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The Road to Artificial Omniscience |
Revelation 13:16-17
And he causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free men and the slaves, to be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, and he provides that no one will be able to buy or to sell, except the one who has the mark, either the name of the beast or the number of his name.
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Daniel 3:1
Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, the height of which was sixty cubits and its width six cubits; he set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.
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Revelation 1:7
BEHOLD, HE IS COMING WITH THE CLOUDS, and every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him; and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him. So it is to be. Amen.
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Revelation 13:18
Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for the number is that of a man; and his number is six hundred and sixty-six.
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1 Kings 10:14-15
Now the weight of gold which came in to Solomon in one year was 666 talents of gold, besides that from the traders and the wares of the merchants and all the kings of the Arabs and the governors of the country.
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| Shalom in Christ Jesus, |
What will the mark of the
beast be?
Each time I send out an
alert concerning technological advances such as those covered below, a number
of people send me information or links as to what they think the mark of the
beast may actually be. There are in fact, a number of different and interesting
interpretations and not all of them involve some type or form of technology.
At the first coming of
Christ, very few if any had interpreted the scriptures correctly, as to how
they would be fulfilled. That should be a great lesson to us and I always take
heed concerning that fact and am comfortable in not understanding every
prophecy regarding Christ's second coming. It should be a warning sign when
someone claims to have 'everything figured out'.
As far as I am concerned,
the jury is still out on what the mark of the beast will actually be and if it
will be a worldwide or localized Middle Eastern event. I definitely lean
towards it being worldwide yet I am open to the fact that it may not involve
some sort of technology. However, technology is already being implemented to
monitor those deemed extremists, and I believe that will eventually and
unfortunately include Bible believing Christians.
Another point is that some
may say that as long as we are law-abiding citizens as we should be if we are
Christians we should have nothing to fear regarding laws or technology. As
Romans 13:3-4 tells us:
For rulers are not a cause of fear for good
behavior, but for evil. Do you want to have no fear of authority? Do what is
good and you will have praise from the same; for it is a minister of God to you
for good. ...
This is obviously true, however,
anything fallen man can use for good he can also use for evil and we are about to
enter the most evil time in the history of the world, and I do not trust
anything our leaders tell us regarding what or why they do. Beyond that, the
evil one is not omniscient as God is and I believe he and the powers and
principalities with him are a motivating factor behind much of this
surveillance society. I have always envisioned a day when tracking technology
would be used to stop the spread of the gospel and imprison believers.
That said, I could see a day
where the world cries out for the mark. The rising tide of lawlessness and
never ending monetary scandals where people lose their life savings should give
us a clue as to why. I have heard a number of people ask as to why the
authorities have blundered so badly in allowing these scandals to happen under
their nose for so long, and my thought is this is the perfect scheme to further
implement their long term desire for a one world, cashless system.
Beyond this, I pray that
those reading this have already believed in their heart that God raised Christ
from the dead and have confessed this with their mouths as they are saved
(Romans 10:9). If not, today is the day of salvation.
May the Lord bless you and
keep you,
BE/\LERT!
Scott
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DNA left at crime scene could be used to create picture of criminal's FACE, say scientists
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LONDON DAILY MAIL [Associated Newspapers/DMGT] - February 17, 2009
Forensic experts will soon be able to reconstruct facial features and skin just by reading DNA, U.S. scientists said.
'Forensic molecular photofitting' maps the genes that are linked to skin pigmentation and facial structure which means a person's face could emerge from the analysis, Dr Mark Shriver from Pennsylvania State University said.
The process has already been used to help identify and convict serial killer Derek Todd Lee who murdered seven women in Louisiana.
Witness statements said the offender was white but genetic testing of DNA at the crime scenes showed he was African American - which helped lead to his arrest.
He was convicted in 2004.
Dr Shriver said he has now linked DNA that mark a person's ethnic origin with the gene mix of fixed points on the face, e.g. corners of the mouth and tip of the nose.
This allows the computer to build up an image of a face based on the gene mix found in the DNA.
Speaking to the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Chicago at the weekend, Dr Shriver said 'maybe 500 facial markers and 500 ancestry markers' would be enough to build an accurate and complete face.
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Bill forces citizens to submit DNA
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Police to obtain samples for state, federal databases - without charges filed
WORLDNETDAILY - By Chelsea Schilling - February 5, 2009
Citizens who have been arrested may be required to submit DNA samples to authorities before being convicted of any crime - and those records would be kept in state and federal databases.
The Washington state Legislature has introduced a measure that would require police to obtain the samples from even suspects accused of minor crimes such as shoplifting, according to the Seattle Times.
The proposal is part of a new movement in several states to adopt similar measures. More than 12 states already permit police to collect samples prior to convictions and three more are considering adding the provision.
Don Pierce, executive director of the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs, told the Times he welcomes the proposal.
"It is good technology. It solves crimes," he said. "We take fingerprints at the time of arrest, which in many ways is a lot more intrusive."
Critics claim Washington's HB-1382, sponsored by Rep. Mark Miloscia, D- Federal Way, is unconstitutional because police and jail staff would be required to keep DNA records on adults and juveniles arrested on suspicion of a felony or gross misdemeanor.
Currently, police are required to obtain a search warrant or the suspect's permission before collecting DNA by swabbing citizen's cheeks.
"This bill would take the next step in the use of DNA technology to help catch individuals who have gone out and harmed people," Miloscia told the Times.
According to the bill, authorities would remove a suspect's DNA information if they were not charged or found guilty. ...
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Why veins could replace fingerprints and retinas as most secure form of ID
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THE TIMES of LONDON [News Corporation/Murdoch] - By Mike Harvey, Technology Correspondent - November 11, 2008
Forget fingerprinting. Companies in Europe have begun to roll out an advanced biometric system from Japan that identifies people from the unique patterns of veins inside their fingers.
Finger vein authentication, introduced widely by Japanese banks in the last two years, is claimed to be the fastest and most secure biometric method. Developed by Hitachi, it verifies a person's identity based on the lattice work of minute blood vessels under the skin. ...
