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Professor: Google Home Device Could Allow Government to Listen in on Private Conversations

A professor at the University of Texas thinks that ā€œmission creepā€ could one day lead to the government listening in on private conversations in peopleā€™s homes via the new Google Home device.


Google Home is a newly launched wi-fi connected ā€œsmart speakerā€ that responds to voice commands with relevant information via a virtual speaking assistant. The device is a rival to Amazon Echo, which performs many of the same functions.

According to Dr. Philip Doty, associate dean of the School of Information ........................
A surveillance bug in your home?

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Wakey , wakey sheep thinking you have nothing to hide is gonna get you sooner or later . Your stupidity will not save you from the dangers of stripping your privacy away.
 
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MORE AND MORE personal and household devices are connecting to the internet, from your television to your car navigation systems to your light switches. CIA Director David Petraeus cannot wait to spy on you through them.

Earlier this month, Petraeus mused about the emergence of an ā€œInternet of Thingsā€ ā€” that is, wired devices ā€” at a summit for In-Q-Tel, the CIAā€™s venture capital firm. ā€œā€˜Transformationalā€™ is an overused word, but I do believe it properly applies to these technologies,ā€ Petraeus enthused, ā€œparticularly to their effect on clandestine tradecraft.ā€

All those new online devices are a treasure trove of data if

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Professor: Google Home Device Could Allow Government to Listen in on Private Conversations

A professor at the University of Texas thinks that ā€œmission creepā€ could one day lead to the government listening in on private conversations in peopleā€™s homes via the new Google Home device.


Google Home is a newly launched wi-fi connected ā€œsmart speakerā€ that responds to voice commands with relevant information via a virtual speaking assistant. The device is a rival to Amazon Echo, which performs many of the same functions.

According to Dr. Philip Doty, associate dean of the School of Information ........................
A surveillance bug in your home?

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Wakey , wakey sheep thinking you have nothing to hide is gonna get you sooner or later . Your stupidity will not save you from the dangers of stripping your privacy away.

If they did listen, what would they do with it? Who would review it or care?
 
Professor: Google Home Device Could Allow Government to Listen in on Private Conversations

A professor at the University of Texas thinks that ā€œmission creepā€ could one day lead to the government listening in on private conversations in peopleā€™s homes via the new Google Home device.


Google Home is a newly launched wi-fi connected ā€œsmart speakerā€ that responds to voice commands with relevant information via a virtual speaking assistant. The device is a rival to Amazon Echo, which performs many of the same functions.

According to Dr. Philip Doty, associate dean of the School of Information ........................
A surveillance bug in your home?

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Wakey , wakey sheep thinking you have nothing to hide is gonna get you sooner or later . Your stupidity will not save you from the dangers of stripping your privacy away.

So don't have Google Home or similar devices in your house.
 
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Professor: Google Home Device Could Allow Government to Listen in on Private Conversations

A professor at the University of Texas thinks that ā€œmission creepā€ could one day lead to the government listening in on private conversations in peopleā€™s homes via the new Google Home device.


Google Home is a newly launched wi-fi connected ā€œsmart speakerā€ that responds to voice commands with relevant information via a virtual speaking assistant. The device is a rival to Amazon Echo, which performs many of the same functions.

According to Dr. Philip Doty, associate dean of the School of Information ........................
A surveillance bug in your home?

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Wakey , wakey sheep thinking you have nothing to hide is gonna get you sooner or later . Your stupidity will not save you from the dangers of stripping your privacy away.

So don't have Google Home or similar devices in your house.

That will work for now, but eventually we will be forced into having it. Those who end up as peasant won't have to have since their homes will be under bridges. Breaking the middle class is the whole goal and all of Obama's mission plan, as was Clinton.............. Ditch the middle class. So yeah once poor ppl won't have to get followed around lol.

But look, want a TV it will spy on you, Need a new fridge it will track and spy on you, cell phone, Anything that has that " Smart" title is going to do just what this google thing does.
 
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Professor: Google Home Device Could Allow Government to Listen in on Private Conversations

A professor at the University of Texas thinks that ā€œmission creepā€ could one day lead to the government listening in on private conversations in peopleā€™s homes via the new Google Home device.


