Surveillance Society

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• Homeland Security gives States get more time to comply with Real ID Act

  
  Aftermath News — Authority: 445
  Washington Post | Dec 19, 2009 By Spencer S. Hsu The Obama administration will abandon a Dec. 31 deadline for states to tighten security requirements for driver’s licenses, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced Friday. Delaying the requirement, which faces opposition from governors and Senate ...
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• On CCTV

  
  Blaney's Blarney — Authority: 471
  A tasty debate on ConHome between the redoubtable Alex Deane of Big Brother Watch and Lord Ashcrofts right-hand man, Gavin Barwell. Naturally I side with Alex. Episode after episode of Crimewatch has convinced me that CCTV is nigh on useless in detecting or preventing crime. Too many cameras are defective, ...
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• Super Big Brother cameras with thermal imaging recognize faces, license plates and give orders to citizens

  
  Aftermath News — Authority: 445
  ‘Talking’ CCTV cameras go live across Hounslow CCTV cameras that have the potential to talk to passersby have gone live across Hounslow – but Big Brother will not be speaking just yet. hounslowguardian.co.uk | Dec 16, 2009 By Ian Mason Instead, the cameras, which can be fitted with technology to ...
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• Every parent a suspect | Henry Porter

  
  Comment is free: Henry Porter's blog | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 99
  The criteria have changed slightly, but the Vetting and Barring Scheme still creates an atmosphere of suspicion and fear " Soft intelligence " is the phrase used by the head of the Independent Standards Authority (ISA), Sir Roger Singleton, in explanation of the sort of information his quango will seek to vet 9 ...
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• Big Brother is watching and listening to students on the school bus

  
  Aftermath News — Authority: 445
  Each South Callaway school bus will have three digital cameras installed to monitor student and driver activity. Big Brother To Keep Students Safer KOMU | Dec 11, 2009 Reported by: Megan Granger SPOKANE – Bus drivers in the South Callaway School District will get some help keeping an eye on students come ...
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• Skip the chip

  
  ThinkingShift — Authority: 119
  I’ve blogged about VeriChip before .  If you have no idea who or what VeriChip is, let me briefly tell you. VeriChip was (and I say was because VeriChip has a new name) a Florida, US-based company that had grand plans for inserting microchips under the skin of humans. Back in 2007, they announced plans to ...
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• The picture that could land you in jail: How police in Big Brother Britain treat you like a terrorist for taking holiday snaps

  
  Aftermath News — Authority: 445
  A tourist photographs Big Ben: Under Section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000, police can stop and search anyone within certain geographical areas without the usual requirement of reasonable suspicion Taking photos of classic scenes such as London buses on Oxford Street at Christmas could lead to happy snappers being ...
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• Equality snoopers to keep files on your sexuality

  
  Aftermath News — Authority: 445
  A new ‘Lifestyle Database’ will draw information from medical records as well as government surveys Daily Mail | Dec 5, 2009 By James Slack People will be routinely asked to answer sensitive questions about their sexuality so a Government quango can compile a massive ‘equalities’ database, it emerged ...
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• Pubs ordered to use surveillance cameras on customers or face closure

  
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  Pubs ordered ‘operate CCTV or face closure’ Landlords are being warned to ensure their CCTV is working – or face closure. lep.co.uk | Dec 7, 2009 By Emma Broom Police have shut two popular Preston bars in the past few weeks after they were found to have inadequate security camera coverage. The ...
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• VeriChip’s Merger With Credit Monitoring Firm Worries Privacy Activists

  
  Aftermath News — Authority: 445
  Wired | Dec 9, 2009 By Penn Bullock Remember VeriChip, the Florida company that once dreamed of injecting its human-implantable RFID microchips in everyone from immigrant guest workers to prison inmates? We haven’t heard much from the company since a dipping stock price nearly got it delisted from the NASDAQ ...
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• 8 Million Reasons for Real Surveillance Oversight

  
  Illuminati Conspiracy Archive Blog — Authority: 479
  Christopher Soghoian - Dec. 1, 2009Executive Summary Sprint Nextel provided law enforcement agencies with its customers’ (GPS) location information over 8 million times between September 2008 and October 2009. This massive disclosure of sensitive customer information was made possible due to the roll-out by Sprint ...
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• Suspicion undermines anti-extremism project, says Denham

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Minister to make absolutely clear there should be no covert gathering of information by Prevent programme Controversy, criticism and a lack of clarity has limited the effectiveness of the governments programme to tackle violent extremism in Britain, the communities secretary, John Denham, will admit today. He is to ...
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• Inventer connects the dots back to his involuntary Verichip implant

  
  Aftermath News — Authority: 445
  Bob Boyce first noticed what turned out to be the VeriChip implant that caused his malignant tumor when he was working with former associate, Bob Potchen. Having fallen asleep at a desk, when he awoke, his right shoulder felt like it had been numbed; and when he rubbed it, he noticed a small, hard lump there. Boyce ...
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• Here’s looking at you, kid

  
  bird of paradox — Authority: 514
  There’s a bit of a fuss in the news today about a letter apparently written by HM Queen Elizabeth to newspaper and magazine editors about paparazzi photographers “intruding on the royal family’s privacy” ahead of its traditional Christmas break at Sandringham. “Members of the royal family feel they ...
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• Gnomes and big government

  
  ThinkingShift — Authority: 119
  It was ex-Prez Ronald Reagan who once uttered the nine most terrifying words in the English language: “I’m from the Government and I’m here to help”. Whenever I think of Reagan’s words I think of the current state of Governments, particularly in Australia and the UK (and increasingly the US) – ...
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• Cash prizes awarded to citizens who spy on each other

  
  Aftermath News — Authority: 445
  CCTV images on a computer monitor Charles Farrier, from No CCTV, said: “Internet Eyes is a very worrying development – we are already the most watched country in the world. Now we have a private company asking private individuals to spy on each other.” Cash prizes for catching CCTV criminals BBC | Dec 4, ...
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• Sprint: 50 million customers, 8 million law enforcement requests for GPS data last year

  
  Grits for Breakfast — Authority: 540
  Check out this must-read blog post from a grad student out of Indiana University about law enforcements growing, everyday use of personal data held by companies and the disturbing lack of documentation that makes it all hard to track. The author demonstrates convincingly that "publicly available law enforcement ...
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• Paranoia infects the way we treat kids | Henry Porter

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 155
  In its many intrusive policies, the government displays a fundamental mistrust of parents and children This is number 1,789, or thereabouts, in my long running series, "What the hell is going on in this country?" Every morning I wake up to emails from my researcher Hannah Lease. There are now thousands on my system, ...
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• Villagers force council to remove intrusive `Big Brother’ camera

  
  Aftermath News — Authority: 445
  Pangbourne village forces council to remove `Big Brother’ CCTV camera Residents of Pangbourne, the village that was the setting for the Wind in the Willows, have forced a council to remove a “Big Brother-style” CCTV camera. Telegraph | Nov 30, 2009 By Richard Savill A scheme to introduce cameras has ...
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• Monday Links

  
  Gerry Canavan — Authority: 146
  * Financialize this: ‘Carbon trading could be worth twice that of oil in next decade.’ If only there were some other policy option … * The headline reads, “Turkey wants universal email surveillance from birth.” * Ezra Klein on the House of Representatives and the intent of the Founders. * ...
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