In Japan, thousands of cash machines are operated by finger vein technology. Hitachi announced today that it will introduce 20,000 finger vein authentication systems at shops and kiosks belonging to two Japanese companies, which will use the devices to protect the privacy of customer information by requiring storeworkers to authenticate themselves before accessing the customer database.
The pattern of blood vessels is captured by transmitting near-infrared light at different angles through the finger, usually the middle finger. This can be done in a small instrument attached to a wall or as part of an ATM machine. The light is partially absorbed by haemoglobin in the veins and the pattern is captured by a camera as a unique 3D finger vein profile. This is turned into a simple digital code which is then matched with a pre-registered profile to verify an individual's identity. Even twins are said to have different finger vein patterns.
Hitachi claims that because the veins are inside the body, invisible to the eye, it is extremely difficult to forge and impossible to manipulate. While fingerprints can be "lifted" and retinas scanned without an individual realising it, it is extremely unlikely that people's finger vein profiles can be taken without them being aware of it, the company says.
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Fingerprint test tells much more than identityINTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE [NYTimes Group/Sulzberger] - By Kenneth Chang - August 7, 2008With a new analytical technique, a fingerprint can reveal much more than the identity of a person. It can also identify what the person has been touching - drugs, explosives or poisons, for example. Writing in the Friday issue of the journal Science, R. Graham Cooks, a professor of chemistry at Purdue University, and his colleagues describe how a laboratory technique known as mass spectrometry could find a wider application in crime investigations. ... Read Full Report 'Odourprinting' could be used to identify people LONDON DAILY TELEGRAPH [Barclay] - By Matthew Moore - November 10, 2008Human beings could one day be identified by our smells, according to research that shows individual "odourprints" cannot be masked by diet. Every person has a unique fragrance, similar to a fingerprint or DNA sample, which could be used to create a database of human scents, scientists said. ... "These findings indicate that biologically based odourprints, like fingerprints, could be a reliable way to identify individuals," he said. ... Read Full ReportPolice will use new device to take fingerprints in streetTHE GUARDIAN [Guardian Media Group, UK] - By Owen Bowcott - October 27 2008Every police force in the UK is to be equipped with mobile fingerprint scanners - handheld devices that allow police to carry out identity checks on people in the street. The new technology, which ultimately may be able to receive pictures of suspects, is likely to be in widespread use within 18 months. Tens of thousands of sets - as compact as BlackBerry smartphones - are expected to be distributed. The police claim the scheme, called Project Midas, will transform the speed of criminal investigations. A similar, heavier machine has been tested during limited trials with motorway patrols. ... Read Full ReportNew fingerprint method could unlock cold casesREUTERS [Thomson-Reuters] - By Michael Kahn - September 5, 2008LONDON - Authorities in Britain and the United States used the method to re-open three cold cases, including a U.S. double murder that police are now optimistic of solving, said John Bond, the physicist who developed the technique. ... The conventional method of taking fingerprints has been around for more than 100 years and involves creating a chemical reaction with the sweat left behind on an object to produce an image police can use. ... The new technique allows police to outwit a criminal and produce a fingerprint even if there is no sweat impression to work with. The British experts focused on hair-width bits of corrosion that sweat often leaves on certain metals in bullets and bombs. ... Read Full Report
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Surveillance cams on every street corner in Chicago
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Surveillance cams help fight crime, city says
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES [Sun-Times Media Group/Hollinger/Ravelston] - BY Fran Spielman - February 19, 2009
Mayor Daley has argued that security and terrorism won't be an issue if his Olympic dreams come true because, by 2016, there will be a surveillance camera on every street corner in Chicago.
But even before that blanket coverage begins, the "Big Brother'' network is being put to better use.
Call takers and dispatchers now see real-time video if there is a surveillance cameras within 150 feet of a 911 call, thanks to a $6 million upgrade to the city's "computer-aided dispatch" system.
When live video appears, call takers can pan, tilt and zoom those cameras to get the best possible view of a crime or disaster scene.
"As a first responder, I can't tell you how important it is to have a set of eyes on an emergency scene prior to your arrival. The valuable information they provide from the camera network can ultimately mean the difference between life and death," said Ray Orozco, executive director of the city's Office of Emergency Management and Communications. ...
During a December test, live video was used to catch a petty thief in the act of sticking his hand in a Salvation Army kettle outside Macy's on State Street.
But, the crime-fighting potential is "limitless," said Police Superintendent Jody Weis. ...
Although the city's vast surveillance network includes cameras installed at private businesses, universities and homes, Orozco said civil libertarians have nothing to fear.
"We do not and we will not take access to any camera inside of a building,'' he said. When the city accesses private cameras, workers only see "what you would see if you were sitting on a park bench in front of that building," he said. ...
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New York: Traffic-light cameras at "unlimited locations"
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NEW YORK POST [News Corporation/Murdoch] - By James Fanelli and Michelle Kaske - February 1, 2009
Drivers beware: Big Brother could be watching you at every Big Apple intersection soon.
The mayor's preliminary budget released Friday proposes to amend state law to allow for traffic-light cameras at "unlimited locations" in the city and to raise the fine from $50 to $100.
"The program has been successful, and we want to expand it," Mayor Bloomberg spokesman Marc LaVorgna said.
The state Legislature has capped the number of cameras at 100. The cameras snap photos of cars passing through a red light - including the license plate. The registered owner of the vehicle is automatically mailed a ticket.
The preliminary budget calls for adding 20 more cameras, which would bring in $6.2 million in fiscal year 2009-10.
In his latest budget proposal, Gov. Paterson supported the removal of the cap on cameras. The Legislature would also have to approve the measure.
"If the state legislation becomes a reality, we would be free to continue to add cameras as needed," LaVorgna said of the city program. ...
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UK: Buying some wine? Spy cameras will be watching
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LONDON DAILY MAIL [Associated Newspapers/DMGT] - By James Slack - February 21, 2009
Big Brother CCTV cameras are to be fitted inside shops and supermarkets on the orders of the state to keep track on anybody buying alcohol.
A law is being quietly pushed through Parliament giving councils the power to order licensed premises to fit the surveillance cameras. Pubs will also be covered.
