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Friday, May 9th, 2008
By Shane Harris | In the old days, everyone was linked to a lug nut, and Jim Kallstrom liked it that way. It was 1985, a simpler time for a cop like Kallstrom, who was in charge of setting telephone wiretaps on suspected drug dealers and mobsters for the FBI's New York City field office.
In New York, Kallstrom's cases were often won ...
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The Surveillance Society Does Not Work
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
By Mick Meaney – RINF | Costing in excess of billions of pounds each year, every single area of the British surveillance society has been proven ill effective when dealing with crime, fraud and terrorism – the very reasons government officials implement such measures.
Which begs the question: How can the Government justify such spending when it also imposes an increasing risk to our personal ...
tagged Big Brother, Database State and UK News
CCTV boom has failed to slash crime, say police
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
By Owen Bowcott | Massive investment in CCTV cameras to prevent crime in the UK has failed to have a significant impact, despite billions of pounds spent on the new technology, a senior police officer piloting a new database has warned. Only 3% of street robberies in London were solved using CCTV images, despite the fact that Britain ...
tagged Big Brother and UK News
The NSA, personal data and you
Monday, April 28th, 2008
By Mitch Ratcliffe | Here’s a simple rule for preventing totalitarian rule in any nation: Don’t build the systems for monitoring people’s daily lives closely in the first place, and you will not be at risk of totalitarian rulers using those systems to overwhelm individual choice. The Wall Street Journal today has a long piece on the various ways ...
tagged Big Brother, Internet, NSA and USA News
FBI wants widespread monitoring of ‘illegal’ web activity
Saturday, April 26th, 2008
By Anne Broache |
The FBI on Wednesday called for new legislation that would allow federal police to monitor the Internet for "illegal activity." The suggestion from FBI Director Robert Mueller, which came during a House of Representatives Judiciary Committee hearing, appears to go beyond a current plan to monitor traffic on federal-government networks. Mueller seemed to suggest that the bureau should have ...
tagged Big Brother, FBI, Internet and USA News
Is It Impossible to Protect Your Privacy?
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
By Alexandra Marks |
Individuals might treasure their personal data like Social Security and credit-card numbers, but identity thieves can buy them cheap and in bulk online. Credit-card numbers can now go for as little as 40 cents each. A matching name, Social Security number, address, and date of birth cost just $2.00, according to security experts.
Even ...
tagged Big Brother and USA News
London ANPR mass surveillance snooping
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
By SpyBlog |
Just in case you thought that Spy Blog has not tried the available, alleged "checks and balances" which are supposed to prevent the disproportionate abuse of our privacy and freedoms, you might be interested in our brief correspondence with the Office of the Surveillance Commissioners, regarding the ...
tagged Big Brother and UK News
Union attacks Big Brother CCTV plan for exams
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008PLANS to use CCTV to spy on students sitting exams have been branded as Orwellian. The Examination Officers’ Association is planning to test the move in a small number of exam halls to stamp out cheating. Chief executive Andrew Harland said devices like pens fitted with voice recorders were making invigilators’ jobs harder. He also believes it would protect members against unfound complaints of harassment. However, Eileen Orriss, Association of Teachers and Lecturers ...
tagged Big Brother and USA News
The Emerging Surveillance State
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008Ron Paul Last month, the House amended the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to expand the government’s ability to monitor our private communications. This measure, if it becomes law, will result in more warrantless government surveillance of innocent American citizens. Though some opponents claimed that the only controversial part of this legislation was its grant of immunity to telecommunications companies, there is much more to be wary of in the bill. ...
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New Domestic Satellite Surveillance System
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008Plans for the Department of Homeland Security to launch a new satellite surveillance system is coming under new criticism on Capitol Hill. Last week, Secretary Michael Chertoff said the satellite surveillance system would be soon ready to go. But now the Wall Street Journal reports Democrats are threatening to shut down the program unless the department does more to address privacy concerns. The satellite program is designed to provide ...
tagged Big Brother, Technology and USA News
Documents prove FBI tracks Internet and phones
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008FBI also spies on home soil for military, documents show; Much information acquired without court order John Byrne The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been routinely monitoring the e-mails, instant messages and cell phone calls of suspects across the United States -- and has done so, in many cases, without the approval of a court. Documents released under the Freedom of Information Act and given to the Washington Post -- which stuck ...
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5,000 children a month added to DNA database
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008Christopher Hope One in four people being added to the DNA database is a child, it emerged yesterday. The figure provides further evidence that the Government's "Big Brother" national database is increasingly targeting young people before they are old enough to vote. Data obtained by the Liberal Democrats from Parliamentary Questions shows that the proportion of children being added is rising, with 5,000 being included every month. Between October and January, 25 ...
tagged Big Brother, Database State and UK News
Memo linked to warrantless surveillance
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008Associated Press WASHINGTON - For at least 16 months after the Sept. 11 terror attacks in 2001, the Bush administration believed that the Constitution's protection against unreasonable searches and seizures on U.S. soil didn't apply to its efforts to protect against terrorism. That view was expressed in a Justice Department legal memo dated Oct. 23, 2001. The administration on Wednesday stressed that it now disavows that view. The October 2001 memo ...
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Bush calls for more eavesdropping
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
US President George W. Bush has called on the Congress to pass a 'vital' pending legislation aimed at loosening domestic eavesdropping rules. Speaking before leaving Washington for Kiev and the NATO summit in Bucharest on Monday, Bush said the US legislature has 'a lot of work to do' as ...
tagged Big Brother, Bush, USA News and White House
CCTV cameras not capturing many crimes
Thursday, March 27th, 2008San Francisco's 68 controversial anti-crime cameras haven't deterred criminals from committing assaults, sex offenses or robberies - and they've only moved homicides down the block, according to a new report from UC Berkeley. Researchers found that nonviolent thefts dropped by 22 percent within 100 feet of the cameras, but the devices had no effect on burglaries or car theft. And they've had no effect on violent crime. Mayor Gavin Newsom called the ...
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