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FBI wants widespread monitoring of ‘illegal’ web activity

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

fbi.jpgBy 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 ...
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Is It Impossible to Protect Your Privacy?

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

privacy-ket.jpgBy 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 ...
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London ANPR mass surveillance snooping

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

eye.jpgBy 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 ...
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Union attacks Big Brother CCTV plan for exams

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

PLANS 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 ...
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The Emerging Surveillance State

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Ron 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, 2008

Plans 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 ...
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Documents prove FBI tracks Internet and phones

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

FBI 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, 2008

Christopher 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 ...
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Memo linked to warrantless surveillance

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

Associated 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

bush.jpgUS 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 ...
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CCTV cameras not capturing many crimes

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

San 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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CCTV may soon ‘identify’ criminals

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

· Offenders' faces tracked through CCTV images · Scheme part of 'hi-tech revolution on the beat' The police are developing the first national database of mugshots so that they can use face recognition technology to match CCTV images with details of offenders, MPs were told yesterday. The system is being developed in a pilot scheme involving the Lancashire, West Yorkshire and Merseyside police which has generated a database of more than 750,000 ...
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Big Brother Keeping Tabs On Students

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

New technology is helping Guilford County school leaders keep an eye on your kids. Greensboro, NC -- The district installed the first surveillance cameras more than a decade ago, but an upgrade now gives leaders a look from three angles. "There's really no way to hide from them," Jeff Harris, transportation director for Guilford County Schools said about the new school bus cameras. No matter where you sit on one of ...
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MI5 Wants Oyster Card Travel Data

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Counter-terrorism experts call it a 'force multiplier': an attack combining slaughter and electronic chaos. Now Britain's security services want total access to commuters' travel records to help them meet the threat Millions of commuters could have their private movements around cities secretly monitored under new counter-terrorism powers being sought by the security services. Records of journeys made by people using smart cards that allow 17 million Britons to travel by underground, bus ...
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An overview of the NSA’s domestic spying program

Monday, March 17th, 2008

In Wednesday's Wall Street Journal, Siobhan Gorman pulled together the disparate threads of reporting on what's known of the NSA's secret domestic spy program, and combined them with some of her own reporting to confirm, once again, that the NSA's program is another incarnation of the Pentagon's erstwhile Total Information Awareness program. Gorman also describes how Carnivore, the SWIFT database snooping program, and basically every other "Big ...
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