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• Town to photograph every car that enters and leaves

  
  Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority: 167
  The California town of Tiburon votes to set up permanent cameras to record the license plate of every car on its roads. Is this one more step toward a surveillance state?
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• Welcome Home, War! Creating the “Domestic Surveillance State” By Prof. Alfred W. McCoy

  
  Creative-i — Authority: 149
  In his approach to National Security Agency surveillance, as well as CIA renditions, drone assassinations, and military detention, President Obama has to a surprising extent embraced the expanded executive powers championed by his conservative predecessor, George W. Bush. This bipartisan affirmation of the imperial ...
  1 week ago

• UK Health Department to Require Snooping Into Private Homes

  
  PogoWasRight.org — Authority: 151
  If Croydon council’s placement of CCTV cameras inside private homes to monitor unsuspecting people outside on the street creeps you out, read on, because your UK home is no longer your castle and government intrusiveness is running amok… Joe Wolverton, II reports: Just when they thought they could not be ...
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• Secret CCTV camerasINSIDE people’s homes spy on neighbours outside

  
  PogoWasRight.org — Authority: 151
  CCTV cameras are being fitted inside family homes by council ’snoopers’ to spy on neighbours in the street outside, it was revealed today. The £1,000 security cameras have been placed inside properties but are trained on the streets to gather evidence of anti-social behaviour. Each device is linked to a laptop ...
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• Cheap pain ray developed by Israeli academics

  
  Psyche, Science, and Society — Authority: 473
  Israelis make new advances in “non-lethal,” deniable mass torture . Imagine the uses? No more batons and tear gas to suppress protesters. Every authoritarian, make that every state, will want one. Which countries won’t  follow? Israeli ‘portable pain ray’ raises fears of non-lethal weapons ...
  2 weeks ago

• Britain passes Big Brother landmark: More than one in 10 people now on DNA database

  
  Illuminati Conspiracy Archive Blog — Authority: 133
  James Slack - 28th October 2009A Big Brother landmark has been passed with ten per cent of the population now stored on the Government’s DNA database.In total, there are now an astonishing 5,532,847 individual profiles logged on the giant computer system - out of a population of 54million in England and Wales.Around ...
  2 weeks ago

• Who Reads the Readers?

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 731
  This is a reminder, citizen: Only cranks worry about vastly increased governmental power to gather transactional data about Americans’ online behavior. Why, just last week, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) informed us that there has not been any “demonstrated or recent abuse” of such authority by means of National ...
  2 weeks ago

• Justice Department subpoenas IndyMedia records, backs down

  
  Psyche, Science, and Society — Authority: 473
  UPDATE: Crooks and Liars points out that the subpoena was signed on January 23, 2009, before Attorney General Holder was confirmed. So the Obama administration cannot be held responsible for this. In the latest manifestation of the surveillance state, the Justice Department evidently tried to intimidate the radical ...
  2 weeks ago

• UK: Army of ‘citizen snoopers’ recruited by council to spy on neighbours

  
  PogoWasRight.org — Authority: 151
  A council is enlisting 2,000 resident spies to report anti-social behaviour by their neighbours, it emerged today. The recruits, described by town hall chiefs as ‘Neighbourhood Champions’, will pass on evidence of graffiti, fly-tipping, litter and excessive noise. They could even be trained to report child ...
  2 weeks ago

• Guilty until proven innocent

  
  The Standard — Authority: 613
  We are continuing our chilling progress towards a surveillance state . The Criminal Proceeds (Recovery) Act 2009 is another brick in the wall. Apparently this act reverses the fundamental presumption of innocence with respect to assets (possessions, wealth). If the police decide that your possessions were gained ...
  3 weeks ago

• Chilling

  
  The Standard — Authority: 613
  The Search and Surveillance Bill is making its way though the bowels of the government law making process. This is a terrible law, described by the Human Rights Commissioner as “ disproportionately invasive ” and “ chilling “: Sweeping powers to spy, bug conversations and hack into private computers ...
  3 weeks ago

• TSA nominee up for Senate questioning November 10th

  
  Papers, Please! — Authority: 110
  The Senate Committee on Homeland Security has scheduled a hearing on Tuesday, November 10th, at 10 a.m. in Washington to consider the nomination of Erroll G. Southers to be Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for the Transportation Security Administration.None of the questions we think are important got asked ...
  3 weeks ago

• ‘The End of Privacy’ and the Surveillance-Industrial Complex

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 731
  National Public Radio’s All Things Considered ran a series on “ The End of Privacy ” all last week that’s worth a listen. They’re primarily concerned with the ways private companies have access to vast quantities of information about individuals in the digital age—something that civil libertarians have ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Cult Of The Imperial Presidency

  
  The Liberty Papers — Authority: 544
  Over the past 30 years, America has seen Presidential scandals ranging from Watergate to Iran-Contra to Travel-gate, Whitewater, the Lewinsky scandal, and the Valerie Plame affair. We’ve learned the truth about some of the truly nefarious actions undertaken by some of most beloved Presidents of the 20th Century, ...
  4 weeks ago

• U.S. Spies Buy Stake in Firm That Monitors Blogs, Tweets

  
  Illuminati Conspiracy Archive Blog — Authority: 133
  Noah Shachtman - October 19, 2009America’s spy agencies want to read your blog posts, keep track of your Twitter updates — even check out your book reviews on Amazon.In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that ...
  4 weeks ago

• Domestic Extremists

  
  Ten Percent — Authority: 521
  I think the essence of the current expose of our police state is in Mark Thomas’ piece- The Metropolitan police circulated the card specifically for the Docklands biannual arms fair in London to help its officers identify “people at specific events who may instigate offences or disorder”. Which is such ...
  4 weeks ago

• Hate your neighbor? Turn her in....

  
  Can it happen here? — Authority: 133
  The LAPD apparently is advertising for a few good informants. Give em A for diversity in the ads cast -- and F for respect for people and privacy. Whatever happened to the idea that busybodies are anti-social? And they think they are on NCIS or Law and Order. Again nice cast diversity in this "training film." ...
  4 weeks ago

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