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A TOTAL SURVEILLANCE POLICE STATE
IS UNFOLDING BEFORE OUR VERY EYES!
Google Doesn’t Know Where You Are (But It Has a Good Guess)
Users of Blackberries and many other smartphones can now push a button and the Google mapping service will figure out more or less sort of where they are. - Google today is adding a feature for some smartphones that don’t have built in GPS but can read the unique identifying number of the cell tower they are connected to. By using this information, Google can display a map of the general area they are in. (Google isn’t the first to try this sort of thing.)
Google nicely tried to design the service to take into account its limitations. When you push the button, it draws a dot at the nearest cell tower and draws a circle around it to identify the area in which it thinks you are. The screen will tell you the margin of error, typically between 500 and 2000 feet. (Personal locaters can by used for things like custody cases, divorce, and criminal cases. The information about where you were at any given time can be stored and data-based until it can be used against you in court, or to attack your character. Maybe you were at a Topless bar, or at an anti government rally? Not against the law, but potentially damaging to your livelihood should this info become public. - This technology is the forerunner for more advanced, and more intrusive technologies such as VeriChip, and a wide array of subdermal microchips. Incrementalism is the strategy to condition us to a variety of control mechanisms which intrude on our privacy, and exploit the monitoring of citizens. The future could very well feature a micro-chipped population all tracked and traced on a global super computer. But like a vampire, we have to invite them into our homes, cars and life in general. Just say HELL NO to the leash... and please keep in mind that the least can also be used as a whip!) Read More
Terror crackdown: Passengers forced to answer 53 questions BEFORE they travel
The UK has incrementally been turned into a giant concentration camp and many of of their uber police state tactics have been adopted by the USA. - Travellers face price hikes and confusion after the Government unveiled plans to take up to 53 pieces of information from anyone entering or leaving Britain.
For every journey, security officials will want credit card details, holiday contact numbers, travel plans, email addresses, car numbers and even any previous missed flights. - The information, taken when a ticket is bought, will be shared among police, customs, immigration and the security services for at least 24 hours before a journey is due to take place.
Anybody about whom the authorities are dubious can be turned away when they arrive at the airport or station with their baggage.
Those with outstanding court fines, such as a speeding penalty, could also be barred from leaving the country, even if they pose no security risk.
The information required under the "e-borders" system was revealed as Gordon Brown announced plans to tighten security at shopping centres, airports and ports.
This could mean additional screening of baggage and passenger searches, with resulting delays for travellers. - By 2014 every one of the predicted 305million passenger journeys in and out of the UK will be logged, with details stored about the passenger on every trip. - The information will be stored for as long as the authorities believe it is useful, allowing them to build a complete picture of where a person has been over their lifetime, how they paid and the contact numbers of who they stayed with.
The Home Office, which yesterday signed a contract with U.S. company Raytheon Systems to run the computer system, said e-borders would help to keep terrorists and illegal immigrants out of the country. Read More
Aldous Huxley: The Ultimate Revolution, March
20, 1962
Listen to this coincidentally prophetic lecture by Brave New World
author Aldous Huxley.
Muhnochwa is a man-made insect: DIG
BARA BANKI: The mysterious flying object muhnochwa , which has created terror in the state, is a ‘technologically
developed special insect’. It is brought in the country by anti-national elements.
This was stated by Deputy Inspector General of Police, Faizabad range, KND Dwivedi while addressing mediapesons here
on Sunday. He said that the insect, measuring about six-inch, had been brought from outside the country.
Some anti-national
elements were releasing these insects in villages and cities in the night just to create terror, he said claiming that the
insect had been developed through a special technology. READ MORE
A far-reaching
proposal from the FBI, made public Friday, would require all broadband Internet providers, including cable modem and DSL companies,
to rewire their networks to support easy wiretapping by police.
Since Sept. 11, 2001, President Bush has called
for reviewing the Posse Comitatus Act, which restricts the domestic role of the military. Other administration
officials, including Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge have made similar suggestions.
Gen. Ralph E. Eberhart, head of the new Northern Command, which oversees all military forces in America, has also called for
a fresh review.
Justice Department Continues to
Abuse Patriot Act Powers - Ashcroft's Subpoena Blitz
Over the past two weeks, the Justice Department
has issued two intensely controversial sets of subpoenas. The first targeted peaceful demonstrators in Iowa. The second targeted
medical caregivers in Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania and Michigan. None of the targets of these subpoenas is alleged to
have anything to do with terrorism.
Court to FBI: No spying on in-car computers
The FBI
and other police agencies may not eavesdrop on conversations inside automobiles equipped with OnStar or similar dashboard
computing systems, a federal appeals court ruled.