The footage of people innocently buying a bottle of wine in a shop or a pint of beer in a bar must be stored for at least 60 days, and be handed over to the police on demand.
Critics say it will mean that citizens will now be tracked everywhere they go. The UK already has more than four million closed-circuit TV cameras covering the streets - the largest number in the world.
Cars are also automatically monitored using cameras that check registration plates. Now shops and pubs will also be covered.
The measures form part of the Policing and Crime Bill, but have not been highlighted by Ministers.
Under a code of conduct, which will be enforced by the Bill, any business that intends to sell alcohol will have to agree to install the cameras.
Phil Booth, of the NO2ID privacy campaign, said: 'We are already a country with more CCTV cameras than anywhere else in the civilised world, but this law is systemising the surveillance of a nation. People will be treated like suspects wherever they go.'
James Brokenshire, a Tory home affairs spokesman, said: 'The risk is that these provisions could be used as a way to impose blanket CCTV requirements where they just aren't necessary. This mustn't be another way of extending the surveillance society by the back door.'
Earlier this week, the Mail revealed how police were warning pubs they would not support their licensing applications unless they agreed to train the intrusive cameras on their customers.
The first blanket policy has been introduced in the London borough of Islington, where all applicants wanting a licence to sell alcohol are being told they must fit CCTV.
Other forces are adopting similar tactics. But the planned new law goes much further, as it will allow councils - which ultimately hand out all licences - to insist on the CCTV cameras.
Ministers have also been restricting the public's right to 'watch the watchers'.
Earlier this week, a law came into force which carries a maximum ten-year jail term for anybody taking a picture of a police officer if it is 'likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism'.
Home Office Minister Alan Campbell, who is piloting the CCTV measure through the Commons, recently admitted that he couldn't remember the last time he was in a pub.
Mark Hastings, spokesman for the British Beer and Pub Association, said: 'It's an extraordinary admission from someone who is proposing measures that, on the Government's own admission, will cost the pub sector hundreds of millions of pounds a year.
'It shows how disconnected he is from the realities of what it's like trying to stay in business in the current environment.' ...
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| Minority Report comes to Britain: The CCTV that spots crimes BEFORE they happen |
LONDON DAILY MAIL [Associated Newspapers/DMGT] - By James Slack - November 28, 2008
CCTV cameras which can 'predict' if a crime is about to take place are being introduced on Britain's streets.
The cameras can alert operators to suspicious behaviour, such as loitering and unusually slow walking. Anyone spotted could then have to explain their behaviour to a police officer.
The move has been compared to the Tom Cruise science-fiction film Minority Report, in which people are arrested before they commit planned offences.
It will also fuel fears that Britain is becoming a surveillance society. There are already 4.2million cameras trained on the public. The technology could be used alongside many of these to allow evermore advanced scrutiny of our movements. ...
The cameras, trained on public places, such as car parks, are being tested by Portsmouth City Council.
Computers are programmed to analyse the movements of people or vehicles in the camera frame. If someone is seen lurking in a particular area, the computer will send out an alarm to a CCTV operator.
The operator will then check the image and - if concerned - ring the police. The aim is to stop crimes before they are committed. If a vehicle is moving too fast or slow - indicating joyriding or kerb-crawling, for example - a similar alert could be given.
Councillor Jason Fazackarley of Portsmouth Council said: 'It's the 21st century equivalent of a nightwatchman, but unlike a night-watchman it never blinks, it never takes a break and it never gets bored.'
But the danger is that the innocent could be forced to account for their movements despite doing nothing wrong. Nick Hewitson, managing director of Smart CCTV, which has created the technology, denied it was a further infringement on privacy.
He said the final decision on whether to send police to question a suspect would still rest with the CCTV operator.
The system has been run successfully in several U.S. cities, including New York. Government departments here are said to be interested in putting it to wider use. ...
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| Smile! More and more, you're on camera |
 Public surveillance video mushrooms despite lack of evidence it works
MSNBC [NBC Universal (General Electric Co.-Vivendi SA)/Microsoft] - By Alex Johnson - June 25, 2008
After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, local governments across the country set aside concerns over privacy and installed surveillance cameras in public streets and plazas.
Now - even after a damning report by the head of London's extensive surveillance network and with little evidence that the systems work - police in many cities are trying to add thousands more cameras to their networks.
"'Cameras Everywhere' continues to be the best description of the trend in the video surveillance market," security market analysts J.P. Freeman Co. said in a report in 2006 that estimated that a quarter of major U.S. cities were investing in the technology.
Two years later, the trend shows no sign of slowing. Officials in many cities are eager to take advantage of money from state and federal security agencies to install the cameras on street corners and intersections, and in cities that already have dozens of cameras, officials are seeking real-time access to thousands more in schools, transit facilities and private businesses:
- In Washington, Mayor Adrian Fenty consolidated monitoring of more than 4,800 video cameras in his emergency management office this spring, including more than 3,500 in public schools and more than 700 inside public housing hallways.
- In Chicago, whose network of nearly 700 neighborhood cameras is widely considered to be the most sophisticated in the nation, police in March took over monitoring more than 4,500 units in the public schools. They added hundreds of transit cameras on the city's buses last year.
- Rochester, N.Y., police announced a program last week to install 50 more cameras across the city, paid for with state money.
- Seattle officials approved a plan this month to expand the use of cameras in the city's parks, at a cost of $400,000.
- In Kansas City, Mo., police expanded their camera surveillance beyond the downtown entertainment district last month, adding cameras along a corridor that has been plagued in recent years by gangs, violent crime and drug deals.
- And in Austin, Texas, the police chief has called for round-the-clock camera surveillance across the city before the end of the year.
J.P. Freeman said the domestic market for such systems last year had doubled over five years, to $9.2 billion, and estimated that it would more than double again by 2010, to more than $21 billion.
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Big Brother spy planes that track the Taliban may soon hover over your home
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LONDON DAILY MAIL [Associated Newspapers/DMGT] - By Fiona Macrae - February 24, 2009
Pilotless planes used to track the Taliban could soon be hovering over our streets, it has emerged.
