BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING
All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been slain. And he causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free men and the slaves, to be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, and he provides that no one will be able to buy or to sell, except the one who has the mark, either the name of the beast or the number of his name. (Revelation 13:8, 16-17)
I've
Seen the Future, and It Has a Kill Switch
OnStar will soon include the ability for the police to shut off
your engine remotely. Buses are getting the same capability, in
case terrorists want to re-enact the movie Speed. The Pentagon
wants a kill switch installed on airplanes, and is worried about
potential enemies installing kill switches on their own
equipment.
Posted 7/2/08
Police
to parents: We're taking your son
What if police came
and took your child away as he played on the sidewalk and you prepared
dinner based on an unchallenged accusation by children your family had not seen
for months? That's what happened to the parents of eight-year-old Josh Raykin.
Posted 6/30/08
Almost
every move you make is being watched - and privacy is fast
becoming obsolete
The bubble appears, naturally, in the form of a film, Look,
which opened in US cinemas this month. It weaves a range of
stories with entwining themes of sex, blackmail, crime and
alienation, with a twist: every scene of the film is shot from
the perspective of a surveillance camera, from the bubble lens
above an ATM, to the elevated perspective of the security
cameras that are ubiquitous and sometimes invisible, across the
US.
Posted 12/28/07
FBI
Prepares Vast Database Of Biometrics
CLARKSBURG, W. Va. -- The FBI is embarking on a $1 billion
effort to build the world's largest computer database of
peoples' physical characteristics, a project that would give the
government unprecedented abilities to identify individuals in
the United States and abroad.
Posted 12/28/07
UK
admits losing data of 3 million people
Posted
12/28/07
US
intelligence eavesdrops on thousands of foreign calls: chief
Posted
8/27/07
Beta
Testing The Mark Of The Beast
Do we shrug and concede that privacy is lost -- "get over it," as
one titan of tech declared so bluntly? Or do we look for ways to draw the
line, to identify means and places where employers and governments should
not dare to tread? One such place: Our bodies.
Posted 8/15/07
China
Enacting a High-Tech Plan to Track People
Posted 8/15/07
New
Law... Six Months to Turn Internet and Phone Systems into Permanent Spying
Architecture
Posted 8/10/07
Airports
to track passengers with Micro-Chip ID tags
Posted
4/10/07
American
Express Addresses RFID People Tracking Plans
The top brass at
American Express, chagrined at the discovery of its people tracking plans, met
with CASPIAN (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering) last
week to discuss the issue. One outcome of the meeting was a promise by American
Express to review its entire patent portfolio and ensure that any
people-tracking plans be accompanied by language requiring consumer notice and
consent.
Posted 3/14/07
Australian
Cloning bill the start of 'barbarism'
A BILL introduced in the Victorian parliament that aims to allow therapeutic
cloning by bringing the state in line with recent changes to Australian law
would usher in a new age of "scientific barbarism", according to
the Festival of Light Australia Christian group.
Posted 3/16/07
Big
Brother barks? UK Govt unveils shouting CCTV cameras
Posted 4/5/07
Big
Brother is Watching you, watching them -- CCTV closing in
Posted
7/20/07
"Big
Brother" Gaining Ground in Great Britain
It seems that
"Big Brother" is gaining ground in Great Britain. Starting in 2009, in
order to apply for a passport, Britons will be required to register their
fingerprints, facial scans and a host of personal information such as second
homes, drivers
licenses and insurance policy numbers. If they do this, they will
receive a national ID card and then their passport. However, the program is not
mandatory. The British government has said that the program is voluntary and
that people will be allowed to opt out. However, those that do will be denied
receiving a British passport.
Posted 3/14/07
Big
Brother microphones To Eavesdrop on conversations
Hidden mini-cameras and microphones that can eavesdrop on conversations in
the street are the next step in the march towards a "Big Brother"
society, MPs were warned yesterday.
Posted 5/3/07
Bio-Scanners
keep students under China college's thumb
Posted 4/26/07
Biometric
Face scans for air passengers a step nearer
Posted
12/7/06
Blair
pleads the case for biometric ID cards
Posted
2/23/07
Blocked
China Web users rage against Great Firewall
Yang's fury erupted a few days ago when he found he could not browse his
friend's holiday snaps on Flickr.com, due to access restrictions by censors
after images of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre were posted on the
photo-sharing Web site."
Posted 6/21/07
Britain
becoming a Big Brother society, says data watchdog
Britain is in danger of "committing slow social suicide"
as such Big Brother techniques as surveillance cameras and recording
equipment spread into every aspect of our lives, the nation's
information watchdog will warn this week.
