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Another win for the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and the American public in general. A federal judge has ruled the public has the right to know certain details about the FBI’s facial recognition database. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan said the bureau’s Next Generation Identification program represents a “significant public interest” due to concerns […]
Bruce Schneier As with all aspects of the New World Order — It’s All About Control Chicago is doing random explosives screenings at random L stops in the Chicago area. Compliance is voluntary: Police made no arrests but one rider refused to submit to the screening and left the station without incident, Maloney said. […] Passengers […]
Ammon Bundy This morning (November 1, 2014) my twelve year old daughter and I tried to fly to Salt Lake City from Phoenix for a special event of a loved one. We had to be there by 1:00 pm in order to be a part of the occasion. Everything was going as planned until we […]
Technology leaders in three cities imagine how they would harness Chicago’s innovative sensor pilot in their communities This fall, Chicago will install a network of 40 sensors to discover how new data sets can inform decisions that make the city a better place to live. The Array of Things initiative will begin with devices being […]
This expanding “voluntary” surveillance network is a public-private partnership, allowing police detectives access to video footage in most locations only where crimes have already occured. Such networks cannot guarantee to prevent crime; they record crime. “Baltimore’s CitiWatch video surveillance program has expanded over the past eight years from an initial installation of 50 standalone cameras to more than 600 networked closed-circuit […]
John W. Whitehead, Founder, the Rutherford Institute As I point out in my new book, A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, there are several methods for controlling a population. You can intimidate the citizenry into obedience through force, relying on military strength and weaponry such as SWAT team raids, militarized police, and […]
Verizon users might want to start looking for another provider. In an effort to better serve advertisers, Verizon Wireless has been silently modifying its users’ web traffic on its network to inject a cookie-like tracker. This tracker, included in an HTTP header called X‑UIDH, is sent to every unencrypted website a Verizon customer visits from […]
From facial recognition to personal data collection, this thing is downright scary — and so are the implications I just bought a new TV. The old one had a good run, but after the volume got stuck on 63, I decided it was time to replace it. I am now the owner of a new […]
Just a few days ago the Miami Herald, Florida, newspaper ran a story headlined: Lawmakers To Consider Banning Biometrics in Schools. The Pinellas County school district started using biometrics (iris scans, fingerprint scans, and palm readers…not the ones wearing turbans and earrings…) in the school cafeterias. When the Polk and Seminole County school districts instituted […]
Katherine Albrecht (l), Liz McIntyre ® A creepy new spying technology called Radio Frequency Identification – known by its abbreviation RFID — is starting to show up on products you buy at stores like Walmart, and it could be used to track your every move. What is RFID? RFID is a tracking technology. It uses tiny microchips hooked up […]
WikiLeaks on Thursday published an updated version of the negotiating texts of a controversial and highly secretive trade agreement between the United States and 11 other member nations. Critics warn that the international agreement, dubbed the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), proposes sweeping changes to intellectual property norms that would stifle freedom of expression online and impose […]
FBI Director James Comey gave a speech yesterday (Oct. 16, 2014)reiterating the FBI’s nearly twenty-year-old talking points about why it wants to reduce the security in your devices, rather than help you increase it. Here’s EFF’s response: The FBI should not be in the business of trying to convince companies to offer less security to […]
Some Whisper users monitored even after opting out of geolocation services Company shares some information with US Department of Defense User data collated and indefinitely stored in searchable database Whisper app rewrites terms of service and privacy policy How the ‘safest place on the internet’ tracks its users A Whisper user posted this message from the […]
The same technologists who protest against the NSA’s metadata collection programs are the ones profiting the most from the widespread surveillance of students. Since 2011, billions of dollars of venture capital investment have poured into public education through private, for-profit technologies that promise to revolutionize education. Designed for the “21st century” classroom, these tools promise […]
Biosurveillance: Data Rapists As pandemic waves pound the globe you need to be aware that there are those who seek to exploit medical disasters with biosurveillance data rape. The government and their partners need data, lots of data. We are seeing an explosion of data rapists in the name of security, and for the ‘health, […]
University of Michigan research shows web-based system could help improve detection and response to spread of illnesses. Argus biosurveillance system — CDC There is growing trend toward the use of “biosurveillance” — Web-based systems to track public health, many times with an added predictive model . As you’ll see in the University of Michigan press […]
The people of this country are speaking out, they are sick and tired of the intrusiveness of the Common Standards and the egregious violations of our children’s civil liberties including their (and their parents) right to privacy. The more Americans know about Common Core, the less they like the standards. In fact, just 33% support […]
Gary Miliefsky — CEO of SnoopWall and founding member of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security — joined Bret Baier for an exclusive interview on The Daily Bret to discuss an alarming privacy breach posed by smartphone flashlight apps. Miliefsky, who has advised two White House administrations on cybersecurity, said that this problem is bigger than […]
Call it “privacy nihilism.” Whether you’re reading about the latest security breaches across the Net, or the jaw-dropping details of the latest NSA leak, or you’re explaining the importance of crypto to your blank-faced family, or struggling to stop your own government’s plans on burning your right to privacy, it’s sometimes easy to just throw […]
The publishing world may finally be facing its “rootkit scandal.” Two independent reports claim that Adobe’s e‑book software, “Digital Editions,” logs every document readers add to their local “library,” tracks what happens with those files, and then sends those logs back to the mother-ship, over the Internet, in the clear. In other words, Adobe is […]
The NSA and the National Director of Intelligence have consistently denied that they listen to the content of Americans’ telephone calls, but the history of intelligence agency claims about the scope of its spying on Americans is one of lies and more lies. So the question must be asked: Are they lying again with respect […]
Judge Andrew P. Napolitano While the political commentators in the nation’s capital are wrapped up in the debate over what to do about ISIS, and as one third of the Senate and nearly all members of the House campaign for re-election, the president’s spies continue to capture massive amounts of personal information about hundreds of […]
If the Senate doesn’t pass the USA Freedom Act after the midterm elections, a key section of the Patriot Act could expire Two members of the US House of Representatives are warning that a failure to pass landmark surveillance reform will result in a far more drastic curtailment of US surveillance powers – one that […]
Your car is listening to your every word and recording it in the manufacturers permanent database It’s so exciting to purchase a new car and sync your smart device up to it so you can make calls while on the road. Nearly every new car comes equipped with integrated on-board computing to make your driving […]
Sustainable Development is the blueprint being used across America and around the world to implement the United Nations Agenda 21 Programme.
