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California Police Unveil Armored Surveillance Vehicle
“We are focusing on public areas, we’re not trying to impede anyone’s privacy” Police in Modesto, California unveiled a newly acquired surveillance vehicle this week which will video and audio record local residents throughout the
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Dragonfly: World’s Smallest Autonomous Drone Takes Flight
The mimicking of nature heralds a new focus in the development of drones. While DARPA and their contractors have been working on true nano surveillance with biological components, it is the modeling of
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NY State Hires Bill Gates Firm to Collect Data on Children
New York state authorities are outsourcing data collection on school kids. The program, which is to be launched state-wide, is supposed to gather information on students starting from the age of five to better
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White House: No more information about drone killings will be released to public
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters Thursday that the Obama administration will not be releasing any more information about the controversial use of drones to kill American citizens
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CIA confirms agency obliged to follow federal surveillance law
The CIA has confirmed that it is obliged to follow a federal law barring the collection of financial information and hacking into government data networks. But neither the agency nor its Senate overseers will say
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New surveillance technology can track everyone in an area for several hours at a time
Shooter and victim were just a pair of pixels, dark specks on a gray streetscape. Hair color, bullet wounds, even the weapon were not visible in the series of pictures taken from an airplane
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Obama faces backlash on executive power
For a man who prides himself on winding down two wars, President Barack Obama certainly has started up a lot of new ones. There’s the war on coal. The war on gun owners. Even the
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Rise Of The Insect Drones
Nature spent millions of years perfecting flapping-wing flight. Now engineers can reproduce it with machines. Five years ago, Richard Guiler and Tom Vaneck were sitting at a bar a few blocks from their office, trying
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Massive US airships to conduct 24/7 domestic aerial surveillance
The US Army plans to deploy two massive airships with powerful surveillance systems over the US state of Maryland to monitor the country’s East Coast round-the-clock, heightening privacy concerns. The airships, known as aerostats, will
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Dianne Feinstein spots drone inches from face
Sen. Dianne Feinstein says she once found a drone peeking into the window of her home — the kind of cautionary tale she wants lawmakers to consider as they look at allowing commercial drone
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US Army To Have ‘Nano’ Insect Drones By 2030s, Internal Roadmap Reveals
The US Department of Defense has released its ‘roadmap’ for bringing new and ever-more-subjectively-terrifying robots to the battlefield. The ‘Unmanned Systems Roadmap’ document actually addresses overall cuts to the budget for drones, down to $4.1
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Google Is Testing A Program That Tracks You Everywhere You Go
Google is beta-testing a program that tracks users' purchasing habits by registering brick-and-mortar store visits via smartphones, according to a report from Digiday. Google can access user data via Android apps or their Apple iOS
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WANTED Dead Not Alive!
Taxing Human Life One government Murder at a time! There are literally dozens of ways that innocent Americans are killed every hour of every day in America today! With Obama’s Unaffordable Deathcare Taxes, you must pay this
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Ex-NSA/CIA chief Hayden jokes of putting Snowden on kill list
When it comes to Edward Snowden, it's reasonable to expect a little hard talk from former NSA and CIA chief Michael Hayden. After all, it is HIS baby that’s been shamed by Snowden’s leaks. But
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Ohio admits facial recognition used to scour state driver’s license database without public knowledge
For nearly three months, law enforcement in Ohio have had access to an unregulated facial recognition database that includes all statewide driver’s license photos and mug shots, The Cincinnati Enquirer reported Monday
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‘You Are Being Tracked’: ACLU reveals docs of Mass License Plate Reader Surveillance
The American Civil Liberties Union has released documents confirming that police license plate readers capture vast amounts of data on innocent people, and in many instances this intelligence is kept forever. According to documents obtained
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Chicago police start using facial-recognition software to arrest suspects
Police officers in Chicago, Illinois can remotely access video shot from any of the city’s 24,000 closed-circuit television cameras, and they are already using that ability to nab suspects who thought they could outsmart
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7 Powerful Ways to Maintain Your Privacy and Integrity Online
The recent NSA leaks from whistleblower Ed Snowden have publicly confirmed that digital privacy does not exist. The federal government and intelligence agencies have direct server access to the world’s most popular sites and
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CISPA Will Legalize PRISM Spy Program
Give them an inch and they will take a mile. That is how power-hungry tyrants interpret any law. The PATRIOT Act and the FISA court led to the blanket wiretapping of every American citizen and
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Google Is Ordered To Give Private Customer Data To The FBI
A U.S. judge has ordered Google to comply with FBI secret demands for customer data, despite earlier ruling the warrant less orders unconstitutional. District court judge Susan Illston this week rejected the Internet search
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