Privacy & Surveillance

Privacy: Privacy World; Cryptome; Eternal Value of Privacy, 5/18/6; Privacy Equation, 12/22/10; Vanishing In a Digital Age, 12/31/10; Keep Your Home Address To Yourself, 1/18/11; My Privacy Library, 3/2/11; How much should we give up for "safety"?; How to protect your mobile phone and computer from illegal police searches, 7/13/11; Patient Privacy Rights and Private Hospitals, 10/5/11; Protester Privacy, 10/7/11; Fun With a Decoy Drive, 1/28/12; Bill Rounds: 7 Effective Privacy Techniques for Reducing Risk of Identity Theft, 3/20/12; Personal privacy under constant assault by governments, corporations, 3/20/12; Privacy as a Positive Good, 8/8/12

Snitch Society: Walmart Public Service Announcement, 12/6/10; Homeland Security Recruiting Neighborhood Busybodies as Informants, 12/6/10; Szandor Blestman: I See Something and I'm Saying Something, 12/7/10; Please report suspicious activity at Wal-Mart to the Department of Homeland Security, 12/7/10; Big Sis Set To Expand Spy Program To Sports Stadiums, 12/9/10; iPhone snitch network launched, 12/13/10; Complaint About DHS/Wal-Mart Partnership Leads to Wiretap, 12/16/10; US government ‘creating vast domestic snooping machine’, 12/20/10; Walmart's Federal Spying Campaign, 1/1/11; Oklahoma: “Sniffin’ Dirt”…Snitching on your neighbor will keep us all safe!, 1/18/11; Become a multi-millionaire… as a tax snitch, 4/13/11; See Something Say Something Act Seeks To Turn USA Into East Germany, 4/30/11; Government recruits doctors to become thought police, pinpoint potential terrorists among their patients, 6/8/11; Aunt Sam Wants You to be a citizen-spy for the regime, 6/9/11; FBI Wants Surplus Stores To Spy on Customers, 8/10/11; If You See Something, Say Something, 8/20/11; Big Sis Tags Coffee Cups With Big Brother Eye, 9/20/11; DHS takes counterterrorism to the NHL, 12/29/11; Introducing the government’s newest unpaid spy: YOU, 2/8/12; Innovative Apps: Rat Out Your Neighbor Anonymously, 2/12/12; Infraguard - a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the private sector, 9/9/12; DHS Enlists Citizen Spies Via New Smartphone App, 9/20/12; Fury After Paper Publishes Names, Addresses of Legal Pistol Owners in New York, 12/24/12

Public Predation: Random Pat-Downs Turn PATCO Into Police State, 9/9/10; D.C. Metro anti-terrorism teams to begin random bag inspections to avert attacks, 12/16/10; Metro to start random bag searches, 12/16/10; US to step up security at hotels and malls, 12/26/10; Forget Super Bowl Pat Downs, Big Sis Wants Interrogations And Behavioral Tests, 2/7/11; Ontario Woman Sues Over Strip-Search At Ambassador Bridge, 2/10/11; Capital Controls now being enforced at the airport, 2/16/11; Cavity Search: Do It For The Prisoners, 4/7/11; Grope Down Checkpoints Coming To Malls, 5/4/11; Bin Laden kill conveniently paves way for security checkpoints everywhere -- shopping malls, sports stadiums, grocery stores, churches, 5/7/11; Items seized in 2 a.m. drug search, 7/26/11; Metal detectors at hospitals?, 11/10/11; Indy Super Bowl: National Security State Protects Sports Fans from Prostitutes, 1/30/12; Super Bowl Security, 2/4/12; Supreme Court: Strip searches in jail OK even for minor offenses, 4/2/12; Supreme Court says police can strip search citizens for any offense, 4/11/12; Arizona police given green light to check immigrants papers, 9/19/12; Hitler's Hotel, 9/25/12; Police allowed to install cameras on private property without warrant, 10/30/12; Baltimore announces city-wide surveillance roll out that records passenger conversations on city buses, 11/5/12; 2-Police dog 'sniff' passes U.S. Supreme Court smell test, 2/19/13; Court: Drug dog sniff is unconstitutional search, 3/26/13
Checkpoints: Nazi Gestapo Checkpoints Spread Across America, 7/22/12
VIPR: Right to Travel; VIPR Searches: 'Dominate, Intimidate, Control', 7/7/11; Kentucky Supreme Court Rules Highway Checkpoints Illegal, 5/1/12; How to Nullify Suspicionless Checkpoints, 6/19/12
TSA: Airport Security; TSA-Style Pat Downs Hit The Streets, 12/6/10; TSA-style full body pat-downs coming to an NFL stadium near you, 9/17/11; Big Sis Launches Undercover TSA Spies To Ride Houston Buses, 4/17/12; Larken Rose: Spineless Texas??, 4/24/12; Super Bowl Fans to Face Mandatory TSA Pat Downs, 1/31/13