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More fallout over Goose Creek school raid
One
of the lawyers representing students who are suing over the Stratford High School raid in Goose Creek showed dramatic still
pictures from the surveillance tape on Thursday. Attorney Jack Cordray pointed out what he considers unconstitutional actions
by the Goose Creek Police, "Again students huddled and handcuffed in corners and outcoves, certainly a violation of their
constitutional rights."
A Net of Control - Unthinkable: How the Internet could become a tool of corporate and government power, based on
updates now in the works
Picture,
if you will, an information infrastructure that encourages censorship, surveillance and suppression of the creative impulse.
Where anonymity is outlawed and every penny spent is accounted for. Where the powers that be can smother subversive (or economically
competitive) ideas in the cradle, and no one can publish even a laundry list without the imprimatur of Big Brother. Some prognosticators
are saying that such a construct is nearly inevitable. And this infrastructure is none other than the former paradise of rebels
and free-speechers: the Internet.
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Martial Law USA - General
Tommy Franks Doubts Constitution Will Survive WMD Attack
...but if this website or others talk about martial law here in the US, they call us
a bunch of 'conspiracy theorists' or 'kooks'
General Tommy Franks says that if the United States is hit with a weapon
of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form
of government.
When Cash Is Only Skin Deep
A Florida company has announced plans to develop a service that would allow consumers
to pay for merchandise using microchips implanted under their skin.
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Human Pilots: Who Needs 'Em?
Uninhabited
Aerial Vehicles, or UAVs, are taking to the skies as military and civilian organizations turn to remote-operated planes or
helicopters to perform tasks considered dull, dirty or dangerous. Already, drones have dropped bombs in the Middle East, snapped
images of dangerous terrain from thousands of feet in the air and monitored traffic on congested roads.
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Drones See, Smell Evil From Above
The
generals have their drones. Now soldiers in the field are getting robotic spies of their own. The newest drone in the U.S.
military's growing robotic arsenal looks like an Apollo-era model rocket, and is small enough to fit in a golf
bag. So it probably isn't going to make Saddam Hussein quiver in his bunker.
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An ATM card under your skin
Radio
frequency identification tags aren’t just for pallets of goods in supermarkets anymore. Applied Digital Solutions (ADS)
of Palm Beach, Fla., is hoping that Americans can be persuaded to implant RFID chips under their skin to identify themselves
when going to a cash machine or in place of using a credit card.
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Local Homeland Security Units Forming
In an effort to prevent a
terrorist attack in the United States, local homeland security units are being formed. One of the first forces is in Contra
Costa County.
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FBI:
If you protest against the war, you are a terrorist and you will be watched
First, they'll go after the peaceniks. Then they'll go after the abortion protesters. Then they'll go after the gun
owners. And finally, when there's no one left go after, the will go after YOU... and there will be no one left to stand
up for you because you did nothing to stop this.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has collected extensive information on the tactics, training and organization
of antiwar demonstrators and has advised local law enforcement officials to report any suspicious activity at protests to
its counterterrorism squads, according to interviews and a confidential bureau memorandum.
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FLASHBACK:
FBI FLYER LABELS ‘DEFENDERS OF U.S. CONSTITUTION’ AS TERRORISTS
Big Brother Watches School Children
Some pioneering Bay Area school
districts have been investing tens of thousands of dollars in high-tech surveillance cameras to catch arsonists, nab taggers
and deter intruders. San Jose's East Side Union High School District has shelled out $20,000 to mount cameras from the parking
lots to the pool at one school and will add more district wide.
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And they said it was supposed to be for fighting terrorism, and not for violating people’s constitutional rights
- PATRIOT ACT: Law's use causing concerns
Authorities use PATRIOT ACT to investigate strip club owner
The investigation of strip club owner Michael Galardi and numerous politicians appears to
be the first time federal authorities have used the Patriot Act in a public corruption probe.
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FBI to Website
Owner ''We Are Watching You''
Cryptome is
a web site dedicated to investigating and publishing accounts
of government improprieties, particularly as they relate to secrecy and First Amendment violations. On November 4, FBI agents
visited the website's New York City office and met with site owner John Young.
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US military throws
weight behind RFID
The US Department of Defense (DoD) will give radio frequency identification
(RFID) technology a massive boost with a new policy requiring suppliers to use RFID chips.
MIT takes RFID to next
stage
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is ending a four-year collaboration
with dozens of blue-chip companies that set out to advance a new frontier of information technology known as radio frequency
identification.
