Life with Big Brother

[American_Jihad]

NYPD unveils new $40 million super computer system that uses data from network of cameras, license plate readers and crime reports


Domain Awareness System is a joint venture between city and Microsoft. Commissioner Ray Kelly says system is able to access information through live video feeds and allow cops to get reading on radioactive substances

By Rocco Parascandola And Tina Moore / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Wednesday, August 8, 2012, 8:50 PM


The NYPD is starting to look like a flashy, forensic crime TV show thanks to a new super computer system unveiled Wednesday near Wall St.

The Domain Awareness System designed by the NYPD and Microsoft Corp. uses data from a network of cameras, radiation detectors, license plate readers and crime reports, officials said.

“We’re not your mom and pop police department anymore,” Mayor Bloomberg crowed. “We are in the next century. We are leading the pack.”

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Read more: NYPD unveils new $40 million super computer system that uses data from network of cameras, license plate readers and crime reports - NY Daily News

 

[Sallow]

Cool.

 

[Oddball]

Don't forget to attend the Daily Hate!

 

[Political Junky]

I remember cons saying it's no problem if you have nothing to hide.

 

[Sallow]

I remember cons saying it's no problem if you have nothing to hide.

Eyep..

Remember when Conservatives were all for "enhanced interrogation", invading Iraq, the Patriot Act, warrantless wiretaps, and "you are with us..or you are with the terrorists"?

Ah yeah..the good ol' days.

 

[waltky]

Reminded me of an' oldie but goodie...

Hey, Big Brother!
by Rare Earth

Hey big brother, as soon as you arrive
You better, get in touch with the people, big brother
Better get them on your side, big brother
And keep them satisfied
Welcome to the beat of the city street
Walk on now and don't be shy
Take a closer look at the people you meet
And notice the fear in their eyes
watching the time passing by.....

Hey big brother, as soon as you arrive
You better, get in touch with the people, big brother
Better keep them on your side, big brother
Keep them satisfied
Focus your eye on the filthy sky
Just as far as you can see
Everybody's getting kinda tired of waiting
Cause nobody wants to cry
And nobody wants to die....

Hey big brother, as soon as you arrive
You better, get in touch with the people, big brother
And get them on your side, big brother
And keep them satisfied
Now that you've got the picture
What you going to do?
Now that you've got the picture
What you going to do?

Hey big brother, I know you're out there somewhere
If we don't get our thing together, big brother will be watching us
He ain't gonna get me, are you gonna let him get you?
He'll never get me, he'll never get me, no
Big brother's coming
No he'll never get me, no no no no...
Hey big brother
Hey big brother
Hey big brother...
(repeat until the end)

HEY BIG BROTHER Lyrics - RARE EARTH

 

[American_Jihad]

Big Brother in your back seat?

8/1/11 By Rick Berman

In the ideal of today’s self appointed traffic cops, any automobile you’ll purchase will have an in-car alcohol detector to stop you from “drinking and driving” before you get the opportunity. (Despite drunken driving fatalities being at an all time low, i.e., one per every 274,244,948 miles driven, some activists can’t rest until they can get to every last drop).

To be clear, I’m not talking about or objecting to attempts to stop drunk driving. But in activists’ future world, your car won’t start even if you were drinking below the current level for arrest. Physiological factors and liability concerns dictate that these detection devices will be set well below the current legal limit of .08 percent blood alcohol concentration (BAC) — possibly as low as .02 or .03.

Today’s nanny-state advocates are pressing Congress to spend another $60 million of your money for additional research into this technology, to stop you from having a glass of wine with dinner before you get behind the wheel.

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What are the liberal winos going to do, WALK!

 

[American_Jihad]

Government monitoring citizens at ‘alarming rates’

10/2/12

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The Daily Caller reported:

Documents obtained by the ACLU through a Freedom of Information Act request revealed that under President Obama between 2009 and 2011, warrantless electronic surveillance requests by the Justice Department to spy on phone communications increased 60 percent from 23,535 to 37,616.