Surveillance: America: One Nation Under Surveillance: Total Surveillance; Panopticon: A Mass Surveillance Prison For Humanity, 1/11/6; Global Surveillance Infrastructure; Spying on Americans has become big business; "TAG YOU'RE IT!!!" 11 Plus Ways We Are Being Tracked, Traced, and Databased, 7/18/10; Then & Now: Surveillance Playbook; Surveillance Society: Negative Aspects of Government Data Mining, 12/27/10; Avoid Nosy Video Surveillance Cameras, 1/14/11; Farewell to Modernity in the New Age of Surveillance, 1/30/11; America's Total Surveillance Society, 2/28/11; 10 ways 'the police state' tracks you, 5/5/11; Americans, Everything You Do Is Monitored, 5/6/11; Chicago expanding Big Brother camera network, 6/14/11; Cisco's Tech Just One Of Many New Ways China Could Spy On Its People, 7/5/11; Big Brother is watching you: The town where EVERY car is tracked by police cameras, 7/30/11; 'Privacy Killing Technologies': A Link to the Murdoch Scandal?, 8/2/11; Mayor Bloomberg pushes for traffic light cameras 'on every corner', 8/22/11; ACLU’s Mike German: Domestic surveillance no longer based on probable cause, 9/12/11; What, Exactly, Is "Suspicious Activity?", 9/15/11; Government Aims to Build a 'Data Eye in the Sky', 10/10/11; NYPD infiltration of colleges raises privacy fears, 10/11/11; New Street Lights To Have "Homeland Security" Applications, 10/26/11; Homeland Security streetlights include surveillance cameras and loud speakers, 11/3/11; 14 New Ways That the Government Is Watching You, 11/7/11; Cops Hide Surveillance Cameras In Trees Outside Man’s Home, 12/5/11; Spying on Americans rising rapidly as warrantless use of undercover police, drones increases, 12/21/11; Eye in the Sky Spying on Americans, 2/14/12; Bill Rounds: How Dangerous Citizen Dataveillance Is, 3/17/12; 4 high-tech ways the federal government is spying on private citizens, 5/7/12; Talking Surveillance Cameras Coming to U.S. Streets, 5/14/12; One Nation Under Surveillance, 5/31/12; New surveillance cameras will use computer eyes to find ‘pre-crimes’ in San Francisco, 6/7/12; Britain unveils electronic mass surveillance plan, 6/14/12; How America's Surveillance State Breeds Conformity and Fear, 7/4/12; Lawless Domestic Spying, 7/27/12; Stratfor emails reveal secret, widespread TrapWire surveillance system, 8/11/12; Cities use surveillance systems that identify potential 'terrorists' with facial recognition, 8/13/12; Eye of Sauron, 8/20/12; Mini Documentary Reveals Full Extent of 'Stellar Wind' Domestic Spy Program, 8/28/12; Stellar Wind; Minority Report: Fiction Has Become Reality, 9/5/12; Ultimate goal of the surveillance state, 9/11/12; Secret "watchlist" used as basis for preventive detention, 9/12/12; US data whistleblower: 'It's a violation of everybody's constitutional rights', 9/15/12; Smile, the Government Is Watching: Next Generation Identification, 9/18/12; 19 Signs That America Is Being Systematically Transformed Into a Giant Surveillance Grid, 9/28/12; ACLU: Docs Reveal "Exponential" Growth of Domestic Spying, 9/29/12; Police allowed to install cameras on private property without warrant, 10/30/12; Total surveillance state: TSA plans to track all of your daily travels, whether to social events, grocery store or work, 11/7/12; Feds Want To Spy On Everything, 11/30/12; Americans Are The Most Spied On People In World History, 12/5/12; 'Everyone in US Under Virtual Surveillance' – NSA Whistleblower, 12/6/12; Slowing down the surveillance state: a guide to warrantless government spying, 12/6/12; Not Just Buses, Street Lights Are Also Recording Conversations, 12/11/12; Jersey City Unveils 3-Story High ‘Eye In The Sky’ Surveillance Tower, 12/11/12; Senate approves measure to renew controversial surveillance authority, 12/28/12; DHS Looks To Install Microphones In “Urban Areas” That Can Listen to Conversations, 1/21/13; Can The DEA Hide A Surveillance Camera On Your Land?, 1/21/13; San Francisco streetlights will spy on passersby, 1/25/13; DARPA Can See You... From 17,500 Feet In The Air, 1/28/13; Guerrilla surveillance camera destruction hits the U.S., 2/15/13; Supreme Court Shields Warrantless Eavesdropping Law from Constitutional Challenge, 2/27/13; CIA Chief Tech Officer: Big Data Is The Future And We Own It, 3/21/13; Great surveillance boom, 4/26/13; Why Your Grocery Store Is Installing Military Cameras, 5/2/13; Round the Clock Surveillance: Is This the Price of Living in a ‘Free, Safe’ Society?, 5/14/13

Project Echelon: Project Echelon; Echelon Watch; "GLOBAL SPYING". WASHINGTON'S "WEAPONIZED DATA" SYSTEM, 4/23/12; ECHELON: Exposing the Global Surveillance System, 4/26/12

