- ARCHIVE / surveillance
- Dutch To Expand Satellite Surveillance
Via
EDRI:
The Dutch ministry of defence is planning to build a large facility to
intercept civilian and military satellite communications. The
Echelon-like site at Burum, in the north of the Netherlands, will have
15 dishes and listen to telephone, fax and internet telecommunications.
The large streams of intercepted information will be examined by a new
intelligence service, the National Sigint […] - WTF Is IARPA?
[via
Nukes and Spooks]
An item in the Washington Post business section two weeks ago caught our attention. It was about an intelligence agency that is building a new headquarters right on the campus of the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland. (A place one of us is familiar with, if for no other reason […] - “hardly any restrictions left” on US surveillance of Europe
The United States is negotiating deals with European countries to exchange fingerprint and DNA data in criminal and terrorist cases, and in some circumstances to transfer data on race or ethnic origin, political and religious beliefs, or sexual orientation.
Such agreements are a condition for granting citizens of newer
European Union member states the right to […] - Links To Go #10
‘You can fool some of the people all the time — and those are the ones you have to concentrate on‘ George W Bush, 2001.
Long Long LTG mostly because I have again been researching for what may become a future film project on surveillance.
1. SURVEILLANCE
1.1
Google in bed with U.S. intelligence. Via
Homeland Stupidity [2006].
IT […] - Total Information Awareness Finds its “Second Life” at IARPA
(from
Antifascist Calling…)
Like countless resurrections of
Freddy Krueger, it appears that John Poindexter’s Total Information Awareness (TIA) program has found a new, more accommodating home for its “mission” of “keeping America safe”–from the Constitution–at the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency (IARPA).
According to McClatchy investigative journalist
Warren Strobel,
IARPA … is the U.S. intelligence community’s counterpart to […] - Links To Go #5
While I continue to monitor surveillance creep worldwide, that I think the food production, distribution and consumption issue is intensely serious.
1. Big Brother In Sweden
‘Orwellian law must be stopped’, in
thelocal.se
Despite mass protest from the citizenry and a
consequent postponement to address civil liberties concerns, FRA (Försvarets Radioanstalt - Swedish
National Defence Radio Establishment) […] - Big Brother Wants Context
[via
Global Research]
The latest Big Brother police state measure emanating from the Bush administration, with virtually no press coverage, is NSPD 59 (HSPD 24) entitled
Biometrics for Identification and Screening to Enhance National Security [Complete text of NSPD 59 (HSPD 24) in Annex below]
NSPD is directed against US citizens.
It is adopted without public debate or […] - The Product That Looked Back
[”Surveillance software sales soar”
vnunet.com, 28 May 2008
]
The rapid transition from analogue to digital video will fuel a boom in demand for video surveillance software, experts predict.
“Analytics software has become increasingly sophisticated and more accurate, ” noted ABI Research vice president and research director Stan Schatt.
“It is beginning to be used for such tasks as […] - Do You Know Where Your Data Was Last Night?
It’s interesting to see
this story about massive, unwarranted, wholesale surveillance of global internet communications made it to the mainstream almost a year after it was initially reported around the time of EFF’s suit. (Via
Cryptogon.):www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_frz-ykQjI
From the
expert deposition to the EFF suit, we learn that the NSA is engaging in a ‘massive, covert, distributed […]