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Next-gen bar code could
tag 'every grain of rice'
A group of academics and business
executives is planning to introduce next month a next-generation bar code system, which could someday replace with a microchip
the series of black vertical lines found on most merchandise.
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ID chips pressed into laundered clothes
Chipmaker Texas Instruments on Monday announced a wireless identity
chip aimed at clothing going through the dry cleaning process, creating a new market for a technology that is expected to
revolutionise the way products -- and people -- are tracked and identified.
EU passports get biometric data
New EU passports will be embedded with a radio frequency ID chip that contains
biometric data, after standards bodies put the technology on a fast-track
to deployment.
Wireless credit card in development
Royal Philips Electronics and Visa announced on Wednesday an alliance to
promote and develop a contactless chip technology, a short-range wireless technology that would allow people to pay for goods
by waving a smart card in front of a sensor.
Wal-Mart commits billions
to RFID
Wal-Mart plans to spend $3bn (£1.8bn) over the next few years on a new inventory
tracking technology that uses radio frequency signals to keep tabs on merchandise, sources familiar with the project said.
Big Brother is watching you
Machines like Poseidon will redefine how we live. Think of your life before the
answering machine, the ATM, e-mail. Think of your grandparents' lives before the television and the airplane. Think of your
great-grandparents' lives before the telephone. All told, the shift will be that substantial. Machines will recognize our
faces and our fingerprints. They will watch out for swimmers in distress, for radioactivity- and germ-laden terrorists, for
red-light runners and highway speeders, for diabetics and heart patients.
Are you ready for your
GPS implantable microchip?
Digital
Angel Corp. to Acquire OuterLink Corp., A Leader in Satellite Tracking And Mobile Satellite Data Communications Systems
With the acquisition of OuterLink, Digital Angel Corp. will focus on location technology and condition monitoring for
high-value assets, enhancing Company's ability to meet needs of existing and potential government and commercial customers,
such as Homeland Security and the DOD.
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Patriot II - '5-10 Times Worse Than The Patriot Act'
(FTW) -- With more than twenty U.S. cities having passed resolutions openly opposing the multiple civil liberties violations
in the 2001 Patriot Act, and as the state of New Mexico debates legislation that would encourage police agencies to avoid
violations of the First Amendment, the recent leak of a secret Bush administration bill that would further erode civil liberties
has provoked a bizarre tale of denials and "non responses" by the administration. Thus far the saga of the Domestic Security
Enhancement Act of 2003 - commonly known as Patriot II - suggests that the leak of the proposed legislation was possibly a
"trial balloon" or "tester" to gauge both public and congressional reaction to a bill that, if passed, would grant the federal
government drastic new powers in a continuing erosion of the Bill of Rights.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November
10, 2003
Scandal: Wal-Mart, P&G Involved in Secret RFID Testing - American consumers used as guinea pigs for controversial
technology
Wal-Mart and Procter & Gamble conducted a secret RFID trial involving
Oklahoma consumers
earlier this year, the Chicago Sun Times revealed on
Sunday. Customers who purchased P&G's Lipfinity brand lipstick
at the
Broken Arrow Wal-Mart store between late March and mid-July unknowingly
left the store with live RFID tracking
devices embedded in the
packaging. Wal-Mart had previously denied any consumer-level RFID
testing in the United States.
"It
proves what we've been saying all along," says Katherine Albrecht,
Founder and Director of Consumers Against Supermarket
Privacy Invasion
and Numbering (CASPIAN). "Wal-Mart, Procter & Gamble and others have
experimented on shoppers with
controversial spy chip technology and
tried to cover it up. Consumers and members of the press should be upset
to learn
that they've been lied to."
The Sun Times also reported that a live video camera trained on the
shelf allowed Procter
& Gamble employees, sometimes hundreds of miles
away, to observe the Lipfinity display and consumers interacting with
it.
"This
trial is a perfect illustration of how easy it is to set up a
secret RFID infrastructure and use it to spy on people,"
says Albrecht.
"The RFID industry has been paying lip service to privacy concerns,
calling for notice, choice and control.
But companies like P&G, Wal-Mart
and Gillette have already violated all three tenets when they thought
nobody was
looking. This is exactly why we oppose item-level RFID
tagging and have called for mandatory labeling legislation."
The
Lipfinity tests were conducted while Wal-Mart and Procter & Gamble
were sponsors of the MIT Auto-ID Center, a consortium
of over 100
corporations and government agencies founded in 1999. Auto-ID Center
activities were supervised by a Board
of Overseers, which included both
Wal-Mart and Procter & Gamble, along with the Uniform Code Council
(UCC), the
standards body that oversees the bar code. The UCC (along
with EAN International) took over commercial functions from the
Auto-ID
center on November 1 of this year.
