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Post by clone on Jan 24, 2013 15:42:24 GMT -8
Justice Department 'Complies' With FOIA Request For GPS Tracking Memos; Hands ACLU 111 Fully Redacted Pages from the the-answer-is-none;-none-more-black dept Just recently, we learned that the EFF had been handed what appeared to be several pages of severe formatting errors and faulty Morse code in response to its FOIA request for the secret interpretation of the FISA spying law. There were also the "sobering findings" faux-released by the NSA, which left in only enough unredacted wording to open speculation on these "sobering findings," as well as to publicly lament the surely misguided public debate on the super-secret agency's actions. Now, the news comes to us that the FBI has handed the ACLU a stack of papers that would make any toner supplier very happy. www.techdirt.com/articles/20130117/07260121714/justice-department-complies-with-foia-request-gps-tracking-memos-hands-aclu-111-fully-redacted-pages.shtml Google Transparency Report Shows Government Snooping Up Posted: 01/23/2013 7:03 pm EST | Updated: 01/24/2013 11:04 am EST From July to December 2012, Google revealed, the company received 8,438 total requests for information about 14,791 users or accounts in the United States. Requests were up 34 percent from 2011 to 2012. www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/23/google-transparency-report_n_2537153.htmlCheck Your Car for a GPS Tracker 00:42, 14 May 2011 It used to be that only the CIA, James Bond and Spider-Man had the technology necessary to attach a tracking device to a vehicle and keep tabs on it wherever it goes. But now that GPS trackers are cheaper than TV sets, everyone from local police to car-rental companies are getting into the act. And with the Barack Obama administration urging the Supreme Court to allow warrantless GPS tracking, the number of vehicles trundling around with tracking devices attached might be getting a lot higher soon. Is your car one of them? We'll show you how to find out. howto.wired.com/wiki/Check_Your_Car_for_a_GPS_Tracker
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Post by paradox on Jan 24, 2013 16:33:00 GMT -8
San Francisco thought they were upgrading their 18,000 lamps with LEDs and a wireless control system, when they realized that they were in fact laying the groundwork for the future intelligent public space," LLGA cofounder Sascha Haselmeyer tells Open Source Cities. San Francisco streetlights will spy on passersby www.sott.net/article/257056-San-Francisco-streetlights-will-spy-on-passersbyAccording to a report in the SF Bay Guardian, Paradox Engineering of Switzerland has already started testing streetlamps in the city that have the ability to wirelessly transmit data from traffic signals and surveillance cameras from one device to another. Soon, though, there will be more than just 14 cameras with that kind of capability. Additionally, the city is currently searching five vendors to test even more advanced lampposts across the city.
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Post by clone on Mar 7, 2013 11:14:56 GMT -8
Library and Archives Canada deal with Ancestry.ca leaves personal information vulnerable Federal government releases a gold mine of personal data Mar 7, 2013 at 3:29 am In 1995, Bruce Phillips, Canada’s privacy commissioner, dropped a minor bombshell in his annual report to Parliament: thousands of Canadians would begin losing their rights that year under the Privacy Act as the federal government started downsizing and privatizing. Phillips, commissioner from 1991 to 2000, warned that personal information previously collected by the government would soon be removed from the protection of the act and end up in the hands of private companies. But Parliament wasn’t listening. “This means that innumerable bits of personal data no longer will have to be managed in accordance with fair information practices,” Phillips further cautioned. “The subjects of all this information will have no legal right of access to the information and no legal control over what information is collected about them, how it may be used, disclosed or otherwise disposed of…This constitutes nothing less than a privacy disaster…This consequence of privatization may have been entirely unintended; it can hardly have been unforeseen. And, regrettably, it was entirely preventable.” www.straight.com/news/359091/library-and-archives-canada-deal-ancestryca-leaves-personal-information-vulnerable
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Post by single window govt on May 13, 2013 18:32:22 GMT -8