Google Home is a newly launched wi-fi connected ā€œsmart speakerā€ that responds to voice commands with relevant information via a virtual speaking assistant. The device is a rival to Amazon Echo, which performs many of the same functions.

According to Dr. Philip Doty, associate dean of the School of Information ........................
A surveillance bug in your home?

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Wakey , wakey sheep thinking you have nothing to hide is gonna get you sooner or later . Your stupidity will not save you from the dangers of stripping your privacy away.

If they did listen, what would they do with it? Who would review it or care?



WHAT YOU DO ON YOUR CELL PHONE COULD COME BACK TO HAUNT YOU
If the government really wants to see what is on your cell phone, they are going to get that information one way or another
As far as Big Brother is concerned, nothing that you do on your cell phone is ever private.

And if the government really wants to see what is on your cell phone, they are going to get that information one way or another, even if that means resorting to physical violence. On Monday, NBC News provided us with yet another glaring example of how the United States is being transformed into a Big Brother police state. On January 1st, Akram Shibly and Kelly McCormick from Buffalo, New York were coming back home from a trip to Toronto, and they didnā€™t anticipate any unusual problems when they got to the border. Unfortunately for them, U.S. Customs & Border Protection agents decided to take their cell phones, demanded their passwords, and kept them in custody for the next two hours as they searched for anything that might be incriminating on those phones.

You might be thinking that sounds like it should be illegal, and you would be correct, but sadly federal courts have ruled that our constitutional rights do not apply to border searches. So authorities use this legal loophole to do pretty much anything they want at the border.

If that young couple from Buffalo would have had something illegal on their phones, they could have been immediately arrested and put in prison.

And we havenā€™t even gotten to the worst part of the story yet. Just a few days later Akram Shibly and Kelly McCormick took another trip to Canada, and this time border agents physically assaulted Akram when he did not immediately turn over his phone. The following comes from NBC Newsā€¦

Three days later, they returned from another trip to Canada and were stopped again by CBP.

ā€œOne of the officers calls out to me and says, ā€˜Hey, give me your phone,ā€™ā€ recalled Shibly. ā€œAnd I said, ā€˜No, because I already went through this.ā€™ā€

The officer asked a second time.

Within seconds, he was surrounded: one man held his legs, another squeezed his throat from behind. A third reached into his pocket, pulling out his phone. McCormick watched her boyfriendā€™s face turn red as the officerā€™s chokehold tightened.

Is this still America?

I canā€™t believe that this is what the United States has become. When I was young I remember reading about this sort of thing in Nazi Germany, the USSR and Communist China, but I never imagined that it would happen here. For years I have been warning about this growing ā€œBig Brother police state control gridā€, and I wish that more Americans would realize how evil all of this government surveillance truly is.

You can watch an interview where this couple from Buffalo talks to NBC News about this recent incident at the border right here. It is so disgusting that this is how we are treating law abiding people when countless numbers of drug dealers and gang members are pouring across unprotected sections of our border every single day.

Unfortunately, cell phone searches at the border appear to be rising at an exponential rate. According to NBC News, more cell phone searches were conducted at the border during the month of February 2017 than in the entire year of 2015ā€¦

Data provided by the Department of Homeland Security shows that searches of cellphones by border agents has exploded, growing fivefold in just one year, from fewer than 5,000 in 2015 to nearly 25,000 in 2016.

According to DHS officials, 2017 will be a blockbuster year. Five-thousand devices were searched in February alone, more than in all of 2015.

And of course it isnā€™t just searches at the border that you need to be concerned about.

Not too long ago, it was being reported that the CIA has helped the Justice Department with technology that allows law enforcement officials to scan ā€œdata from thousands of U.S. cellphones at a timeā€ from the safety of a planeā€¦

The Central Intelligence Agency played a crucial role in helping the Justice Department develop technology that scans data from thousands of U.S. cellphones at a time, part of a secret high-tech alliance between the spy agency and domestic law enforcement, according to people familiar with the work.

The CIA and the U.S. Marshals Service, an agency of the Justice Department, developed technology to locate specific cellphones in the U.S. through an airborne device that mimics a cellphone tower, these people said.

So the next time a strange plane flies over your house, this may be what is happening.

Here is more on this disturbing new technologyā€¦

The program operates specially equipped planes that fly from five U.S. cities, with a flying range covering most of the U.S. population. Planes are equipped with devicesā€”some past versions were dubbed ā€œdirtboxesā€ by law-enforcement officialsā€”that trick cellphones into reporting their unique registration information.

