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Drones overhead in L.A.’s Valley are tracking mobile devices’ locations

Posted on February 25, 2015 Written by

It was only a mat­ter of time before drones start­ed mon­i­tor­ing sig­nals from mobile devices. Since ear­ly Feb­ru­ary, sev­er­al small drones fly­ing around the San Fer­nan­do Val­ley in Los Ange­les have been deter­min­ing mobile devices’ loca­tions from Wi-Fi and cel­lu­lar trans­mis­sion sig­nals. They are part of an exper­i­ment by Sin­­ga­­pore-based loca­tion mar­ket­ing firm Adnear, which […]

Filed Under: Surveillance

Spies Can Track You Just by Watching Your Phone’s Power Use

Posted on February 20, 2015 Written by

Smart­phone users might balk at let­ting a ran­dom app like Can­dy Crush or Shaz­am track their every move via GPS. But researchers have found that Android phones reveal infor­ma­tion about your loca­tion to every app on your device through a dif­fer­ent, unlike­ly data leak: the phone’s pow­er consumption.

Filed Under: Police State, Property Rights, Surveillance, Technocracy

All the Creepy Ways Big Brother Is Watching You

Posted on February 18, 2015 Written by

“You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assump­tion that every sound you made was over­heard, and, except in dark­ness, every move­ment scrutinized.”—George Orwell, 1984 None of us are per­fect. All of us bend the rules occa­sion­al­ly. Even before the age of over­crim­i­nal­iza­tion, when the most upstand­ing cit­i­zen could be count­ed on […]

Filed Under: Corporatism/Fascism, Family Autonomy, New World Order, Property Rights, Surveillance, Technocracy

Smart Meters: What Consumers Can Do To Get Them Removed

Posted on February 17, 2015 Written by

“…[B]y enabling two-way, real-time com­mu­ni­ca­tions, smart meters can give cus­tomers the infor­ma­tion they need to con­trol their own ener­gy use and reduce their elec­tric­i­ty cost,” so said Jim Marston, a ‘smart meter’ sup­port­er with the Envi­ron­men­tal Defense Fund. [1] [CJF empha­sis added] That, obvi­ous­ly, is only one part of the seri­ous issues regard­ing elec­tro­mag­net­ic ener­gy tech­nol­o­gy known […]

Filed Under: Corporatism/Fascism, Police State, Property Rights, Smart Grid, Surveillance, Technocracy

Watch Out For Opt Out!

Posted on February 15, 2015 Written by

A “Seis­mic Shift” In Assess­ing Stu­dents “The group calls for what’s called “assess­ment lit­er­a­cy” for teach­ers,  but also admin­is­tra­tors, school boards, par­ents — and stu­dents.” (Source) A 3D Research Report by Mari Caplan Many par­ents, under­stand­ably fed up by the aggres­sive test­ing asso­ci­at­ed with Com­mon Core Stan­dards or now Career and Col­lege Ready Stan­dards, are […]

Filed Under: Corporatism/Fascism, Education, Family Autonomy, Police State, Public-Private Partnerships, Surveillance

Obama Unveils His Executive Order To Share Your Confidential Information With Corporations: Live Webcast

Posted on February 14, 2015 Written by

As report­ed ear­li­er, today Oba­ma will unleash his lat­est exec­u­tive order, one which will set the stage for “infor­ma­tion shar­ing and analy­sis orga­ni­za­tions” (ISAOs) — or, in polit­i­cal jar­gon “hubs where com­pa­nies share cyber threat data with each oth­er and with the Depart­ment of Home­land Secu­ri­ty.”  In reg­u­lar par­lance, what Oba­ma will do is merely […]

Filed Under: Corporatism/Fascism, Family Autonomy, Police State, Public-Private Partnerships, Surveillance

Utility Commissioner’s Emails Reveal Smart Meter Conspiracy

Posted on February 14, 2015 Written by

FAT CAT IS OUT OF THE BAG: Evi­dence has now been made pub­lic of ille­gal actions and col­lu­sion between for­mer Cal­i­for­nia Pub­lic Util­i­ties Com­mis­sion pres­i­dent Michael Peev­ey and util­i­ty PG&E, as crim­i­nal inves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ue. As part of a fed­er­al and state inves­ti­ga­tion into what appears to be sys­temic cor­rup­tion involv­ing for­mer senior exec­u­tives at PG&E […]

Filed Under: Corporatism/Fascism, Family Autonomy, Police State, Property Rights, Public-Private Partnerships, Smart Grid, Surveillance, Technocracy

Go to Prison for Sharing Files? That’s What Hollywood Wants in the Secret TPP Deal

Posted on February 13, 2015 Written by

The Trans-Pacif­ic Part­ner­ship agree­ment (TPP) pos­es mas­sive threats to users in a dizzy­ing num­ber of ways. It will force oth­er TPP sig­na­to­ries to accept the Unit­ed States’ exces­sive copy­right terms of a min­i­mum of life of the author plus 70 years, while lock­ing the US to the same lengths so it will be hard­er to […]

Filed Under: Corporatism/Fascism, Free Market Economics, New World Order, Police State, Property Rights, Surveillance, Technocracy, Trade, United Nations