New Spy Tech Can Recover Voice Imprints From Physical Objects
Activist Post Thanks to a new eavesdropping technology developed by MIT, speech can now be recovered from any physical object simply from the sound wave…
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New Tracking Tech Designed to Thwart the Next Edward Snowden
By Jason Erickson Whether one calls the revelations of Edward Snowden legitimate whistleblowing or treason, the technology to potentially thwart future security breaches has been…
Australia, ‘better slave than dead’
Pine Gap, Australia Jon Rappoport Activist Post Remember the name “Pine Gap.” It lies at the heart of this story. I’ve always thought Australians were…
More Evidence for the Chilling Effects of NSA Surveillance
Cindy Cohn Electronic Frontier Foundation Human Rights Watch and the ACLU today published a terrific report documenting the chilling effect on journalists and lawyers from…
Smart Homes Reveal User Behavior, Prone to Hacks: Study
By Kevin Samson Our Internet-driven world filled with interconnected smart gadgets and computing applications is making us vulnerable to potentially life-changing hacks and tracking. Not…
Missouri Voters to Consider State Privacy Amendment With National Implications
Activist Post In a referendum that could ultimately have national implications, Missouri voters will go to the polls Aug. 5 with the opportunity to add…
Former State Department Exec Calls E.O. 12333 a “Legal Loophole” for Spying on Americans
e-mail your rep here Rainey Reitman Electronic Frontier Foundation “What kind of data is the NSA collecting on millions, or hundreds of millions, of Americans?”…
Police Play NSA: Warrantless Data Collection the New Normal?
ReasonTV Sacramento sheriff’s deputies have been playing NSA. They tool around town with suitcase-sized StingRay surveillance devices in their squad cars, scooping up cellphone data…
NSA Spying: Now It’s Personal
image source Eva Galperin and Nadia Kayyali Electronic Frontier Foundation Imagine that you watched a police officer in your neighborhood stop ten completely ordinary people…
The war inside the war in Afghanistan
image source Jon Rappoport Activist Post Well, there are several wars inside the war in Afghanistan. Ensuring the flow of opium to the world. Having…
Surveillance State: covert revolution
image source Jon Rappoport Activist Post “If you or I had a pot full of money and set out to help a community become more…
Predictive Technology: A New Tool For The Thought Police
image source Nicholas West Activist Post Predictive technology is exploding, in stealth, across the virtual landscape. The arrival of Big Data initiatives by government, as…
NSA and Director of National Intelligence Sued for Zero Day Disclosure Process
Government Needs to Reveal Decision-Making Process for Publicizing Vulnerabilities image source Activist Post The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today filed a Freedom of Information Act…
PRISM Goes Local: NY DA Employs 381 Secret Orders to Gather Digital Dossiers from Facebook
Kurt Opsahl Electronic Frontier Foundation Unfortunately, it appears that the lure of bulk surveillance is not just a temptation for the federal government. Last summer,…