Surveillance

Low-flying choppers are ‘conducting surveillance projects’

May 21, 2013

Source: WTVR Helicopter blades are still piercing the air and rattling the nerves of one Chesterfield woman. “It was green, no words on it from what I could see, no special symbols, but, what looked like two guns on the front,” says Mekelle Ford. She continues to see what appear to be military choppers, flying [...]

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‘Minority Report’ policing comes to the UK

May 15, 2013

Source: Telegraph Kent Police is using computer software to analyse historic offending and criminal behaviour to try and pinpoint where crimes will happen next. It is an echo of the Tom Cruise science fiction film Minority Report in which “pre-crime” units use psychics to predict future criminals and arrest them before they have even offended. [...]

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Biometrics: A new intelligence discipline-Identity Intelligence Project Office

May 13, 2013

Source: Defense News The intelligence community is pushing to make biometrically enabled intelligence — the art of identifying people by fingerprints, digital mugshots, iris scans or DNA — a regular part of business. Biometrics has evolved dramatically during the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, and is used in countless manhunts, but the discipline has not been [...]

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Russia set to conduct surveillance flyover to inspect Canada’s military, industrial infrastructure

May 6, 2013

Source: NP The Russians are conducting what has quietly become their annual flyover of key Canadian sites this week, revealing the two countries’ regular surveillance of one another at a time when a spy scandal and Arctic sovereignty have markedly strained relations. Russia has routinely exercised a 10-year-old treaty right to fly over Canada and [...]

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Predictive Policing Project: LAPD Pre-Crime Divisions

March 31, 2013

Source: AGE The morning watch at the Los Angeles Police Department’s Foothill division begins at 6am, when the shift’s officers gather for roll-call and a briefing. The dozen or so officers file into the roll-call room and find space on the benches. They are briefed on incidents from the previous shift, and on any offenders [...]

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Israel’s fake rocks spy on Russian fleet

March 30, 2013

Source: Australian ISRAELI spying equipment has been found hidden in artificial rocks on an uninhabited island opposite the Syrian port of Tartus, where it was being used to monitor Russian naval movements. Three large espionage devices were discovered by fishermen on the tiny Ant Island near a naval base regarded by Moscow as an important strategic [...]

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Drone base in Niger gives U.S. a strategic foothold in West Africa

March 21, 2013

Source: WP The newest outpost in the U.S. government’s empire of drone bases sits behind a razor-wire-topped wall outside this West African capital, blasted by 110-degree heat and the occasional sandstorm blowing from the Sahara. The U.S. Air Force began flying a handful of unarmed Predator drones from here last month. The gray, mosquito-shaped aircraft emerge [...]

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Amazon Web Services to build CIA spook cloud

March 19, 2013

Source:FCW In a move sure to send ripples through the federal IT community, FCW has learned that the CIA has agreed to a cloud computing contract with electronic commerce giant Amazon, worth up to $600 million over 10 years. Amazon Web Services will help the intelligence agency build a private cloud infrastructure that helps the [...]

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Skype can be intercepted by intelligence agencies: report

March 17, 2013

Source: IT Unverified reports in Russian media claim that conversations over Skype can be eavesdropped by intelligence agencies which can also determine the location of users. First reported in the Russian-language Vedomosti newspaper last week, the Federal Security Service (FSB) has had the ability to intercept Skype calls for “a couple of years” and often do so [...]

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Researchers print flexible electronic tattoo directly onto human skin

March 11, 2013

Source: Extreme Tech From the research lab that brought us stick-on electronic tattoos, and recently the stretchable battery, we now have the first electronic sensor that has been printed directly onto human skin. These sensors can directly measure skin hydration and temperature, and electric signals from muscle and brain activity. The skin-printable sensors, created by [...]

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India’s intelligence apparatus secure phone tap system to be implemented

March 8, 2013

Source: Times of India Now, Intelligence Bureau, R&AW, CBI, NIA, CBDT, Defence Intelligence Agency, DRI, Narcotics Control Bureau and ED are authorized central agencies which can tap phones or put internet data under surveillance for law enforcement and security purposes. Government’s ambitious Central Monitoring System (CMS) – an advance phone and internet data tapping mechanism [...]

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Chinese CIA spy unveils power struggle between security ministries

February 25, 2013

Source: WCT Last year’s failed defection attempt by an official from the Chinese Ministry of State Security has uncovered a bitter and long-standing power struggle between China’s state security and public security organs, reports Boxun, an overseas Chinese community website providing alternative source of news from China. In May last year, the secretary of state [...]

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Raytheon’s RIOT program tracking people’s movements and predicting future behaviour

February 10, 2013

Source: Guardian A multinational security firm has secretly developed software capable of tracking people’s movements and predicting future behaviour by mining data from social networking websites. A video obtained by the Guardian reveals how an “extreme-scale analytics” system created by Raytheon, the world’s fifth largest defence contractor, can gather vast amounts of information about people [...]

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S. Korea pushes for deployment of military spy satellites to strengthen surveillance capabilities

February 6, 2013

Source: Yonhap News The South Korean military is pushing to deploy spy satellites to strengthen its surveillance of North Korea, a senior military official said Wednesday, in light of growing missile and nuclear threats from the communist country. South Korea currently operates Arirang-3, a multipurpose satellite, which provides geographical information on the Korean Peninsula including North [...]