I have a feeling that if this program was ever challenged in court that it would be ruled unconstitutional, so letā€™s hope that happens as soon as possible.

But then again, the NSA has been collecting and storing all forms of electronic communication for years and nothing is being done about. We have even had a 36-year veteran of the NSA named William Binney come out and publicly admit that all of our phone conversations ā€œare being monitored and storedā€ and still nothing is done to stop it.

So donā€™t do anything on your cell phone that you wouldnā€™t want the government to see, because someday they could use it to nail you.

Of course we also need to use discretion regarding the things that we know the public will be able to see. When you post something to Facebook or Twitter, you may think that it is harmless, but it could end up costing you big time. In fact, I just came across an article about how a number of pastors have actually been fired because of what is on their social media accountsā€¦

ā€œItā€™s not fair I lost my job,ā€ the pastor told me.

ā€œMy church members post a lot worse things than I do on social media. Itā€™s a double standard.ā€

Heā€™s right. It is a double standard. But itā€™s reality. And, with greater frequency, more pastors and church staff are losing their jobs because of what they post, particularly on Facebook and Twitter and, to some extent, their blogs.

By the way, churches will not always tell the pastor the specific reason for the firing. But, once we begin to infuriate our church members with our posts, many will find a myriad of reasons to give us the boot.

Like the title to this article says, what you do on your cell phone could come back to haunt you.

For many Americans, cell phones have become an essential part of modern life, but the truth is that those little electronic devices can also destroy our lives if we are not careful.

So if you are going to use them, use them wisely, because people are watching.



What You Do On Your Cell Phone Could Come Back To Haunt You
 
Professor: Google Home Device Could Allow Government to Listen in on Private Conversations

A professor at the University of Texas thinks that ā€œmission creepā€ could one day lead to the government listening in on private conversations in peopleā€™s homes via the new Google Home device.


Google Home is a newly launched wi-fi connected ā€œsmart speakerā€ that responds to voice commands with relevant information via a virtual speaking assistant. The device is a rival to Amazon Echo, which performs many of the same functions.

According to Dr. Philip Doty, associate dean of the School of Information ........................
A surveillance bug in your home?

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Wakey , wakey sheep thinking you have nothing to hide is gonna get you sooner or later . Your stupidity will not save you from the dangers of stripping your privacy away.

So don't have Google Home or similar devices in your house.

That will work for now, but eventually we will be forced into having it. Those who end up as peasant won't have to have since their homes will be under bridges. Breaking the middle class is the whole goal and all of Obama's mission plan, as was Clinton.............. Ditch the middle class. So yeah once poor ppl won't have to get followed around lol.

But look, want a TV it will spy on you, Need a new fridge it will track and spy on you, cell phone, Anything that has that " Smart" title is going to do just what this google thing does.

Not so long as there is duct tape and tools.
 
Professor: Google Home Device Could Allow Government to Listen in on Private Conversations

A professor at the University of Texas thinks that ā€œmission creepā€ could one day lead to the government listening in on private conversations in peopleā€™s homes via the new Google Home device.


Google Home is a newly launched wi-fi connected ā€œsmart speakerā€ that responds to voice commands with relevant information via a virtual speaking assistant. The device is a rival to Amazon Echo, which performs many of the same functions.

According to Dr. Philip Doty, associate dean of the School of Information ........................
A surveillance bug in your home?

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Wakey , wakey sheep thinking you have nothing to hide is gonna get you sooner or later . Your stupidity will not save you from the dangers of stripping your privacy away.

If they did listen, what would they do with it? Who would review it or care?



WHAT YOU DO ON YOUR CELL PHONE COULD COME BACK TO HAUNT YOU
If the government really wants to see what is on your cell phone, they are going to get that information one way or another
As far as Big Brother is concerned, nothing that you do on your cell phone is ever private.

And if the government really wants to see what is on your cell phone, they are going to get that information one way or another, even if that means resorting to physical violence. On Monday, NBC News provided us with yet another glaring example of how the United States is being transformed into a Big Brother police state. On January 1st, Akram Shibly and Kelly McCormick from Buffalo, New York were coming back home from a trip to Toronto, and they didnā€™t anticipate any unusual problems when they got to the border. Unfortunately for them, U.S. Customs & Border Protection agents decided to take their cell phones, demanded their passwords, and kept them in custody for the next two hours as they searched for anything that might be incriminating on those phones.

