surveillance issues

Supreme Court says police must get warrants for most cellphone searches From the SCOTUS Blog analysis: Chief Justice Roberts, delivering the Court's opinion in Riley v. California:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/18/world/europe/in-scripted-surprise-putin-answers-snowden-on-spying.html?_r=0

Says NSA whistleblower Russell Tice in a new interview with Boilingfrogspost, "getting everything off his chest" in the wake of the Snowden revelations. He also mentions a long list of bipartisan political players who have been early targets of the program, including f.e. Feinstein, Clinton...

The purpose of this thread is to discuss the legislative action and constitutional framework which undergirds the growing revelations of the intelligence-gathering actions of the NSA in the US. There is no small amount of essentially partisan argument over where the "blame" lies for the...

...savages it under Obama. Sean Hannity Displays Hypocrisy On NSA Surveillance (VIDEO)

The Guardian has obtained a copy of a court order by which Verizon is required to give an electronic copy of all 'call details' from phone calls originating in the domestic US, to the NSA. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2013/jun/06/verizon-telephone-data-court-order Is this...

Ok, I know given my record here I could easily turn this into an alarmist article but I am going to post this from a standpoint of confusion. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/1 By confusion I mean, we already know that the NSA already has massive resources of...

Justices Rein In Police on GPS Trackers Seems like a no-brainer to me. Glad it was unanimous.

Hi, Just came across this in my meanderings regarding whether you can tape in-person or telephone conversations - thought it might be useful: http://www.rcfp.org/taping/

So a German group of hackers, the "Chaos Computer Club" has uncovered and decoded a Trojan wich apparently was used by the German Government for spying. Here's an article: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-10-10/german-trojan-spyware-violates-constitution-hackers-say.html And in German...

Back in 2001, there was a case involving a Washington D.C. nightclub owner by the name of Antoine Jones who was suspected of dealing cocaine. He was tracked for an entire month without a warrant via a GPS device attached to his vehicle. The information gathered from the vehicle was then used...

I came across a Youtube video where a guy introduces a small GPS tracking device and suggest that viewers may put it in the bottom of their girlfriend's purse to track her and find out if she's cheating. I assume that this is against that law, but IANAL, so I'd like to find out more. Here's...

A friend of mine recently showed me the following video (I can't post the links in full as I require more posts to obtain the privileges). youtube.com/watch?v=R7yfV6RzE30 After doing a bit of a search, I found a very similar video which was published in 2008 expressing similar concerns...

Interesting story about the number of CCTV cameras in use in the UK. It's often claimed that there are 4.2 million CCTV cameras in the UK, although many of us have often rejected that claim and pointed out the flaws in how that number was estimated. And it seems that the figure is a lot lower...

Backscatter machines go mobile -- Company web site with pix: http://www.as-e.com/products_solutions/zbv.asp I can envision a future where everyone, men and women, Muslim's and non-Muslim's all wear lead-lined burkas to absorb the radiation. Burkas, not just for the harem anymore! :D...

CCTV in the Sky: Police Plan to Use Military-Style Spy Drones Source: The Guardian, UK News URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jan/23/cctv-sky-police-plan-drones Does anybody who lives in the UK, or in any part of the E.U., for that matter, have a problem with this? INRM BTW: I...

Being that the government is so into making everything "wiretap friendly" so they can snoop in on us whenever they want, this interesting technological development raises a cause for concern that I raised awhile back. It's called a memory aid, and IBM is developing it URL...

Recently, the government has been pushing to require servers, and wireless phones to be made more wiretap friendly. While most people seem to think that requirements around wiretap friendliness started after 9/11, the requirements actually first started with CALEA, which stands for...

Getting Some Rays: Forget Radar, Now The Government is X-Raying You as You Drive URL: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/10/04-1 So much for the 4th Amendment... I for one, find the practice of using fears of terrorism as an excuse to monitor every aspect of our existence to be repulsive...

I saw today in my doctors office (I had an appointment) a magazine which I read. The magazine was called "Discover Magazine", it was the July/August 2010 issue. On pages 40-43, it discussed a method of using something called a power-law which was used in particle physics to predict trends...

Full Body-Scanners Coming to a City Near You URLs: http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/08/27/full-body-scanners-coming-to-a-city-street-near-you/ http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2010/08/24/full-body-scan-technology-deployed-in-street-roving-vans/ So, basically to summarize (you...

URL: http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7019717896 What's your opinions, isn't this absolutely absurd?

Obama Supports DNA Sampling Upon Arrest Looks like GATTACA territory. I think it would be awesome to see technology used that way. But that's only because I like technology. On the ethical side it's wrong to go around collecting DNA from people who didn't commit crimes.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35231454/ns/technology_and_science-washington_post/ I guess I'm curious to know if anyone who uses Gmail feels as though it's likely their privacy will be violated as a result of this agreement. Or are you comfortable with NSA partnering with Google to better...

Microchips have been implanted into pets, Alzheimer's patients, military, corporate executives. Is there a concern regarding the implantation of RFID microchips into the human population? Moving this thread to Current Events and Social Issues because it's not really about politics. Let's try...

George Orwell would be proud. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/now-big-brother-targets-facebook-1653407.html I just can't help thinking that the response and resources used to "combat terrorism" have passed the point of balance of common sense and reality. By a long way.

Am I right to find this sort of thing worrying? The intentions and possibilities are so opaque to my limited knowledge in this area, that I find myself wondering if I join the ranks of the electrosensitives and conspiracy theorists when I feel that it's wrong for the government to do this...

A lot of people are unaware of just what this issue is all about. Who is Bush spying on? Terrorists? Political enemies? This is one group I think it is, whistleblowers. And it is one of the reasons for the wiretapping and data mining a lot of people are unaware of. Re the warrantless...

Two items on CNN today, one new, one old. The old one is that according to the former Deputy Attorney General, James Comey the White House sent people (one of whom was Alberto Gonzales) to visit John Ashcroft while he was in the hospital gravely ill, asking him to sign off on wiretappings...

It seems they have not really stopped breaking the FISA law, but instead got one of the judges to write some sort of blanket warrant. Whether that's true or not, they are now, as predicted, claiming that the case is moot. Just more of the same pattern. If they were not really violating FISA...