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7 Key Events That Are Going To Happen By The End Of September
Is something really big about to happen? For months, people have been pointing to the second half of this year for various reasons. For some, the major concern is Jade Helm and
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Psssst: Wanna Buy a Used Spy Website?
The names suggest a parade of a C-list websites. There was NewJunk4U.com and Monster-Ads.net, CoffeeHausBlog.com and SuddenPlot.com. But, these sad-sounding domains actually were artful creations of the National Security Agency: They were fronts for
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Online news sites to be blacked out during next major catastrophic event?
According to what I'm hearing from several sources in my network of contacts, the U.S. government is putting systems in place to black out online news sites like Natural News, Drudge Report, The Blaze
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New ‘Artificial Intelligence Software’ Capable of ‘Near Human-Level’ Image-Recognition
Censorship concerns raised over Google and Stanford programs that translate complex images into written text Scientists with Stanford University and Google have developed two new artificially intelligent software programs capable of describing images with near
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Three Spooky Ways You’re Being Spied on This Halloween
It’s that time of year when people don sinister masks, spray themselves with fake blood, and generally go all out for a good fright. But here at EFF, we think there are plenty of
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You’re Being Watched: Online Stores Know Your Habits
Booking travel or buying something online? There's a good chance you aren't paying the same price as the next guy. New research reveals what some buyers have suspected and some companies even confirm: Online travel
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Free apps used to spy on millions of phones: Flashlight program can be used to secretly record location of phone and content of text messages
Millions of people are being spied on by free apps they have installed on their mobile phones, security experts have warned. Many flashlight apps which allow a device to be used as a torch
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Secret files show MI5 spying on academics
Britain's domestic spying apparatus, the MI5, has been spying on a number of prominent academics for decades, newly declassified documents show
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State Sponsored Assassination Culture
The ongoing failures of the Secret Service to provide proper protection for the President have political careerists in a tizzy. Scares that harm could come to the commander-in-chief, also worries the press. Ordinary citizens
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iPhone? It’s a spyphone: Apple devices can record your every movement
It is tracking your every move – recording the exact time you left for work, where you bought your coffee and where you like to shop. But this isn’t a futuristic spy drone or some
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Big Brother Is Watching You: Paranoia, Surveillance, and the Drug War
Police have new tech to help them predict and enforce the law better than ever—but that also means enforcing the racial bias of drug arrests faster than ever, too. “Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean
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Is Big Brother spying on your computer – with your own cell phone?
As you know if you’ve been reading my blog for a while, I’ve written several articles on OPSEC. This one hits a lot closer to home. In order to live in a technological society, you
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5 Big Brother Technologies for Tracking and Surveilling Children
Without much of a mentionable public debate about the implementation of police state surveillance and tracking technologies in our society, we are quickly moving into an era where personal liberty and privacy do not
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NULLIFICATION: GET TO YOUR STATE LEGISLATORS NOW
With more than half of the primaries over and nearly every single incumbent, both parties, having won, if the trend continues, we will end up with virtually the same U.S. House of Representatives. The
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The Secret To Staying Hidden In A Digital World
In today’s ever-evolving digital world, protecting your privacy may seem like an impossible task. But before you begin incorporating methods that will help protect your personal privacy, it is important to note the stark differences
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Five Computer Security Myths, Debunked by Experts
We're no strangers to helping you secure your computer, but there are some computer security myths and stories that keep getting passed around, even though they're clearly not true. We sat down with a
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The Obama Administration Is Forcing Local Cops To Stay Silent On Surveillance
The Obama Administration is Forcing Local Cops to Stay Silent on Surveillance The criminality of the Obama Administration is at this point almost beyond description. Earlier this week I highlighted a shocking discovery in my
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State Legislators Discussing Laws That Will Put Law Enforcement Surveillance Cameras Inside Private Businesses
from the because-no-square-footage-can-go-unsurveilled dept The government does enjoy installing cameras pretty much everywhere it can do so with a minimum of complaints. If it thinks there might be some controversy, it just buries the details
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New Pennsylvania law allows school districts to record student conversations on buses
The days of hearsay “he said, she said” reports on school bus incidents might be over, at least in Pennsylvania. Gov. Tom Corbett signed legislation in February allowing the use of audio recording devices on
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Anti-surveillance mask lets you pass as someone else
Uncomfortable with surveillance cameras? "Identity replacement tech" in the form of the Personal Surveillance Identity Prosthetic gives you a whole new face. If the world starts looking like a scene from "Matrix 3" where everyone
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