You might be thinking that sounds like it should be illegal, and you would be correct, but sadly federal courts have ruled that our constitutional rights do not apply to border searches. So authorities use this legal loophole to do pretty much anything they want at the border.

If that young couple from Buffalo would have had something illegal on their phones, they could have been immediately arrested and put in prison.

And we havenā€™t even gotten to the worst part of the story yet. Just a few days later Akram Shibly and Kelly McCormick took another trip to Canada, and this time border agents physically assaulted Akram when he did not immediately turn over his phone. The following comes from NBC Newsā€¦

Three days later, they returned from another trip to Canada and were stopped again by CBP.

ā€œOne of the officers calls out to me and says, ā€˜Hey, give me your phone,ā€™ā€ recalled Shibly. ā€œAnd I said, ā€˜No, because I already went through this.ā€™ā€

The officer asked a second time.

Within seconds, he was surrounded: one man held his legs, another squeezed his throat from behind. A third reached into his pocket, pulling out his phone. McCormick watched her boyfriendā€™s face turn red as the officerā€™s chokehold tightened.

Is this still America?

I canā€™t believe that this is what the United States has become. When I was young I remember reading about this sort of thing in Nazi Germany, the USSR and Communist China, but I never imagined that it would happen here. For years I have been warning about this growing ā€œBig Brother police state control gridā€, and I wish that more Americans would realize how evil all of this government surveillance truly is.

You can watch an interview where this couple from Buffalo talks to NBC News about this recent incident at the border right here. It is so disgusting that this is how we are treating law abiding people when countless numbers of drug dealers and gang members are pouring across unprotected sections of our border every single day.

Unfortunately, cell phone searches at the border appear to be rising at an exponential rate. According to NBC News, more cell phone searches were conducted at the border during the month of February 2017 than in the entire year of 2015ā€¦

Data provided by the Department of Homeland Security shows that searches of cellphones by border agents has exploded, growing fivefold in just one year, from fewer than 5,000 in 2015 to nearly 25,000 in 2016.

According to DHS officials, 2017 will be a blockbuster year. Five-thousand devices were searched in February alone, more than in all of 2015.

And of course it isnā€™t just searches at the border that you need to be concerned about.

Not too long ago, it was being reported that the CIA has helped the Justice Department with technology that allows law enforcement officials to scan ā€œdata from thousands of U.S. cellphones at a timeā€ from the safety of a planeā€¦

The Central Intelligence Agency played a crucial role in helping the Justice Department develop technology that scans data from thousands of U.S. cellphones at a time, part of a secret high-tech alliance between the spy agency and domestic law enforcement, according to people familiar with the work.

The CIA and the U.S. Marshals Service, an agency of the Justice Department, developed technology to locate specific cellphones in the U.S. through an airborne device that mimics a cellphone tower, these people said.

So the next time a strange plane flies over your house, this may be what is happening.

Here is more on this disturbing new technologyā€¦

The program operates specially equipped planes that fly from five U.S. cities, with a flying range covering most of the U.S. population. Planes are equipped with devicesā€”some past versions were dubbed ā€œdirtboxesā€ by law-enforcement officialsā€”that trick cellphones into reporting their unique registration information.

I have a feeling that if this program was ever challenged in court that it would be ruled unconstitutional, so letā€™s hope that happens as soon as possible.

But then again, the NSA has been collecting and storing all forms of electronic communication for years and nothing is being done about. We have even had a 36-year veteran of the NSA named William Binney come out and publicly admit that all of our phone conversations ā€œare being monitored and storedā€ and still nothing is done to stop it.

So donā€™t do anything on your cell phone that you wouldnā€™t want the government to see, because someday they could use it to nail you.

Of course we also need to use discretion regarding the things that we know the public will be able to see. When you post something to Facebook or Twitter, you may think that it is harmless, but it could end up costing you big time. In fact, I just came across an article about how a number of pastors have actually been fired because of what is on their social media accountsā€¦

ā€œItā€™s not fair I lost my job,ā€ the pastor told me.