The number of people whose phone calls were subject to such surveillance during that same time period tripled.

Phone numbers called and received, emails sent and received, and other Internet communications were all monitored by the federal government via “pen register” and “trap and trace devices” — systems that measure the data, not the content, about the communication.

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Government monitoring citizens at

 

[American_Jihad]

Senate Bill to Give NLRB, FCC, OSHA Access To Your Email​

November 20, 2012
By Daniel Greenfield

This isn’t the Patriot Act. It’s the Total Government Oversight Act giving civilian department and agencies access to every email account in the country without a warrant. It effectively gives the liberal bureaucracy total control over all private communications without any basis, cause or legal oversight for such action.

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What this really does is allow liberal regulatory agencies to fish around and routinely violate private communications in the hopes of finding cases to create. Considering the abuses already being practiced by these agencies, even without such power, if this goes through we will be living in a world where the expanding bureaucracy is constantly monitoring everyone’s email accounts all the time.

Forget the police state, the totalitarian bureaucratic collectivists will have won. 1984 here we come.

Senate Bill to Give NLRB, FCC, OSHA Access To Your Email

 

[American_Jihad]

22 Fed Agencies May Soon Read YOUR Email

November 27, 2012
by Ralph Barker

In the near future you may be sharing your emails, social media, and other communications with a lot of uninvited people. There are rumblings on Capitol Hill this week about a new bill that would pretty much, if passed, destroy any remaining sense of privacy on the Internet. Big Brother could become your new surfing buddy. Keep your eye on the Senate this Thursday for developments.



Privacy used to mean something in America. Privacy was something that was zealously protected and cherished. The courts in past decades sided with the people in most cases and understood why one’s privacy must be protected. It is an American principle, an important one. Things have changed and our right to be left alone and private is eroding quickly.



It’s a basic American assumption that we all should have the right to not have others looking into our private affairs, especially our communications. In today’s world everyone is an open book, like it or not. Privacy has gone the way of the Edsel, Woolworth’s, and the nickel coke. That’s “coke” as in soda by the way.



Right now as you read this article there are efforts and a Senate bill on Capitol Hill to grant access to your email, Facebook Wall, Tweets, and Google files to government authorities. Want to hear something really scary? They won’t even need a warrant.



There are over twenty-two federal agencies that may soon gain access to your private life, including the SEC and FCC, if this Senate bill is passed. In some cases Homeland Security or the FBI could get to your email accounts without notifying you or a judge. In the future, you might want to just cc all the federal agencies in your communications and save some taxpayer dollars.



The Democratic chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Patrick Leahy wrote the original bill. That bill has now been rewritten. Political pressure and law enforcement concerns have led to the new changes that could expand government authority and further destroy our right to privacy.



We still don’t know specifically what is in this bill. We don’t know, if this bill is passed, what it will do to privacy rights. I guess we will have to take Nancy Pelosi’s advice and pass it so we can see what’s in it. I think we all like surprises.



The monitoring of email accounts has been front-page news for the last few weeks. General Petraeus and Paula Broadwell probably wished they had used carrier pigeons instead of emails. There are also all those White House emails surrounding the Benghazi tragedy that are under investigation. Once Congress obtains all these, they could lead to firings, resignations, convictions, maybe even an impeachment (just dreaming). Who knows?



Once you push the send button that email is forever out there subject to other eyes reading it and using it. In the future, we must all think harder about what we are saying in our communications. We probably will never know who is watching our correspondence, legally or not. Carelessness on our part could lead to our explaining things to a judge.



We may need to adapt and come up with some new avenues of communication. We could also resort to outdated systems like smoke signals or drums. It’s hard to trace them. Oh, don’t forget runners and microdots. We might as well make the feds work a little harder.

