Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
Priest Uses Fingerprint Reader to Monitor Mass Attendance
February 7th, 2010Via: Reuters:
A Polish priest has installed an electronic reader in his church for schoolchildren to leave their fingerprints in order to monitor their attendance at mass, the Gazeta Wyborcza daily said on Friday.
The pupils will mark their fingerprints every time they go to church over three years and if they attend 200 masses they will [...]
FBI Wants Records Kept of Web Sites Visited *Yawn*
February 7th, 2010I’m posting this to let those of you (who are submitting this) know that I don’t understand why you find it noteworthy.
With all the posts I’ve done on network surveillance, I’m getting story submissions about retention of URLs?
Guys, splash some cold water on your faces, break out the smelling salts, wake up.
It might be that [...]
States Storing Newborns’ DNA Without Parental Consent
February 5th, 2010Via: CNN:
When Annie Brown’s daughter, Isabel, was a month old, her pediatrician asked Brown and her husband to sit down because he had some bad news to tell them: Isabel carried a gene that put her at risk for cystic fibrosis.
While grateful to have the information — Isabel received further testing and she doesn’t have [...]
Sim City Baghdad
February 4th, 2010Via: On The Media:
The U.S. Army has long used video games to train troops in conventional warfare. But the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are anything but conventional. US troops fighting insurgencies need a unique skill set, one they’re learning from a simulator that resembles the popular game SimCity. Kim LeMasters, creative director of the [...]
Police Want Point and Click Access to Private Email
February 4th, 2010Via: Cnet:
Anyone with an e-mail account likely knows that police can peek inside it if they have a paper search warrant.
But cybercrime investigators are frustrated by the speed of traditional methods of faxing, mailing, or e-mailing companies these documents. They’re pushing for the creation of a national Web interface linking police computers with those [...]
GOOGLE NOW WORKING WITH NSA
February 4th, 2010Via: Washington Post:
The world’s largest Internet search company and the world’s most powerful electronic surveillance organization are teaming up in the name of cybersecurity.
Under an agreement that is still being finalized, the National Security Agency would help Google analyze a major corporate espionage attack that the firm said originated in China and targeted its computer [...]
How Unique – and Trackable – Is Your Browser?
February 3rd, 2010Via: Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Is your browser configuration rare or unique? If so, web sites may be able to track you, even if you limit or disable cookies.
Panopticlick tests your browser to see how unique it is based on the information it will share with sites it visits. Click below and you will be given a [...]
Microsoft Executive Thinks That Individuals Should Have to Obtain Government Licenses to Use Internet
January 31st, 2010Via: AFP:
The world needs a treaty to prevent cyber attacks becoming an all-out war, the head of the main UN communications and technology agency warned Saturday.
International Telcommunications Union secretary general Hamadoun Toure gave his warning at a World Economic Forum debate where experts said nations must now consider when a cyber attack becomes a declaration [...]
My U.S. Credit Card Was Deactivated After I Sent $20 to Wikileaks
January 26th, 2010Wikileaks is down for fund raising. I sent them $20 using my U.S. credit card.
The next day, Bank of America’s Magic 8 Ball deactivated my account and sent this to me:
Irregular Credit Card Activity
Account: Bank of America ending in XXXX
Date: 01/25/2010
We detected irregular activity on your Bank of America Credit Card on 01/25/2010. [...]
Court Rules That Mass Surveillance of Americans is Immune From Judicial Review
January 24th, 2010Via: EFF:
A federal judge has dismissed Jewel v. NSA, a case from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on behalf of AT&T customers challenging the National Security Agency’s mass surveillance of millions of ordinary Americans’ phone calls and emails.
“We’re deeply disappointed in the judge’s ruling,” said EFF Legal Director Cindy Cohn. “This ruling robs innocent telecom [...]