ā€œMy church members post a lot worse things than I do on social media. Itā€™s a double standard.ā€

Heā€™s right. It is a double standard. But itā€™s reality. And, with greater frequency, more pastors and church staff are losing their jobs because of what they post, particularly on Facebook and Twitter and, to some extent, their blogs.

By the way, churches will not always tell the pastor the specific reason for the firing. But, once we begin to infuriate our church members with our posts, many will find a myriad of reasons to give us the boot.

Like the title to this article says, what you do on your cell phone could come back to haunt you.

For many Americans, cell phones have become an essential part of modern life, but the truth is that those little electronic devices can also destroy our lives if we are not careful.

So if you are going to use them, use them wisely, because people are watching.



What You Do On Your Cell Phone Could Come Back To Haunt You

It fails to answer the question of what the NSA would want of the average person's conversation? Right now I have 124 cameras at my disposal to watch every nook and corner of the plant. Yet I'm posting to you. Why? Because I have little interest in what people are doing, UNLESS something goes wrong, then I review what the cameras catch. I can read every email and snoop every document. But I have no interest in doing it.

That's the way this all works, unless there is a REASON to examine things, no one is going to bother. What you say in your living room is BORING, no one at the NSA gives a shit.
 
Professor: Google Home Device Could Allow Government to Listen in on Private Conversations

A professor at the University of Texas thinks that ā€œmission creepā€ could one day lead to the government listening in on private conversations in peopleā€™s homes via the new Google Home device.


Google Home is a newly launched wi-fi connected ā€œsmart speakerā€ that responds to voice commands with relevant information via a virtual speaking assistant. The device is a rival to Amazon Echo, which performs many of the same functions.

According to Dr. Philip Doty, associate dean of the School of Information ........................
A surveillance bug in your home?

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Wakey , wakey sheep thinking you have nothing to hide is gonna get you sooner or later . Your stupidity will not save you from the dangers of stripping your privacy away.

If they did listen, what would they do with it? Who would review it or care?



WHAT YOU DO ON YOUR CELL PHONE COULD COME BACK TO HAUNT YOU
If the government really wants to see what is on your cell phone, they are going to get that information one way or another
As far as Big Brother is concerned, nothing that you do on your cell phone is ever private.

And if the government really wants to see what is on your cell phone, they are going to get that information one way or another, even if that means resorting to physical violence. On Monday, NBC News provided us with yet another glaring example of how the United States is being transformed into a Big Brother police state. On January 1st, Akram Shibly and Kelly McCormick from Buffalo, New York were coming back home from a trip to Toronto, and they didnā€™t anticipate any unusual problems when they got to the border. Unfortunately for them, U.S. Customs & Border Protection agents decided to take their cell phones, demanded their passwords, and kept them in custody for the next two hours as they searched for anything that might be incriminating on those phones.

You might be thinking that sounds like it should be illegal, and you would be correct, but sadly federal courts have ruled that our constitutional rights do not apply to border searches. So authorities use this legal loophole to do pretty much anything they want at the border.

If that young couple from Buffalo would have had something illegal on their phones, they could have been immediately arrested and put in prison.

And we havenā€™t even gotten to the worst part of the story yet. Just a few days later Akram Shibly and Kelly McCormick took another trip to Canada, and this time border agents physically assaulted Akram when he did not immediately turn over his phone. The following comes from NBC Newsā€¦

Three days later, they returned from another trip to Canada and were stopped again by CBP.

ā€œOne of the officers calls out to me and says, ā€˜Hey, give me your phone,ā€™ā€ recalled Shibly. ā€œAnd I said, ā€˜No, because I already went through this.ā€™ā€

The officer asked a second time.

Within seconds, he was surrounded: one man held his legs, another squeezed his throat from behind. A third reached into his pocket, pulling out his phone. McCormick watched her boyfriendā€™s face turn red as the officerā€™s chokehold tightened.

Is this still America?

I canā€™t believe that this is what the United States has become. When I was young I remember reading about this sort of thing in Nazi Germany, the USSR and Communist China, but I never imagined that it would happen here. For years I have been warning about this growing ā€œBig Brother police state control gridā€, and I wish that more Americans would realize how evil all of this government surveillance truly is.

