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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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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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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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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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Libya, Syria, And The Unquestioned Media Coverage: How Much Have We Learned?

August 5, 2012

The objective truth is no longer a part of the Syrian campaign. It is all lies put forth by the Empire, the Empire of Lies. The Empire is pulling the strings. The Empire is playing with you and me. The media slaves will continue to fill their minds with endless propaganda and fooling themselves into [...]

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Sci-fi policing: predicting crime before it occurs

July 1, 2012

Los Angeles police are aiming to beat suspects to the scene of a crime by using computers to predict where trouble might occur. The Los Angeles Police Department is the largest agency to embrace an experiment known as “predictive policing,” which crunches data to determine where to send officers to thwart would-be thieves and burglars. Time [...]

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The FBI’s Secret Surveillance Letters to Tech Companies

June 27, 2012

The most basic requests outlined in the templates are for name, address and length of service for either phone or Internet accounts. The broadest requests seek things such as entire credit reports, Internet activity logs, phone “billing records,” “financial records” or “electronic communications transactional records.” In several of the templates, the FBI includes a list [...]

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What Facebook Knows

June 17, 2012

Heading Facebook’s effort to figure out what can be learned from all our data is Cameron Marlow, a tall 35-year-old who until recently sat a few feet away from Zuckerberg. The group Marlow runs has escaped the public attention that dogs Facebook’s founders and the more headline-grabbing features of its business. Known internally as the [...]

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The Incredible Next-Generation Drones That Will Rule The Skies

June 6, 2012

Even with drones already dominating the skies, neutralizing adversaries and covertly collecting data, new research is still underway on the generation of pilotless planes to come. And the United States isn’t the only country interested in developing long-range and lethal drone technology. Read More/Pictures: Business Insider Image: BAE

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Flame: The Skype-Sniffing, Bluetooth-Enabled Super Spy Tool Is A Harbinger

May 30, 2012

The news from cybersecurity researchers this Memorial Day sounded like a plot device from a science fiction movie. A hyper-secret surveillance program laid dormant on computers around the world for years, secretly turning on microphones, taking screenshots, copying files, recording keystrokes, fiddling with Bluetooth, and sending all the information off to unknown parties. Following an [...]

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The New American Order: Using Weapons of Compliance to Stamp Out Protest

May 22, 2012

We’re entering the final phase of America’s transition to authoritarianism, a phase notable for its co-opting of civilian police as military forces. Not only do the police now look like the military — with their foreboding uniforms and phalanx of lethal weapons — but they function like them, as well. No longer do they act [...]

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DEA wants to scan license plates – all of them – on Utah’s ‘drug corridor’

May 16, 2012

Everyone driving on Interstate 15 in southwest Utah may soon have their license plate scanned by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. The DEA and two sheriffs are asking permission to install stationary license plate scanners on the freeway in Beaver and Washington counties. The primary purpose would be to catch or build cases against drug [...]

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‘Big Brother’ fears as cameras zoom in on text messages

May 7, 2012

Surveillance cameras are now so powerful that they were able to zoom in on individual spectators at the Rugby World Cup and read their text messages. Details of police monitoring used for the first time during the tournament were discussed at a privacy forum in Wellington yesterday, at which it was revealed that the average [...]

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Now, drones to keep eye on trouble-makers in crowd

May 4, 2012

Source: Zee News/IANS Eyebot drones, the latest in surveillance technology, would promptly spot mischief makers during major sporting or social events, or act as high-resolution 3D street imaging systems, according to its developers. A typical scenario for special 3D sensors within these drones, developed by researchers at Fraunhofer Institute, Germany, to ensure smooth acrobatics and [...]

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Former GCHQ head calls for greater surveillance of Facebook and Twitter

April 23, 2012

Source: Independent The former head of GCHQ Sir David Omand called for greater surveillance of Facebook and Twitter today, reigniting the debate on how much the state should be allowed to snoop on individuals. Launching what he described as the first serious study into how the police and security services can use social media as [...]

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What privacy? Navizon I.T.S. tracks any Wi-Fi-enabled device inside buildings

April 22, 2012

Source: Digital Trends If you’re in the public or even at your home, as long as technology is around, privacy cannot be taken for granted. Need proof? Meet Florida-based location service company, Navizon. Its latest product, coined “Navizon Indoor Triangulation System,” or Navizon I.T.S for short, enables pinpoint tracking of any Wi-Fi enabled device within [...]