Remote-controlled drones are already used widely by the military. Now ministers believe they are likely to become 'increasingly useful' for police work.
Armed with heat-seeking cameras, the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles would hover hundreds of feet in the air, gathering intelligence and watching suspects
In theory, their advantages are clear. They are cheaper and quieter than conventional helicopters, can circle their target for hours without refuelling - and they don't get bored on long surveillance missions.
However, their use is likely to further fuel concerns about our march towards a Big Brother state. Britain already has more CCTV cameras than the rest of Europe put together. ...
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| Bug-sized spies: US develops tiny flying robots |
 ASSOCIATED PRESS - By James Hannah - November 21, 2008
DAYTON, Ohio - If only we could be a fly on the wall when our enemies are plotting to attack us. Better yet, what if that fly could record voices, transmit video and even fire tiny weapons?
That kind of James Bond-style fantasy is actually on the drawing board. U.S. military engineers are trying to design flying robots disguised as insects that could one day spy on enemies and conduct dangerous missions without risking lives.
"The way we envision it is, there would be a bunch of these sent out in a swarm," said Greg Parker, who helps lead the research project at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton. ...
The next generation of drones, called Micro Aerial Vehicles, or MAVs, could be as tiny as bumblebees and capable of flying undetected into buildings, where they could photograph, record, and even attack insurgents and terrorists. ...
Parker envisions the bird-sized vehicles as being able to spy on adversaries by flying into cities and perching on building ledges or power lines. The vehicles would have flappable wings as a disguise but use a separate propulsion system to fly.
"We think the flapping is more so people don't notice it," he said. "They think it's a bird."...
Existing airborne robots are flown by a ground-based pilot, but the smaller versions would fly independently, relying on preprogrammed instructions. ...
An Air Force video describing the vehicles said they could possibly carry chemicals or explosives for use in attacks. ...
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Coming soon to cellphones: Free, over-the-air TV
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USA TODAY [Gannett] - By David Lieberman - January 7, 2009Millions of consumers by year's end should be able to watch free, over-the-air television on cellphones, PDAs and other portable digital devices as the result of initiatives that will be unveiled today by some of the nation's largest TV station owners and electronics manufacturers. The changes promoting on-the-go viewing are "quite significant," says John Eck, president of the NBC TV Network and Media Works. "If we play it right, it can be a compelling service," for example, by offering local news, which normally isn't available from cellphone video services. At least 63 stations in 22 cities - including New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Boston and Washington - will transmit news, entertainment and sports to portable devices this year, according to the broadcast industry's Open Mobile Video Coalition (OMVC). ... Executives say that consumers with the specially equipped new receivers can watch shows in moving cars and trains. Stations had to be able to receive a signal from the receivers, so they can tell advertisers how many people tune in, says ION Media Networks CEO Brandon Burgess, who's also president of the OMVC. That could later be used for interactive and subscription services. Executives say that the new portable TVs can receive signals as far as 60 miles from the transmitter and can run up to about four hours before batteries need to be recharged. Read Full Report
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Police look to hack citizens' home PCs
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'Very intrusive powers - as intrusive as someone busting down your door'
WORLDNETDAILY - January 4, 2009
Police and state intelligence agencies from several countries may soon be working together to secretly hack into private citizens' personal computers without their knowledge and without a warrant.
According to a London Times report, the police hacking process, called "remote searching," enables law enforcement to gather information from e-mails, instant messages and Web browsers, even while hundreds of miles away.
Furthermore, the Times reports, a new edict by the European Union's council of ministers in Brussels has paved the way for international law enforcement agencies to begin remote searching and sharing the information with each other. According to the Times, the United Kingdom's Home Office, the nation's lead government department for immigration, drugs and counter-terrorism enforcement, has already quietly adopted a plan that would enable French, German and other European Union police forces to request remote searching be done on UK citizens' computers. ...
According to the report, a remote search can be granted if a senior police officer believes it is necessary to detect a serious crime, and unlike searching a suspect's home, a remote search does not require a warrant under Home Office policy. ...
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UK: Big Brother spy plan sparks revolt
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Government wants every telephone registered
WORLDNETDAILY - October 27, 2008
LONDON - British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, the political master of the MI5 intelligence agency, Scotland Yard's Anti-Terrorism Command and GCHQ, the government's eavesdropping center, is facing an unprecedented clash with her own senior officials over plans to boost the level of spying on British citizens, according to a report from Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.
There now are more than 4.2 million CCTV cameras in the country - making it, per capita, the most watched nation in the West.
London's subway system has 8,500 cameras and a further 1,550 are fitted on trains. The capital's buses have 60,000 cameras, and the country's motorway systems have over 2,000 car recognition cameras. All are linked to monitoring stations, which are themselves linked to the Security Services.
Last year, police and other entities obtained 519,260 orders for access to phone and e-mail records - a record. In most cases, the orders were granted on the grounds of "national security."
But now Smith wants to increase the spying even further, with plans for a central database where every phone call, e-mail and Internet contact made in and out of Britain will be stored.
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| Interpol proposes world face-recognition database |
 THE REGISTER [Situation Publishing Ltd., London] - By Lewis Page - October 20, 2008
Interpol chiefs will propose the use of automated facial-recognition technology at borders to flag up internationally wanted suspects, according to reports.
The UK already has airport gates equipped with such technology, intended to remove the need for a human border guard to check that a passenger's face matches the one recorded in his or her passport. According to the Guardian, Interpol database chief Mark Branchflower believes that his organisation should set up a database of facial-recognition records to operate alongside its existing photo, fingerprint and DNA files.
Interpol member nations would have the option of uploading face records of wanted suspects in the same way they already do other biometrics data, and would be able to check an individual's headshot against the Interpol files as with the other metrics.
The attraction of facial-recognition records, as opposed to conventional mugshots, is that automated searching is possible. A specially-equipped airport gate - or even, in some circumstances, a security camera - would be able to sound an alert every time a person on the Interpol watch list went past. Such detections are often made by border guards and ordinary policemen, recognising suspects from routine circulars and lists, but facial-recognition is seen as potentially more reliable. ...