Big Brother: DHS Updates Rules on Border Laptop Searches, 8/27/9; Cameras make Chicago most closely watched US city, 4/6/10; In Restive Chinese Area, Cameras Keep Watch, 8/2/10; Smile! Aerial images being used to enforce laws, 8/14/10; It isn’t God who is keeping track of our sins…..it is a Homeland Security satellite, 8/25/10; U.S. government using Pre-Crime technology to monitor citizens, 8/25/10; NC Sheriffs want database of prescription drug users, 9/14/10; Authorities Plan To Trawl Phone Calls And E Mails For Signs Of “Resentment Toward Government”, 9/30/10; Privacy advocates fear massive fed health database, 11/4/10; Smile, if you're in downtown Houston - Homeland Security picking up tab for 250-300 surveillance cameras, 11/24/10; Are they spying on you?, 12/15/10; Plan to Turn Post Office Trucks Into Stasi Data Collection Nodes, 12/21/10; White House’s ‘insider threat’ program targets federal employees for surveillance, 1/5/11; pdf; Daley Defends City’s Camera Network, 2/8/11; Obama Administration Says It Can Spy On Americans, But Can't Tell You What Law Allows It, 2/14/11; Sac Police To Tap Into Business Security Cameras To Deter Crime, 3/4/11; Surveillance, San Francisco-Style, 4/6/11; McCain's Privacy 'bill of rights' exempts government agencies, 4/12/11; DHS Funds Real-time Spy Cams on SF Buses, 8/9/11; Are you ready for Big Brother 2.0?, 8/19/11; WikiLeaks Releases Documents on Government Surveillance Tactics, 12/1/11; Red Spotlights to Mark 'Precrime' Suspects, 1/23/12; Jesse Ventura: Big Brother Conspiracy, 3/31/12; 13 Ways Government Tracks Us, 4/9/12; Big Brother Takes over from Uncle Sam: A Single Intelligence Network for a New World Order, 1/29/13; Big brother to log your drinking habits and waist size as GPs are forced to hand over confidential records, 2/2/13; AG Holder grants secret powers to collect files on innocent Americans, 4/1/13
In School: Turning children into Orwellian eco-spies, 12/15/9; Webcam Spying School District Cleared of Criminal Charges, 8/17/10; New Canaan Considers Tracking Devices for Students, 8/23/10; U.S. schools: grooming students for a surveillance state, 8/28/10; H.R. 6109:New Bill Requires Asking Children to Declare their Sexual Orientation, 10/7/10; Brave New World: Dept. of Education Wants Your Kid’s Blood Type?, 3/12/11; School Wants To Allow Bus Drivers To Search Students, 5/19/11; School District Offering Drug Testing Kits To Parents, 8/17/11; Prison-Yard America, 10/12/11; Officials Use Ruse At Wolcott High To Clear Halls For Drug Search, 10/22/11; Big Brother on campus, 3/22/12
Sex Offender Registry: Number of Registered Sex Offenders in the U.S. Nears Three-quarters of a Million, 1/23/12
Targeting Preppers: Feds Demand Customer Lists from Storable Food Facility, 12/9/11; Federal agents raid Mormon food storage facility, demand list of customers storing emergency food, 12/10/11; Confiscate Your Guns? How About Confiscating Your Food?, 12/10/11; Door-to-door questioning of food supplies in Tennessee, 12/11/11
DHS: DHS Wants to Know Who’s Spreading the News (or Expressing an Opinion), Your Rights Optional, 1/15/12
Fusion Centers: Locally owned & operated intelligence machines, 3/2/10; On the Government’s Growing Obsession With Hollywood-Style Command Centers, 8/17/10; DHS ‘fusion centers’ portrayed as pools of ineptitude, civil liberties intrusions, 10/2/12; Doggone, They Lied to Us AGAIN, 10/4/12; Fusion Centers Are Designed to Spy On the American People, 10/11/12; Here's What It Looks Like When You're Entered Into A Department Of Homeland Security Data Fusion Center, 11/5/12
NSA: NSA creating spy system to monitor domestic infrastructure, 7/7/10; Appeals Court Revives Lawsuit Challenging NSA Surveillance of Americans, 3/21/11; U.S. Spy Agencies Want Software That Can Figure Out Where Any Photo Was Taken, 8/2/11; Appeals Court to Weigh NSA Dragnet Surveillance, 8/29/11; Court Revives NSA Dragnet Surveillance Case, 12/29/11; NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center, 3/15/12; NSA’s Spy Program 'Stellar Wind' Exposed, 3/19/12; NSA building massive spy 'data center,' tracking all private communication, 3/29/12; Obama's NSA: Close to knowing all about us, 4/4/12; NSA Whistleblower says NSA Is Lying: U.S. Government Has Copies of Most of Your Emails, 4/20/12; NSA Whistleblower William Binney on Growing State Surveillance, 4/20/12; NSA whistle blowers allege data being collected on every American, 7/23/12; Secret Ruling Against NSA for Spying on Americans, 8/31/12; Revealing Our Spying Methods Would Cause 'Grave Damage To National Security', 9/18/12; NSA: We Will Illegally Spy on Citizens Only When Absolutely Necessary, 10/25/12
FBI: '40,000 violations of the law' in FBI snooping: report, 1/30/11; Biometrics Database Filled With The Blood of The Innocent?, 3/26/11; F.B.I. Agents Get Leeway to Push Privacy Bounds, 6/12/11; New FBI rules permit agents to snoop without firm evidence, 6/13/11; FBI Power to Snoop Expanded (Again), 6/14/11; FBI's Next Generation Identification: Bigger and Faster but Much Worse for Privacy, 7/8/11; FBI to launch nationwide facial recognition service, 10/7/11; 5 Things You Should Know About the FBI's Massive New Biometric Database, 1/8/12; According to the FBI, Internet Privacy Is Now Considered To Be Suspicious Activity, 2/7/12; FBI Spied On Visitors to ‘Prepper’ Website, 3/20/12; FBI Abuse of the Surveillance State is the Real Scandal Needing Investigation, 11/13/12
DMV: 2011: A DMV Odyssey, 7/23/11
Organized Stalking: Hidden Evil; Targeted Individuals; Lawson: FAQ; Freedom From Covert Harrassment

National I.D.: Call for National ID card, 4/30/10; Immigration proposal creates national ID card, ‘fingerprints every worker’, 4/30/10; DHS Conducts Nationwide ID Authentication Test For Emergency Preparedness; National Tamper-proof ID Card Scam—Watch Out!, 11/28/10; National electronic ID cards planned for Afghanistan, 12/12/10; A Nation of Cringing Wretches, 2/18/11; How the U.S. Government Forged a Surveillance Society; American Citizens, Get Ready – The Real ID Act Goes Into Effect On May 11, 3/1/11; House Republicans attempt to revive Real ID, 3/3/11; Real ID Act 2005: The reality versus the myth and why you should care, 3/5/11; Smart Card Alliance Conference Focuses on U.S. Roadmaps to EMV and Secure ID, 3/14/11; My Real ID Reckoning, 6/28/11; Real ID Act blocks some Americans from driver's licenses, 11/20/11; 5 Signs You Are Dealing with Real ID in 2012, 5/7/12; Smart Card Alliance (Endorsers of Obama) Outlines U.S. Move to Chip-based Payments, Real ID Iowa, 10/5/12; National Digital ID, Courtesy of the U.S. Postal Service?, 1/11/13; Heritage Foundation Discusses Future of Real ID, 1/28/13; McCain and Schumer Move to Force Americans to Use Biometric ID for Employment, 2/1/13
E-Verify: Ron Paul's Dire New Warning, 2/7/13; E-Verify's 'Hang Everyone' Approach, 2/8/13
Photo ID: New Law Requires Photo ID To Buy Some Drain Cleaners, 1/5/12; Obamacare Bill: Healthcare Reform as a Backdoor National ID, 1/6/10; Mexico: Biometric Clampdown: Tijuana debut for Mexican I.D. card program, 1/25/11

