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Superior Court (Alameda County) Rules in Favor of ABAG and One Bay Area

Posted on February 12, 2015 Written by

Lit­i­ga­tion Seeks to Pro­tect the Amer­i­can Form of Gov­ern­ment In a result ori­ent­ed deci­sion, Alame­da Coun­ty Supe­ri­or Court Judge Eve­lio Gril­lo ruled against Free­dom Advo­cates and oth­ers in the war over pro­tect­ing Cities and Coun­ties from a trans­for­ma­tion of local gov­ern­ment (One Bay Area). The new form of gov­ern­ment in the San Fran­cis­co Bay Area […]

Filed Under: Agenda 21, Free Market Economics, New World Order, Police State, Property Rights, Public-Private Partnerships, Regionalism, Smart Growth, Surveillance, Sustainability, Technocracy, Transportation, Water Rights, Wildlands Network

In a First, Government Acknowledges the Limits of Section 215

Posted on February 7, 2015 Written by

Fol­low­ing EFF’s vic­to­ry in a four-year Free­dom of Infor­ma­tion Act law­suit, the gov­ern­ment released an opin­ion (pdf), writ­ten by the Office of Legal Coun­sel (OLC) in 2010, that con­clud­ed that Sec­tion 215—the pro­vi­sion of the Patri­ot Act the NSA relies on to col­lect mil­lions of Amer­i­cans’ phone records—does have a lim­it: cen­sus data. The Com­merce Department […]

Filed Under: Family Autonomy, Police State, Property Rights, Surveillance

Samsung SmartTVs can collect and transmit spoken words, personal information, and sensitive data to 3rd party sources

Posted on February 7, 2015 Written by

NEW SMART TVS OFFER A WINDOW INTO YOUR LIFE Smart TVs may be get­ting too smart as some now actu­al­ly col­lect and trans­mit your spo­ken words, per­son­al infor­ma­tion, and sen­si­tive data to oth­er 3rd par­ty sources. In fact Sam­sung, a major elec­tron­ic man­u­fac­ture, admits that they “col­lect, use, share, and store infor­ma­tion through your SmartTV in […]

Filed Under: Corporatism/Fascism, Family Autonomy, Police State, Property Rights, Surveillance

16-Year-Old Launches Organization to Battle Warrantless Surveillance

Posted on February 6, 2015 Written by

Bran­don Keibler is just your ordi­nary 16-year-old from South­ern Indi­ana. At least that’s what some peo­ple might think. How­ev­er, hav­ing become an activist at four­teen and help­ing to estab­lish the Restore the Fourth orga­ni­za­tion, this young man has just launched an orga­ni­za­tion to encour­age grass­roots efforts aimed at a tyran­ni­cal gov­ern­ment that wish­es to disregard […]

Filed Under: New World Order, Police State, Property Rights, Surveillance, Technocracy

Digital Electronic “Internet of Things”(IoT) and “Smart Grid Technologies” to Fully Eviscerate Privacy

Posted on February 5, 2015 Written by

The “Inter­net of Things” (IoT) and Smart Grid tech­nolo­gies will togeth­er be aggres­sive­ly inte­grat­ed into the devel­oped world’s socioe­co­nom­ic fab­ric with lit­­tle-if-any pub­lic or gov­ern­men­tal over­sight. This is the over­all opin­ion of a new report by the Fed­er­al Trade Com­mis­sion, which has announced a series of “rec­om­men­da­tions” to major util­i­ty com­pa­nies and transna­tion­al cor­po­ra­tions heavily […]

Filed Under: Smart Grid, Surveillance, Technocracy

TSA to Require ‘Real ID’ with Background Checks for Domestic Flights

Posted on February 2, 2015 Written by

Real ID: gold star for good behav­ior; no report on the scar­let let­ter they’ll use to ID trou­ble­mak­ers. The TSA recent­ly announced they will require a spe­cial driver’s license to board domes­tic flights by 2016. These ‘Real IDs’ will have already per­formed exten­sive back­ground check­son every­one who receives them and will fea­ture stars and oth­er markings […]

Filed Under: Family Autonomy, New World Order, Police State, Surveillance

The TSA Wants To Read Your Facebook Posts And Check Out Your Purchases Before It Will Approve You For PreCheck

Posted on January 29, 2015 Written by

from the ah,-now-I-understand-the-phrase-‘documented-citizen’ dept The TSA is dis­ap­point­ed that so few Amer­i­cans have opt­ed out of its bot­­tle-toss­ing, pack­­age-grop­ing screen­ings by sign­ing up for its PreCheck pro­gram. For a few years now, the TSA has been sell­ing trav­el­ers’ civ­il lib­er­ties back to them, most recent­ly for $85 a head, but it’s now mak­ing a serious […]

Filed Under: New World Order, Police State, Property Rights, Surveillance

Revealed: Canadian Spy Program Illustrates “Giant X‑Ray Machine Over All Our Digital Lives”

Posted on January 29, 2015 Written by

Lat­est rev­e­la­tion from Snow­den archive shows CSE has been mon­i­tor­ing, ana­lyz­ing, and track­ing mil­lions of peo­ple who uti­lize pop­u­lar file-shar­ing web­sites New­ly released doc­u­ments con­tained in the archive of mate­ri­als leaked to jour­nal­ists by NSA whistle­blow­er Edward Snow­den reveals that Canada’s spy agency, the Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Secu­ri­ty Estab­lish­ment, has been oper­at­ing a covert, mass sur­veil­lance program […]

Filed Under: Family Autonomy, Property Rights, Surveillance