"It's increasingly of use to [all] countries," said Branchflower.
"There's so much data we have but they are in records we can't search." ...
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New service unmasks blocked telephone calls
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AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE - February 18, 2009
TelTech Systems is offering mobile telephone users the power to unmask callers who block their numbers or names from being displayed. ...
To use the service, people register mobile telephone numbers at a TrapCall.com website without having to download software to devices. ...
"All the while the caller hears a normal ring tone, oblivious to the fact that you know exactly who they are," TrapCall maintains at its website. ...
Premium versions of the service can record mobile telephone calls, transcribe voice messages into text messages, and reveal names and addresses of callers along with their telephone numbers. ...
TelTech has for several years provided a controversial "SpoofCard" service that puts bogus identification information on calls and enables callers to alter the sounds of their voices.
"You have the ability to change your voice to a male or female," the company says at its SpoofCard website.
"If you do choose to change your voice, the person whom you call will hear your transformed voice in real-time."
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Tulsa passengers try out TSA's full-body scanners
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USA TODAY [Gannett] - By Thomas Frank - February 20, 2009
TULSA -- ... The machines use electromagnetic waves to create pictures of energy reflected off people. The metallic-looking images show outlines of private body parts and blur passengers' faces. Two Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screeners in a closed room near the checkpoint view the images on computer monitors and relay information on radio headsets to checkpoint screeners.
The $170,000 body scanners could be installed at airports around the USA and would close a major security loophole by detecting non-metallic weapons such as plastic and liquid explosives. TSA testing shows the body scanners excel at finding hidden items as small as a plastic button, agency spokesman Christopher White said.
Now the TSA has more questions: How quickly do the scanners operate, and do passengers like them? And will they evoke more privacy concerns from critics who say the machines take security too far, because they can show the outlines of private body parts?
As the TSA expands its test for airports in San Francisco, Miami, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City and Albuquerque in coming weeks, it will be listening to passengers' reactions. ...
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Big Brother's new target: Tracking of all firearms
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WORLDNETDAILY - By Drew Zahn - January 13, 2009
U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., is hoping to pass a firearm-licensing bill that will significantly rewrite gun-ownership laws in America.
Among the more controversial provisions of the bill are requirements that all handgun owners submit to the federal government a photo, thumb print and mental heath records. Further, the bill would order the attorney general to establish a database of every handgun sale, transfer and owner's address in America.
The bill claims its purpose is "to protect the public against the unreasonable risk of injury and death associated with the unrecorded sale or transfer of firearms to criminals and youth."
Columnist David Codrea of Guns Magazine, however, calls it a "ridiculous affront to liberty."
"This is nothing less than a declaration of war on American gun owners," Codrea writes on Gun Rights Examiner.
Rush's proposed bill, H.R. 45, is alternatively known as "Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009," named after an Illinois teenager killed by a gunshot. ...
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| UK: Government black boxes will 'collect every email' |
Home Office says all data from web could be stored in giant government database
THE INDEPENDENT, UK [APN / INM / O'Reilly] - By Robert Verkaik - November 5, 2008
Internet "black boxes" will be used to collect every email and web visit in the UK under the Government's plans for a giant "big brother" database, The Independent has learnt.
Home Office officials have told senior figures from the internet and telecommunications industries that the "black box" technology could automatically retain and store raw data from the web before transferring it to a giant central database controlled by the Government.
Plans to create a database holding information about every phone call, email and internet visit made in the UK have provoked a huge public outcry. Richard Thomas, the Information Commissioner, described it as "step too far" and the Government's own terrorism watchdog said that as a "raw idea" it was "awful".
Nevertheless, ministers have said they are committed to consulting on the new Communications Data Bill early in the new year. News that the Government is already preparing the ground by trying to allay the concerns of the internet industry is bound to raise suspicions about ministers' true intentions. Further details of the database emerged on Monday at a meeting of internet service providers (ISPs) in London where representatives from BT, AOL Europe, O2 and BSkyB were given a PowerPoint presentation of the issues and the technology surrounding the Government's Interception Modernisation Programme (IMP), the name given by the Home Office to the database proposal.
Whitehall experts working on the IMP unit told the meeting the security and intelligence agencies wanted to use the stored data to help fight serious crime and terrorism, and said the technology would allow them to create greater "capacity" to monitor all communication traffic on the internet. The "black boxes" are an attractive option for the internet industry because they would be secure and not require any direct input from the ISPs. ...
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Spy agency wants all e-mails
WORLDNETDAILY - October 8, 2008
Sir David Pepper, the feisty director-general of GCHQ, Britain's Government Communications Headquarters, is planning to create the most intrusive ever surveillance system in Britain, ...
The secret electronic spying agency he has run for five years operates from its famous doughnut-shaped building in the pleasant countryside at Cheltenham. ...
His proposal is to not only intercept the 3 billion e-mails a day sent in the UK but extend the reach of its powerful computers into "hundreds of thousands" of targets in Europe: business firms, defense contractors and communications between diplomats.
From Paris to Berlin, Madrid and Moscow, all will be likely to have their electronic correspondence intercepted on an unprecedented scale. From love notes to business details, they will each be intercepted if Sir David has his way. ...
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Prophesied cashless society: It's almost here
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WORLDNETDAILY - By Hal Lindsey - January 30, 2009
When I read the headline to Jerome Corsi's story, "Economic meltdown excuse for 'new world'" at WorldNetDaily yesterday, my first thought was, "What took them so long?"
That thought was immediately followed by the realization that the timing is just about perfect. Corsi zeroed in on comments by Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland - specifically, Schwab's comment that the global economic crisis was a "transformational crisis" useful in reshaping a "new world."
One of the scarier quotes in his piece was from a professor Nouriel Roubini who said the global banking system was "effectively insolvent," which, to my untrained ears, sounds a lot like "bankrupt."
The last time this happened was in 1933, forcing the federal government to ban private ownership of gold so it could be confiscated and used to satisfy the government's creditors.
