Posted in Surveillance on May 8th, 2008
Eric Schlosser has a great oped in The New York Times about how Burger King hired a sketchy private security firm to spy on non-violent activists.
WHILE the Patriot Act has raised fears about government spying on ordinary citizens, the growing threat to civil liberties posed by corporate spying has received much less attention. During the [...]
Posted in Activists' Response, Harassment, Legal, Surveillance on May 2nd, 2008
OMG, the May issue of Elle is the “Green Issue” and has an article on these, like, Al-Qaeda environmentalists! Srsly. There’s a lot about how the FBI hired this girl to totally pretend to be an activist, and lie to them and pressure them into doing illegal stuff. Now they’re going to prison as terrorists [...]
Posted in Surveillance on Mar 12th, 2008
Saw this at the great new blog Little Brother.
USA Today reports:
The Homeland Security Department is testing technology that would allow its agents to use cellphones or e-mail devices to covertly share live video of possible terrorists over a law enforcement network…
A live video feed could be shared with “dozens or hundreds of authorized users,” [...]
Posted in Blacklists, Legal, Surveillance on Dec 23rd, 2007
Big Brother isn’t just watching. He’s making biometric databases, recruiting firefighters and redefining “privacy.”
There’s been a lot going on in terms of government surveillance and privacy concerns. Here’s a few highlights:
Do you look like a terrorist? The FBI is spending $1 billion create the biggest biometric database in the world. That means the feds are [...]
Posted in Surveillance on Oct 17th, 2007
An easy way to get your DHS travel dossier.
An easy, automated site for generating Freedom of Information Act requests for your FBI/CIA/NSA/etc. files.
Be sure to email me and let me know if you turn up anything good!
Posted in Surveillance on Sep 12th, 2007
From Boing Boing:
The Artificial Intelligence Lab at the University of Arizona has developed a National Science Foundation funded system “to systematically collect and analyze all terrorist-generated content on the Web.”
Using advanced techniques such as Web spidering, link analysis, content analysis, authorship analysis, sentiment analysis and multimedia analysis, Chen and his team can find, catalogue and [...]
Posted in Surveillance on Sep 7th, 2007
Blogs and news outlets have been buzzing about yesterday’s ruling on the Patriot Act. This level of debate and discussion on domestic spying and surveillance is long overdue. According to a recent interview National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell, though, such debate is intolerable. He doesn’t call it un-American or un-patriotic, like some folks like [...]
Posted in Legal, Surveillance on Sep 6th, 2007
Happy Thursday.
From Dan Eggen at The Washington Post:
A federal judge today struck down portions of the USA Patriot Act as unconstitutional, ordering the FBI to stop issuing “national security letters” that secretly demand customer information from Internet service providers and other businesses.
U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero in New York ruled that the landmark anti-terrorism law [...]
Posted in GNR Media/ Events, Surveillance on Feb 22nd, 2007
Americans for Medical Progress is an industry group behind a lot of the scare-mongering and labeling activists as “terrorists.” How flattering to be listed in their newsletter. I’m looking forward to the Yale Law School event this weekend:
ACTIVISTS’ CALENDAR
AMP is continuously monitoring activists’ planning. We are in touch with
targeted institutions as warranted. If [...]
Posted in Surveillance on Jan 24th, 2007
Who knew Andy Griffith was such a civil libertarian? Check out this clip from the “Andy Griffith Show.”
My favorite line, when he scolds Opie for trying to help him by spying:
“Opie, the law can’t use this kind of help.”
The War on Terrorism has come home. Corporations and politicians are labeling activists "eco-terrorists" and national security threats. Think red-baiting, with a green twist. Here you'll find original reporting and analysis of the Green Scare, and history repeating itself.