TSA wants to conduct on-site transportation related security assessments Mon, 2012-12-03 04:47 PM TSA is seeking permission from the Office of Management and Budget to conduct security-related assessments during site visits to approximately 750 owners and operators of highway transportation … Continue reading
California gets face scanners to spy on everyone at once Imagine the police taking a picture: any picture of a person, anywhere, and matching it on the spot in less than a second to a personalized profile, scanning millions upon … Continue reading
Homeland Security spends millions for ‘biosurveillance’ of social networks Published: 16 November, 2012, 01:22 U.S. Department of Homeland Security analysts work at the National Cybersecurity & Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) located just outside Washington in Arlington, Virginia (Reuters/Hyungwon Kang) The … Continue reading
A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from A Clean Break A New Strategy for Securing the Realm) Jump to: navigation, search A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the … Continue reading
The permanent militarization of America NYTimes.com Posted on 2012/11/05 by weywerdSun Leave a comment November 4, 2012 Aaron B. O’Connell: … The fact that both President Obama and Mitt Romney are calling for increases to the defense budget (in … Continue reading
By David KravetsEmail Author Despite Hurricane Sandy, the Supreme Court on Monday entertained oral arguments on whether it should halt a legal challenge to a once-secret warrantless surveillance program targeting Americans’ communications, a program that Congress eventually legalized in 2008. … Continue reading
United Nations report calls for Internet surveillance, saying lack of “internationally agreed framework for retention of data” is a problem, as are open Wi-Fi networks in airports, cafes, and libraries. by Declan McCullagh October 22, 2012 1:18 PM PDT … Continue reading
A Look Inside Ex-Top-Secret Database Centre If you’re looking for the beating heart of the digital age — a physical location where the scope, grandeur, and geekiness of the kingdom of bits become manifest—you could do a lot worse than … Continue reading
India’s Gargantuan Biometric Database Raises Big Questions The government of India has amassed a database of 200 million Indian residents’ digital fingerprints, iris scans, facial photographs, names, addresses and birthdates. Yet this vast collection of private information is only a … Continue reading
NOTICE OF MOTION FOR LEAVE TO APPEAL Legal Action Update : Motion to BC Court of Appeal David Aaron, lawyer for Citizens for Safe Technology Society, has now filed Motion to BC Court of Appeal regarding the wireless function of … Continue reading
New York (CNN) — A controversial NYPD surveillance unit that cataloged information on Muslim communities never produced a lead that linked to a potential terrorist plot during years of investigating, according to the head of the city’s police intelligence division. … Continue reading
Federal investigators viewed the Facebook profile of an alleged gangster in the Bronx by asking his informant “friend” to show it to them. A judge ruled this was not unconstitutional because Facebook users can’t control what other people do with … Continue reading
Former senior intelligence officials have created a detailed surveillance system more accurate than modern facial recognition technology — and have installed it across the US under the radar of most Americans, according to emails hacked by Anonymous. Every few seconds, … Continue reading
Military’s ‘sock puppet’ software creates fake online identities to spread pro-American propaganda Nick Fielding and Ian Cobain Gen David Petraeus has previously said US online psychological operations are aimed at ‘countering extremist ideology and propaganda’. Photograph: Cliff Owen/AP The … Continue reading
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NYC—Threat Perception and New Police Powers NYC to Receive 30% of Microsoft “Threat Perception” Sales NYC Gets High-Tech Defense Perimeter
On August 1, 2012 a federal appeals court ordered the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to clarify why they have yet to comply with a now year-old court decision mandating public hearings on the use of the so-called naked body scanners … Continue reading
Right to Privacy Not in Constitution
Israel’s Biometric Database Deemed “Harmful” by High Court Justices In Israel, a heated debate is underway about whether Israel’s Interior Ministry will move ahead with the creation of a governmental biometric database containing digital fingerprints and facial photographs, which would … Continue reading
The US Air Force’s secret spaceplane X-37B OTV-2 has finally returned to Earth, after spending a record-setting 15 months in orbit. These X-37B orbital test vehicles are Boeing-built unmanned planes that are about a fourth the size of a Nasa … Continue reading
Tue, 2012-07-24 08:14 AM By: Mark Rockwell New Jersey ROIC An incident assessment issued by the New Jersey intelligence fusion center in the hours after the mass shooting in Colorado showed that although law enforcement didn’t believe terrorism was involved, … Continue reading
Home Secretary Theresa May has told MPs that the security operation for the 2012 Olympic Games had been “meticulously planned” and would not be compromised, following the revelation that that 3,500 extra troops would be needed. Mrs May was responding … Continue reading
Neustar is Spying on You
Style trips us up when we read Shakespeare — it takes a page or three to acclimate. The meaning then gets easier to grok, though nuances are still hard to convey. The Unmanned Systems Integrated Roadmap, released in 2009 and … Continue reading