Census: Mapping the 2010 U.S. Census; 2010 Census Form; Ron Paul: None of Your Business!, 7/13/4; American Community Survey; Tempus Fugit; Census2010; Are You Required by law To fill out Census survey?, 5/26/8; Census GPS-tagging your home's front door, 5/5/9; Government Gone Mad, 7/6/9; Robert Greenslade: Civil Disobedience and the Census, 7/27/9; Obama passing new law to allow PC & media device searches, 8/5/9; US Census And GPS Mapping ~ Big Brother at Your Door, 11/4/9; Jesus posters promoting Census raise ire, 12/15/9; 2010 Census: what you need to know, 1/20/10; Beware the State’s Assault on Privacy!, 1/28/10; Census Anyone?; PSA: send the Census packing, 3/3/10; Getting Personal; Ron Paul: ‘No’ on Census Support, 3/8/10; Christopher Walken: How to complete a census; Census Data Not So Confidential After All, 3/8/10; Ron Paul on the Census 2010, 3/8/10; Jim Kirwan: Owning The 'United States®', 3/16/10; Trademark of the Beast, 3/16/10; Devvy: Stop The Census - Nothing But Fraud, 3/17/10; Walter E Williams on the Census; Don't answer the census!!!; Fun With The 2010 Census!; Census blamed for roundup and internment of Japanese Americans, 3/23/10; U.S. Code § 221. Refusal or neglect to answer questions; false answers; Census Bureau mindful of dangers to its workers in 2010 count after 6 die in traffic accidents, 5/3/10; TheAntiTerrorist on the US Census 2010; Census Man Cometh, 5/17/10; Is the Current Census Constitutional?, 5/21/10; Census® vs Enumeration; Census workers can enter your apartment in your absence, 5/26/10; Cops Murder Elderly Woman Who Refused To Answer Census; More Census Worker Horror Stories, 6/1/10; When Census Workers Attack, 8/25/10; Census worker won't take no for answer, 4/1/11; U.S. Census Bureau helped racially target thousands of American citizens for armed government kidnappings, camp internments, 8/23/12

Mailing/ Shipping: Napolitano Halts Shipment of Packages from Japan as Prelude to Civilian 'Shipper' ID Lockdown, 11/27/10; Sealed With a Kiss, 11/30/10; To Stop Junk Mail, Stop Receiving Mail, 3/8/11; Address Lookup Versus Your Private Address, 3/25/11; Careful With a Return Address, 4/18/11

Shopping: Stores Requiring ID, Tracking To Prevent Repeated Returns, 11/20/12; Cameras Inside Mannequins Spying on Shoppers, 11/21/12

Technology: Real Reason Behind the switch from Analog to Digital; Electronic Police State - 2008 National Rankings; Electronic Police State, 5/12/9; Beyond Orwell: The Electronic Police State, 2010, 3/16/10; Integrator Unmanned Systems; Insect-Like Pincers Allow Flying Swarmbots To Perch On Nearly Any Surface, 6/24/10; Invasive technology to ruin your life, 6/29/10; 8GB High-Resolution Video Covert Recording Spy Sunglasses, 8/6/10; Technology identifies troubled individuals, 9/26/10; Secret U.S. Spy Satellite Launches Into Orbit on Huge Rocket, 11/21/10; Race Is On to 'Fingerprint' Phones, PCs, 11/30/10; New East Palo Alto license plate readers will run plates through crime databases, 11/30/10; Air Force building 'freakishly large' surveillance blimp; How Close Are We to a Nano-based Surveillance State?, 2/20/11; 14 Incredibly Creepy Surveillance Technologies That Big Brother Will Be Using To Spy On You, 3/29/12; Thermal cameras look inside homes to monitor energy efficiency, 4/12/11; Boston Considers Invasive Thermal Cameras, 4/12/11; Intelligence agencies eye emerging 'mind-reading' technologies, 5/27/11; $150 Spy Glasses Transmit Video In Real Time To the Social Network, 6/9/11; 15 Cool Spy Concealments, 11/15/11; Trade in surveillance technology raises worries, 12/1/11; Here's Looking at You, Kid, 1/28/12; Americans Embrace “Smart” Gadgets Used to Spy on Them, 3/17/12; Seeing Through Walls With a Wireless Router, 8/1/12; The new totalitarianism of surveillance technology, 8/15/12; 50 million cameras exposed to hackers due to massive security breach, 2/1/13

Appliances: CIA Chief: We’ll Spy on You Through Your Dishwasher, 3/15/12; CIA Head: We Will Spy On Americans Through Electrical Appliances, 3/16/12; Police State in Your Kitchen - CIA and computerized appliances, 3/23/12

Copy Machines & Printers: Copy machines, a security risk?; Is Your Printer Spying On You?; Documents You Print Secretly Contain Your Identity, 12/29/12

Television: Is Your New HDTV Watching You?, 3/19/12; HDTV Easily Hacked And Spying On Viewers, 11/19/12; Samsung TVs Can Be Hacked to Spy on Viewers, 12/14/12; Smart TVs can spy on their owners, 2/1/13

