Justice Department Kept Secret Telephone Database
Justice Department Arm Collected Metadata on U.S. Calls to Foreign Countries.
Tag: Big Brother
Minority Report Is Coming True, Microsoft Wants Stores to use Kinect to Recognize Shoppers
Using the gaming peripheral which most gamers don’t really want.
Obama Administration to Disclose New Changes to NSA Spying
The intelligence community will release more information about post-Snowden changes to its surveillance programs by the end of the month.
Cameron to Obama: Force Tech Companies to Cooperate with Surveillance Agency
‘The British Prime Minister, David Cameron, wants President Obama to pressure social media to cooperate with GCHQ, the British intelligence service that works closely with the NSA in the United States to surveil the internet […]
EU lawmakers slam Turkey over media crackdown
‘European Union’s parliamentarians have expressed concern about the issue of democracy in Turkey, slamming Ankara over imposing tough restrictions on media and freedom of speech. Turkey’s acts have “cast serious doubts on the independence and […]
White House: Internet Rules to be Implemented Without Congress
Obama says unelected FCC trumps Congress.
Protests flare in Armenia after family massacred
Protests first broke out Wednesday in Gyumri and on Thursday spread to the nation’s capital, Yerevan.
‘Stealth cameras’ to be installed on UK motorways
Critics say that the camouflage cameras enforcing a 70mph speed limit will catch drivers unawares on hitherto unpoliced stretches of motorways.
Advertisers, Feds Want Data Automakers Collect From High-Tech Cars
Data reveals when a car carrying a child is passing by McDonald’s and when a driver is speeding.
Parents investigated for neglect after letting kids walk home alone
“We wouldn’t have let them do it if we didn’t think they were ready for it.”
German paper ripped for ‘anti-Semitic’ caricature of Facebook’s Zuckerberg (from last year)
‘A caricature of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in Germany’s largest broadsheet newspaper shows anti-Semitism reminiscent of the Nazi propaganda, say critics. The cartoon, in the liberal Süddeutsche Zeitung, depicts Mark Zuckerberg as an octopus with […]
‘Stealth cameras’ to be installed on motorways
‘Motoring organisations have reacted angrily to plans for a new generation of “stealth cameras” that are to be rolled out on Britain’s busiest motorways. Pioneering digital technology will be used in an attempt to catch […]
UK Moves One Step Closer to Orwell’s 1984 Nightmare
‘In the United States, government officials responded to Apple and Droid’s new encryption services by throwing temper tantrums in speeches and making archaic arguments in court. In the United Kingdom, home of big brother and […]