India Launches Universal ID System with Biometrics, Germany downplays biometric ID card hack Central Monitoring System to make government privy to phone calls, text messages and social media conversations | May 7, 2013, 10.09AM IST BANGALORE/DELHI: The government last month quietly began rolling out a project that gives it access to everything that happens over India's telecommunications network—online activities, phone calls, text messages and even social media conversations. Called the Central Monitoring System, it will be the single window from where government arms such as the National Investigation Agency or the tax authorities will be able to monitor every byte of communication. more: articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-05-07/news/39091148_1_single-window-pranesh-prakash-internet
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Post by node 76669 on Jun 27, 2013 19:12:53 GMT -8
Somatic Surveillance: Corporeal Control through Information Networks Somatic surveillance is the increasingly invasive technological monitoring of and intervention into body functions. Within this type of surveillance regime, bodies are recast as nodes on vast nformation networks, enabling corporeal control through remote network commands, automated responses, or self-management practices. In this paper, we investigate three developments in somatic surveillance: nanotechnology systems for soldiers on the battlefield, commercial body-monitoring systems for health purposes, and radio-frequency identification (RFID) implants for identification of hospital patients. The argument is that in present and projected forms, somatic surveillance systems abstract bodies and physiological systems from social contexts, facilitating hyper-individualized control and the commodification of life functions. www.surveillance-and-society.org/articles4%283%29/somatic.pdf
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Post by anon on Jan 1, 2014 22:48:53 GMT -8
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Post by Nortel on Jan 18, 2014 6:56:42 GMT -8
The new CSEC headquarters in Ottawa, officially budgeted at $880 million but likely costing a billion dollars or more, is an 'architectural wonder,' the former CSEC chief says. www.cbc.ca/news/politics/inside-canada-s-top-secret-billion-dollar-spy-palace-1.1930322No bugs found in former Nortel building, Defence officials now say | October 1, 2013 www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/bugs+found+former+Nortel+building+Defence+officials/8984193/story.htmlDecember 3, 2013 11:14am, 85-year-old refused to surrender | On New Year’s Eve, the gate around his former field will be locked up for good, his prime soil now the property of National Defence. “They were harassing me every day here,” Meyers says. “This has been going on for seven years. I couldn’t take it anymore. You can’t talk to them because they won’t listen to you. It’s: ‘We’re going to get rid of you and that’s it.’ ” Signed in May 1798, nearly 70 years before Canadian Confederation, the Crown land patent assigned the property to the Meyers clan “forever.” If the state wants your land (for a highway, a hospital or a top-secret training facility), you can either sell now or be expropriated later. www2.macleans.ca/2013/12/03/after-seven-year-battle-frank-meyers-finally-surrenders-his-family-farm/ Russell Williams commanded CFB Trenton pyrelog.proboards.com/thread/137/colonel-russell-williams-army-news
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Post by clone on Jan 18, 2014 7:09:59 GMT -8
Cops Can Confiscate Money And Property From Law Abiding Citizens - 5/25/12 2:30pm - It's a burgeoning trend known as "policing for profit," and law enforcement agencies are using it to bolster their budgets.
There are documented cases of law enforcement using funds inappropriately, ala Boss Hogg. In many cases, law enforcement agencies keep confiscated property indefinitely, even if the person they took it from was not guilty of any crime. - Property seizures — known officially as civil asset forfeitures — aren't limited to cash. Cars and other property can be taken, too, with money often going directly into the seizing agency's budget.
- Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law, but you won't necessarily be able to defend yourself.
- IJ released a report in 2010 entitled Policing for Profit. It is a chilling collection of civil seizure research and horror stories from around the country. "Unlike criminal forfeiture, where property is taken after its owner has been found guilty in a court of law, with civil forfeiture, owners need not be charged with or convicted of a crime to lose homes, cars, cash or other property."
