, fingerprint
them and issue, on-the-spot
fines, bail or court summons
without having to go back to a
police station.
Remote-controlled planes could
spy on British homes
Police could soon use unmanned
spyplanes like those used to
track enemy troops in Iraq and
Afghanistan for surveillance
operations on British homes.
BBC
News: Prepare for cashless
society
Consumers in the
UK should expect a revolution in
the way they pay for things in
the near future, according to
payments association Apacs.
Hackers
clone passports in drive-by RFID
heist
A British hacker
has shown how easy it is to
clone US passport cards that use
RFID by conducting a drive-by
test on the streets of San
Francisco.
When you watch these ads, the
ads check you out
Watch an advertisement on a
video screen in a mall, health
club or grocery store and
there's a slim — but growing —
chance the ad is watching you
too.
Overwatch Geospatial Systems Upgrades Urban Analyst
UK
Approves Police Hacking Home
Computers
The UK's Home Office is
supporting a proposal that would
allow British police or MI5
agents to hack home, office and
other private computers without
a warrant to intercept e-mail
traffic and monitor a user's
other computer activities
Flashback:
Big
Brother CCTV to spy on pupils
aged four
Schools have installed CCTV
cameras and microphones in
classrooms to watch and listen
to pupils as young as four.
Homeland Security turns reality TV star on ABC
‘Smart'
Surveillance System May Tag
Suspicious Or Lost People
Engineers here are developing a
computerized surveillance system
that, when completed, will
attempt to recognize whether a
person on the street is acting
suspiciously or appears to be
lost
Minority Report
comes to Britain: The CCTV that spots
crimes BEFORE they happen
CCTV cameras which can 'predict' if a
crime is about to take place are being
introduced on Britain's streets.
Web spies monitor activists online for police, attorney-general - report
First British
ID Cards Introduced
The UK has taken the first significant
step down the road towards rolling out a
controversial new national ID card
system.
Australian web
filter to block 10,000 internet sites
AUSTRALIA'S mandatory net
filter is being primed to block 10,000
websites as part of a blacklist of
unspecified "unwanted content".
MPs seek to
censor the media
Britain's security agencies and police
would be given unprecedented and legally
binding powers to ban the media from
reporting matters of national security,
under proposals being discussed in
Whitehal
'Reorganizing U.S. Domestic Intelligence': New report from Greg Treverton of the RAND Corporation
DOJ Ordered to Turn Over Warrantless Surveillance Documents
Australia To
Enforce Mandatory Chinese-Style Internet
Censorship
Government to block “controversial”
websites with universal national filter
Microsoft
Patents Censorship Bot
As the Times Online reports, the
corporate behemoth Microsoft is on the
verge of unleashing a technology capable
of eliminating “green inkers” and
conspiracy theorists.
U.S.
policymakers mull creation of domestic
intelligence agency
Now Congress is asking: Should the U.S.
have its own domestic intelligence
agency?
DARPA building
search engine for video surveillance
footage
The government agency that birthed the
Internet is developing a sophisticated
search engine for video, and when
complete will allow intelligence
analysts to sift through live footage
from spy drones, as well as thousands of
hours worth of archived recordings, in
order to spot a variety of selected
events or behaviors
WHTI: Another
Link in the Control and Surveillance
Grid
For most people the Western Hemisphere
Travel Initiative will be yet another
government mandated nuisance, but for
the government it is a vital link in a
larger control and surveillance matrix
NSA revelations
to have lasting implications
ACLU considers revisiting lawsuit
alleging spying on innocent citizen
Bailout Bill
Contains Invasive IRS Snooping Language
Think IRS agents posing as accountants
or tax preparers and saying, "I'm not
sure if that deduction is entirely
legal, but it'll save you $1,000. Want
to take it?"
Guidelines
expand FBI's surveillance powers
Justice Department
officials released new guidelines Friday
that empower FBI agents to use intrusive
techniques to gather intelligence within
the United States, alarming civil
liberties groups
VidSys Powers Up Physical Security Surveillance for the City of Davenport
Mobile phones to track carbon
footprint
Carbon Diem's inventors claim that, by
using GPS to measure the speed and
pattern of movement, their algorithm can
identify the mode of transport being
used
New York Offers
“Enhanced” RFID Driver’s Licenses
Starting Tuesday, New Yorkers will be
able to buy new driver's licenses
containing a radio chip that will let
them travel between the U.S. and Canada
or Mexico without a passport
Intel Envisions
Ubiquitous Worldwide Embedded Internet
"where every human on the planet is
connected to the Internet 7-by-24 in
every modality of life - how they work,
how they play, how they learn, and even
when they rest."
'Environmental volunteers' will be encouraged to spy on their neighbours
Video: Camera Shy Big Brother
Internet Eavesdropping: A
Brave New World of Wiretapping
As telephone conversations have moved to the
Internet, so have those who want to listen in
Cameras monitor your every step in China's most watched city
Keep big brother out of my trash
Beijing Olympics visitors to come under widespread surveillance
Google Says Privacy Doesn't
Exist
The
headline practically says it all.
Major International
Transport Hub Censors Political Websites
While media accuses China of blacklisting sensitive
information, censorship is taking place right here
at home
Colorado 'fusion center' to step up intelligence gathering during DNC
Police recruit citizens to
monitor CCTV
Police have been recruiting volunteers to help spy
on their neighbours by monitoring CCTV cameras.
Police recruit citizens to
monitor CCTV
Police have been recruiting volunteers to help spy
on their neighbours by monitoring CCTV cameras.
Google Is
Watching, Perhaps Soon In Your Home
Related:
Orwellian Ubiquitous Computing May Build Ultimate Surveillance
Society
U.K. to Begin Microchipping
Prisoners
The British government is developing a plan to track
current and former prisoners by means of microchips
implanted under the skin, drawing intense criticism
from probation officers and civil rights groups
Government Permission
Required For Parents To Kiss Children
Quarter of adult
population face mandatory "anti-pedophile" test in
sweeping expansion of "child protection" measures
New Big Brother London
Underground Signs Stir Controversy
The bold black lettering on a bright
white background instantly reminded me of the
subliminal advertising billboards in John
Carpenter's classic dystopic movie,
They Live
How councils are using
surveillance
Councils across Britain are routinely using the
Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (Ripa) to
snoop on dog foulers, litterbugs and illegal parkers
British Police Opening Thousands of Safe Deposit Boxes
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.