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Read more: 22 Fed Agencies May Soon Read YOUR Email – Patriot Update

Senator Patrick Leahy​

 

[Oldguy]

22 Fed Agencies May Soon Read YOUR Email

November 27, 2012
by Ralph Barker

In the near future you may be sharing your emails, social media, and other communications with a lot of uninvited people. There are rumblings on Capitol Hill this week about a new bill that would pretty much, if passed, destroy any remaining sense of privacy on the Internet. Big Brother could become your new surfing buddy. Keep your eye on the Senate this Thursday for developments.



Privacy used to mean something in America. Privacy was something that was zealously protected and cherished. The courts in past decades sided with the people in most cases and understood why one’s privacy must be protected. It is an American principle, an important one. Things have changed and our right to be left alone and private is eroding quickly.



It’s a basic American assumption that we all should have the right to not have others looking into our private affairs, especially our communications. In today’s world everyone is an open book, like it or not. Privacy has gone the way of the Edsel, Woolworth’s, and the nickel coke. That’s “coke” as in soda by the way.



Right now as you read this article there are efforts and a Senate bill on Capitol Hill to grant access to your email, Facebook Wall, Tweets, and Google files to government authorities. Want to hear something really scary? They won’t even need a warrant.



There are over twenty-two federal agencies that may soon gain access to your private life, including the SEC and FCC, if this Senate bill is passed. In some cases Homeland Security or the FBI could get to your email accounts without notifying you or a judge. In the future, you might want to just cc all the federal agencies in your communications and save some taxpayer dollars.



The Democratic chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Patrick Leahy wrote the original bill. That bill has now been rewritten. Political pressure and law enforcement concerns have led to the new changes that could expand government authority and further destroy our right to privacy.



We still don’t know specifically what is in this bill. We don’t know, if this bill is passed, what it will do to privacy rights. I guess we will have to take Nancy Pelosi’s advice and pass it so we can see what’s in it. I think we all like surprises.



The monitoring of email accounts has been front-page news for the last few weeks. General Petraeus and Paula Broadwell probably wished they had used carrier pigeons instead of emails. There are also all those White House emails surrounding the Benghazi tragedy that are under investigation. Once Congress obtains all these, they could lead to firings, resignations, convictions, maybe even an impeachment (just dreaming). Who knows?



Once you push the send button that email is forever out there subject to other eyes reading it and using it. In the future, we must all think harder about what we are saying in our communications. We probably will never know who is watching our correspondence, legally or not. Carelessness on our part could lead to our explaining things to a judge.



We may need to adapt and come up with some new avenues of communication. We could also resort to outdated systems like smoke signals or drums. It’s hard to trace them. Oh, don’t forget runners and microdots. We might as well make the feds work a little harder.

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Read more: 22 Fed Agencies May Soon Read YOUR Email – Patriot Update

Senator Patrick Leahy​

Do you have an original thought or comment, or do you just cut and paste from somebody who does your thinking for you?

 

[American_Jihad]

The Federal Aviation Administration has been flooded with applications from police departments, universities and private corporations, all seeking to use drones that range from devices the size of a hummingbird to full-size

Thousands of Drones to Monitor YOU! ​

November 27, 2012


The Federal Aviation Administration has been flooded with applications from police departments, universities and private corporations, all seeking to use drones that range from devices the size of a hummingbird to full-size aircraft like those used by the U.S. military to target al Qaeda operatives in Pakistan and elsewhere.

Domestic use of drones began with limited aerial patrols of the nation’s borders by Customs and Border Patrol authorities. But the industry and its allies pushed for more, leading to passage of the FAA Modernization and Reform Act, signed into law Feb. 14. The law requires the FAA to fully integrate the unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, into national airspace by September 2015.

“These timelines are very aggressive,” said Heidi Williams, a vice president of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, one of the stakeholders taking part in a working group put together by the FAA to help develop a regulatory plan. “These issues are very complex, and we have a long way to go.”

