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Post by the p in Harper on Jun 20, 2012 9:00:44 GMT -8
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Post by clone on Jul 1, 2012 7:34:55 GMT -8
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Post by clone on Jul 3, 2012 14:42:46 GMT -8
Supreme Court Ruling Allows Strip Searches for Any Arrest April 2, 2012 WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday ruled by a 5-to-4 vote that officials may strip-search people arrested for any offense, however minor, before admitting them to jails even if the officials have no reason to suspect the presence of contraband. www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/us/justices-approve-strip-searches-for-any-offense.html* A records search revealed an outstanding warrant for Mr. Florence’s arrest based on an unpaid fine. (The information was wrong; the fine had been paid.) * A nun was strip-searched, he wrote, after an arrest for trespassing during an antiwar demonstration.
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Post by clone on Jul 13, 2012 21:49:17 GMT -8
Canadian Government Installs Microphones and Cameras at Airports To Record Conversations of Travellers Posted on June 18, 2012 Airports and border crossings across Canada are being wired with high-definition cameras and microphones that can eavesdrop on travellers’ conversations, according to the Canada Border Services Agency. A CBSA statement said that audio-video monitoring and recording is already in place at unidentified CBSA sites at airports and border points of entry as part of an effort to enhance “border integrity, infrastructure and asset security and health and safety.” zen-haven.dk/canadian-government-installs-microphones-and-cameras/
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Post by clone on Jul 17, 2012 20:12:04 GMT -8
Hidden Government Scanners Will Instantly Know Everything About You From 164 Feet Away Jul 10, 2012 9:40 AM Within the next year or two, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will instantly know everything about your body, clothes, and luggage with a new laser-based molecular scanner fired from 164 feet (50 meters) away. From traces of drugs or gun powder on your clothes to what you had for breakfast to the adrenaline level in your body—agents will be able to get any information they want without even touching you. And without you knowing it. The technology is so incredibly effective that, in November 2011, its inventors were subcontracted by In-Q-Tel www.prweb.com/releases/2011/GeniaPhotonics/prweb8922932.htm to work with the US Department of Homeland Security. In-Q-Tel is a company founded "in February 1999 by a group of private citizens at the request of the Director of the CIA and with the support of the U.S. Congress." www.iqt.org/about-iqt/history.html According to In-Q-Tel, they are the bridge between the Agency and new technology companies. gizmodo.com/5923980/the-secret-government-laser-that-instantly-knows-everything-about-youGenia Photonics (Canada): Nonlinear molecular spectroscopy, terahertz (THz/mid-IR spectroscopy), chemical detection & sensing, picosecond programmable laser/tunable MOPA, portable diagnostic units, industrial, defense & security, health sciences www.geniaphotonics.com/Mission accomplished. The bridge builders at In-Q-Tel have managed to find a company so innovative that it can secretly bypass the Fourth Amendment from more than 50 yards away. www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/12090-dhs-to-deploy-new-scanners-that-secretly-search-from-50-yards-away
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Post by clone on Jul 21, 2012 13:18:41 GMT -8
Censorship Olympics 14 July 2012 06:00 AM The organisers of the Games have been handed unprecedented control over everyday speech The government has told the courts they may wish to take particular account of anyone using two or more words from what it calls ‘List A’ — ‘Games’; ‘Two Thousand and Twelve’; ‘2012’; ‘twenty twelve’. The judges must also come down hard on a business or charity that takes a word from List A and conjoins it with one or more words from ‘List B’ — ‘Gold’; ‘Silver’; ‘Bronze’; ‘London’; ‘medals’; ‘sponsors’; ‘summer’. Common nouns are now private property. The London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games does not stop there. To cover all eventualities, it warns the unwary that they can create an ‘unwarranted association’ without using forbidden words. They threaten anyone who infringes the exclusive deals of Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, Adidas, Dow, Samsung, Visa and the games’ other multi-million-dollar sponsors in however oblique a manner. And not just with the normal damages in the civil courts. The state has granted the police powers under the criminal law to enter ‘land or premises’ and to ‘remove, destroy, conceal or erase any infringing article’. www.spectator.co.uk/issues/14-july-2012/censorship-olympics-
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Post by 21st century utah on Aug 7, 2012 9:34:07 GMT -8