You can watch an interview where this couple from Buffalo talks to NBC News about this recent incident at the border right here. It is so disgusting that this is how we are treating law abiding people when countless numbers of drug dealers and gang members are pouring across unprotected sections of our border every single day.

Unfortunately, cell phone searches at the border appear to be rising at an exponential rate. According to NBC News, more cell phone searches were conducted at the border during the month of February 2017 than in the entire year of 2015ā€¦

Data provided by the Department of Homeland Security shows that searches of cellphones by border agents has exploded, growing fivefold in just one year, from fewer than 5,000 in 2015 to nearly 25,000 in 2016.

According to DHS officials, 2017 will be a blockbuster year. Five-thousand devices were searched in February alone, more than in all of 2015.

And of course it isnā€™t just searches at the border that you need to be concerned about.

Not too long ago, it was being reported that the CIA has helped the Justice Department with technology that allows law enforcement officials to scan ā€œdata from thousands of U.S. cellphones at a timeā€ from the safety of a planeā€¦

The Central Intelligence Agency played a crucial role in helping the Justice Department develop technology that scans data from thousands of U.S. cellphones at a time, part of a secret high-tech alliance between the spy agency and domestic law enforcement, according to people familiar with the work.

The CIA and the U.S. Marshals Service, an agency of the Justice Department, developed technology to locate specific cellphones in the U.S. through an airborne device that mimics a cellphone tower, these people said.

So the next time a strange plane flies over your house, this may be what is happening.

Here is more on this disturbing new technologyā€¦

The program operates specially equipped planes that fly from five U.S. cities, with a flying range covering most of the U.S. population. Planes are equipped with devicesā€”some past versions were dubbed ā€œdirtboxesā€ by law-enforcement officialsā€”that trick cellphones into reporting their unique registration information.

I have a feeling that if this program was ever challenged in court that it would be ruled unconstitutional, so letā€™s hope that happens as soon as possible.

But then again, the NSA has been collecting and storing all forms of electronic communication for years and nothing is being done about. We have even had a 36-year veteran of the NSA named William Binney come out and publicly admit that all of our phone conversations ā€œare being monitored and storedā€ and still nothing is done to stop it.

So donā€™t do anything on your cell phone that you wouldnā€™t want the government to see, because someday they could use it to nail you.

Of course we also need to use discretion regarding the things that we know the public will be able to see. When you post something to Facebook or Twitter, you may think that it is harmless, but it could end up costing you big time. In fact, I just came across an article about how a number of pastors have actually been fired because of what is on their social media accountsā€¦

ā€œItā€™s not fair I lost my job,ā€ the pastor told me.

ā€œMy church members post a lot worse things than I do on social media. Itā€™s a double standard.ā€

Heā€™s right. It is a double standard. But itā€™s reality. And, with greater frequency, more pastors and church staff are losing their jobs because of what they post, particularly on Facebook and Twitter and, to some extent, their blogs.

By the way, churches will not always tell the pastor the specific reason for the firing. But, once we begin to infuriate our church members with our posts, many will find a myriad of reasons to give us the boot.

Like the title to this article says, what you do on your cell phone could come back to haunt you.

For many Americans, cell phones have become an essential part of modern life, but the truth is that those little electronic devices can also destroy our lives if we are not careful.

So if you are going to use them, use them wisely, because people are watching.



What You Do On Your Cell Phone Could Come Back To Haunt You

It fails to answer the question of what the NSA would want of the average person's conversation? Right now I have 124 cameras at my disposal to watch every nook and corner of the plant. Yet I'm posting to you. Why? Because I have little interest in what people are doing, UNLESS something goes wrong, then I review what the cameras catch. I can read every email and snoop every document. But I have no interest in doing it.

That's the way this all works, unless there is a REASON to examine things, no one is going to bother. What you say in your living room is BORING, no one at the NSA gives a shit.


Yeah , the average person what would they want, I've heard tons of reasons. But as this system tries turning everyone into a criminal/terrorist those words used six years ago could be used against someone lets say in court for whatever reason.

Example : Lets say ten years ago you just said something like " oh Obama is freaking moron" ( like I do all the time ahah) , but then you get into some incident that calls for you to go to court for whatever reasons..................... Prosecutors are like greedy savages they can pull your emails and or texts from ten years ago and use it against you twisting it into everything it isn't.
 
