In recent years this country has undergone some massive shifts regarding the average American’s personal privacy. by Ryan CristianPrimarily, after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the Bush administration began an effort to remove any barriers that impede different parts of the go...
Traveler Sean Hoffman thought you might like to see the insanely long line to get through TSA at Midway Airport last week. You know… for your safety.by Melissa DykesTens of thousands of Americans have been missing their flights due to exceedingly long lines at airports in recen...
Mark Zuckerberg has hinted at the personally invasive future of social media. by Christina Sarich, Waking TimesHis new artificial intelligence technology doesn’t even need your face to determine who you are, but a new social media platform in Russia is launching that will make ...
Assessing current conditions in the United States, it would be next to impossible not to grasp innumerable parallels to George Orwell’s dystopic portent, 1984. by Claire Bernish Though other fictional dystopias could similarly elicit comparisons to the dark turn taken by Americ...
“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...