Life with Big Brother

[Mr. Shaman]

Life with Big Brother

I thought it was just a rumor.....that it's gone into reprint.

 

[American_Jihad]

Life with Big Brother

I thought it was just a rumor.....that it's gone into reprint.

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[Political Junky]

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​

That's how they caught Petraeus, right?

 

[American_Jihad]

Losing Humanity

The Case against Killer Robots

November 19, 2012

This 50-page report outlines concerns about these fully autonomous weapons, which would inherently lack human qualities that provide legal and non-legal checks on the killing of civilians. In addition, the obstacles to holding anyone accountable for harm caused by the weapons would weaken the law’s power to deter future violations.
Read the Press Release

Losing Humanity

Summary


Recommendations

I. Unmanned Robots and the Evolution toward Fully Autonomous Weapons

II. Article 36 and the Requirement to Review New Weapons

III. International Humanitarian Law Compliance Mechanisms

IV. Challenges to Compliance with International Humanitarian Law

V. Other Threats to Civilian Protection

VI. Problems of Accountability for Fully Autonomous Weapons

Conclusion


Acknowledgments

Pull the Plug on Killer Robots
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Losing Humanity | Human Rights Watch

 

[American_Jihad]

Want to Claim Racism? There’s a Federal App for That​

March 27, 2013
By Daniel Greenfield

America, as everyone and their racist white grandmother knows, is a very racist country. It’s so racist that the sheer density of racism has been founded and measured by racism scientists to be extremely racist.

That’s why the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), which brought you the economic crisis and urban blight, now offers an App to let busy people concerned about racism report racism while on the go.

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I think we’re all looking forward to the next app which enables you to report people critical of Obama.

Want to Claim Racism? There?s a Federal App for That

 

[tjvh]

What better place to start keeping an eye on the nut jobs than NYC? Those liberals are real kooks and should be monitored.

 

[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?

Your lack of response is noted.

 

[American_Jihad]

NSA PRISM Program: Is Big Data Turning Government Into 'Big Brother?'


By MICHAEL LIEDTKE
06/07/13

SAN FRANCISCO — With every phone call they make and every Web excursion they take, people are leaving a digital trail of revealing data that can be tracked by profit-seeking companies and terrorist-hunting government officials.

The revelations that the National Security Agency is perusing millions of U.S. customer phone records at Verizon Communications and snooping on the digital communications stored by nine major Internet services illustrate how aggressively personal data is being collected and analyzed.

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Former NSA employee William Binney told The Associated Press that he estimates the agency collects records on 3 billion phone calls each day.

The NSA and FBI appear to be casting an even wider net under a clandestine program code-named "PRISM" that came to light in a story posted late Thursday by The Washington Post. PRISM gives the U.S. government access to email, documents, audio, video, photographs and other data belonging to foreigners on foreign soil who are under investigation, according to The Washington Post. The newspaper said it reviewed a confidential roster of companies and services participating in PRISM. The companies included AOL Inc., Apple Inc., Facebook Inc., Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Yahoo Inc., Skype, YouTube and Paltalk.

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The Obama administration and lawmakers privy to the NSA's surveillance aren't saying anything about the collection of the Verizon customers' records beyond that it's in the interest of national security. The sweeping court order covers the Verizon records of every mobile and landline phone call from April 25 through July 19, according to The Guardian.

It's likely the Verizon phone records are being matched with an even broader set of data, said Forrester Research analyst Fatemeh Khatibloo.

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http://www.puffingtonpost.com/2013/06/07/nsa-prism-program_n_3401695.html
[I know the source is questionable]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6fnfVJzZT4]10 Questions: Warrantless Wiretaps - YouTube[/ame]


...oh my...

 

[American_Jihad]

Big Brother Barack

June 7, 2013 By Arnold Ahlert

A stunning report by the Guardian newspaper published late Wednesday evening reveals that the National Security Agency (NSA) has been collecting the phone records of millions of Americans who are customers of Verizon, one of the nation’s largest telecom companies. The top-secret order, obtained by the paper, requires Verizon to submit to the NSA, “on an ongoing daily basis…all call details or ‘telephony metadata’ created by Verizon for communications (i) between the United States and abroad; or (ii) wholly within the United States, including local telephone calls.” Moreover, the paper reports that Americans’ communication records “are being collected indiscriminately and in bulk–regardless of whether they are suspected of any wrongdoing.”

The parameters of the exposed surveillance program are indeed massive, indiscriminate and involve no conditions of probable cause or reasonable suspicion of terrorist activities. Judge Roger Vinson of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) granted the order on April 25, directing Verizon to collect the data only until July 19, unless the blanket order is extended. The so-called “metadata” includes

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Thus, the NSA is in violation of its own charter.

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The NSA clearly exceeded its legal mandate. The dishonest statements of officials involved with the program indicate the government was aware of the bounds it was overstepping. But the dishonesty is dual in nature. While the Obama administration has been declaring the war on terror dead and gone, a relic of a bygone era, it has been secretly implementing extraordinary measures against Americans, and it has done so on the basis of the dire exigencies of the jihadist threat. And while posturing, as always, as a “progressive” force, this leftist administration is, once again, engaging in “Big-Brother” 1984-style tactics — revealing, in true leftist tradition, that inside every liberal is a totalitarian screaming to get out. The scandal-ridden atmosphere has become so rotten and disturbing that even the New York Times has noted that this is an administration that has lost all credibility.