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Google says snooping on Wi-Fi networks isn’t illegal

April 16, 2012

[...] The Times wrote about the FCC report: “Although a world leader in digital search capability, Google took the position that searching its employees’ e-mail ‘would be a time-consuming and burdensome task,’” the report said. The commission also noted that Google stymied its efforts to learn more about the data collection because its main architect, [...]

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20 corporations Supporting CISPA

April 8, 2012

The acronyms will continue to change until the tyrants have their way. -PR SOURCE: intelligence.house.gov Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011 Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011 Amendment to H.R. 3523 Offered By Mr. Rogers and Mr. Ruppersberger Amendment to H.R. 3523 Offered By Mr. Thompson Heritage Foundation Memo on [...]

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German Police Have A Secret Hack To Monitor Computers And They’re Teaching It To The FBI

April 4, 2012

Several international law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, held meetings with German police between 2008-12 to discuss the deployment of a monitoring software to covertly infiltrate computers, according to German government reports and reported by Ryan Gallagher at Slate. The revelations come in response to questions by Andrej Hunko, a member of German Parliament, after a Berlin-based [...]

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Greek bill to detain illegal immigrants for disease is ‘alarming’

April 3, 2012

In Greece, a plan to detain illegal immigrants suspected of carrying HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases has upset Amnesty International, which called the idea “deeply alarming” and discriminatory. A law drafted by the government would hold illegal immigrants in indefinite detention for mandatory health checks and treatment for contagious ailments, the Associated Press reported. “Under [...]

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US draws up plans for nuclear drones

April 2, 2012

American scientists have drawn up plans for a new generation of nuclear-powered drones capable of flying over remote regions of the world for months on end without refuelling. The blueprints for the new drones, which have been developed by Sandia National Laboratories – the US government’s principal nuclear research and development agency – and defence [...]

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Police Are Using Phone Tracking as a Routine Tool

April 1, 2012

Law enforcement tracking of cellphones, once the province mainly of federal agents, has become a powerful and widely used surveillance tool for local police officials, with hundreds of departments, large and small, often using it aggressively with little or no court oversight, documents show. The practice has become big business for cellphone companies, too, with [...]

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Scary Fast Surveillance System Scans 36 Million Faces a Second

March 23, 2012

Source: Gizmodo The new tech developed by Hitachi Kokusai Electric achieves super-fast speeds by processing video as it’s recorded—much like the facial recognition technology used in digital cameras. That means that once the footage is recorded, finding a face in the crowd in hours and days of recordings is a simple database search. There are [...]

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NYPD [CIA] intelligence officers monitored liberal groups, files reveal

March 23, 2012

Undercover New York police department officers attended meetings of liberal political organizations and kept intelligence files on activists who planned protests around the US, according to interviews and documents that show how police have used counter-terrorism tactics to monitor even lawful activities. The infiltration echoes the tactics the NYPD used in the run-up to New [...]

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Big Brother on campus

March 22, 2012

Source: Salon Graduating from high school soon? Looking for a job in a high-growth field? Like working outdoors and traveling to exotic locales? How does $103,269 a year strike you? At myfuture.com, high-schoolers are encouraged “to explore all possibilities and gain insight into” possible futures through “unbiased, detailed information,” including data from the Departments [...]

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The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)

March 15, 2012

The spring air in the small, sand-dusted town has a soft haze to it, and clumps of green-gray sagebrush rustle in the breeze. Bluffdale sits in a bowl-shaped valley in the shadow of Utah’s Wasatch Range to the east and the Oquirrh Mountains to the west. It’s the heart of Mormon country, where religious pioneers [...]

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Ikea accused of hiring detectives to spy on dissatisfied customers in France

March 14, 2012

Ikea is at the centre of a spying investigation in France over allegations that it paid private detectives to snoop on workers and pry into the private lives of disgruntled customers who complained about late kitchen deliveries or faulty wardrobe parts. The Swedish chain, which presents itself as the friendly face of affordable furnishing, said [...]

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New York State Set to Add All Convict DNA to Its Database

March 13, 2012

Escape from New York —————————————————————————————————————————————————- New York is poised to establish one of the most expansive DNA databases in the nation, requiring people convicted of everything from fare beating to first-degree murder to provide samples of their DNA to the state. On Tuesday, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and state lawmakers were putting the finishing touches [...]

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Real-time face recognition comes to your iPhone camera

March 12, 2012

Source: KITV ABC Called “Klik,” the iPhone app automatically displays your friends’ names in real time when they appear in view of your iPhone’s camera. After Klik detects a face, it instantly connects to your Facebook account and scans your friends’ photos to identify the person in view. It also scans your iPhone for photos [...]

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