RFID Fears and Myths
In an effort to dispel some of the privacy concerns surrounding radio frequency identification technology (RFID), the Information Technology Association of America has issued a white paper covering...
View ArticleBig Brother Extends Reach in U.K.
A new generation of speed cameras that can track drivers for up to 30 miles and cannot be dodged are being tested by police. The devices stop motorists evading a ticket by braking suddenly before a...
View ArticleUK Gets a Taste of American Eavesdropping
Plans for a massive expansion of ‘Big Brother’ state surveillance to cover every phone call, email, text message and internet visit in Britain were unveiled yesterday. UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith...
View ArticleScientists Recording Video of your Thoughts
Scientists have discovered how to “read” minds by scanning brain activity and reproducing images of what people are seeing — or even remembering. Researchers have been able to convert into crude video...
View ArticleFDA Stops Consumer Available Genomics Testing
[flashvideo filename=http://w2aiq.servebbs.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Eric-Topol-on-Genomics.flv /] A few weeks ago, Pathway Genomics, a consumer genomics company, had planned to have its saliva...
View ArticleU.K. Adopting Stasi Like Tactics
Police are asking motorists to spy (Tattle Tale) on each other for examples of poor driving in an alarming new extension of the ‘Big Brother’ state. Drivers are told to be on the look out for...
View ArticleWall Street’s Secret Spy Center, Run for the 1% by NYPD
by PAM MARTENS On September 25, 2011, just eight days after the Occupy Wall Street protests began in Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan, the much acclaimed CBS News program, 60 Minutes, aired a fawning...
View ArticleSurveillance Technology Gone Wild
Most of us don’t think much about it, but the truth is that people are being watched, tracked and monitored more today than at any other time in human history. The explosive growth of technology in...
View ArticleGoogle Confirms Big Brother on the Rise
The email accounts of Generals David Petraeus and John Allen aren’t the only ones being targeted by the feds. Google has released its bi-annual transparency report and says that the government’s...
View ArticleVerizon’s Big Brother DVR Patent
Remember that book 1984, the one you read in elementary school that talked about the future and how to prepare for a dystopian world that was bound to happen in the 1980s? Then you remember it was the...
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