Professor: Google Home Device Could Allow Government to Listen in on Private Conversations

A professor at the University of Texas thinks that ā€œmission creepā€ could one day lead to the government listening in on private conversations in peopleā€™s homes via the new Google Home device.


Google Home is a newly launched wi-fi connected ā€œsmart speakerā€ that responds to voice commands with relevant information via a virtual speaking assistant. The device is a rival to Amazon Echo, which performs many of the same functions.

According to Dr. Philip Doty, associate dean of the School of Information ........................
A surveillance bug in your home?

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Wakey , wakey sheep thinking you have nothing to hide is gonna get you sooner or later . Your stupidity will not save you from the dangers of stripping your privacy away.

If they did listen, what would they do with it? Who would review it or care?



WHAT YOU DO ON YOUR CELL PHONE COULD COME BACK TO HAUNT YOU
If the government really wants to see what is on your cell phone, they are going to get that information one way or another
As far as Big Brother is concerned, nothing that you do on your cell phone is ever private.

And if the government really wants to see what is on your cell phone, they are going to get that information one way or another, even if that means resorting to physical violence. On Monday, NBC News provided us with yet another glaring example of how the United States is being transformed into a Big Brother police state. On January 1st, Akram Shibly and Kelly McCormick from Buffalo, New York were coming back home from a trip to Toronto, and they didnā€™t anticipate any unusual problems when they got to the border. Unfortunately for them, U.S. Customs & Border Protection agents decided to take their cell phones, demanded their passwords, and kept them in custody for the next two hours as they searched for anything that might be incriminating on those phones.

You might be thinking that sounds like it should be illegal, and you would be correct, but sadly federal courts have ruled that our constitutional rights do not apply to border searches. So authorities use this legal loophole to do pretty much anything they want at the border.

If that young couple from Buffalo would have had something illegal on their phones, they could have been immediately arrested and put in prison.

And we havenā€™t even gotten to the worst part of the story yet. Just a few days later Akram Shibly and Kelly McCormick took another trip to Canada, and this time border agents physically assaulted Akram when he did not immediately turn over his phone. The following comes from NBC Newsā€¦

Three days later, they returned from another trip to Canada and were stopped again by CBP.

ā€œOne of the officers calls out to me and says, ā€˜Hey, give me your phone,ā€™ā€ recalled Shibly. ā€œAnd I said, ā€˜No, because I already went through this.ā€™ā€

The officer asked a second time.

Within seconds, he was surrounded: one man held his legs, another squeezed his throat from behind. A third reached into his pocket, pulling out his phone. McCormick watched her boyfriendā€™s face turn red as the officerā€™s chokehold tightened.

Is this still America?

I canā€™t believe that this is what the United States has become. When I was young I remember reading about this sort of thing in Nazi Germany, the USSR and Communist China, but I never imagined that it would happen here. For years I have been warning about this growing ā€œBig Brother police state control gridā€, and I wish that more Americans would realize how evil all of this government surveillance truly is.

You can watch an interview where this couple from Buffalo talks to NBC News about this recent incident at the border right here. It is so disgusting that this is how we are treating law abiding people when countless numbers of drug dealers and gang members are pouring across unprotected sections of our border every single day.

Unfortunately, cell phone searches at the border appear to be rising at an exponential rate. According to NBC News, more cell phone searches were conducted at the border during the month of February 2017 than in the entire year of 2015ā€¦

Data provided by the Department of Homeland Security shows that searches of cellphones by border agents has exploded, growing fivefold in just one year, from fewer than 5,000 in 2015 to nearly 25,000 in 2016.

According to DHS officials, 2017 will be a blockbuster year. Five-thousand devices were searched in February alone, more than in all of 2015.

And of course it isnā€™t just searches at the border that you need to be concerned about.

Not too long ago, it was being reported that the CIA has helped the Justice Department with technology that allows law enforcement officials to scan ā€œdata from thousands of U.S. cellphones at a timeā€ from the safety of a planeā€¦

The Central Intelligence Agency played a crucial role in helping the Justice Department develop technology that scans data from thousands of U.S. cellphones at a time, part of a secret high-tech alliance between the spy agency and domestic law enforcement, according to people familiar with the work.

The CIA and the U.S. Marshals Service, an agency of the Justice Department, developed technology to locate specific cellphones in the U.S. through an airborne device that mimics a cellphone tower, these people said.

