You Are Being Tracked: How License Plate Readers Are Being Used to Record Americans' Movements. A little noticed surveillance technology, designed to track the movements of every passing driver, is fast proliferating on America’s streets.
Automatic license plate readers, mounted on police cars or on objects like road signs and bridges, use small, high-speed cameras to photograph thousands of plates per minute. The information captured by the readers – including the license plate number, and the date, time, and location of every scan – is being collected and sometimes pooled into regional sharing systems.
As a result, enormous databases of innocent motorists’ location information are growing rapidly. We Have Sacrificed Our Liberty to the Surveillance State Cop Cams May Just Empower the Surveillance State. The recent police killing of Michael Brown, John Crawford III, and others, including Michelle Cusseaux in my own city of Phoenix, have invigorated a nationwide discussion on both the left and right about police violence.
Much of the debate has come to center around police body cameras as one possible way to rein in out of control cops. Even libertarians have begun to consider and advocate for cop cams. Mass surveillance. Mass surveillance is the intricate surveillance of an entire or a substantial fraction of a population.[1] The surveillance is often carried out by governments or governmental organisations, but may also be carried out by corporations, either on behalf of governments or at their own initiative.
Depending on each nation's laws and judicial systems, the legality of and the permission required to engage in mass surveillance varies. Mass surveillance has often been cited as necessary to fight terrorism, to prevent social unrest, to protect national security, to fight child pornography and protect children. Conversely, mass surveillance has equally as often been criticized for violating privacy rights, limiting civil and political rights and freedoms, and being illegal under some legal or constitutional systems. There is a fear that increasing mass surveillance will ultimately lead to a totalitarian state where political dissent is undermined by COINTELPRO-like programs. By country[edit] How the Surveillance State Changes Our Everyday Lives. George Orwell's 1984 opens with Winston Smith carving out a pocket of privacy by crouching in a corner of his apartment where the telescreen-and thus Big Brother-can't see and writing a diary entry.
These days, that Stalin-inspired nightmare seems quaint. We carry our personal telescreens around with us, and take it for granted that if someone wants to watch us, they can.There is nowhere to hide, even in the Hong Kong hotel room where Laura Poitras filmed Edward Snowden talking to Glenn Greenwald about the revelations about the NSA the whistleblower unleashed on the world.
At one point in Citizenfour, Poitras's film about the surveillance state and Snowden, an impatient Snowden yanks the hotel phone's plug from the wall. Feds want to track your DNA like a license plate (Yep we’re there) This isn’t surprising.
I think many of us just assumed that to some degree this sort of research has been going on. The surveillance state contractor infrastructure expands, and our privacy shrinks, again. Foreign Policy/International Affairs Policy Study – Policy Ideas for Advancing Liberty. How To Apply International Human Rights Law to NSA Spying. This past Monday, the Human Rights Committee commenced its one hundredth and tenth session in Geneva from March 10-28.
During this session, the Committee will review the reports of several countries on how they are implementing the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), an international human rights treaty and one of the bedrocks of human rights protections. Countries that have ratified the ICCPR are required to protect and preserve basic human rights through various means including administrative, judicial, and legislative measures.
Additionally, these countries are required to submit a report to the Human Rights Committee, a body of independent experts who monitor the implementation of States’ human rights obligations, every four years. The United States ratified the ICCPR in 1992 and is thus tied to these obligations, and required to regard the treaty the same as it would any domestic law. The secret court ruling behind NSA overreach. A new tranche of leaks from whistle-blower Edward Snowden’s document trove give important context to our understanding of NSA dragnet surveillance.
Classified documents from mid-2002 reveal how the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court passed a landmark ruling to weaken restrictions on sharing private information about U.S. citizens. RSA Denies Hobbling Encryption Software For NSA. RSA has strongly denied a report that it was paid to embed in encryption software flawed technology that would have enabled the U.S.
National Security Agency to break into computer products. Reuters reported Dec. 20 that the NSA paid the influential security vendor $10 million to provide its customers with the agency-developed encryption formula that would create a backdoor in products. RSA, a unit of EMC, reportedly used the technology in BSAFE, which is software embedded in commercial applications to secure data.
Don’t Think the Feds Will Rein In the NSA? Maybe the States Can Help. If you are worried about your privacy and remain unconvinced that President Obama will offer any serious reforms to the National Security Agency, take heart: Legislators in statehouses around the country are seeking to take the battle over government surveillance into their own hands.
On-line or off, cyber-spies can get you, Israeli expert says. For those who thought they could protect themselves from cyber-spying by disconnecting from the Internet — forget it.
According to The New York Times, technology exists that allows spy agencies, like the NSA (National Security Agency), to reach a computer or entire network that has no connection to the Internet. NSA plants classified radio devices in sensitive areas - Ann Arbor Gadgets. House Passes 2014 NDAA; NSA Surveillance Will Lead to Indefinite Detention. Congress Moves to Create New Surveillance Agency Under NDAA 2014. Kurt Nimmo Prison Planet.com June 21, 2013 Earlier this year, the House Subcommittee on Intelligence, Emerging Threats and Capabilities, one of several Armed Services Committees, discussed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2014. “The main subject of the hearing was Sec. 1061, otherwise known as Enhancement of Capacity of the United States Government to Analyze Captured Records,” writes Stephen Benavides.
Activists groups can be considered terrorists. To better understand the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and who is considered a threat, we must first ask ourselves “What is a terrorist?” By definition, a terrorist is a person or group of people that cause fear and panic in others by their words or actions. Legislation would restrict citizens’ rights - Lockhaven.com. Like the idea of being arrested without warrant and jailed indefinitely without trial?
If no, then ask state Sen. Joe Scarnati to co-sponsor S.B. 999 requiring non-cooperation with the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that empowers the federal government to arrest and detain Pennsylvanians without charge or trial on U.S. soil. Obama’s Enhanced Oversight to NSA’s Surveillance Program Brings Many Critics. WASHINGTON—Under pressure from the Snowden leaks last summer, President Obama is keeping the NSA’s surveillance program but with a major overhaul on how the program operates. NSA Prism Patriot Act: US Govt. Massive Phone, Internet Surveillance Exposed. NSA Lies Again: XKeyscore Tool Collects "Everything" an Internet User Does, Substantiates Snowden's Claims (+video) Edward Snodennews. Snowdennews: (CNN) — The FBI planned to fly the Edward Snowden’s father to Moscow to encourage the National Security Agency leaker to come home to the United States, his father told the Washington Post. What can states do to rein in NSA phone surveillance?
US Federal Judge Rules NSA Data Collection Legal. NSA Leaks Prompt Rethinking of U.S. Control Over the Internet's Infrastructure. World internet map.