Look it up: "civil asset forfeitures"
jalopnik.com/5913416/cops-can-confiscate-money-and-property-from-law-abiding-citizens
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Post by clone on Jan 18, 2014 7:51:22 GMT -8
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Post by P on Jan 31, 2014 6:41:53 GMT -8
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Post by vice.com on Apr 30, 2014 17:30:31 GMT -8
Why Is the Canadian Government Issuing Over 1 Million Annual Requests to Telecom Companies for Our Data? | Apr 30 2014 When news broke earlier this year that CSEC had been tracking Canadians through free airport WiFi, the mainstream media largely missed the point. Not only had Canada’s NSA been using airport hotspots to gather personal information about Canadians, they had also been gathering data from other corporate sources to create behavioural patterns designed to track the comings and goings of whoever it is their targets are. That’s a bit more invasive than simply snooping on folks looking at cat videos, who are waiting for their connecting flight to Orlando. If you go through the original presentation about CSEC’s so-called airport spying program, which was leaked by Eddie Snowden, you can see that CSEC uses the example of a kidnapper who’s on the lam, and whose position can be pinpointed by CSEC tracking programs. Not only is this somewhat of an overreach for CSEC (because isn’t finding kidnappers a police responsibility?) but it also indicates that there are corporate partners throughout North America helping CSEC gather information on Canadians. Listed in that presentation are Bell Sympatico, Boingo, and Neustar—a company that was the subject of a VICE Canada report earlier this year. Within that same free airport WiFi presentation was an allusion to a ‘Canadian Special Source,’ that had provided data to CSEC, which was widely speculated to be a “large telecommunications provider in Canada.” This created a firestorm (within the small circles in this country that actually research and follow online surveillance, that is) of speculation as to which company that ‘Special Source’ is, and it provoked further research into the amount of data that Canadian telecom providers turn over to the government. Christopher Parsons, a postdoctoral fellow at U of T’s Citizen Lab, along with a group of other researchers, sent formal letters to Bell, Rogers, Telus, and every other telecom provider in Canada asking them to quantify the amount of requests that they received from law enforcement agencies for customer data in 2012 and 2013, how their protocol and processes for these requests work, how long they keep subscriber data, and so on. Unsurprisingly, they were almost unanimously stonewalled by the telecom companies in this country, stating: “The companies that have responded to the letters as of March 5, 2014 have generally declined to provide specific responses to the questions posed of them.” While these letters may not have sounded a widespread, public alarm, news broke late last night that Canadian government agencies issued 1.2 million requests for customer data in 2011 alone. This data came from the federal privacy commissioner, who received anonymous figures from nine different telecom companies in Canada. As the Toronto Star reported: “It’s not clear from the report what information was sought by agencies, how much data was released, or what judicial oversight—if any—was involved.” more: www.vice.com/en_ca/read/why-is-the-canadian-government-issuing-over-1-million-annual-requests-to-telecom-companies-for-our-data
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Post by NRA on May 7, 2014 19:00:15 GMT -8
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Post by eu black box on May 14, 2014 19:50:13 GMT -8
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Post by Guest on Feb 2, 2015 22:52:57 GMT -8
Is Facial Recognition The Next Privacy Battleground? January 26, 2015 While much recent retail technology buzz has focused on the promise and peril of Apple's iBeacons, another identity tech has matured: facial recognition. It's now powerful enough to let stores use cameras to link customers' faces to information stored in databases—but it's also finding use in industrial and transportation settings, www.fastcompany.com/3040375/is-facial-recognition-the-next-privacy-battleground
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Post by not April foolery on Mar 31, 2015 21:35:54 GMT -8
Facebook ‘breaks EU laws’ tracking all visitors, even non-users – report Published time: April 01, 2015 03:02 Even if you have opted out of the tracking option in Facebook, or don’t have account at all, the company is still watching your web movements through the use of social plugins, thereby breaking EU laws, says a report by the Belgian Privacy Commission. A report commissioned by the BPC has discovered that Facebook tracks everyone, even logged-out users or people who don’t have an account at all, primarily through the use of cookies and the ‘like’ button which is found on more than 13 million websites worldwide. more: on.rt.com/benv0w
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