“We believe most Americans would be stunned to learn the details of how these secret court opinions have interpreted… the Patriot Act. As we see it, there is now a significant gap between what most Americans think the law allows and what the government secretly claims the law...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday quietly approved a rule change that would allow a federal magistrate judge to issue a search and seizure warrant for any target using anonymity software like Tor to browse the internet.by Nadia PrupisAbsent action by U.S. Congress, the rule chan...
Big Brother is watching you and he wants you to believe that if you have nothing to hide, then you have nothing to fear.by Alex PietrowskiThis is a lie, of course, and as we move deeper into the era of state sponsored technological surveillance, we see more evidence that the loss...
Reflecting the CIA’s “increasing focus on monitoring social media,” the spy agency’s venture capital arm, In-Q-Tel, has made investments in four social media mining and surveillance firms, The Intercept revealed Thursday.by Deirdre FultonAccording to a document obtained b...
What is in the box? If you see one of these on your property hovering on a utility pole, you are not alone. This is going on all across America. by Dave HodgesSoon, as part of the Safe Cities Network (SCN), these invasive surveillance devices will be everywhere courtesy of ...
New federal guidelines have just been introduced across the country, and what they mandate is quite disturbing to civil libertarians. The FBI has now instructed high schools across the nation to report students who in any way criticize government policies and what the report phra...
by Alice Jones Webb, Waking TimesYou might think that government watch lists are reserved for violent radical extremists. You might be wrong.There is a very serious war taking place, a “war on terror“. Which should sound ludicrous to any rational, thinking human being. How ca...
Did you know that the United Nations intends to have biometric identification cards in the hands of every single man, woman and child on the entire planet by the year 2030? By Michael SnyderAnd did you know that a central database in Geneva, Switzerland will be collect...
The government needs — nay, it deserves — completely unfettered access to your personal information, because cybersecurity.by EsquireWhile nobody was watching, the Senate a couple of days ago passed something called the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA), which pass...
Which Orwellian technologies was the movie right about?In “Back to the Future Part II,” Marty McFly time travels to Oct. 21, 2015, which was two days ago, so let’s examine five ‘big brother’ predictions the movie made which turned out to be true.5. Personal DronesFlying...
Do you distrust the banking system? Prefer to do business in cash? Complain about the encroachment of Big Brother into every facet of your life?If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, you’d better watch out. You’re a “person of interest” – and a growing num...
Congress has just OK’d the use of 30,000 drones to spy on Americans across the country. Labeled as an FAA reauthorization bill, it was passed with very little media coverage and even less fanfare. I guess that’s just not the type of action members of Congress would be in a hu...