STEALTH SURFING

“Many Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the western world are required by law to track nearly everything you do online. While the US government has been trying to hide their electronic wiretapping program as a state secret, the EU made theirs public by passing theData Retention Directive of 2006. Article 5, under “Categories of data to be retained”, lists the gory details of what is tracked. This is required for home phones, mobile phones, Internet telephony and e-mail. And depending on the country, this information will be kept for 6 months to 2 YEARS."


Rest of article here.

SURVEILLING EVERYTHING

What will happen when power-crazed governments across the globe have the technological capacity to record and analyze literally everything for immediate and future reference? Nothing good, of course.
Read this unnerving Brookings Institute report for more.

WAR FOR TOTAL CONTROL

“Like a sharp two-edged sword, the Internet and the very rapidly evolving technologies surrounding it, are poised to either usher in a new era of intellectual, cultural and spiritual enlightenment, material well-being and true cooperation amongst nations bent on resolving common global problems; or we may be about to fall into a black abyss of absolute totalitarian control; intellectual, physical and spiritual violence; and mass slavery on an unprecedented scale."


– Adrian Salbuchi


Article here.

INDIA'S BIOMETRIC ID PROGRAM

India's biometric ID program has been underway for a while. Tough prospects for one sixth of the World's population, and for the rest of us if we don't wake up to the insidious processes of incrementalism and convergence of technologies.
Here's why.

MONITORING AMERICA

Photo: Tina Phillips

The horror continues. Here's a lengthy and very interesting article from Washington Post on the ever-expanding state security apparatus in the USA.

CONSTRUCTING THE POLICE STATE

The World's largest retail chain Wal-Mart is now working with DHS to add the message of good old snitching to your shopping experience.
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SWIFT ACTION

The EU proposes the implementation of legislation for sharing financial records from the SWIFT interbank system with U.S. authorities.

Legal framework draft here

TECH NEWS: NANO-SENSORS

Technological advancements in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and nanotechnology have inspired a revolutionary observing system known as global environmental MEMS sensors (GEMS). The GEMS concept features in situ, micron-scale airborne probes that can monitor all regions of the Earth with unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution.

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