"Given the players, the Wal-Mart Lipfinity trial probably isn't an
isolated
incident," says CASPIAN spokeswoman Liz McIntyre. "UCC and
Auto-ID Center documents suggest that other products, including
Huggies
baby wipes, Pantene shampoo, Caress soap, Purina Dog Chow and Right
Guard deodorant were also slated for live
RFID field trials. Coca Cola,
Kraft, Kodak and Johnson & Johnson products are also implicated.
However, it may be
difficult for consumers to learn the extent of those
trials in the current climate of secrecy and denials."
(Links
to documentation provided below.)
Disclosure of the Broken Arrow trial is only the latest scandal to hit
the privacy
plagued RFID industry. Early this year, CASPIAN called for a
worldwide boycott of Italian clothing manufacturer Benetton
when the
company announced plans to equip women's undergarments with live RFID
tracking tags (see http://www.boycottbenetton.org). This summer, CASPIAN
uncovered an RFID-enabled Gillette "smart shelf" in
a Brockton,
Massachusetts Wal-Mart and helped disclose Gillette's scheme to secretly
photograph consumers picking up
Mach3 razor blades in UK Tesco stores
(see http://www.boycottgillette.com/spychips.html). The group also
revealed confidential industry plans to "pacify" consumers
and
"neutralize opposition" in the hope that consumers will be "apathetic"
and "resign themselves to the inevitability"
of RFID product tagging
(see: http://www.nocards.org/press/pressrelease07-07-03_1.shtml).
CASPIAN encourages consumers to contact Wal-Mart, P&G and the UCC
to
voice their opinion about the use of RFID spy chips in consumer
products. Contact information for these companies
is provided on the
group's RFID website at http://www.spychips.com.
For links to documents implicating other consumer products in item-level
tagging
trials, see:
"The EPC Network, RFID and data" at
http://www.autoid.org/SC31/clr/200305_3822_UConnect%20I4.pdf
mirrored at: http://www.cryptome.org/rfid/ucc-rfid.pdf"EPC Field Test" at http://cryptome.org/rfid/field_test_nov02.pdf"Lessons Learned in the Real World" (note, for example, pages 25 &
26)
at http://cryptome.org/rfid/rfid-field-test.pdfThe Chicago Sun Times article is online at:
http://www.suntimes.com/output/business/cst-nws-spy09.htmlConsumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering (CASPIAN)
is
a grass-roots consumer group fighting retail surveillance schemes
since 1999. With members in all 50 U.S. states and over
20 nations
across the globe, CASPIAN seeks to educate consumers about marketing
strategies that invade their privacy
and to encourage privacy-conscious
shopping habits across the retail spectrum.
For more information, see http://www.spychips.comKatherine Albrecht, CASPIAN Founder and Director: (877) 287-5854
Liz McIntyre,
CASPIAN Communications: (877) 287-5854 or liz@nocards.orgMary Starrett, CASPIAN Media Associate: (602) 315-6193
TV to be completely digitalized (We need to get everybody with the program). Globe & Mail, Nov 11, 2003
'Black Box' Big Brother
in cars (motorists monitored by own vehicles). Netscape, Nov 11, 2003
RFID chips track everything we buy (size of grain of sand emits a radio signal)
ID cards for all Britons (or no benefits, NHS or job). BBC, Nov 11, 2003 & Home Office defends 'stop & search' (7,500 drivers & pedestrians pulled over). ThisIsLondon, Nov 11, 2003
Wireless cameras for everyone (can be hidden everywhere & images seen everywhere). New
Scientist, May 19, 2003. Go to 3.Surveillance &
BEYOND ORWELL
Surveillance cameras installed in homes of quarantined. Drudge Report, Apr 10, 2003. Go to 3.Surveillance & HEALTH CRUSADERS
Consumers flocking to DVD players (biting 'home theater' bait). National Post, Jan 30, 2003
Big Brother wrist-watching you (TVs will be in everything). Sydney Herald, Jan 10, 2003 & Gov't can turn on TV
(take control of phone etc). Wash Times, Jan 10, 2003. Go to 3.Surveillance
Will your TV become a spy? (Yes, once everyone goes digital). Business Week, Jan 3, 2003.
Go to 3.Surveillance
Police want cameras in homes (hidden in objects around house). Telegraph, Dec 17, 2002
Keyboard wrote on neighbor's computer (developed life of its own). Aftenposten, Nov 3, 2002
BBC forces viewers to record sitcom (digital TiVos switched on remotely). Telegraph, May 30, 2002
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