Many potential uses for unmanned aircraft, which are cheaper to operate than piloted planes or helicopters, have been identified. Among them: monitoring pipelines and power lines, finding lost hikers, surveying crops, and assessing environmental threats and damage from natural disasters. The FAA has predicted that 30,000 drones could be flying in the United States in less than 20 years, sharing space with commercial, military and general aviation.

Post Continues on SFGate: San Francisco Bay Area - News, Sports, Business, Entertainment, Classifieds - SFGate



Read more: Thousands of Drones to Monitor YOU! – Patriot Update

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

NYPD unveils new $40 million super computer system that uses data from network of cameras, license plate readers and crime reports


Domain Awareness System is a joint venture between city and Microsoft. Commissioner Ray Kelly says system is able to access information through live video feeds and allow cops to get reading on radioactive substances

By Rocco Parascandola And Tina Moore / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Wednesday, August 8, 2012, 8:50 PM


The NYPD is starting to look like a flashy, forensic crime TV show thanks to a new super computer system unveiled Wednesday near Wall St.

The Domain Awareness System designed by the NYPD and Microsoft Corp. uses data from a network of cameras, radiation detectors, license plate readers and crime reports, officials said.

“We’re not your mom and pop police department anymore,” Mayor Bloomberg crowed. “We are in the next century. We are leading the pack.”

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Read more: NYPD unveils new $40 million super computer system that uses data from network of cameras, license plate readers and crime reports - NY Daily News

Poor conservatives, they don’t understand the concept of privacy and get it all backwards: there’s no expectation of privacy on a public street; there is an expectation of privacy when a woman is speaking to her doctor.

 

[American_Jihad]

22 Fed Agencies May Soon Read YOUR Email

November 27, 2012
by Ralph Barker

In the near future you may be sharing your emails, social media, and other communications with a lot of uninvited people. There are rumblings on Capitol Hill this week about a new bill that would pretty much, if passed, destroy any remaining sense of privacy on the Internet. Big Brother could become your new surfing buddy. Keep your eye on the Senate this Thursday for developments.



Privacy used to mean something in America. Privacy was something that was zealously protected and cherished. The courts in past decades sided with the people in most cases and understood why one’s privacy must be protected. It is an American principle, an important one. Things have changed and our right to be left alone and private is eroding quickly.



It’s a basic American assumption that we all should have the right to not have others looking into our private affairs, especially our communications. In today’s world everyone is an open book, like it or not. Privacy has gone the way of the Edsel, Woolworth’s, and the nickel coke. That’s “coke” as in soda by the way.



Right now as you read this article there are efforts and a Senate bill on Capitol Hill to grant access to your email, Facebook Wall, Tweets, and Google files to government authorities. Want to hear something really scary? They won’t even need a warrant.



There are over twenty-two federal agencies that may soon gain access to your private life, including the SEC and FCC, if this Senate bill is passed. In some cases Homeland Security or the FBI could get to your email accounts without notifying you or a judge. In the future, you might want to just cc all the federal agencies in your communications and save some taxpayer dollars.



The Democratic chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Patrick Leahy wrote the original bill. That bill has now been rewritten. Political pressure and law enforcement concerns have led to the new changes that could expand government authority and further destroy our right to privacy.



We still don’t know specifically what is in this bill. We don’t know, if this bill is passed, what it will do to privacy rights. I guess we will have to take Nancy Pelosi’s advice and pass it so we can see what’s in it. I think we all like surprises.



The monitoring of email accounts has been front-page news for the last few weeks. General Petraeus and Paula Broadwell probably wished they had used carrier pigeons instead of emails. There are also all those White House emails surrounding the Benghazi tragedy that are under investigation. Once Congress obtains all these, they could lead to firings, resignations, convictions, maybe even an impeachment (just dreaming). Who knows?



