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Microsoft and Bloomberg Collaborate on Sophisticated Pre-Crime Technology
Michael Bloomberg, Mayor for New York and Raymond Kelly, police commissioner, are collaborating with Microsoft to create pre-crime and counterterrorism technology to aid federal intelligence and local law enforcement agencies domestic and international. The Domain
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If You See This Google Warning, Act Fast: Big Brother is Watching
Big Brother is watching. No kidding. And the warning is coming from none other than Google, which says government spies may be spying on you. Some believe the Google announcement may be related
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Video: NYPD to launch surveillance software system
The NYPD says it will launch an all-seeing "Domain Awareness System" that combines several streams of information to track both criminals and potential terrorists. Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly says the city developed the software with
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Obama’s Leaks and Their Catastrophic Consequences
The White House was on the receiving end of some well-earned criticism regarding national security leaks from both sides of the aisle. On Monday, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee,
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Government surveillance: Little peepers everywhere
In February 1928 the Supreme Court heard the case of Roy Olmstead, whose conviction on bootlegging charges relied on evidence obtained by tapping his phones. Olmstead contended that this violated the fourth amendment, which
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NSA Whistle Blowers Warn that the US Government Can Use Surveillance to ‘See Into Your Life’
This is a shocking video confirming, by former NSA employees, what many of us probably suspected about the National Security Agency. NSA whistle blowers Thomas Drake, former senior official; Kirk Wiebe, former senior analyst; and
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Super-Silent Owl Drone Will Spy on You Without You Ever Noticing
For spy tools, drones are pretty easy to spot. And hear, because they’re as loud as a gut-busting rock concert. But now the intelligence community’s research division, Iarpa, plans to start designing a silent
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U.S. government admits surveillance breached 4th Amendment ‘on at least one occasion’
Finally, the U.S. government formally admitted that their incredibly massive surveillance program has, in fact, violated our right to be safe from unreasonable search and seizure as protected by the 4thAmendment to the Constitution
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NSA Analyzing Conversations In Real Time
Spy agency has Google-style capability to search all communications The National Security Agency is storing all electronic communications and analyzing them in real time, according to former NSA employee turned whistleblower William Binney, who warns
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NSA Whistleblower: Spy Agency Gathering Info on ‘Virtually Every US Citizen’
National Security Agency whistleblower William Binney said on Friday that the US government is secretly gathering information “about virtually every US citizen in the country,” in “a very dangerous process” that violates Americans’ privacy. Binney,
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Big Brother Australia Looking to Monitor Full Spectrum Communications
The most expansive set of surveillance powers since the attacks of 2001 are set to be rolled out in Australia unless there is overwhelming public resistance. The new proposals are being issued by the intelligence
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The mind-reading helmet: ‘Big Brother in your head’
What most people thought to be the last bastion of privacy in today’s world – the mind – are likely going to be quite disturbed to know that a new company, Veritas Scientific claims
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Government Will Soon Be Able to Know Your Adrenaline Level, What You Ate Your Breakfast and What You’re Thinking … from 164 Feet Away
You might have heard that police are deploying scanners – not only in airports – but also on trains, buses, ferries, sporting events and on the streets. And see this. You probably know that
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14 Incredibly Creepy Surveillance Technologies That Big Brother Will Be Using To Spy On You
Most of us don't think much about it, but the truth is that people are being watched, tracked and monitored more today than at any other time in human history. The explosive growth
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IARPA: US Government Spies on Us Through Vimeo and YouTube
Igor Curcio heads a team of researchers at the Nokia Research Center has developed complicated algorithms that can take clips of thousands of films, and create a movie that is seamless and perfectly matched
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Video: Big Brother ‘black box’ to spy on UK mail & phones
The UK has found another way to snoop into its citizens' affairs. Internet and phone companies are set to install so-called 'black boxes', which will monitor e-mails, social networking activity and calls, and store
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Google Moves to Control Large Sections of the Internet Through New Web Domain Suffixes
Google, a company that already controls much of the internet and has a long history (NSA connections aplenty) of recording and tracking users throughout the internet, has applied to control 101 different web domain
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Beware the spy in the sky: Google and Apple may spy from the sky
Spy planes able to photograph sunbathers in their back gardens are being deployed by Google and Apple. The U.S. technology giants are racing to produce aerial maps so detailed they can show up objects
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Plan X: Pentagon’s blueprint for full-fledged cyberwar
The wheels of the war machine are ever turning inside the Pentagon, but the Defense Department’s latest endeavor won’t involve fighter jets and armored tanks. The DoD is putting aside billions to enhance its
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Google Thinks You’re Stupid—and Works to Keep You in the Dark
Google doesn’t trust anyone—people, officials, even governments—to understand anything. As a result, it is the most secretive Internet entity—and disingenuous about that secrecy, says Andrew Blum, author of ‘Tubes: A Journey to the Center
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