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If you saw the Tom Cruise movie Minority Report, you may recall the scene when he goes into a shopping mall, and ads talk at him personally. Also, the authorities could track anyone. This was police surveillance paid for by advertising. It’s coming, folks. I read it in a press release. Press releases are designed [...]
Continue reading →Google has just patented a system that can determine where you are by the background noise your cell phone provides. You’re attending a baseball game and call Google’s 411 service for information about a nearby restaurant. The cheers of the crowd and the sounds of the announcer are picked up by your phone. Google’s system [...]
Continue reading →The Air Force is launching a fleet of drone spy planes across American skies. These are data-gathering devices. They hold data for 90 days whenever they accidentally collect it over the USA. Why hold it at all? Legally, the Air Force is not supposed to snoop on citizens of the USA. But if they take [...]
Continue reading →The Wall Street Journal ran an article about a company that has been issuing pieces of paper that looks like play money. It can be used to get discounts on the company’s product line: tires. It has been doing this for half a century. It says there are $100 million in “money.” It is so [...]
Continue reading →The Department of Justice wants to be legally authorized to track anyone, at any time, by means of his cell phone. The DoJ adamantly resists the suggestion that a judge should be required to issue a warrant in order for the DoJ to do this. Jason Weinstein, a deputy assistant attorney general in the Department [...]
Continue reading →We have read about this for 25 years: citizens with embedded microchips. The warnings were premature. The technology did not permit it. Now it does. The U.S. military plans to implant soldiers with medical devices, making them harder to kill with disease. The military’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, announced plans to create [...]
Continue reading →The FBI insists that it needs trapdoors to get into all social media sites. The goal, we are told, is to track terrorists. The current law allows this for all telecommunications carriers. But it does not apply to the Internet. The FBI want to close this loophole. The problem, the FBI says, is that it [...]
Continue reading →The technology of government surveillance keeps getting more powerful. This will not change. At the British Rugby World Cup, cameras were able to zoom in and read text messages on spectators’ smartphones. Of course, it works both ways. Smartphones will have similar capabilities within a few years. Details of police monitoring used for the first [...]
Continue reading →This recruiting video was produced by the U.S. government. It invites local police to become informants. This is part of a national program: SAR (Suspicious Activity Reporting). We are told that terrorists are involved in pre-cursor activities — suspicious activities. It is possible for local police officers to become trained in observing and reporting these [...]
Continue reading →Salon, which is on the left, has published a detailed attack on Obama’ civil rights policies. It correctly points out that his administration is enforcing and extending the worst aspects of Bush’s administration. It befins with a look back at 2008. He was elected as the civil right’s movement’s “great hope.” Obama, a former constitutional [...]
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