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Big Brother: Your Television is Watching You
Joining the ranks of private sector corporations assisting in the expansion of Big Brother surveillance in the US, Verizon has patented technology that turns a DVR into a personal spying tool to watch Americans
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The plot against the Internet
Bureaucrats from around the world will gather behind closed doors in Dubai next week to plot an end to the Internet as we know it — or so Washington would have you believe. Hill lawmakers
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Internet Privacy? Not If the Government Has Its Way
The Senate will consider a new bill that threatens Internet privacy rights on Thursday, November 29, reports Yahoo and CNET. If the bill passes, government agencies will no longer need a warrant to have
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Police Install Camera Focused on Back Yard of Woman’s Home
Recently I wrote about an ACLU of Michigan report that highlighted the problem of police cameras being installed outside of people’s private homes. Last week I learned from my colleague Doug Bonney of the
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NSA Refuses To Release Secret Obama Directive On Cybersecurity
The National Security Agency has refused to release details of a secret presidential directive which experts believe could allow the military and intelligence agencies to operate on the networks of private companies, such as
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Federal court approves use of hidden surveillance cameras on private property without warrants
Yet again, a federal judge undermined the Constitution in a wholly disturbing fashion, this time by allowing police to install hidden surveillance cameras on private property without obtaining a search warrant. This is especially troubling
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Top 10 Most Influential Whistleblowers
The subject of insiders -- or "whistleblowers" -- is somewhat tricky; anyone on the inside is often presumed to be compromised by their former allegiance. Nonetheless, the nature of government work is rooted in
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The US Government Today Has More Data On The Average American Than The Stasi Did On East Germans
We've written plenty about how the US government has been quite aggressive in spying on Americans. It has been helped along by a court system that doesn't seem particularly concerned about the 4th Amendment
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DHS Fusion Centers Spend Much, Learn Little, Mislead a Lot
A network of 77 "fusion" intelligence centers, set up around the country under the auspices of the federal Department of Homeland Security, has over the past decade uncovered little information that could be useful
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ACLU of Michigan exposes police surveillance cameras being used in residential neighborhoods
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Michigan recently put out a fascinating report (PDF) on the use of surveillance cameras in residential Lansing, Michigan which seems to be congruent with the ongoing rise
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DARPA Continues Human Experiments to Create Military Super Soldiers
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has a $2 billion yearly budget for research into creating a super solider as well as developing a synthetic police force. Working with the human genome, DARPA
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Whistleblower Protests Illegal NSA Data-Mining
A former employee of the National Security Agency (NSA) has released information revealing that the U.S. government has been extracting vast amounts of personal data from its citizens. While working at the agency, NSA
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Video: The Scariest Thing about Living in the United States
It is not the Federal Reserve and high price inflation----though that is very serious. It is the growing capability of the U.S. government to monitor all our activities and record them for future reference.
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Stellar Wind: The Secret NSA Domestic Spying Program; Whistleblower William Blinney Tells All
As the anniversary of 9/11 approaches, instead of listening to mainstream media and government propaganda about what happened that day, and how all of the police state measures that have followed have made us
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There Was A Secret Ruling Against The NSA For Spying On Americans
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is suing the Justice Department for details of last month's ruling by a secretive U.S. court that National Security Agency's domestic spying program violated the U.S. Constitution, Jon Brodkin
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Anonymous calls for shut-down of TrapWire to start this Saturday
While details of a futuristic and frightening global surveillance network called TrapWire are discovered, members of the Anonymous collective are calling for people everywhere to voice their opposition and help end the system, starting
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Trapwire: It’s Not the Surveillance, It’s the Sleaze
Ever since WikiLeaks began releasing a series of documents about the surveillance system Trapwire, there’s been a panicked outcry over this supposedly all-seeing, revolutionary spy network. In fact, there are any number of companies
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TrapWire investigation links transit systems and Anonymizer in global surveillance network
The facts behind TrapWire continue to surface in the days since WikiLeaks exposed the state-of-the-art surveillance system, but minute-by-minute more is being revealed about not just the scary intelligence infrastructure but its questionable ties. Last
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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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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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