All Blog Posts Tagged 'surveillance' (116)

Gestapo making arrests to expand database (3 articles)

Added by The Watchmen on November 24, 2009 at 12:30am — No Comments

More than one in 10 people on DNA database for first time

Added by The Watchmen on October 28, 2009 at 10:00am — No Comments

Insignia GPS child tracker

We just discovered that Insignia is about to release a GPS child tracking device called Insignia Little Buddy. It is already up on Best Buy’s site but it has a “coming soon” status right now. However we at least know it is going to cost $100. It seems like it supports real time GPS tracking but we have no information on what the monthly cost is going to be or which provider Bes

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Added by The Watchmen on October 25, 2009 at 1:45pm — No Comments

Artificially Intelligent CCTV could prevent crimes before they happen

Added by The Watchmen on September 23, 2009 at 11:34pm — No Comments

EU Plans Massive Surveillance Panopticon That Would Monitor “Abnormal Behavior”

New incarnation of Echelon is a huge lurch forward in the creation of the prison planet based on social theorist Jeremy Bentham’s 18th century concept of keeping slaves oppressed The European Union is developing a 21st century panopticon, a beast surveillance system that critics describe as “Orwellian,” “sinister,” and “positively chilling,” that would collate data from numerous sources, i

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Added by The Watchmen on September 21, 2009 at 6:42pm — No Comments

Next step in H1N1 scare: Microchip implants

Added by The Watchmen on August 27, 2009 at 1:57am — No Comments

PASS ID: REAL ID Reanimated

Added by The Watchmen on August 25, 2009 at 10:43am — No Comments

Hello, hello: big brother cops an eyeful

POLICE would be given more access to the inner-city closed-circuit TV network for ''general intelligence gathering'' and ''police operations'', under rules proposed by the City of Sydney. Changes to regulations covering the city's network of 81 video cameras would mean police could view footage ''for intelligence gathering on individuals and locations'' once they have the permission of the counc

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Added by The Watchmen on August 21, 2009 at 12:33am — No Comments

Bill banning forced identity-chip implants clears House

Added by The Watchmen on July 5, 2009 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Nashua Installs Cameras To Try To Deter Vandals

Added by The Watchmen on July 3, 2009 at 2:56pm — No Comments

NSA to monitor private networks for cyberattacks

The Obama administration is going ahead with a controversial plan to have the National Security Agency screen government email and other official computer traffic passing over private networks. The plan is part of a cybersecurity initiative launched by the Bush administration in 2008 and kno

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Added by The Watchmen on July 3, 2009 at 7:14am — No Comments

UK ID Card Scheme Has Not Been Defeated

Added by Fighting Tyranny Admin on July 1, 2009 at 1:15pm — No Comments

U.S. and Europe Jointly Establish Cyber-Crime Force

Added by The Watchmen on June 30, 2009 at 8:00am — No Comments

Spy bugs may be deployed for 2012 Olympics

Added by The Watchmen on June 8, 2009 at 4:33pm — No Comments

You are the controller: Microsoft unveils Xbox 360 device which banishes the joypad and puts the player IN the game

Microsoft today sparked a games console war when it unveiled a

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Added by The Watchmen on June 3, 2009 at 3:42am — No Comments

Big Brother HAS gone too far ... and that's an ex-spy chief talking

The former head of MI6 has hit out at 'striking and disturbing' invasions of privacy by the Big Brother state. Sir Richard Dearlove, who led the Secret Intelligence Service from 1999 to 2004, claimed some were an 'abuse' of the law. He attacked the 'loss of libertie

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Added by The Watchmen on June 2, 2009 at 10:07am — No Comments

iPhone keeps an eye on students

A Japanese university is giving away Apple's trendy iPhone to students for free, but with a catch: the device will be used to check their attendance. The project, which is being tested ahead of its formal launch in June, involves 550 first and second year students and some staff of a department at Aoyama Gakuin University, which is located just outside Tokyo in Sagamihara city. The school's iPhon

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Added by The Watchmen on June 1, 2009 at 5:11am — No Comments

Search Engine Gives Access to Crime Records

Added by The Watchmen on May 28, 2009 at 4:00pm — No Comments

National Licence Plate Surveillance Grid Tracks Anti-War Protesters

Undesirables marked and logged into “hotlist” Britain is to have a national network of cameras and computers that automatically log and track car license plates, in a move described as “secretive and unregulated” by privacy advocates. The system will be operational within months, according to the BBC.

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Added by The Watchmen on May 25, 2009 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Spot the paedo

A SECRET computer program created by Google is helping to track down paedophiles on the internet. The amazing new technology lets investigators speedily TRAWL through a suspect's computer and FIND horrific images - even when hidden in a seemingly innocent video. They can also MATCH a child's face shown in a video to similar images discovered around the world. This often enab

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Added by The Watchmen on May 24, 2009 at 10:00pm — No Comments

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