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NY Gov Admits State Is Collecting User Social Media Data
New York is reportedly collecting data from what Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) described as “surveillance efforts” on social media platforms, and is launching an effort to “counter some of the negativity.”
Read More: Breitbart
72 Percent Of Americans Say U.S. Is A Police State
The vast majority of Americans are concerned that the U.S. is becoming a police state that employs censorship, mass surveillance, targeting of political opponents, and ideological indoctrination, according to a Rasmussen poll published Thursday.
Read More: Newsmax
Buying a new car think again: Their spying on you:
YOUR CAR KNOWS a lot about you. Including facial recognition and other biometrics as well as data contained on any device connected to the car and can transmit wirelessly without your knowledge or consent over 25 gigabytes per hour. Downloads are also available via physical connection to the car.
Over the past decade, vehicles have become increasingly connected and their ability to record data about us has shot up. Cars can track where you’re traveling to and from, record every press on the accelerator as well as your seatbelt settings, and gather biometric information about you. Some of this data is sold by the murky data-broker industry.
VERIZON TURNS OVER BILLIONS OF US PHONE CALL DATA TO OBAMA ADMINISTRATION
The UK Guardian Newspaper published a story yesterday disclosing that US telephone communications giant VERIZON received a top secret court order dated 25th April, to collect the ‘metadata’ of its customers. The court order demands that “an electronic copy of the following tangible things” be made and handed over to the FBI.
The Court Order demanded that Verizon submit “All call detail records” or “telephony metadata” (i) Between the United States and abroad; or (ii) Wholly within the United States, including local telephone calls”.
Metadata is classified as basically everything about the call except the contents of the call itself, including phone numbers of both parties involved, their location and call duration etc.
The Court Order is made under the Patriot Act, 50 USC section 1861 which refers to “business records” and states that the records should be obtained “on an ongoing daily basis thereafter for the duration the order” which lasts for three months from April and will finish on 19th July, 2013.
The Order is deemed to be Top Secret and states: “It is further ordered that no person shall disclose to any other person that the FBI or NSA has sought or obtained tangible things under this order.”
Two US Senators, Ron Wyden and Mark Udall have warned the American people ‘about the scope of the Obama administration’s surveillance activities,’ saying that the public would be ‘stunned’ by the methods of domestic spying. Their letter to Attorney General Eric Holder said “there is now a significant gap between what most Americans think the law allows and what the government secretly claims the law allows.”
Julia Sanchez who is a surveillance expert with the Cato Institute said “vacuuming all metadata up indiscriminately would be an extraordinary repudiation of any pretense of constraint or particularized suspicion,” and yet this is exactly what the order is demanding.
Justice Department Electronic Monitoring Rises
Phone calls, emails and social networks have all been places where the government, or the Justice Department have been monitoring with increasing frequency.
These instances are occurring without a warrant and have been increasing over the last 4 years according to the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union).
ACLU’s data shows that government tracking from 2009 to 2011 increased surveillance of phone calls by 60% and emails or other electronic computer related communications by a whopping 361%.
According to the Justice Department, these occurrences have been authorized by a federal judge on “every instance”.
EU funding Orwellian artificial intelligence plan to monitor public for “abnormal behaviour” – Telegraph
The European Union has undertaken a five year research program to develop computer programmes which will be able to profile entire nations. “Project Indect” will use artificial intelligence to build “agents” capable of detecting “abnormal behaviour” on the internet.
Project Indect’s website says its main objectives include “to develop a platform for the registration and exchange of operational data, acquisition of multimedia content, intelligent processing of all information and automatic detection of threats and recognition of abnormal behaviour or violence”.
It talks of the “construction of agents assigned to continuous and automatic monitoring of public resources such as: web sites, discussion forums, usenet groups, file servers, p2p [peer-to-peer] networks as well as individual computer systems, building an internet-based intelligence gathering system, both active and passive”.
Project Indect has received nearly £10 million in funding from the British taxpayer, and has many civil liberty groups worried. With Shami Chakrabarti of the human rights group ‘Liberty’ describing such mass surveillance of a country a “sinister step”, but doing so on a European scale “positively chilling”.
Senator implicates top FDA office in agency spying program
Senator Charles Grassley is claiming that the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) conducted widespread surveillance on its own ‘whistleblower’ employees who brought forth concerns about some safety issues.
The extent of the surveillance was extremely broad.
It included placing monitoring software on the individuals desktop computers. The data harvested was screenshots “taken every five seconds,” of anything on the monitor screen, all emails sent and received, any network interactions, any informations stored on the computer or printed from the computer and any and all computer keystrokes.
According to the New York Times, the investigation started with only 5 ‘critics’. It grew into monitor 21 employees who were thought to be putting out anything ‘defamatory’.
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See source article for full story: Senator implicates top FDA office in agency spying program | Fox News.
Hi-Tech Street Lamps That Can Talk to You to Debut in Detroit
Federally funded high tech surveillance cameras are being installed in Detroit, Chicago and Pittsburgh. These street lights will not only provide light, but will act as Paul Joseph Watson of Infowars.com said, ” ‘Intellistreets’ is “big brother” on steroids. George Orwell himself, would probably have considered the concept too far-fetched, to even appear in his classic book ‘1984’. But folks, this is what’s happening in America today.”