That was the national bankruptcy that predicated the Great Depression, which allowed Franklin Delano Roosevelt's administration to ram through the socialist "New Deal" policies that economic historians say made the Depression both longer and deeper than it needed to be.
During the Depression, FDR had more or less unhindered ability to push through whatever socialist legislation he deemed necessary. People were in pain and were willing to accept almost anything the government proposed if it would make it stop.
It was this same economic pain that convinced the Germans to go along with Adolf Hitler's madness during the 1930s.
After more than a decade of economic depression, as long as Hitler's policies were keeping factories busy and the economy humming along, he was free to do whatever else he pleased.
One of the first things I expect to see introduced as a consequence of this "transformational crisis" is the elimination of cash as a medium of exchange. This is a step that governments and banks have been trying to take for almost two decades without success.
There are good and logical reasons for the elimination of cash. It will essentially wipe out the cash dependent drug trade. It will remove the incentive behind most petty crimes. Paper money is dirty, spreads diseases and it is expensive to print and expensive to handle.
Electronic money addresses all of these issues in a single stroke. The difficulty rests in overcoming public resistance to the idea. But desperate times call for desperate measures, as the saying goes, and when the times get desperate enough, public resistance will evaporate like summer rain. ...
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| 2020: only 10 per cent of financial transactions will be in cash |
Futurologist Richard Watson's 2050 vision: goodbye Belgium, hello brain transplants
LONDON DAILY TELEGRAPH [Barclay - PA: Conservative/centre-right] - September 19, 2008
What would happen to the big banks if Wal-Mart, Apple, Microsoft, Google and Vodafone all applied for banking licences to deliver services such as electronic payment, as I believe they will? And will we still need high street branches staffed by human beings once artificial intelligence really kicks in, and you can talk to a machine that's checking the market every second for the best loan or insurance policy?
Even the nature of how we pay for such things will be different. It is estimated that by 2020, only 10 per cent of financial transactions will be in cash. We can safely predict that the idea of money as a physical object might well become extinct not long after - especially if a global pandemic starts us thinking about all the germs on those grubby notes. Instead, digital transactions will be made through computers, or cell phones, or even chips inserted into our forearms. ...
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So much for the claim that RFID can only read a very short distance: Active RFID UHF Beacon Tag
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WI-FI PLANET [JupiterOnlineMedia] - Press Release
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Toronto, Canada-GAO Tek Inc. (www.GAOTek.com) provides a new active UHF tag (GAO 137001) with beaconing capabilities. This beacon tag is a cost-effective long-range active RFID tag appropriate for tracking mobile assets, controlling access or online inventory, and localizing of assets or personnel in designated areas. It offers outstanding long-range capabilities for wireless applications. Static data are written on the tag and are sent at a programmable interval without requiring a request from the reader.
The tag uses advanced UHF radio frequency technology to send data to a mobile (handheld) or fixed reader (interrogator) at distances of up to 300 feet (100 meters). Its ultra-low power consumption and configurable ping rate enables it to operate effectively for many years without additional maintenance.
"Active RFID technologies offer many benefits over passive technologies for certain applications," says Dr. Frank Gao, CEO of GAO Group. "These new active tags take full advantage of such benefits."
GAO's active UHF Beacon Tag provides the following features: A range of 100 meters allowing the longest read-range for identification and tracking using beacon technology. Long battery lifetime can deliver very-long time maintenance-free operation. Non-line-of-sight data transmission offers great convenience. Tags are available for both standard North American and European ISM band frequencies. A selectable ping rate to avoid a busy band. Low costs. ...
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Dog bleeds to death from ID chipping
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'This technology is supposedly so great until it's your animal that dies'
WORLDNETDAILY - By Drew Zahn - February 3, 2009
A couple in California, required by law to have their dog implanted with a microchip in order to take him camping, swallowed their objections ... and watched their Chihuahua named Charlie Brown bleed to death from the procedure. ...
Charlie was implanted with a Radio Frequency Identification capsule, or RFID, which consists of a microchip and electronic components tucked inside a capsule of glass about the size of a grain of rice. Ideally, when people or pets implanted with an RFID under their skin are lost and then found, a device made for reading the chips can identify them and enable them to be returned home.
Charlie's case, however, was far from ideal.
"I just don't know what happened to him," said Dr. Reid Loken, the board-certified veterinarian who performed the implant. Dr. Loken also confirmed that Charlie began bleeding from the implant site, and despite efforts to stop the flow, died from extreme blood loss.
"We put the chip in the back in the shoulder blades, the standard place where we put them, and there really aren't any major blood vessels in that area," Loken said. "I don't think it went in too deep; it was a pretty routine chipping."
Lori and Ed Ginsberg are grieved, but they don't blame Dr. Loken.
"He's a great vet and this was not his fault," say Charlie Brown's owners. "The real blame is with the people who forced us to implant our dog against our better judgment."
News of Charlie Brown's death broke when the Ginsbergs heard consumer privacy advocate and Harvard-trained researcher Dr. Katherine Albrecht on the radio and decided to contact her for help.
"You always hear of people being reunited with their dog because of the microchip implant," Albrecht told WND, "but you don't hear of someone who lost their dog or whose cat was paralyzed because of the microchip implant. So I think it's important that we get both sides of the story on these chips."
Albrecht pointed WND to AntiChips.com, where she has posted an 85-question FAQ on microchip implants, both in humans and animals. ...
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| Indonesian AIDS patients face microchip monitoring |
ASSOCIATED PRESS - By Niniek Karmin - November 24, 2008
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Lawmakers in Indonesia's remote province of Papua have thrown their support behind a controversial bill requiring some HIV/AIDS patients to be implanted with microchips - part of extreme efforts to monitor the disease.
Local health workers and AIDS activists called the plan "abhorrent."
"People with AIDS aren't animals; we have to respect their rights," said Tahi Ganyang Butarbutar, a prominent Papuan activist.
But legislator John Manangsang said by implanting small computer chips beneath the skin of "sexually aggressive" patients, authorities would be in a better position to identify, track and ultimately punish those who deliberately infect others with up to six months in jail or a $5,000 fine. ...
