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Seattle to Remove Controversial City Spying Network After Public Backlash
Seattle to Remove Controversial City Spying Network After Public Backlash After rejecting a massive network of surveillance cameras and tracking devices, Seattle residents are now being forced to pay for the removal of the invasive equipment. Following years of resistance from citizens, the city of Seattle has decided to completely remove controversial surveillance equipment – […]
Trump Administration to Test Biometric Program to Scan Faces of Drivers and Passengers in Vehicles
Trump Administration to Test Biometric Program to Scan Faces of Drivers and Passengers in Vehicles The U.S. Customs and Border Protection is preparing to launch a pilot program to scan the faces of drivers and passengers at Anzalduas Port near McAllen, Texas. On Thursday the U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced plans for a new […]
The Net’s Good Old Boys: Dr. (Don’t Be) Evil Meets Dr. Strangelove
The Net’s Good Old Boys: Dr. (Don’t Be) Evil Meets Dr. Strangelove Dr. Eric Schmidt has called for intelligence agencies to stop illegally prying into personal information and has been doing his best to convince the government to pay Google to do it legally instead. That said, in 2009 he was widely rebuked for telling […]
The FISA Memo is All the Ammunition Trump Needs to Take on the CIA
The FISA Memo is All the Ammunition Trump Needs to Take on the CIA FISA is an abomination. Let’s get that out of the way. And since I don’t believe there are any coincidences in U.S. or geo-politics, the releasing of the explosive four-page FISA memo after Congress reauthorized FISA is suspicious. Former NSA analyst (traitor? hero?) turned […]
Customs And Border Protection Clarifies: You Have No Rights While Traveling
Customs And Border Protection Clarifies: You Have No Rights While Traveling The government is like a poorly trained dog. If you let one bad behavior go, it just escalates until they bite. The government has been searching electronics like cell phones and laptops at the border since early in the Bush administration. But because the […]
The Same Democrats Who Denounce Trump as a Lawless, Treasonous Authoritarian Just Voted to Give Him Vast Warrantless Spying Powers
Photo: Mark J. Terrill/AP The Same Democrats Who Denounce Trump as a Lawless, Treasonous Authoritarian Just Voted to Give Him Vast Warrantless Spying Powers LEADING CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS have spent the last year relentlessly accusing Donald Trump of being controlled by or treasonously loyal to a hostile foreign power. Over the last several months, they have […]
House Passes Legislation Renewing Controversial NSA Surveillance Program
House Passes Legislation Renewing Controversial NSA Surveillance Program Update 3: The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act has been renewed by the House of Representatives. Originally enacted in 1978, the act outlines the lawful procedure for collecting foreign intelligence. FISA Section 702 allows the US government to pull in communications from foreign nationals but does not permit […]
DHS Announces Program to ILLEGALLY Scan Our Faces—And They’re Forcing Us to Pay For It
DHS Announces Program to ILLEGALLY Scan Our Faces—And They’re Forcing Us to Pay For It Both Congress and the Department of Homeland Security have never justified the biometric scanners at airports that could cost Americans $1 billion in 2018. As TSA agents continue to prove their incompetence in the “War on Terror,” the Department of […]
Supreme Court to Debate Warrantless Collection Of Cellphone Records in Huge Fourth Amendment Battle
Supreme Court to Debate Warrantless Collection Of Cellphone Records in Huge Fourth Amendment Battle In one of the most important Fourth Amendment battles of the digital age, the Supreme Court is preparing to tackle a case involving law enforcement accessing cellphone records without a warrant. On Wednesday the US Supreme Court is scheduled to address […]
Staggering Variety of Clandestine Trackers Found in Popular Android Apps
Photo: Dave J Hogan/Getty Images STAGGERING VARIETY OF CLANDESTINE TRACKERS FOUND IN POPULAR ANDROID APPS RESEARCHERS AT YALE Privacy Lab and French nonprofit Exodus Privacy have documented the proliferation of tracking software on smartphones, finding that weather, flashlight, rideshare, and dating apps, among others, are infested with dozens of different types of trackers collecting vast […]
Is the Mexican Government Spying on Journalists?
Is the Mexican Government Spying on Journalists? On the season finale of ‘CYBERWAR,’ Ben Makuch investigates why government spyware is cropping up on Mexican reporters’ smartphones. On Tuesday, VICELAND is airing the season finale of CYBERWAR, sending Ben Makuch to Mexico to investigate the government’s potentially fraught use of hacking tools. Mexican authorities purchased spyware […]
The Surveillance State: An Inexorable March Toward Totalitarianism
The Surveillance State: An Inexorable March Toward Totalitarianism Gizmodo released an article entitled “US Homeland Security Wants Facial Recognition to Identify People in Moving Cars,” on 11/2/17 by Matt Novak. The Surveillance State has slowed down its rate of growth since the President took office, however, it has not halted that growth. Instead, it lies festering […]
The Face of Surveillance: Malcolm Turnbull’s Recognition Database
The Face of Surveillance: Malcolm Turnbull’s Recognition Database Never miss an opportunity in the security business. A massacre in Las Vegas has sent its tremors through the establishments, and made its way across the Pacific into the corridors of Canberra and the Prime Minister’s office. Australia’s Malcolm Turnbull is very keen to make hay out […]