National Tag Reader Surveillance Grid Silently, but constantly, the government is now watching, recording your everyday travels and storing years of your activities in massive data warehouses that can be quickly “mined” to find out when and where you have been, whom you’ve visited, meetings you’ve attended, and activities you’ve taken part in. This is all done by using an elaborate network of Automatic License Plate Recognition cameras, also known as tag readers. ALPR is a technology of social control. And it’s not just critics who call it so. The International Association of Chiefs of Police, which itself favors tag readers, acknowledged in a report “The potential privacy harm of surveillance is its potential use as a tool of social control.” The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund has spent years investigating and uncovering this mass surveillance grid that is being put in place in the United States in the absence of public awareness, scrutiny, debate or oversight. It’s a system of mass surveillance and data warehousing on law-abiding persons and citizens. You’re being tracked routinely, without probable cause, without a warrant and without even a suspicion that you have committed a crime. Originally developed by the United Kingdom to be used against the Irish Republican Army, later deployed by the U.S. in Baghdad, tag readers have now been adapted for routine and massive deployment against civilians in the U.S. Watch us, watching them. View the interactive map to see our growing catalog of the documented instances of this web of spy cameras sweeping the nation. Participate, by submitting to us images and locations and other documentation of ALPR technology in your town or neighborhood. mapping project: www.justiceonline.org/one-nation-under-surveillance/index.htmlNational Security Agency Utah Data Center Images www.cryptome.org/2012-info/nsa-utah/nsa-utah.htm
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Post by clone on Aug 19, 2012 7:41:38 GMT -8
Approved: The First Swallowable Electronic Devices Digital pills that monitor you from within 07.31.2012 at 3:37 pm smart pills, Proteus BiomendicalNo matter how fast pharmaceutical companies can churn out drugs to prevent or cure illnesses, health insurance doesn't cover the cost of hiring a person to follow you around and remind you to take your meds. So the FDA has approved a pill that can do it on its own by monitoring your insides and relaying the information back to a healthcare provider. www.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-07/fda-approves-digital-pills-track-your-prescription-intake
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Post by Stellar Wind on Sept 10, 2012 15:37:54 GMT -8
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Post by clone on Oct 2, 2012 8:58:26 GMT -8
No. 11-1025 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES epic.org/amicus/fisa/clapper/EPIC-Amicus-Brief.pdf (September 24, 2012) BRIEF OF AMICI CURIAE ELECTRONIC PRIVACY INFORMATION CENTER (EPIC), THIRTY-TWO TECHNICAL EXPERTS AND LEGAL SCHOLARS, AND EIGHT PRIVACY AND TRANSPARENCY ORGANIZATIONS IN SUPPORT OF RESPONDENTS
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Post by clone on Oct 2, 2012 9:44:03 GMT -8
Panel looks at mileage-based fees for state drivers By Larry Sandler of the Journal Sentinel Sept. 25, 2012 A panel is examining whether Wisconsin motorists should pay fees based on how many miles they drive. The mileage-based fee - which would be the first such charge in the nation - would be levied in addition to gas taxes and vehicle registration fees, Transportation Secretary Mark Gott lieb said. It would be based on drivers reporting their odometer readings to the state, because Transportation Finance & Policy Commission members are showing little interest in the more controversial idea of monitoring mileage by installing global positioning system units in everyone's vehicles, Gott lieb said. www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/panel-looks-at-mileagebased-fees-for-state-drivers-fq6uvpc-171266741.html
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Post by clone on Nov 17, 2012 21:49:01 GMT -8
Data from automated licence-plate readers troubles B.C. privacy watchdog Daily Brew – 8 hours ago Automated vehicle licence-plate readers have rapidly become a must-have tool for police but the way the data is being shared has caused British Columbia's privacy watchdog to throw up a red flag. Increasingly, police cruisers are equipped with infrared cameras that can read as many as 3,000 plates an hour and, linked automatically to a database in the patrol car's computer, tell officers if a vehicle is stolen or connected with a traffic violation or more serious crime. ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dailybrew/data-automated-licence-plate-readers-troubles-b-c-213941112.html
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Post by john edgar on Nov 22, 2012 22:25:36 GMT -8
No dummy: This mannequin is spying on you November 21, 2012 12:45 PM PST Several dozen EyeSee mannequins are already watching shoppers and gathering data with their camera eyes. Retailers are deploying mannequins equipped with cameras that watch for shoplifters and record shopper behavior to improve sales. The EyeSee mannequin from Italy's Almax SpA www.almax-italy.com/ is being used with facial-recognition software that can identify the age, race, and gender of shoppers and record how long they spend around a display. Almax says the technology doesn't violate shoppers' privacy. news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57553272-1/no-dummy-this-mannequin-is-spying-on-you/
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Post by clone on Dec 12, 2012 11:06:21 GMT -8
Video security system shows wrong house to customer - Last Updated: Dec 11, 2012 7:22 PM NT A St. John's man says he is getting much more than he expected from a video surveillance system he purchased, with images showing the inside of the home of total strangers. "I was looking at someone else in their own house — walking around in their own house — and it's not mine," said Mayo Vrba, who became an inadvertent peeping tom after he purchased a home surveillance system earlier this year from Vivint Inc. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2012/12/11/nl-video-vivint-security-error-1211.html
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Post by clone on Dec 14, 2012 18:29:14 GMT -8
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