Big Brother Barack | FrontPage Magazine

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

First of all let me say I dont like the PA and never have.

As to why I'm more alarmed now then when it was first implemented?
The obama admin has shown a willingness to use gov agencies to further the agenda.
And thats putting it nicely....

 

[American_Jihad]

Big Brother alert: Cameras in the cable box to monitor TV viewers​

By Cheryl K. Chumley
6/17/13


It hardly gets more Orwellian than this. New technology would allow cable companies to peer directly into television watchers’ homes and monitor viewing habits and reactions to product advertisements.

The technology would come via the cable box, and at least one lawmaker on Capitol Hill is standing in opposition.

Mass. Democratic Rep. Michael Capuano has introduced a bill, the We Are Watching You Act, to prohibit the technology on boxes and collection of information absent consumer permission. The bill would also require companies that do use the data to show “we are watching you” messages on the screen and to explain just what kinds of information is being captured and for what reasons, AdWeek reported.

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Read more: Big Brother alert: Cameras in the cable box to monitor TV viewers - Washington Times

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Big Brother alert: Cameras in the cable box to monitor TV viewers​

By Cheryl K. Chumley
6/17/13


It hardly gets more Orwellian than this. New technology would allow cable companies to peer directly into television watchers’ homes and monitor viewing habits and reactions to product advertisements.

The technology would come via the cable box, and at least one lawmaker on Capitol Hill is standing in opposition.

Mass. Democratic Rep. Michael Capuano has introduced a bill, the We Are Watching You Act, to prohibit the technology on boxes and collection of information absent consumer permission. The bill would also require companies that do use the data to show “we are watching you” messages on the screen and to explain just what kinds of information is being captured and for what reasons, AdWeek reported.

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Read more: Big Brother alert: Cameras in the cable box to monitor TV viewers - Washington Times

Pffft...if their talking about it they probably already did it.

 

[P@triot]

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.

And remember when you cried like a little bitch about all of that?

 

[P@triot]

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.

Did the previous Administration ever use "enhanced interrogations" on U.S. civilians? NO

Did the "invasion of Iraq" in any way impede on the rights of U.S. citizens (or otherwise even affect U.S. citizens)? NO

Did the previous Administration ever use the Patriot Act against U.S. citizens? NO

Did the previous Administration ever wiretap a U.S. citizen without a warrant? NO

Only a libtard could attempt (out of sheer desperation) to equate the targeting of foreign terrorists by a previous Administration with the targeting of American citizens by a current administration...

 

[P@triot]

"In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act." -George Orwell

 

[P@triot]

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"?

NSA's Verizon Spying Order Specifically Targeted Americans, Not Foreigners
Obama wiretapping targets Americans not foreigners

The National Security Agency has long justified its spying powers by arguing that its charter allows surveillance on those outside of the United States, while avoiding intrusions into the private communications of American citizens. But the latest revelation of the extent of the NSA's surveillance shows that it has focused specifically on Americans, to the degree that its data collection has in at least one major spying incident explicitly excluded those outside the United States.

In a top secret order obtained by the Guardian newspaper and published Wednesday evening, the FBI on the NSA's behalf demanded that Verizon turn over all metadata for phone records originating in the United States for the three months beginning in late April and ending on the 19th of July. That metadata includes all so-called "non-content" data for millions of American customers' phone calls, such as the subscriber data, recipients, locations, times and durations of every call made during that period.

NSA's Verizon Spying Order Specifically Targeted Americans, Not Foreigners - Forbes

 

[Pheonixops]

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

Nice song.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm9lF8aZxNk]RARE EARTH - HEY BIG BROTHER - YouTube[/ame]

 

[francoHFW]

Pub hypocrisy and BS, hater dupe idiocy and hysteria reaching new heights...also GOP frightening the majority...

 

[American_Jihad]

Pub hypocrisy and BS, hater dupe idiocy and hysteria reaching new heights...also GOP frightening the majority...

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[American_Jihad]

The Coming National DNA Database

Thursday, August 29, 2013


A national DNA database is coming. Barack Obama has already said that he wants one. A major Supreme Court decision last month paved the way for one. The DNA of those that commit “serious crimes” is already being routinely collected all over the nation. Some states (such as New Jersey) are now passing laws that will require DNA collection from those charged with committing “low level crimes”. And a law that was passed under George W. Bush allows the federal government to screen the DNA of all newborn babies in the United States. So how long will it be before we are all required to give DNA samples to the authorities? How long will it be before DNA collection is routinely done when we take a trip to the DMV? This may sound like science fiction to some people, but “security experts” and law enforcement personnel all over the country are now pushing for a national DNA database to be established. Unfortunately, there is nothing really standing in the way of that. The Supreme Court has already spoken. Justice Scalia understood very clearly what the Supreme Court was doing last month. In his dissent, he made the following statement: “Make no mistake about it: because of today’s decision, your DNA can be taken and entered into a national database if you are ever arrested, rightly or wrongly, and for whatever reason.”


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Read more at The Coming National DNA Database - Patriot UpdatePatriot Update