Smart Meters: SAFE METER REPLACEMENT KIT; Public Health Physician Warns of Smart Meter Dangers, Stresses Need for Analog Option, 4/29/11; Smart Meters Are Surveillance Devices That Monitor The Behavior In Your Home Every Single Minute Of Every Single Day, 7/7/11; Smart Meter Dangers: The Health Hazards of Wireless Electromagnetic Radiation Exposure, 7/16/12; Smart Meters; "Smart Meters" Are Surveillance Devices Which Violate Federal & State Wiretapping Laws, 7/26/11; Smart Meter Slavery, 8/5/11; My fight against the 'smart meter', 8/15/11; Smart Meters - they know when you've been sleeping, 8/25/11; Smart Meters - A Call For Public Outrage, 8/30/11; Former BC Premier Bill Vander Zalm Talks About Smart Meters, 10/27/11; California Recall... Beginning of the End for Smart Meters?, 11/10/11; State regulators reveal 'opt-out' plan for PG&E SmartMeters, 11/23/11; Ashland City Council gives nod to opt-out option for 'smart meters', 5/17/12; Smart Meter = Smart Surveillance, 6/30/12; How privacy-conscious consumers are fooling, hacking smart meters, 7/15/12; Smart Meter Dangers: The Health Hazards of Wireless Electromagnetic Radiation Exposure, 7/16/12; Thelma Taormina, Houston Homeowner, Pulls Gun on a Utility Worker Installing Smart Meters, 7/23/12; Smart grid vulnerability could give hackers free electricity, 7/23/12; Smart Grid Is the Control Grid, 9/5/12; Deadly PECO smart meter burns up side of a house - And it's not the first, 9/13/12; Smart meter data shared far and wide, 9/23/12; Maker of Smart-Grid Control Software Hacked, 9/26/12; Smart Meters" & EMR: The Health Crisis Of Our Time, 9/27/12; Smart Meter Fire – Just how safe are they again?, 11/19/12; Police now accompanying Smart Meter installations: Two homeowners arrested for saying NO!, 2/5/13; Illinois armed police force the installation of a Smart Meter - two young moms arrested protecting their homes, 2/7/13; To Utility Companies (RE: Smart Meters), 3/13/13; Another Attorney General exposes "smart" meter scam, 4/22/13; Growing Threat of Smart Meters, 5/14/13

Computers: Judge: Americans can be forced to decrypt their laptops, 1/23/12
Webcams: Hackers (and Govt.) Can Spy on You Through Your Webcam, 1/25/13

Credit card readers: Criminals planted electronic bugs in Barnes & Noble credit card readers; elaborate scam may have swiped thousands of cards, 10/30/12

Telephone Privacy: How to Keep Your Phone Number Private, 3/23/11; Unlocking any HTC Phone Network, 11/10/11; Who's on the Line? Increasingly, Caller ID Is Duped, 11/22/11; Verizon Is Selling Your Data–Here's How To Opt Out Of It, 10/23/12
Government Wiretapping: Snuggly the Security Bear; Beat Big Brother: Dodge CCTV, phone taps and spies, 3/19/8; Officials Push to Bolster Law on Wiretapping, 10/18/10; A government agent on every corner, a wiretap on every phone, 1/25/11; Federal Wiretaps Nearly Doubled Last Year, 7/1/11; A Variety of Methods Can Be Used to Tap Into Phone Messages, 7/6/11; Feds warn court: don't leak about NSA wiretapping, 8/5/11; U.S. government's secret wiretaps violate the Constitution, rules court, 7/26/12; Court gives government the go-ahead for warrantless wiretaps, 8/8/12; Supreme Court to rule on legality of wiretapping through FISA, 9/19/12; Are all telephone calls recorded and accessible to the US government?, 5/4/13
Cell Phone Tracking: All conversations on digital cell phones are stored forever and the GPS pinpoints you to within a few feet, 6/24/7; Tapping your cell phone; Feds push for tracking cell phones, 2/11/10; Can the FBI track your cell phone?, 2/11/10; Popcorn; Court allows warrantless cell location tracking, 9/7/10; Feds: Privacy Does Not Exist in ‘Public Places’, 9/21/10; Watch Where You're Going, 11/9/10; Smartphone pictures pose privacy risks, 11/9/10; To Thwart Distracted Driving, US Government Considers Cell Phone Jammers in Cars, 11/19/10; Federal court blocks Obama Administration attempt to spy on cell phones without a warrant, 12/16/10; Calif court: Cops can search texts without warrant, 1/4/11; Wash. Police Use Cell Phone Pings in Manhunt, 3/3/11; Snooping: It's not a crime, it's a feature, 4/16/11; Michigan: Police Search Cell Phones During Traffic Stops, 4/19/11; iPhone Tracks Your Every Move, and There’s a Map for That, 4/20/11; Why and How Apple Is Collecting Your iPhone Location Data, 4/21/11; Why You Should Care About the iPhone Location-Tracking Issue, 4/22/11; What Does Your Phone Know About You? More Than You Think, 4/25/11; Gadgets police use to snarf cell phone data, 4/25/11; Police Search Cell Phones On Massive Scale, 4/27/11; Apple Denies Tracking iPhone Users, Will Issue Software Update to Discontinue Tracking iPhone Users, 4/27/11; Confirmed: iPhone and iPad secretly track and store your location, 4/30/11; Avoid Pretexting, 5/9/11; New Yorkers soon to get emergency cell phone alerts in what Bloomberg calls 'quantum leap forward', 5/9/11; Cell Phones Required to Receive Homeland Security Text Messages, 5/10/11; What Else Will The Government’s “Special Chip” In Your Cellphone Do?, 5/11/11; Google's Web mapping can track your phone, 6/15/11; Experts make case for biometrics in cell phones, 6/22/11; NSA Lawyer Questioned Over Cellphone Location Tracking of Americans, 7/26/11; Your Smart Phone Will Be Your Biometric Ankle Monitor Device, 8/4/11; Judge rules warrant required to obtain cell phone location data, 8/23/11; No Longer Anonymous!; Is the US government spying on Americans?, 9/1/11; FBI is on your cell phone - Do you care?, 9/20/11; Feds' 'Stingray' Phone Tracker—The Latest Threat by the Surveillance State, 9/26/11; Calif. Appeals Court Approves Cell Phone Searches During Traffic Stops, 10/4/11; Governor Brown Vetoes Warrant Protection for Cell Phones, 10/11/11; Cell Phone Guide for Occupy Wall Street Protesters (and Everyone Else), 10/14/11; New Google Smart Phone Recognizes Your Face, 10/19/11; A painful lesson: Don't pick up abandoned iPhone, 10/27/11; British police surveillance system can turn off mobile phones, 11/1/11; Malls track shoppers' cell phones on Black Friday, 11/22/11; BUSTED! Secret app on millions of phones logs key taps, 11/30/11; So, there's a rootkit hidden in millions of cellphones, 12/1/11; Assange: 'iPhone, BlackBerry, Gmail users - you're all screwed', 12/1/11; Cell Phones Are Tracking Devices that Governments, Police, Big Corporations and Stalkers can use to easily Track Your Movements, 12/2/11; Scientists develop system that can shut down your cell phone while you're driving, 12/8/11; British Government Resurrects Plan To Monitor All Phone Calls And Emails, 2/20/12; Court approves warrantless searches of cell phones, 3/1/12; Police Are Using Phone Tracking as a Routine Tool, 3/31/12; A Reason to Throw Your Sail Fawn in The Woods, 4/2/12; Many U.S. police use cell phones to track suspects instead of getting legal warrants, 4/28/12; Obama administration urges freer access to cellphone records, 5/3/12; Court: Cops can read suspect's texts, spring text trap, 7/5/12; Police spying on more cell phones than ever, 7/9/12; Startup Uses a Smartphone Compass to Track People Indoors, 7/16/12; Federal Judge: Your Location is No More Private Than the Color of Your Car, 8/16/12; How the Thought Police Use Your Cell Phone To Track Your Every Move, 8/23/12; If You Were At Occupy Wall Street, Your Phone Was Probably Surveyed, 9/24/12; Apple forgets to 'Think Different', 9/28/12; New software uses smartphone camera for spying, 10/2/12; Former SEALs Market iPhone App that the Government Hates, 10/10/12; Apple Has Quietly Started Tracking iPhone Users Again, and It's Tricky to Opt Out, 10/11/12; Government claims Americans have 'no reasonable expectation of privacy' with cell phone usage, 10/15/12; Courts Divided Over Searches of Cellphones, 11/25/12; Cops demand that Congress force telecoms to archive all text messages, 12/3/12; Coming soon: Cops given access to all your text messages, 12/7/12; Cell phone users ‘have no legitimate expectation of privacy’, 5/17/13
Carrier IQ: Carrier IQ Part #2, 11/28/11; Must Watch Video On How Big Brother Monitors You, 12/1/11; FBI turns down request for info, 12/13/11; Carrier IQ faces federal probe into allegations software tracks cellphone data, 12/14/11; Don't look now, but the FBI may have fibbed about seeking cell phone monitoring technology, 12/26/11
Skype: Skype makes chats and user data more available to police, 7/25/12
Verizon: They Can Hear You Now: Verizon Patent Can Listen In On Customers, 12/4/12

