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Enslaved by technology and the Internet of things. If ever Americans sell their birthright, it will be for the promise of expediency and comfort delivered by way of blazingly fast Internet, cell phone signals that never drop a call, thermostats that keep us at the perfect temperature without our having to raise a finger, and ... MORE
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John W. Whitehead: Welcome To The Matrix
Enslaved by technology and the Internet of things. If ever Americans sell their birthright, it will be for the promise of expediency and comfort delivered by way of blazingly fast Internet, cell phone signals that never drop a call, thermostats that keep us at the perfect temperature without our having to raise a finger, and ... MOREKevin D. Williamson: Tinker, Tailor, Stalker, Spy
The NSA uses powers to spy on wives and girl friends. A private investigator once explained to me why he always turned down husband-and-wife cases: If your marriage has gone so sour that the best course of action you can think of is hiring a guy to spy on your spouse, then you don’t need an investigator — you need a minister, a ... MOREHomeland Security Loses Track Of 6,000 Foreigners
by Brian Ross and Matthew Mosk. But they have your e-mails. The Department of Homeland Security
has lost track of more than 6,000 foreign nationals who entered the
United States on student visas, overstayed their welcome, and
essentially vanished -- exploiting a security gap that was supposed to
be fixed after the Sept. 11, ... MOREEric 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
Secret Government Rulebook For Labeling You a Terrorist
by Jeremy Scahill, Ryan Devereaux. The Obama administration has quietly approved a substantial expansion
of the terrorist watchlist system, authorizing a secret process that
requires neither “concrete facts” nor “irrefutable evidence” to
designate an American or foreigner as a terrorist, according to a key
government document obtained ... MOREThese 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 ... MORELook at Online Privacy Tools? NSA Labels You ‘Extremist’
by Joshua Kapstein. The government is not us. Online privacy tools like Tor have become incredibly popular in the wake
of Edward Snowden’s surveillance revelations. But according to an
analysis of leaked source code from the National Security Agency, using or merely searching for information about those tools is enough to label someone ... MORENicole Hensley: FBI Keeps Dictionary Of Internet Slang
To better track your children. You’re going to FP (face palm) when you see the FBI’s internal style guide for Internet slang. It’s more than 80 pages of definitions and acronyms — or “Twitter shorthand” — for obvious terms such as LOL and WTF. The document was acquired by the news site MuckRock
in its crusade for Freedom of Information ... MOREThe Government Wants You Ignorant Of Cops Tracking You
by Trevor Timm. Thought the NSA was bad? All across America, from Florida to Colorado and back again, the country's increasingly militarized local police forces are using a secretive technology to vacuum up cellphone data from entire neighborhoods – including from people inside their own homes – almost always without a warrant. This ... MOREWhy Trust A Government That Kills, Maims, Tortures, Lies, Spies, Cheats, And Treats Its Citizens Like Criminals?
by John W. Whitehead. For that matter, why should anyone trust a government utterly lacking in transparency, whose actions give rise to more troubling questions than satisfactory answers, and whose domestic policies are dictated more by paranoia than need? Unfortunately, “we the people” have become so trusting, so gullible, so easily ... 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. ... MORESchool 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 ... MOREDustin Volz: House To Advance Bill To Curb NSA Spying
Public knowledge of it anyway. A bill that would effectively end one of the National Security Agency's most controversial spy programs is finally getting its day in congressional court. The House Judiciary Committee will hold a markup of an amended version of the USA Freedom Act on Wednesday, a surprising and sudden move that would ... MOREJohn 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. ... MOREGoogle, DuckDuckGo And Regulation Of Privacy
by Tim Worstall. This piece about DuckDuckGo rather interested me, for it speaks to the
argument that is being had over the regulation of privacy in both the US
and the European Union. And while this isn’t entirely and wholly true
it is in essence: the US has, in my opinion, taken the right view of
that regulation. Leave it, largely, to the ... MOREBig 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 ... MOREBush Cyberczar: NSA Heads America Toward Police State
by Brandan Blevins. Revelations about NSA
monitoring activities over the last year show the potential for a police state mechanism,
according to the former U.S. cybersecurity czar, but there is still time to avoid the dire
consequences. At the 2014 Cloud Security Alliance Summit, unofficial RSA Conference opener Richard Clarke, chairman of ... MOREJim Daniels: Do You Live In A No Drone Zone?
Some states are resisting the surveillance state. This week Washington and Wisconsin were added to the list of states
that ban the use of drones for government surveillance. It’s shocking to
think that in just two short years, the U.S. is opening the friendly
skies to commercial drones so they can get your Amazon prime delivery, burritos ... MORE10 Prison Security Techniques Being Used On The People
Marlon Brock on America's police state. Americans are not typically aware of how their federal and state prison systems work. What we think we know, we learned from watching television. When I took my first walk through at FCI (Federal Correctional Institution) El Reno Oklahoma as a new employee, I was surprised at how non- ... MORE
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