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U.K. spy agencies plan to install Web snooping ‘black boxes’

February 5, 2013

Source: ZDNET The ‘black box’ snooping devices would also be used to collect data from overseas companies, including U.S.-based service providers and social networks, such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter. The U.K.’s intelligence agencies are planning to install ‘black box’-style surveillance devices in the country’s telecommunications infrastructure to monitor the U.K.’s online activity. According to [...]

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Japan to launch spy satellite to monitor North Korea

January 23, 2013

Source: Business Line Japan is to launch a new spy satellite on Sunday to strengthen its monitoring capabilities amid concern that North Korea may carry out more missile and nuclear tests. A rocket carrying a radar-equipped satellite is scheduled to blast off from a space centre at Tanegashima in the southwest, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has [...]

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Le Pouvoir ‘DRS’ and Algeria’s war on terror

January 22, 2013

Editors Notes: With all the theories to which group was responsible for the terrorist attack at Amenas facility in Algeria, western intelligence agencies might consider investigating DRS. Inside Job? The attack was convenient timing for increased western military intervention in MALI. False flag? I have know idea but it is interesting that the GIA (al-Qaida [...]

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Turkish National Intelligence Organization [MIT] Wants Control Over Telecom Authority

January 5, 2013

Source: Al Monitor Following the disclosure by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan that eavesdropping bugs were discovered in his office, one of the first items of the year’s legal agenda will be to regulate the use of such devices. Minister of Communications Binali Yildirim said his ministry is working together with the Ministry of Justice [...]

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FBI Documents Reveal Secret Nationwide Occupy Monitoring

December 23, 2012

Source:Justice Online FBI documents just obtained by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) pursuant to the PCJF’s Freedom of Information Act demands reveal that from its inception, the FBI treated the Occupy movement as a potential criminal and terrorist threat even though the agency acknowledges in documents that organizers explicitly called for peaceful protest [...]

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Remember that MP3? The ITU police are en-route

December 10, 2012

Source: Voice of Russia In a very quiet release of information the Internet Warriors and “Hacktivist” Group Anonymous, has informed the world of one of the tools that will be used to bring this about. If you have ever downloaded a song for example, or transferred it to your cute little harmless looking MP3 player, [...]

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GCHQ to trawl Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ and Pinterest for intelligence

November 1, 2012

Source: Guardian Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, Pinterest: all of them could be the source of valuable intelligence that the UK’s intelligence agencies want to know about – and now government eavesdropping and security agency GCHQ is developing new tools to sift through them for nuggets of useful data. The Cheltenham-based organisation is recruiting maths, physics [...]

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U.S. Army Sponsored Artiﬁcial Intelligence Surveillance System Attempts to Predict The Future

October 29, 2012

Source: Forbes In something that looks straight out of the CBS show “Person of Interest“, the science website Phsy.org is reporting on a potentially important breakthrough from researchers at Carnegie Mellon. In research sponsored by the United States Army Research Laboratory, the Carnegie Mellon researchers presented an artiﬁcial intelligence system that can watch and predict what a [...]

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Safety or surveillance: What is the NSA’s Utah Data Center?

October 25, 2012

Source:KSL One of the biggest and most mysterious construction projects in Utah history is roughly halfway completed near the Point of the Mountain. It’s a vast computer center for one of the nation’s most secretive agencies, the National Security Agency. Critics joke that NSA really stands for “Never Say Anything.” The secrecy surrounding the project [...]

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Sketches of Secret Gov’t Surveillance Technology Discovered

October 4, 2012

Source: New American In July The New American reported an announcement posted on the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) website seeking “trailblazers” willing to “take the road less traveled” and “participate in a short-fuse, crucible-style environment to invent new approaches to the identification of people, places, things and activities from still or moving defense [...]

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US data whistleblower : widespread civilian surveillance

September 17, 2012

Bill Binney believes he helped create a monster. Sitting in the innocuous surroundings of an Olive Garden in the Baltimore suburbs, the former senior National Security Agency (NSA) official even believes he owes the whole American people an apology. Binney, a tall, professorial man in his late 60s, led the development of a secret software [...]

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Private Spies and Our Growing Surveillance State

September 7, 2012

Source: The Nation [...] Undermining the excitement were other e-mails, showing that Stratfor had struck a deal to aggressively promote TrapWire to its intelligence, military and law enforcement clients, in exchange for an 8 percent cut of any resulting sales. This arrangement appeared to pay off, particularly in Texas. In one e-mail, Fred Burton, vice [...]

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UK malware used against Bahraini activists

September 6, 2012

Source: Deutsche Welle Husain Abdulla, a naturalized US citizen and director of Americans for Democracy and Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB), received an e-mail in May from a Bahraini opposition leader with an attachment entitled “Existence of a new dialogue.” Luckily for him, it wouldn’t open on his BlackBerry. “I couldn’t open the attachment, but [...]

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NSA Whistleblower Details How The NSA Has Spied On All US Citizens Since 9/11

August 25, 2012

National Security Agency whistleblower William Binney explains how the secretive agency run its pervasive domestic spying apparatus in a new piece by Laura Poitras in The New York TImes. Binney—one of the best mathematicians and code breakers in NSA history—worked for the Defense Department’s foreign signals intelligence agency for 32 years before resigning in late 2001 because he “could [...]

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Facebook, the CIA, DARPA, and the Tanking IPO

August 22, 2012

Source: IB Times The big infusion of cash that sent Mark Zuckerberg and his fledgling college enterprise on their way came from Accel Partners, in 2004. Jim Breyer, head of Accel, attached a $13 million rocket to Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) , and nothing has ever been the same. Earlier that same year, a man named [...]

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