Television: CIA wants to spy on you through your TV, 3/16/12

Car Tracking: NY Times: Mileage Tax Would ‘Track Where Motorists Have Been’, 3/9/9; Tracking Electric Use Could Allow Utilities to Track You, Too, 3/15/10; Obama administration floats draft plan to tax cars by the mile - Police State "Amerika" to Track Movements of Your Cars and Trucks, 5/5/11; Nissan car secretly shares driver data with websites, 6/13/11; OnStar Tracks Your Car Even When You Cancel Service, 9/20/11; again; GM Is Watching You, 9/28/11; Is GPS tracking too '1984'?, 11/10/11; Could Your Car Be Hacked?, 1/12/12; OBD III: Motor Law Realized, 2/3/12; State mulls pay-by-mile gas tax in response to fuel-efficient cars, 12/7/12
Black Boxes: New Federal Rules To Require Black Boxes to Record Driver Activity in Every Car, 5/23/11; Black boxes for vehicles to be compulsory by next month, 5/25/11; Eric Peters: Your Own Car Will Spy on You Beginning in 2015, 4/19/12; WSJ: Black Boxes Are Real, But Alex Jones Is “Paranoid”, 4/25/12; 'Black box' standards coming for cars, 8/14/12; Black boxes in cars raise privacy concerns, 12/7/12; Obama Mandates Black Box Data Recorders to Be Installed in All Cars, 12/8/12; Feds Requiring ‘Black Boxes’ in All Motor Vehicles, 12/26/12
License plate readers: A useful tool for police comes with privacy concerns, 11/19/11; Another Way The Police And Private Corporations Track You: License Plates, 10/2/12; Massive surveillance nation: Police now using license plate scanners to collect intelligence on cars, no crime necessary, 11/10/12; 320 Licence Plate Reading Police Cars In Maryland; And Growing, 11/15/12; Automated License Plate Readers Threaten Our Privacy, 5/9/13
External car control: Lobbyists of Ignition Interlock Devices Demand Law Requiring Such Devices, 7/11/11

GPS: Government Can Use GPS to Track Your Moves, 8/25/10; GPS and the Police State We Inhabit: Living in Oceania, 9/28/10; Caught Spying on Student, FBI Demands GPS Tracker Back, 10/7/10; GPS in cameras and phones creates privacy issue; GPS To Track Truant Students In Anaheim, 2/18/11; For chronic truants, a GPS program can help them make the grade, 2/25/11; Feds to Supreme Court: Allow Warrantless GPS Monitoring, 4/19/11; Battle Brews Over FBI’s Warrantless GPS Tracking, 5/9/11; Law enforcement officials can now secretly install GPS tracking on your vehicle and spy on you without a warrant, 1/9/12; Supreme Court Unanimously Rejects Obama Administration’s Effort to Conduct Warrantless GPS Searches , 1/23/12; Justices rule against police, say GPS surveillance requires search warrant, 1/23/12; Supreme Court Court Rejects Willy-Nilly GPS Tracking, 1/23/12; A Bit of Good News… Well, Sort Of, 1/25/12; Nestle Embeds GPS Trackers In Candy Bars To Hunt Down Eaters, 9/20/12; How To Scrub GPS Data From Your Photos; Or, How To Be Smarter Than Vice, 12/7/12

