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Oops! Air Force Drones Can Now (Accidentally) Spy on You
As long as the Air Force pinky-swears it didn’t mean to, its drone fleet can keep tabs on the movements of Americans, far from the battlefields of Afghanistan, Pakistan or Yemen. And it can
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Unmanned Poison Drones Are The Latest Threat To This Summer’s Olympic Games
In a meeting meant to calm residents fear about hosting missiles on their rooftops during the Olympic games, Lieutenant Colonel Brian Fahy told Londoners it's possible that drones laden with biological weapons may be
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5 Ways Robots Are Outsourcing Humans in the Workforce
The outsourcing of human jobs as a side effect of globalization has arguably contributed to the current unemployment crisis. However, a growing trend sees humans done away with altogether, even in the low-wage countries
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Drones patrolling Washington state border
The federal government’s unmanned drones patrolling the U.S.-Canadian border are venturing into Washington’s airspace. In testimony before a U.S. Senate panel last week, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said northern border surveillance using unmanned aerial
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Is there a drone in your neighbourhood? Rise of spy planes exposed after FAA is forced to reveal 63 launch sites across U.S.
Unmanned spy planes are being launched from locations in 20 states and owners include the military and universities There are at least 63 active drone sites around the U.S, federal authorities have been forced to
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Iran ‘building copy of captured US drone’ RQ-170 Sentinel
Iran has begun building a copy of the US surveillance drone it captured last year, after breaking its encryption codes, Iranian officials say. "The Americans should be aware to what extent we have infiltrated the
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Aerial ‘Shadowhawk’ Police Drones Can Now Deploy Tasers & Tear Gas
That’s the initial assessment of Catherine Crump, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union, who narrates part of a short video clip that explores the Shadowhawk drone and its implications for domestic law
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Navy Looking to Use Helicopter Drones to Hunt Pirates
Pirates are funny when they’re portrayed by a rum-soaked Johnny Depp. In real life, however, they pose a serious problem, with around 160 ships and 4,000 sailors affected by pirates in the last decade.
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CIA Home Invasion: Smart TVs and the ‘Internet of Things’
Recently, CIA Director David Petraeus made headlines with a speech given at the summit for In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture capital firm. In this talk, Petraeus discussed the emerging “internet of things” and the implications
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Powerful Senators Demand Giant Spy Blimp
It’s a story so convoluted, only Washington could serve it up. Eighteen months ago, the Pentagon’s chief ordered the Air Force to start building a king-sized blimp that could spy on whole Afghan villages
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Next Phase of the Surveillance State: Nuclear Powered Drones
The next generation of surveillance drones will be nuclear powered. Instead of flying for hours, the new drones will be able to stay in the air for months. The development represents a bonanza for
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Government to roll out same snooping tactics as ‘China and Iran’ by getting access to everybody’s emails, texts, and internet browsing
All conversations over the internet and emails could be recorded as the Government plans a massive expansion in surveillance. The Coalition is reviving Labour's ill-fated scheme to snoop on all British citizens online – despite
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Is your TV watching you? Samsung’s latest sets with built-in cameras spark concerns
Samsung's latest breed of plasmas and HDTVs may allow hackers, or even the company itself, to see and hear you and your family, and collect extremely personal data. The new models, which are closer than
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NSA Boss Says Agency Does Not Monitor Your Email
Once again, another government bureaucrat, this time the boss of the all-power National Security Agency, has taken us for idiots. General Keith Alexander, who insists hackers can take down power grids not hooked up to
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NSA Utah ‘Data Center’: Biggest-ever domestic spying lab?
The biggest-ever data complex, to be completed in Utah in 2013, may take American citizens into a completely new reality where their emails, phone calls, online shopping lists and virtually entire lives will be
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Twenty US soldiers involved in Kandahar killings
An Afghan committee says that up to 20 US soldiers have been involved in the Sunday killing of at least 16 Afghan civilians in Kandahar Province
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US soldier on SEAL team shoots dead nine sleeping Afghan children before burning their bodies in deadly rampage that killed 16
Sixteen innocent Afghan civilians - including nine children and three women - were shot and killed by a rogue U.S. soldier who opened fire after suffering a 'mental breakdown' early this morning
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Russian Mogul Plans to Transplant Human Brains to Robot Bodies
Do you want to live forever in a robotic body? If Russian entrepreneur Dmitry Itskov is to be believed he already has plans that will allow humans to inhabit robots in the next ten
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