Posted 5/1/07
Britain
'moving towards a police state'
Posted 2/5/07
Britain
risks becoming 'Orwellian society'
The deputy chief constable of Hampshire Police, in south-east
England, Ian Readhead, said he did not want to live in a country
like that in author George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984, with
surveillance on every street corner.
Posted 5/22/07
Bush
administration puts spy program under court supervision
Civil
rights group had criticized the program, in which Bush authorized
the National Security Agency (NSA) to eavesdrop on phone calls and
emails between the US and abroad without a court warrant.
Posted
1/19/07
Bush
asks Congress to alter 1978 eavesdropping law
The Bush administration asked Congress on Friday to expand the
number of people it can subject to electronic surveillance in the
United States.
Posted 4/16/07
Bush
Moves Toward Martial Law
Posted
11/1/06
Bush
signs expanded wiretapping law
Posted 8/8/07
Car/driver
tracking equipment introduced by stealth
The Government
[Britain's] was accused of bringing in car/driver tracking and road charges by
stealth last night as it emerged that big brother technology capable of running
the system is already being introduced.
Posted 4/9/07
DNA
data deal 'will create Big Brother Europe'
Police across the EU are to be given free access to Britain's DNA,
fingerprint and car registration databases in a move denounced last
night as the creation of "Big Brother Europe".
Posted
2/19/07
Don't
want national ID? Surrender your passport
People who opt
out of 'voluntary' scheme must 'forgo the ability' to travel abroad
Posted 3/13/07
Driver's
licenses to feature radio chips
State introducing cards
that encode personal information
Posted 4/6/07
Employee
Microchip Tracking Bill Discussed
<- It WON'T become a problem with me... I
would quit first!
“The technology, if not there, is very close,” Christmann said.
“We want to make sure employees are never pressured into this
before it becomes a problem.”
Posted
2/15/07
Engineer:
GPS Shoes Make People Findable
Posted
2/12/07
Europe,
U.S. Take U.K. Lead on Surveillance Cameras
Posted
7/11/07
Exam
papers get electronic tags to foil cheats
Posted 5/14/07
Face
& Finger Scans For Air Passengers A Step Nearer
Posted
12/8/06
Feds
eye control of vitamins, supplements – even water!
FDA looks to regulate
natural substances as drugs, with prescriptions from doctors
Posted 4/26/07
Fingerprinting
and eye scans for UK children as young as five
Posted 6/20/07
Fingerprints
and iris scans as Australian hospitals tighten security
Posted
7/9/07
George
Orwell, Big Brother Is Watching Your House
The Big Brother
nightmare of George Orwell's 1984 has become a reality - in the shadow of the
author's former London home. It may have taken a little longer than he
predicted, but Orwell's vision of a society where cameras and computers spy on
every person's movements is now here.
Posted 4/4/07
God-fearing
villagers snub "satanic" bar codes
hundred residents of
a Russian village have refused to switch to new passports because they believe
the documents' bar codes contain satanic symbols, state television reported on
Wednesday.
Posted 3/26/07
Google
'will be able to keep tabs on us all'
The internet will hold so much digital data in five
years that it will be possible to find out what an individual was doing at a
specific time and place, an expert said yesterday.
Posted 11/6/06
Google’s
goal: to organise your daily life
Google’s ambition to
maximise the personal information it holds on
users is so great that
the search engine envisages a day when it can tell people what jobs
to take and how they might spend their days off.
Posted 5/25/07
Government,
Military Officials Quietly Preparing Emergency Survival Program
As
concerns grow that terrorists might attack a major American city
with a nuclear bomb, a high-level group of government and military
officials has been quietly preparing an emergency survival program
that would include the building of bomb shelters, steps to prevent
panicked evacuations and the possible suspension of some civil
liberties.
Posted 5/14/07
GPS
sneakers locate with press of a button
Posted 2/15/07
GPS
technology tracks employees
<- Coming to a company near you! [sighs]
Larry Overley, president of Landtech Contractors, doesn't have to
wonder whether his employees are where they are supposed to be
during the work day. Global Positioning System transmitters in each
of the 50 trucks the landscaping company operates let him know where
they are.
Posted 12/12/06
Huge
jump in 'hidden' mobile speed cameras
Posted 6/18/07
Implantable
Microchips Spark Big Brother Concerns
Posted 2/15/07
'Machines
will rule if we don't curb surveillance'
Machines rather than people could soon be running
Britain because the country has sleepwalked into a surveillance society, the
Government's privacy watchdog warned today. "There are dangers to our
privacy, our autonomy, the more the information is converged together,"
...
