by Terrence Jeffrey. Big Brother wants to know your every move. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, part of the
Department of Transportation, published last week an "advanced notice of
proposed rulemaking" on "vehicle-to-vehicle communications." What NHTSA is proposing could begin a transformation in the American ... MORE
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Eric Holder Wants Gun Owners To Wear Tracking Bracelets
from the Chicago Sun-Times. How's this for gun control: Attorney General Eric Holder said the Justice Department wants to explore gun tracking bracelets as part of a new form of gun control. While appearing in front of the House appropriations subcommittee on Friday, Holder focused on technological innovations. “I think that one of the ... MORE
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Laziness At The Expense Of Privacy And Freedom
by Leon Spencer. John McAfee calls out Google and our own laziness. Computer antivirus software developer John McAfee made a surprise appearance at the Def Con hacker conference in Las Vegas over the weekend, where he spoke about the "eroded nature of privacy in our lives today". McAfee, founder of the antivirus software company ... MORE
NSA Employees Routinely Pass Around Nude Photos
The shameless perks of government employees. The 31-year-old former US National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden
has warned that during surveillance, among other things, NSA system
administrators also intercepted and routinely passed the nude photos of
people in "sexually compromising" situations among ... MORE
These White Boxes Could Track Your Every Move
by Paul Detrick. In fall 2013, Seattle, WA, residents noticed mysterious white boxes installed on street corners throughout downtown Seattle. Their interest only grew when curious WiFi networks with the names of those street corners began to pop up on their mobile phones as available networks to connect to. The boxes and WiFi turned out ... MORE
NSA Can Listen Through Your iPhone Even When It Is Off
by Mark Prigg. The NSA could technically listen in to the microphone of an iPhone even if it switched off, experts have revealed. The claim was first made by Edward Snowden during an interview with Brian Williams of NBC Nightly News. Today, experts confirmed the technique was technically possibly - and revealed a way to sidestep it. ... MORE
4-Year Old's Drawing Sends Dad To Jail
Canada's political correctness continues running amok. It was a kindergarten class piece of art that Jessie Sansone probably won’t want to hang on the refrigerator anytime soon. After Jesse Sansone’s 4-year-old daughter
drew a picture of a gun, cops handcuffed the clueless father and dragged
him off to jail. It was there that the dad ... MORE
School Districts Are Paying To Data Mine Your Children
by Stephanie Simon. The NSA has nothing on the ed tech startup known as Knewton. The data analytics firm has peered into the brains of more than 4 million students across the country. By monitoring every mouse click, every keystroke, every split-second hesitation as children work through digital textbooks, Knewton is able to find out not ... MORE
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USPS Wants To Mine & Sell Data Gathered From Your Mail
by Giuseppe Macri. The United States Postal Service is looking to get in on the big-data-for-profit game played by tech giants like Facebook and Google, and begin mining and selling private data gathered from personal mail sent from and received by Americans everywhere. USPS chief marketing and sales officer Nagisa Manabe recently told ... MORE
John Stossel: Privacy, Please
We can never tell government to butt out. Scarlett Johansson left nude photos of herself on her computer. A hacker grabbed them and sent them to gossip websites. A Pennsylvania high school issued laptop computers to students and then remotely activated the laptops' cameras to watch the students when they were away from school. ... MORE
New Tech Lets Cops Watch ENTIRE CITY In Real-Time
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
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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