by Giuseppe Macri. Big brother is watching. An Ohio-based surveillance company working with police has created the law enforcement surveillance model of the future, giving cops the ability to capture the activity of an entire city on video. The eerily-named Persistent Surveillance Systems is headed by former Air Force ... MORE
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Baylen Linnekin: Big Brother Is Watching You Eat
Your betters say it's for your own good. Just how far is the federal
government willing to go to push Americans to make subjectively
“healthy” food choices? Chillingly far, if the most recent meeting
of the federal government’s Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee
(DGAC) is any indicator. The DGAC is
made up of fifteen academics, ... MORE
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If Spying On Senate Is So Bad, Why is it OK To Spy On Us?
by Ron Paul. The incandescent hypocrisy of Diane Feinstein. The reaction of Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) to last week’s revelations that the CIA secretly searched Senate Intelligence Committee computers reveals much about what the elites in government think about the rest of us. “Spy on thee, but not on me!” The hypocrisy of Sen. ... MORE
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Big Brother Getting Stronger Every Day
by William F.B. O'Reilly. I went to bed earlier this week a semi-rational person.
I awoke the next day a raving paranoid. It happens once in a while. It wasn't a single thing that put me over the
edge; it was the accumulation of stories about expanding police
technologies, the ones to which we, as citizens, routinely succumb. Call
it a Keyser Söze ... MORE
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FCC Backpedals On Newsroom-Monitoring Scheme
by Jordan Sekulow and Matthew Clark. A First Amendment victory over an intrusive federal government
doesn’t come along every day, but thanks to a deafening outcry from the
American people, the Obama administration has just backed down from an unconstitutional plan to put monitors in newsrooms in a dramatic fashion. Recently, ... MORE
Fighting Back Against Government's Big Secret
by Rep. Ted Poe. It’s Tuesday morning. A citizen wakes up, writes emails and makes a phone call. The person has a meeting soon, so he pulls up Google Maps to figure out a route. He then hops into a cab, checks Facebook on his phone, texts his friend and plays ‘Candy Crush’ on his iPhone. After the meeting he heads to the office, logs on to ... MORE
How U.S. Spying Is Killing Free Trade
by the editors of Bloomberg. All around the world, governments are devising creative ways to
torment American technology companies. It started last year after leaks
revealed that the U.S. government basically uses services like Google
and Facebook as arms of the surveillance state. In response, some
countries - - including Germany, Brazil and ... MORE
VIDEO: Candidate Obama Vs. President Obama
A debate on government surveillance.
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This Smartphone Is Making Privacy A Priority
Lily Hay Newman on a new innovation: Blackphone. The national conversation about privacy is in high gear, and services
for things like secure messaging have been popping up everywhere to try
to meet demand. But most consumers aren't really in a position to
evaluate whether these services can actually deliver on their ... MORE
Your CAR Could Be 'Spying' On You!
Gathering data, tracking: the new vehicle realities. As if Facebook, Google and the federal government squirreling away your personal information wasn't enough, now it seems your car could also be spying on you. According to a new report from the Government Accountability Office, several major automakers and GPS ... MORE
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The Ways You’re Being Tracked, Catalogued & Controlled
John Whitehead on our electronic concentration camp. What is most striking about the American police state is not the mega- corporations running amok in the halls of Congress, the militarized police crashing through doors and shooting unarmed citizens, or the invasive surveillance regime which has come to dominate every aspect ... MORE
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Joseph Cox: The Privacy Threats Of 2014
The obliteration of privacy. After Edward Snowden released some of the most significant national
security leaks ever, we've been fed a constant stream of sickening
revelations. Snowden's message has mostly been listened to, and the
year culminated with him even getting a spot on prime time TV to tell us that “a child born today ... MORE
Drone-Spotting Survival Guide Informs Citizens Of Threat
published in Russia Today. A Drone Survival Guide with hints and tips on how to thwart the
“robotic birds” has been published on the internet. With over 30,000
drones expected to be flying over the US by 2030, the Guide urges
readers to familiarize themselves with the craft. In light of the growing number of drones, the Guide advises a ... MORE
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Snowden's Christmas Message: Privacy Matters
"The mission is already accomplished." In a message broadcast Wednesday on British television, Edward J. Snowden, the former US security contractor, urged an end to mass surveillance, arguing that the electronic monitoring he has exposed surpasses anything imagined by George Orwell in "1984," a dystopian vision of an ... MORE
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John R. Quain: On Alert For Red-Light Cameras
Strike back against intrusive revenue generators. Banished by voters in Houston, facing legal challenges in Missouri and working undercover in New York City, traffic-monitoring cameras, promoted as accident-reducing tools by safety advocates and decried as intrusive revenue-generators by opponents, are nothing if not ... MORE
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NSA Spying Scandal Could Cost U.S. Tech Giants Billions
Privacy invasion bad for business. The National Security Agency spying scandal could cost the top U.S.
tech companies billions of dollars over the next several years,
according to industry experts. In addition to consumer Internet
companies, hardware and cloud-storage giants like IBM, Hewlett-Packard,
and Oracle could suffer ... MORE
VIDEO: Government Is A Little Sensitive About Free Speech
Surprising that shirt maker wasn't charged with passing federal secrets.
NSA Collecting Porn Activity To Discredit "Radicalizers"
by Ed Morrissey. Does the latest NSA revelation
show the agency creating newer and more humane efforts to defuse
potential terrorist situations through discrediting their leaders — or a
dangerous new direction for government snooping? Perhaps this might be a
little bit of both. The NSA collected data on six potential targets
about ... MORE
Local Cops Have NSA-like Spying Powers For Social Media
Little Brother is in your business too. Local law enforcement is getting the kind of technological boost that used to be limited to three-letter agencies, thanks to Web-based software services that mine social media for intelligence. At last month's International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) conference in Philadelphia, LexisNexis showed ... MORE
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Silk Road Bust Hints At FBI's New Cybercrime Powers
by Hal Hodson. The biggest drug marketplace on the internet has been busted. The illicit empire of the Silk Road came
crashing down on Wednesday after its founder Ross Ulbricht, aka Dread
Pirate Roberts , was arrested and charged with narcotics trafficking,
money laundering, computer-hacking and attempted murder. He was caught ... MORE
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