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• Is authoritarianism on ebb in the UK?

  
  EcoLogics — Authority: 121
  If you read the Independent, you might come away feeling relieved that the great tide of authoritarianism that has characterised New Labours years in power is starting to ebb
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• How would you like your surveillance? | David Murakami Wood

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 154
  The government wont address council misuse of Ripa laws, it is only interested in whether surveillance should be overt or covert A little-known tribunal is meeting this week to consider a case of wrongful surveillance . The case brought by Jenny Paton and Tim Joyce against Poole District Council in the Regulation ...
  4 days ago

• Councils surveillance powers curbed

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Government rewrites laws to stop local authorities monitoring people for dog fouling or putting bin out on wrong day The "surveillance state" powers of local authorities to snoop on the public are to be curbed under reforms announced by the home secretary, Alan Johnson. Junior council officials are to lose the ...
  6 days ago

• Brain scanner could herald a new Big Brother era envisaged in Minority Report

  
  Aftermath News — Authority: 536
  The telepathic abilities that feature in the film X2 are a step closer to reality It could herald a new Big Brother era, similar to that envisaged in the Hollywood film Minority Report, in which an individual’s private thoughts can be readily accessed by the authorities. Psychic computer shows your thoughts on ...
  1 week ago

• Airport strip-search machines “tear apart DNA”

  
  Aftermath News — Authority: 536
  The waves have been found to “unzip double-stranded DNA, creating bubbles in the double strand that could significantly interfere with processes such as gene expression and DNA replication.” Backscatter x-ray machines “tear apart DNA” Yahoo | Oct 30, 2009 The latest airport security trend is the ...
  1 week ago

• VeriChip markets RFID Microchip implants to ID WORLD International Congress

  
  Aftermath News — Authority: 536
    VeriChip Present RFID Microchip and Virus Triage Detection System for the H1N1 Virus morerfid.com | Oct 30, 2009 VeriChip recently announced that its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Scott R. Silverman, will present at the ID World International Congress in Milan, Italy, which runs from November 3-5, ...
  1 week ago

• CIA Invests In Social Media Monitoring Technology

  
  Aftermath News — Authority: 536
  Investment arm In-Q-Tel is funding Visible Technologies, making its online brand analysis capabilities available to U.S. intelligence agencies. InformationWeek | Oct 22, 2009 By J. Nicholas Hoover Businesses are increasingly looking to social media to monitor and manage their brands online. U.S. intelligence ...
  1 week ago

• Will the police be taking a DNA sample from Tony McNulty’s cheek?

  
  EcoLogics — Authority: 121
  McNultys apology ought to land a cotton swab in his cheek (for the purpose of a DNA sample of the kind he was intent on making everyone else take), and the rest of his body in a long term holding facility, that is to say, in jail.
  1 week ago

• Cameras in the Classrooms

  
  Aftermath News — Authority: 536
  Fox News | Oct 19, 2009 by Greg Palkot London –  Closed circuit cameras are everywhere in the UK, on the streets, outside businesses, inside stores. They’re earning the country the label of “Big Brother Britain.” Now they’ve “gone to school”…literally. Not just at front gates, in corridors, and ...
  1 week ago

• San Jose police first in US to get high definition head cameras to record interactions

  
  Aftermath News — Authority: 536
  San Jose police to get uniform camera It will fit over an officer’s ear, like a Bluetooth device, and it will record an entire incident from the officer’s point of view in high definition. KGO | Oct 26, 2009 By Amy Hollyfield SAN JOSE, CA (KGO) — The recent cell phone video of San Jose police beating ...
  2 weeks ago

• Xtreme bingo

  
  Why Dont You Blog? — Authority: 106
  Get your playing card for the great new game of “Domestic Extremist Bingo” from the Guardian Online . Not sure how to claim your prize, sorry, but there seems to be a £9 million jackpot up for grabs. So get marking those cards. No prizes for spotting comedian Mark Thomas in there, either. But you can have ...
  2 weeks ago

• Book Review – Punishing The Poor

  
  The Global Sociology Blog — Authority: 134
  I cannot emphasize enough what an important book Loïc Wacquant ’s Punishing The Poor – The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity is. Except, I have already done that by posting various quotes that I thought were important and made essential points as I was reading the book. The main argument made by ...
  2 weeks ago

• Wildlife Conservation Society to expand health surveillance through PREDICT

  
  emedist.com — Authority: 159
  (Wildlife Conservation Society) The Wildlife Conservation Society will play a key role in a new international effort to monitor diseases that move between animals and people in order to prevent [...]
  2 weeks ago

• The #1 surveillance society in the world, the UK, focuses on "domestic extremism"

  
  And, yes, I DO take it personally — Authority: 132
  make no mistake... these same tactics are being used in the u.s., its just that the u.s. doesnt have as deep a tradition of investigative journalism that is willing to ferret them out... all emphases added... Police are gathering the personal details of thousands of activists who attend political meetings and ...
  2 weeks ago

• “iWatch My America”

  
  American Blog — Authority: 132
  Submitted by YOUR NEW REALITY The Los Angeles Police Department has a new TV ad to ensure you understand that you live in a surveillance society, and there’s nothing you can do about it, except report on your friends and neighbours :Visit 1800blogger to see all of our industry leading blogs.
  2 weeks ago

• Atlanta to add 500 Big Brother surveillance cameras

  
  Aftermath News — Authority: 536
  A bicycle rider rides on Edgewood Avenue as a white surveillance camera is shown on top of a traffic light pole near Woodruff Park. Jason Getz, jgetz@ajc.com Atlanta seeks to add 500 surveillance cameras Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Oct 24, 2009 By Jeremy Redmon Atlanta’s other reality show is taping ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ever-Present Surveillance Rankles the British Public - NYTimes.com

  
  futuramb's wider net — Authority: 130
  Ever-Present Surveillance Rankles the British Public - NYTimes.com : Britain is the probably the country where surveillance first will “hit the fan”. This is another article with yet another story. But the intrusions visited on Jenny Paton, a 40-year-old mother of three, were startling just the same. Suspecting ...
  2 weeks ago

• American Propaganda: “War On Terror, LAPD Style”

  
  Aftermath News — Authority: 536
  “Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.” “The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.” - Adolf Hitler ...
  2 weeks ago

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  YOUR NEW REALITY — Authority: 476
  "iWatch My America" The Los Angeles Police Department has a new TV ad to ensure you understand that you live in a surveillance society, and theres nothing you can do about it, except report on your friends and neighbours :
  2 weeks ago

• Big Brother Britain: £380 a MINUTE spent on tracking your every click online

  
  Aftermath News — Authority: 536
  An astonishing £380 a minute will be spent on surveillance in a massive expansion of the Big Brother state. Daily Mail | Oct 21, 2009 By James Slack The £200million-a-year sum will give officials access to details of every internet click made by every citizen – on top of the email and telephone records ...
  2 weeks ago

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