Indonesia is the world's fourth most populous country and has one of Asia's fastest growing HIV rates, with up to 290,000 infections out of 235 million people, fueled mainly by intravenous drug users and prostitution.
But Papua, the country's easternmost and poorest province with a population of about 2 million, has been hardest hit. Its case rate of almost 61 per 100,000 is 15 times the national average, according to internationally funded research, which blames lack of knowledge about sexually transmitted diseases. ...
Since the plan was initially proposed, the government has narrowed its scope, saying the chips would only be implanted in those who are "sexually aggressive," but it has not said how it would determine who fits that group. It also was not clear how many people it might include. ...
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| Terrified Mexicans splash out on chip implants so satellites can trace them if they're kidnapped |
LONDON DAILY MAIL [Associated Newspapers/DMGT] - August 23, 2008
Middle-class families in Mexico are having tiny transmitters implanted under their skin so that satellites can track them if they are kidnapped.
Sales of the device have jumped by 13 per cent this year after kidnappings surged by almost 40 per cent in the country between 2004 and 2007.
The crystal-encased chip, which is the size and shape of a grain of rice, is injected into clients' bodies with a syringe.
A transmitter in the chip sends radio signals to a device, carried by the client, with a global positioning system in it, say makers Xega. A satellite can then pinpoint the kidnap victim's location. ...
Mexico ranks with conflict zones such as Iraq and Colombia as among the worst countries for abductions. ...
Xega, based in the central Mexican city of Quererato, designed global positioning systems to track stolen vehicles until a company owner was kidnapped in broad daylight in 2001.
Frustrated by his powerlessness to call for help, the company adapted the technology to track stolen people.
Most people get the chips injected into their arms between the skin and muscle where they cannot be seen.
Customers who fear they are being kidnapped press a panic button on an external device to alert Xega, which then calls the police. ...
Katherine Albrecht, a U.S. consumer privacy activist, says the chip is a flashy, overpriced gadget that only identifies a person and cannot locate someone without another, bigger GPS device that kidnappers can easily find and destroy. ...
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| Group Calls For Coordination Of European eID Card Initiatives |
 DARK READING [Tech Web/United Business Media plc of London, England, UK] - By Tim Wilson - February 3, 2009
A lack of coordination in the deployment of electronic identification cards across Europe could cause problems for cross-border travel and commerce, a major European security agency said today.
In an report on European identity card specifications published today (PDF), the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) maintains that differences in technology, as well as in the various nations' approaches to privacy, could jeopardize the potential value of electronic ID cards across the continent.
"Privacy is an area where the member states' approaches differ a lot, and European eID will not take off unless we get this right," said Andrea Pirotti, executive director of ENISA. "Europe needs to reflect on eID privacy and its role in the interoperability puzzle. The fundamental human right to privacy must be guaranteed for all European eID card holders."
Today, 10 national eID card schemes are already in use across the European Union, and 13 more are in the pipeline, according to ENISA. They are used primarily by e-government services, but commercial applications of eID cards also exists, the report observed. In the future, some countries plan to use the data on the card for anything from secure chat to library access and shared network access.
"In all these applications, the eID card is a gateway to personal information, be it at a national or European level. At the same time, it is key to address privacy concerns related to eID: unwanted disclosure of data and subsequent misuse," the report states.
The report outlines the technologies and specifications used in the eID card efforts of 30 different European countries, highlighting wide differences in privacy, strategy, and technology in the various initiatives. It also outlines the most likely threats to eID card users, including both criminals and potential compromise of personal information.
The report does not advocate the adoption of a common eID scheme akin to the adoption of the euro. However, it does recommend that European nations adopt a common set of best practices relating to privacy and a level of interoperability among the card schemes that will ease cross-border travel and commerce. ...
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'Fakeproof' e-passport is cloned in minutes
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THE TIMES of LONDON [News Corporation/Murdoch] - By Steve Boggan - August 6, 2008
New microchipped passports designed to be foolproof against identity theft can be cloned and manipulated in minutes and accepted as genuine by the computer software recommended for use at international airports.
Tests for The Times exposed security flaws in the microchips introduced to protect against terrorism and organised crime. The flaws also undermine claims that 3,000 blank passports stolen last week were worthless because they could not be forged.
In the tests, a computer researcher cloned the chips on two British passports and implanted digital images of Osama bin Laden and a suicide bomber. The altered chips were then passed as genuine by passport reader software used by the UN agency that sets standards for e-passports.
The Home Office has always argued that faked chips would be spotted at border checkpoints because they would not match key codes when checked against an international data-base. But only ten of the forty-five countries with e-passports have signed up to the Public Key Directory (PKD) code system, and only five are using it. Britain is a member but will not use the directory before next year. Even then, the system will be fully secure only if every e-passport country has joined.
Some of the 45 countries, including Britain, swap codes manually, but criminals could use fake e-passports from countries that do not share key codes, which would then go undetected at passport control.
The tests suggest that if the microchips are vulnerable to cloning then bogus biometrics could be inserted in fake or blank passports.
Tens of millions of microchipped passports have been issued by the 45 countries in the belief that they will make international travel safer. They contain a tiny radio frequency chip and antenna attached to the inside back page. A special electronic reader sends out an encrypted signal and the chip responds by sending back the holder's ID and biometric details.
Britain introduced e-passports in March 2006. In the wake of the September 11 attacks, the United States demanded that other countries adopt biometric passports. Many of the 9/11 bombers had travelled on fake passports. ...
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| Turkey: ID cards with chip technology go into circulation |
ZAMAN of Bahcelievler, Istanbul, Turkey [Feza] - October 14, 2008
Next-generation Turkish ID cards featuring chip technology have begun to enter circulation in Bolu. The Interior Ministry says the cards will make life easier for citizens and enable greater efficiency in a wide variety of services.
The ministry also notes that they are compact and counterfeit-proof.
The new cards, which are about the same size as a credit card, are smaller than Turkey's current ID cards. They feature a Turkish flag in the top left corner and a blue silhouette of the country's shape in the top right corner. The cards meet international standards, and the computer chips they use contain the relevant ID information, including the holder's first and last name, place of birth and blood type. Plans for passports and driver's licenses with embedded computer chips will be put into effect upon successful completion of the national ID card project.
