Access to private data has increased by 20 per cent by Australia’s law enforcement and government agencies – and with no warrant. Australians are 26 times more prone to be placed under surveillance than people in other countries, local media report. In such a way, state structures accessed private information over 300,000 times last year – or 5,800 times every week, figures from the federal Attorney General ...

The US National Security Agency has responded to a Freedom of Information Act request for recent talking points from the spy agency’s public affairs office, but unsurprisingly even those memos meant for the media have been heavily redacted. Secrecy is something that’s been practically synonymous with the NSA since the early days of the agency, but even unclassified statements intended to be made to the medi ...

Throughout its history, America always governed extrajudicially. Post-9/11, it became more repressive than ever. Modern technology makes it easy. Big Brother has lots of ways to spy. It can be done from space, eyes in the sky on drones, secret agents, neighborhood snoops, or electronic monitoring of phones, emails, and other personal communications. There's no way to hide. Privacy no longer exists. Constitu ...

Are unmanned aircraft, known to have difficulty avoiding collisions, safe to use in America's crowded airspace? And would their widespread use for surveillance result in unconstitutional invasions of privacy? Experts say neither question has been answered satisfactorily. Yet the federal government is rushing to open America's skies to tens of thousands of the drones - pushed to do so by a law championed by ...

On July 2012, Molly Maroney joined the InfoWars team with a resume that should send conspiracy theorists frothing at the mouth with excitement. http://www.linkedin.com/pub/molly-maroney/16/82/22a   On Wednesday 11/21 it was brought to our attention that a video was posted November 20, 2012 by YouTuber MsSherrielea:   ALEX JONES Satanist 4 Stratfor ISRAEL Exposed   In the video, MsSherrieLea e ...

Once upon a time, privacy was not a word that was foreign to the English language. In that time long ago, police and governments would often have to manufacture an incident (like 9/11) in order to successfully push for more legal powers to monitor private conversations or access data without a warrant. However, in 2012, the premise of the invasion of privacy is no longer necessary. Now, the debate itself is ...

Back in April, I wrote an article entitled, “CIA Home Invasion: Smart TVs and the ‘Internet of Things,’” where I detailed the roll-out of the then-new Samsung LED HD Smart Tvs and the inherent dangers that lay therein.   At the time, the dangers related to the televisions were the fact that these new TV sets came fitted with their ownbuilt-in cameras and microphones, thus making the potential for remot ...

Samsung’s 2012 top-of-the-line plasmas and LED HDTVs offer new features never before available within a television including a built-in, internally wired HD camera, twin microphones, face tracking and speech recognition. While these features give you unprecedented control over an HDTV, the devices themselves, more similar than ever to a personal computer, may allow hackers or even Samsung to see and hear yo ...

In a single second, law enforcement agents can match a suspect against millions upon millions of profiles in vast detailed databases stored on the cloud. It’s all done using facial recognition, and in Southern California it’s already occurring. Imagine the police taking a picture: any picture of a person, anywhere, and matching it on the spot in less than a second to a personalized profile, scanning million ...

In the final part of this three-part series on US counterterrorism, the hub of activity in the Horn of Africa is examined. Around the clock, about 16 times a day, a drone takes off or lands at a U.S. military base here, the combat hub for the Obama administration's counterterrorism wars in the Horn of Africa and the Middle East. Some of the unmanned aircraft are bound for Somalia, the collapsed state whose ...