Once you push the send button that email is forever out there subject to other eyes reading it and using it. In the future, we must all think harder about what we are saying in our communications. We probably will never know who is watching our correspondence, legally or not. Carelessness on our part could lead to our explaining things to a judge.



We may need to adapt and come up with some new avenues of communication. We could also resort to outdated systems like smoke signals or drums. It’s hard to trace them. Oh, don’t forget runners and microdots. We might as well make the feds work a little harder.

---

Read more: 22 Fed Agencies May Soon Read YOUR Email – Patriot Update

Senator Patrick Leahy​

Do you have an original thought or comment, or do you just cut and paste from somebody who does your thinking for you?

I cut n paste to make old liberal codgers like you rage...
http://www.usmessageboard.com/politics/264793-reversing-americas-decline-4.html

You should move to califuckya...

 

[OKTexas]

NYPD unveils new $40 million super computer system that uses data from network of cameras, license plate readers and crime reports


Domain Awareness System is a joint venture between city and Microsoft. Commissioner Ray Kelly says system is able to access information through live video feeds and allow cops to get reading on radioactive substances

By Rocco Parascandola And Tina Moore / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Wednesday, August 8, 2012, 8:50 PM


The NYPD is starting to look like a flashy, forensic crime TV show thanks to a new super computer system unveiled Wednesday near Wall St.

The Domain Awareness System designed by the NYPD and Microsoft Corp. uses data from a network of cameras, radiation detectors, license plate readers and crime reports, officials said.

“We’re not your mom and pop police department anymore,” Mayor Bloomberg crowed. “We are in the next century. We are leading the pack.”

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Read more: NYPD unveils new $40 million super computer system that uses data from network of cameras, license plate readers and crime reports - NY Daily News

Poor conservatives, they don’t understand the concept of privacy and get it all backwards: there’s no expectation of privacy on a public street; there is an expectation of privacy when a woman is speaking to her doctor.

Nope, even that goes out the window when the doctor is required to input the conversation in a government mandated and monitored records system. So much for Roe.

 

[Political Junky]

I can only think of the line that cons used when Bush, Jr. wiretapped them, "What have you got to hide?"

 

[Oldguy]

I cut n paste to make old liberal codgers like you rage...


You should move to califuckya...

Sorry to disappoint, but all it makes me do is ignore what you post. I've got better things to do that read up on the latest conspiracy theories.

 

[American_Jihad]

Sorry to disappoint, but all it makes me do is ignore what you post. I've got better things to do that read up on the latest conspiracy theories.

And yet you're here jabbering about...

 

[Billo_Really]

Big Brother in your back seat?

8/1/11 By Rick Berman

In the ideal of today’s self appointed traffic cops, any automobile you’ll purchase will have an in-car alcohol detector to stop you from “drinking and driving” before you get the opportunity. (Despite drunken driving fatalities being at an all time low, i.e., one per every 274,244,948 miles driven, some activists can’t rest until they can get to every last drop).

To be clear, I’m not talking about or objecting to attempts to stop drunk driving. But in activists’ future world, your car won’t start even if you were drinking below the current level for arrest. Physiological factors and liability concerns dictate that these detection devices will be set well below the current legal limit of .08 percent blood alcohol concentration (BAC) — possibly as low as .02 or .03.

Today’s nanny-state advocates are pressing Congress to spend another $60 million of your money for additional research into this technology, to stop you from having a glass of wine with dinner before you get behind the wheel.

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Post Continues on dailycaller.com


What are the liberal winos going to do, WALK!

I couldn't help but notice the overt data mining going on in the story, planting the seed that "activists" are to be thought of in the same vain as terrorists. That's a very dangerous road for American's we're going down, when all forms of protest are outlawed. At that point, there's not much difference between us and nazi Germany.

 

[The Rabbi]

I can only think of the line that cons used when Bush, Jr. wiretapped them, "What have you got to hide?"

When did Bush use that line?