The cards' special technology is currently only utilized at health and social security institutions in Bolu. In the third stage of the pilot project, the entire population of Bolu will be issued new ID cards. Following successful completion of the pilot project, work will begin to implement the project nationally, taking into account citizen feedback feasibility and sustainability evaluations.
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| Barack Obama's 'Black Widow' : The Super Spy Computer |
PAKISTAN DAILY - January 4, 2009
'The NSA's colossal Cray supercomputer, code-named the 'Black Widow,' scans millions of domestic and international phone calls and e-mails every hour. . . . The Black Widow, performing hundreds of trillions of calculations per second, searches through and reassembles key words and patterns, across many languages.'
Barack Obama will be in charge of the biggest domestic and international spying operation in history. Its prime engine is the National Security Agency (NSA)-located and guarded at Fort Meade, Maryland, about 10 miles northeast of Washington, D.C. A brief glimpse of its ever-expanding capacity was provided on October 26 by The Baltimore Sun's national security correspondent, David Wood: "The NSA's colossal Cray supercomputer, code-named the 'Black Widow,' scans millions of domestic and international phone calls and e-mails every hour. . . . The Black Widow, performing hundreds of trillions of calculations per second, searches through and reassembles key words and patterns, across many languages."
In July, George W. Bush signed into law the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, which gives the NSA even more power to look for patterns that suggest terrorism links in Americans' telephone and Internet communications.
The ACLU immediately filed a lawsuit on free speech and privacy grounds. The new Bush law provides farcical judicial supervision over the NSA and other government trackers and databasers. Although Senator Barack Obama voted for this law, dig this from the ACLU: "The government [is now permitted] to conduct intrusive surveillance without ever telling a court who it intends to spy on, what phone lines and e-mail addresses it intends to monitor, where its surveillance targets are located, why it's conducting the surveillance or whether it suspects any party to the communication of wrongdoing."
This gives the word "dragnet" an especially chilling new meaning.
The ACLU's Jameel Jaffer, director of its National Security Project, adds that the new statute, warming the cold hearts of the NSA, "implicates all kinds of communications that have nothing to do with terrorism or criminal activity of any kind."
Why did Obama vote for this eye-that-never-blinks? He's a bright, informed guy, but he wasn't yet the President-Elect. The cool pragmatist wanted to indicate he wasn't radically unmindful of national security-and that his previous vow to filibuster such a bill may have been a lapse in judgment. It was.
What particularly outraged civil libertarians across the political divide was that the FISA Amendments Act gave immunity to the telecommunications corporations-which, for seven years, have been a vital part of the Bush administration's secret wiretapping program-thereby dismissing the many court cases brought by citizens suing those companies for violating their individual constitutional liberties. This gives AT&T, Verizon, and the rest a hearty signal to go on pimping for the government.
That's OK with the Obama administration? Please tell us, Mr. President.
Some of us began to see how deeply and intricately the telecoms were involved in the NSA's spying when-as part of an Electronic Frontier Foundation lawsuit-it was revealed by a former AT&T technician, Mark Klein, that he had found a secret AT&T room in which the NSA was tapping into the telecom giant's fiber-optic cables. On National Public Radio on November 7, 2007, he disclosed: "It's not just AT&T's traffic going through these cables, because these cables connected AT&T's network with other networks like Sprint, Qwest [the one firm that refused to play ball with the government], Global Crossing, UUNet, etc."
What you should know is that these fruitful cables go through "a splitter" that, as Klein describes, "just copies the entire data without any selection going on. So it's a complete copy of the data stream."
Under the new FISA Amendments Act, there are no limits on where this stream of data can be disseminated. As in the past, but now with "legal" protection under the 2008 statute, your suspicious "patterns" can go to the FBI, Homeland Security, the CIA, and state and local police that are also involved in "fusion centers" with the FBI.
Consider the enormous and bottomless databases that the government-and its NSA-can have a ball with. In James Bamford's The Shadow Factory (Doubleday)-a new book that leads you as far as anyone has gone into the bowels of the NSA-he notes: "For decades, AT&T and much of the rest of the telecommunications industry have had a very secret, very cozy relationship with the NSA." In AT&T's case, he points out, "its international voice service carried more than 18 billion minutes per year, reaching 240 countries, linking 400 carriers, and offering remote access via 19,500 points of presence in 149 countries around the globe."
Voilá! Also, he notes: "Much of those communications passed through that secret AT&T room that Klein found on Folsom Street in downtown San Francisco."
There's a lot more to come that we don't know about. Yet. In The Shadow Factory, James Bamford quotes Bush's Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell as saying that this wiretapping program was and is "only one program of many highly secret programs approved by Bush following the attacks on 9/11" (emphasis added). McConnell also said of the NSA's nonstop wiretapping: "This is the only aspect of those various activities whose existence has officially been acknowledged."
Come on, Mike. Bush acknowledged the NSA's flagrant contempt of the First and Fourth amendments only after The New York Times broke the story in December 2005. When the Times executive editor, Bill Keller, first decided to hold the explosive story for a year, General Michael Hayden-the former head of the NSA who is currently running the CIA-was relieved because he didn't want the news to get out that "most international communications pass through [these telecommunications] 'switching,' " Bamford reports. It would blow the cover off those corporate communicators. Now, AT&T, Verizon, et al., don't have to worry, thanks to the new law.
There are increasing calls, inside and outside of Congress, for President Obama to urge investigations by an independently bipartisan commission-akin to the 9/11 Commission-to get deeply into the many American and international laws so regally broken by Bush and his strutting team.
But there is so much still to find out about the NSA's "many highly secret programs" that a separate commission is sorely needed to probe exclusively into the past and ongoing actions of the Black Widow and other NSA lawless intrusions into our privacy and ideas.
President Obama could atone for his vote that supported the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 by appointing such a bipartisan commission composed of technology experts who are also familiar with the Constitution.
Bamford says that the insatiable NSA is "developing an artificial intelligence system designed to know what people are thinking." Here come the thought police!
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