Mass surveillance. The NSA Files: PRISM & Boundless Information. GE at SXSW: tracking brainwaves during BBQ tastings and using a 12-foot smoker. 6 People Who Turned the Tables on Government Surveillance. Call us old-fashioned, but if you're going to go through the trouble of spying on your enemy, you might as well do your homework: buy some good equipment, get a background check, borrow a trench coat, etc.
Silicon chip edges towards quantum memory › News in Science (ABC Science) News in Science Thursday, 18 April 2013 Anna SallehABC Quantum memory It is possible to use phosphorous atoms in silicon to develop quantum memory, suggests new Australian research.
Associate Professor Andrea Morello and team from the University of New South Wales have demonstrated the ability to read and write information with 99 per cent accuracy or more on the nucleus of a single atom. Billboards That Look Back. Is Your Cell Phone Spying On You? - Newsweek and The Daily Beast. Darpa's Giant Folding Spy Satellite Will Dwarf All Other Space Telescopes.
US amendment designed to curb NSA metadata retrieval is defeated. An amendment to the US defence appropriations bill that would have curbed the NSA's power and funding has been defeated after security chiefs and the White House banded together to stop it.
Republican Representative Justin Amash of Michigan brought the amendment to the House with the intention of using it to reduce funding of NSA surveillance programmes, specifically those relating to the scraping of metadata. Clause 2397 of the bill provides more than $500 billion (£325 billion) in funding for the Department of Defence budget. Amash wanted to insert wording into that bill, specifically to quash NSA use of that budget in phone surveillance of US citizens in the wake of Edward Snowden's revelations about Prism.
The Xbox One will always be listening to you, in your own home (update) In its hour-long Xbox One presentation, Microsoft blazed through announcements for its new next-generation console, including one ostensibly important feature that may raise some eyebrows: the new Xbox will always be listening to you, even when it's turned off.
The reason for always-on listening mode is simple; Microsoft wants the new Xbox to respond quickly and naturally to you, whenever you need it. To fulfill that goal, the company will ship the new Kinect — its motion-sensing and listening peripheral — with every Xbox One. The new console uses the new Kinect for just about everything: switching between games, movies, web browsing, and live television, all of which can be done with voice commands. Microsoft's Great Patent Application: Xbox Achievements For Watching Advertising. You may recall the concern some have raised over Smart TVs, those internet connected glowing boxes with cameras ripe for exploits that would allow hackers to watch you watch TV.
Supposedly less nefarious were concerns over technology that would allow those same Smart TVs to recognize when you had left the room or were looking away, subsequently dimming the screen to conserve energy. Whether or not either is a concern rising to the levels of epidemic privacy invasion, one thing that is clear is that the general public is a bit dubious about being monitored within their own living rooms. EFF: FBI may have committed more than 40K intelligence violations since 9/11. A new report from the Electronic Frontier Foundation analyzes more than 2,500 pages' worth of FBI documents extracted using Freedom of Information Act litigation and finds disturbing, system-wide violations of civil liberties on a scale that is far beyond anything reported to date: Using documents obtained through EFF's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation, the report finds: • Evidence of delays of 2.5 years, on average, between the occurrence of a violation and its eventual reporting to the Intelligence Oversight Board • Reports of serious misconduct by FBI agents including lying in declarations to courts, using improper evidence to obtain grand jury subpoenas, and accessing password-protected files without a warrant • Indications that the FBI may have committed upwards of 40,000 possible intelligence violations in the 9 years since 9/11 Release: EFF Uncovers Widespread FBI Intelligence Violations Report: Patterns of Misconduct: FBI Intelligence Violations from 2001 - 2008.
6 New Spy Technologies You Literally Can't Hide From. Between Facebook sharing your vacation photos and friends list to the world, and Google tracking every search you've ever made, most of us have pretty much given up on the idea of privacy on the Internet.
NSA Chief Alexander is a Bilderberg ... Why Facebook's Facial Recognition is Creepy. Mandatory ‘Big Brother’ Black Boxes In All New Cars From 2015. Provision is part of controversial MAP-21 bill expected to pass House Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Wednesday, April 18, 2012 A bill already passed by the Senate and set to be rubber stamped by the House would make it mandatory for all new cars in the United States to be fitted with black box data recorders from 2015 onwards.
Section 31406 of Senate Bill 1813 (known as MAP-21), calls for “Mandatory Event Data Recorders” to be installed in all new automobiles and legislates for civil penalties to be imposed against individuals for failing to do so. “Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall revise part 563 of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, to require, beginning with model year 2015, that new passenger motor vehicles sold in the United States be equipped with an event data recorder that meets the requirements under that part,” states the bill.
Federally-Funded Street Lights Capable of “Recording Conversations” Orwellian ‘Intellistreets’ system now being installed in major cities Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Tuesday, November 1, 2011 Federally-funded high-tech street lights now being installed in American cities are not only set to aid the DHS in making “security announcements” and acting as talking surveillance cameras, they are also capable of “recording conversations,” bringing the potential privacy threat posed by ‘Intellistreets’ to a whole new level.
In the days after we first brought attention to the privacy concerns surrounding the new street lights, with our story featuring prominently on the Drudge Report website, the company behind them, Illuminating Concepts, went on the defensive, issuing a press release claiming the devices didn’t represent a “big brother” intrusion. London police can now download the contents of your phone in seconds. If you’re arrested around London anytime soon, watch out: the Metropolitan Police has distributed kiosks to 16 borough precincts that will allow them to extract data from your mobile device within minutes.
Officials hope this will enable them to respond quicker to situations like last July’s riots. Police suspected that Research In Motion’s BlackBerry Messenger was used as the communication medium of choice among riot ringleaders. While RIM did cooperate with authorities in allowing access to the network, that cooperation did little for those in the field attempting to quell the unrest and respond proactively to situations. UK-based mobile forensics company Radio Tactics is supplying the system. Called ACESO (pictured below), the device works much like the units used in retail outlets to transfer data between your old and new mobile phone. Xbox one. 5 Ways You're Secretly Being Monitored.
Refrigerators Used To Spy On Americans At Home. (Steve Watson) CIA director David Petraeus has said that the rise of new “smart” gadgets means that Americans are effectively bugging their own homes, saving US spy agencies a job when it identifies any “persons of interest”. Speaking at a summit for In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s technology investment operation, Petraeus made the comments when discussing new technologies which aim to add processors and web connections to previously ‘dumb’ home appliances such as fridges, ovens and lighting systems. Wired reports the details via its Danger Room Blog: “‘Transformational’ is an overused word, but I do believe it properly applies to these technologies,” Petraeus enthused, “particularly to their effect on clandestine tradecraft.”
Petraeus also stated that such devices within the home “change our notions of secrecy”. Where will all the information from such devices be sent and analyzed? Source. Big Brother Goes Live September 2013: NSA, CIA, and the loss of privacy. Public Buses Across Country Quietly Adding Microphones to Record Passenger Conversations. Transit authorities in cities across the country are quietly installing microphone-enabled surveillance systems on public buses that would give them the ability to record and store private conversations, according to documents obtained by a news outlet. The systems are being installed in San Francisco, Baltimore, and other cities with funding from the Department of Homeland Security in some cases, according to the Daily, which obtained copies of contracts, procurement requests, specs and other documents.
The end of privacy: Government to deploy laser-based ‘molecular strip-search’ devices across airports and roadside checkpoints – Mike Adams. Blanket Surveillance. Total Secrecy. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?