Posted
11/3/06
Microchips
in garbage bins spy on three million
Rubbish bins: Microchips in bins spy on 3m homes [Britain]; the
microchips could be used to charge households for the amount of
non-recyclable waste produced
Posted 5/25/07
Music
sharers beware: iTunes is watching you
The Electronic Freedom Foundation, an online consumer-rights group, is
raising an alarm over iTunes tracks sold under Apple's iTunes Plus system,
launched this week, saying the company has embedded purchasers' personal
details -- including name and e-mail address -- into the downloaded music
files.
Posted
6/4/07
New
Surveillance Industry Cashing In On ID Systems
The growth of the
identification industry has also spawned an aggressive push-back from
privacy advocates against what they call an emerging “surveillance-industrial
complex.”
Posted 4/6/07
No
escaping new UK speed cameras
Posted 5/22/07
Note
from me about Google!
Posted 6/4/07
Oregon
DMV Paves Way For Facial Recognition
Posted
7/23/07
Plan
to vaccinate babies against drugs
Babies
could be vaccinated with brain-altering chemicals to stop them
getting hooked on drugs and cigarettes in later life.
Posted 2/6/07
Privacy
concerns attached to RFID tags
Tiny radio-frequency ID (RFID) tags the size of a computer chip
are in your car if you cross the Tacoma Narrows Bridge using the
electronic toll option and in your driver's license if you sign
up for new "enhanced" Washington state licenses and ID
cards that can be used to travel to Canada. And their use is
growing. The American Civil Liberties Union, along with the
University of Washington law school's Shidler Center for Law,
Commerce and Technology, is sponsoring a roundtable to discuss
the privacy and security issues. The tags promise convenience,
but they lack safeguards. Using them in transportation and
identity documents could expose people to identity theft, tracking and surveillance.
Posted
7/23/07
Researchers
Explore Scrapping Internet
NEW YORK (AP) - Although it has already taken nearly four decades to
get this far in building the Internet, some university researchers
with the federal government's blessing want to scrap all that and
start over.
Posted 4/16/07
A
road sign of things to come
The Highways Agency says NRTS will create a "single national
approach" to communications on the country's road network. Adapting NRTS to
charging would be straightforward, using radio transmitters embedded
in tax discs or number plates to track motorists.
Posted 4/9/07
Safety
fears as US demonstrates crowd control heat-ray weapon
Posted
1/29/07
Schoolchildren
to be Fingerprinted in Big Brother-style Shake-Up
Critics say it is part of a 'softening-up' exercise to condition children to
accept a creeping surveillance society. They also point to the danger of
identity theft, if hackers manage to access school databases.
Posted 4/11/07
Sleepwalking
into a surveillance society
New Zealand risks descending into a surveillance society like
Britain where people are continually move
around, privacy watchdogs warn.
Posted 4/12/07
Surveillance
Cameras Get Smarter
Researchers and security companies are developing cameras
that not only watch the world but also interpret what they see. Soon, some
cameras may be able to find unattended bags at airports, guess your height or
analyze the way you walk to see if you are hiding something.
Posted 2/27/07
That
Cell Phone In Your Hand Is A Tracking Device
Posted 7/30/07
UK
ID cards delayed by a year
Posted
11/7/06
UK
Police begin mobile fingerprinting
Posted
11/23/06
UK
Straps Cameras to Police Helmets
Posted
7/16/07
US
airport security puts Israeli doctor in 'gas chamber'
Respected Jewish
urologist treated with utter disrespect by American security agents
Posted 6/4/07
US
and allies lay global foundation for biometric border checks
The UK has proposed a transatlantic arrangement for sharing biometric data
about travellers as US coalition countries in the "war on terror"
push for a global system to control migration.
Posted 6/21/07
U.S.
to Require Passports for Nearly All
Nearly all
air travelers entering the U.S. will be required to show passports beginning
Jan. 23, including returning Americans and people from Canada and other
nations in the Western Hemisphere.
Posted 11/22/06
US
trials full biometric fingerprinting at airports
Posted
6/27/07
Western
homeschoolers need political asylum from democracy
A growing crackdown on homeschool families – most of whom are
Christian – is the "edge of the night that's coming" for
believers, according to an expert in the field, who says his concern
is not just for Germany, where the government is being especially
intolerant, but other democracies too.
Posted 4/16/07
Who
Owns Your Body? (by David Mayer)
These are strange times as the governments of the
world take on the characteristics of the satanic beast and exert their power to
control people and enslave them.
Posted 3/2/07
Wi-fi
and RFID used for people tracking
Posted
5/28/07
X-ray
cameras on UK lampposts plan
Posted
1/30/07