Car Control: Hacker Disables More Than 100 Cars Remotely, 3/17/10; Scientists Hack Into Cars' Computers -- Control Brakes, Engine, 8/21/10; Taking Control of Cars From Afar, 3/14/11

Spy Drones: See: Spy Drones

Surveillance Blimps: Utah city may use blimp as anti-crime spy in the sky, 1/16/11; External security cameras coming to 'real time crime center', 2/27/11

Scanners: Mobile X-Ray Van Scanners; Radiation; Cancer; Remote Terahertz Scanners Could See What's in Your Pockets from Miles Away, 7/13/10; D.C. Scanners & the Bankster and Global Elite Connection, 12/18/10; San Francisco considers requiring ID scans for most public events, 4/12/11; Searching for shoe scanners; Hidden Government Scanners Will Instantly Know Everything About You From 164 Feet Away, 7/10/12; 11 Body Parts Defense Researchers Will Use to Track You, 1/25/13; Brain Scans: Child brain scans to pick out future criminals, 2/22/11; Behavior Scanners: Detecting a crime before it happens, 5/28/10; Big Sis Wants Behavior Scanners At Sports Events, Malls, 11/24/10; This is what's next if they are not stopped now; Russian ATM Scans Credit Applicants to Determine if They're Lying, 6/10/11; Full Body Scanners: Airport Full Body Scanners; Full-body scanners popping up at courthouses, 11/24/10; Body Scanners Coming to Trains, Subways and Boats, Homeland Security Chief Says, 11/24/10; Next step for tight security could be trains, boats, metro; May Be Time for Trains, Ships and Mass Transit to Use Body Scanners, Napolitano Says , 11/25/10; Gun Scanners: NYPD, Feds Testing Gun-Scanning Technology, But Civil Liberties Groups Up In Arms, 1/17/12; New York Moves to Deploy Body Scanners on Street in Search for Guns, 1/18/12

DNA Harvesting/ Scanners: The government has your baby's DNA, 2/4/10; Homeland Security To Scan DNA, 2/27/11; DNA "Genetic Patdown" Introduced to Airports by DHS, 2/27/11; TSA now wants to scan and harvest your DNA, 2/28/11; DHS plans on scanning DNA at checkpoints, 2/28/11; US government caught in fake vaccination program harvesting DNA from civilians to target terrorists, 7/12/11; ‘Digital DNA’ May Soon Be Required To Take SAT And ACT Exams, 1/23/12; New York State Set to Add All Convict DNA to Its Database, 3/13/12; Rapid DNA analyzers coming to every police station and TSA checkpoint in America, 1/10/13; Scientists Discover How to Identify People From ‘Anonymous’ Genomes, 1/17/13; Supreme Court weighs DNA ‘fingerprinting’, 2/26/13; Explosive report: 98% of newborn babies are genetically screened, 2/27/13

Facial Recognition: Tracking Software Uses Reasoning to Figure Out Who and Where You Are, 3/3/11; Crowd Identity MAP - How Big Brother Watches Crowds, 3/6/11; Surveillance State Tactics Increasing: Police Starting to Use Facial Recognition Devices, 7/13/11; Amid Privacy Fears, Police Across the Nation Will Roll Out Face-Recognizing iPhone Tech This Year, 7/14/11; Facial Recognition Software Takes One Glance at You and Brings Up Your Facebook Profile, 8/5/11; Facial recognition – Jokesville says UK’s “Great Bane”, 10/10/11; Traipsing towards tyranny: New FBI service to track suspects using advanced facial recognition system, 10/20/11; Apple Patent Describes New Type of Face-Recognition Tech, 12/29/11; Bars, stores to use facial recognition technology to increase sales, 2/23/12; New surveillance system can compare your face against 36 million others in a single second, 3/23/12; Cities use surveillance systems that identify potential 'terrorists' with facial recognition, 8/13/12; Facebook camera that can recognise you every time you walk into a shop, 8/13/12; FBI begins installation of $1 billion face recognition system across America, 9/8/12; 'Minority Report' facial recognition system being installed across USA by FBI; everyone to be tracked, 9/15/12; Ecuador Implements "World's First" Countrywide Facial- and Voice-Recognition System, 12/12/12; Face Scan to get in State Capitol Building?, 1/9/13

Fingerprint Scanners: Fingerprint scanner use raises privacy concerns in N.C., 12/8/10; Europe tells Britain to justify itself over fingerprinting children in schools, 12/16/10; Biometric ID Check On Scottish Children as Young as Four, 12/28/10; Arizona city plans to fingerprint pharmacy customers, 1/31/11; FBI Announces Initial Operating Capability for Next Generation Identification System, 3/14/11; Fingertip biometrics at Disney turnstiles: the Mouse does its bit for the police state, 3/15/12; FBI center takes on $1 billion ID project, 3/21/11; Your iPod Touch Can Now Function As A Finger Print Scanner, 5/19/11; Israel to start collecting fingerprints from all citizens, 6/4/11; States can't opt out of Secure Communities program, 8/6/11; Aware Awarded TSA Contract to Provide Biometric Services Platform for Fingerprint System, 8/8/11; A Florida School District is Taking Attendance by Scanning Students’ Fingers, 10/7/11

Palm Scanners: Patient Identification "In The Palm Of Your Hand", 6/14/11; Japan bank to install palm-reading ATMs, 4/13/12; Palm scanners get thumbs up in schools, hospitals, 11/25/12

Biometrics/ Biometric Scanners: Biometrics Task Force, 3/1/8; Police Biometric & Facial Recognition Scans; Sony turns to finger veins for mobile security, 2/3/9; Biometric Scans for Traffic Stops, 3/28/10; New Jersey County Tracking Homeless With Biometrics, 11/1/10; Biometrics authentication in worldwide financial services markets, 1/12/11; "Secure communities" comes to Wisconsin, 1/13/11; Multi-biometrics combined in one system, 1/17/11; Biometric recognition: more than a fictional spy-thriller, 2/3/11; The Trouble With Selling Biometric ID To The Public: ‘There is no demand’, 2/3/11; 12-Digit Identity Number: Biometric New World Order Underway In India, 2/21/11; Security Industry Association recommends biometric authentication for federal E-Verify programme, 2/21/11; New World Order Quote of the Day: Biometrics and Leveraging The Body, 2/23/11; Biometric Identification Begins In California for Anyone Arrested, 2/28/11; DHS to gain real-time access to DoD biometrics, 3/1/11; Canadian defence scientists probe 'biometrics of intent', 3/7/11; Biometric Voter Registry Cost Debated, 3/8/11; Punching the Time Clock With Your Face: Biometric "Big Brother" Clock, 3/9/11; Obama's Biometric Buildup: Have You Heard Of Global Entry?, 3/9/11; Georgia State bill requires biometric ID, 3/18/11; Biometric Trends: Will emerging modalities and mobile applications bring mass adoption?, 3/23/11; Convergence of biometrics, location and surveillance, 4/8/11; Next phase of FBI technology: Iris scans, gait and scent detection, 4/10/11; Indian Govt. to issue biometric PAN cards, 4/11/11; Biometrics and Fascist ID Authentication - ARE WE READY FOR THE DAY BEFORE TOMORROW?, 5/10/11; Can't Hide From SEEK, 5/20/11; New Citizens Pay A Biometric Fee to Become Slaves In Amerika - Recession takes toll on naturalization numbers, 5/23/11; Northrop Grumman Wins Biometrics Order For Timely Identification of Individual Suspects, 5/24/11; Border workers push for biometric screening in perimeter security plan with U.S., 5/31/11; Security System-on-a-Chip (SoC) - Biometrics, Virtual Currency and Advertising, 5/31/11; Global Biometrics Reservation Proves You Can't Hide In A Crowd - Keep clicking on a face to enlarge the image; Beyond Cell Phone Wallets, Biometrics Promise Truly Wallet-Free Future, 8/3/11; U.S. Army getting new BAT kits, 8/8/11; India Implements First Biometric ID Program for all of its 1.2 Billion Residents, 1/12/12; Biometric National IDs and Passports: A False Sense of Security, 6/19/12; Total Surveillance : NYPD places full body scanners on the streets of New York, 1/24/13; Biometric Database of All Adult Americans Hidden in Immigration Reform, 5/10/13
Voice Biometrics: Match Made In Hell - Voice Biometrics and Smart Phones, 7/11/11

Biometric Iris Scanners: Biometric entry planned for California skate park!; Most Secure City in the World. Welcome, Big Brother, 8/18/10; Megalomaniacs Push For Orwellian “Safe” City, Controlled Internet, 8/25/10; Homeland Security to test iris scanners, 9/12/10; Army Reveals Afghan Biometric ID Plan; Millions Scanned, Carded by May, 9/24/10; Iris Scanning Set To Secure City in Mexico, Then the World, 9/26/10; US Soldiers Working to Make the World Safe for The New World Order, 9/26/10; US Marines Fighting For Your Freedom, And Biometric ID's For All, 9/27/10; Army Reveals Afghan Biometric ID Plan; Millions Scanned, Carded by May, 9/28/10; NYPD Commences Use of Suspect Iris Scans, 11/15/10; Total Control Society Is Here, 11/16/10; Iris Scan & Fingerprints Substituted For TSA Screening, 11/23/10; Vatic Report, 11/24/10; NYPD Deploying Iris Scanners Used By US Army In Afghanistan, 12/6/10; Coming to Android, IPhone, and Microsoft Phones, 12/14/10; Comes to the US & Canadian Border, 12/19/10; Local Cops Now Use Iraq’s Iris Scanners, 12/20/10; 'Minority Report' May Come to Real World With Iris Recognition, 2/1/11; Big Brother arrives with iris eye-scan ID on cells, ATMs, PCs; Iris Scanners Gain Traction in New York and Texas, 3/31/11; One Eye on the Future: Iris Scanners Are Coming, 4/25/11; Las Vegas TV Newscasters Go Gaga For "Big Brother" Iris Scan Technology, 4/30/11; Is the FBI Using Afghanistan As A Biometrics Proving Ground?, 5/2/11; Revolutionary Mobile Iris-Scanner Aligns With Obama Administration Objectives, 5/5/11; Pinal Sheriff's Office sees eye scanners as the future, 5/6/11; Children of Guanajuato, Mexico in Biometric D-Base, 5/6/11; Forget Passwords, Eye-Scanning Is Here, 5/11/11; Fox News Is Selling America On Iris Scan "Eye-Lock" Security, 5/12/11; Hoyos iris recognition technology enables computer log-in through eye scan, 5/12/11; Fox News: Best Security Tool You Won't Find at U.S. Airports, 5/28/11; TSA's Biometric Reprise of "Papers, Please" - US plans fast-track security checks for low-risk frequent flyers, 6/7/11; Police to begin iPhone iris scans amid privacy concerns, 7/20/11

Surveillance Trucks: Police roll out video surveillance truck called The Peacemaker, 1/27/12
Mobile X-Ray Vans: Radiation; Cancer; Full-Body Scan Technology Deployed In Street-Roving Vans, 8/24/10; 4th Amendment Violating Mobile X-Ray Scanners Hit The Streets, 8/25/10; 'Feds radiating Americans'? Mobile X-ray vans hit US streets, 9/29/10; Feds Radiating Americans At Internal Checkpoints, 9/29/10; X-Ray Van Sees Through Homes, 10/1/10; FEDs Using Mobile X-Ray Vans To Do Drive-By Scannings, 10/1/10; Coming Soon to You - Massive DNA Destruction, 10/3/10; X-raying you without permission; Big Sis’ Street Scanners Target Of FOIA Request, 11/26/10; TSA, DHS plan massive rollout of mobile surveillance vans with long-distance X-ray capability, eye movement tracking and more, 3/6/11; X-Ray body-scanning vans raise major privacy concerns, 8/25/12
Border Scanners: DHS' X-ray scanners could be cancer risk to border crossers, 1/12/12