So the next time a strange plane flies over your house, this may be what is happening.

Here is more on this disturbing new technologyā€¦

The program operates specially equipped planes that fly from five U.S. cities, with a flying range covering most of the U.S. population. Planes are equipped with devicesā€”some past versions were dubbed ā€œdirtboxesā€ by law-enforcement officialsā€”that trick cellphones into reporting their unique registration information.

I have a feeling that if this program was ever challenged in court that it would be ruled unconstitutional, so letā€™s hope that happens as soon as possible.

But then again, the NSA has been collecting and storing all forms of electronic communication for years and nothing is being done about. We have even had a 36-year veteran of the NSA named William Binney come out and publicly admit that all of our phone conversations ā€œare being monitored and storedā€ and still nothing is done to stop it.

So donā€™t do anything on your cell phone that you wouldnā€™t want the government to see, because someday they could use it to nail you.

Of course we also need to use discretion regarding the things that we know the public will be able to see. When you post something to Facebook or Twitter, you may think that it is harmless, but it could end up costing you big time. In fact, I just came across an article about how a number of pastors have actually been fired because of what is on their social media accountsā€¦

ā€œItā€™s not fair I lost my job,ā€ the pastor told me.

ā€œMy church members post a lot worse things than I do on social media. Itā€™s a double standard.ā€

Heā€™s right. It is a double standard. But itā€™s reality. And, with greater frequency, more pastors and church staff are losing their jobs because of what they post, particularly on Facebook and Twitter and, to some extent, their blogs.

By the way, churches will not always tell the pastor the specific reason for the firing. But, once we begin to infuriate our church members with our posts, many will find a myriad of reasons to give us the boot.

Like the title to this article says, what you do on your cell phone could come back to haunt you.

For many Americans, cell phones have become an essential part of modern life, but the truth is that those little electronic devices can also destroy our lives if we are not careful.

So if you are going to use them, use them wisely, because people are watching.



What You Do On Your Cell Phone Could Come Back To Haunt You

It fails to answer the question of what the NSA would want of the average person's conversation? Right now I have 124 cameras at my disposal to watch every nook and corner of the plant. Yet I'm posting to you. Why? Because I have little interest in what people are doing, UNLESS something goes wrong, then I review what the cameras catch. I can read every email and snoop every document. But I have no interest in doing it.

That's the way this all works, unless there is a REASON to examine things, no one is going to bother. What you say in your living room is BORING, no one at the NSA gives a shit.

You don't have to be important , for this to be used against you. It doesn't matter if people think they aren't important enough for the Government to have any interest in you. If you were not important enough to spy on, listen to the Entire population would not be getting spied on. WE ARE THE TERRORIST" and 911 was used to make people accept all this spying upon us. If spying on us was for terrorist they sure in the hell wouldn't use Home appliances to do it, our cell phones is pure bs they want into every aspect of our lives. Some of this spying can in the near future dictate the cost of your health insurance, but that is another issue.

Another Example :

In other words, your life and all of your communications ā€” from your emails, your web searches, medical records, and financial information, to your reading this article and clicking this web site ā€” has been ā€œhoovered upā€ by the US governmentā€™s spying machine, to be used against you at some future time, if the powers that be so choose.

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THE NSAā€™S TECHNOTYRANNY: ONE NATION UNDER SURVEILLANCE
The police state is about to pass off the baton to the surveillance state

ā€œThe ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control.ā€ā€”William Binney, NSA whistleblower
We now have a fourth branch of government.

As I document in my new book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, this fourth branch came into being without any electoral mandate or constitutional referendum, and yet it possesses superpowers, above and beyond those of any other government agency save the military. It is all-knowing, all-seeing and all-powerful. It operates beyond the reach of the president, Congress and the courts, and it marches in lockstep with the corporate elite who really call the shots in Washington, DC.

You might know this branch of government as Surveillance, but I prefer ā€œtechnotyranny,ā€ a term coined by investigative journalist James Bamford to refer to an age of technological tyranny made possible by government secrets, government lies, government spies and their corporate ties.

Beware of what you say, what you read, what you write, where you go, and with whom you communicate, because it will all be recorded, stored and used against you eventually, at a time and place of the governmentā€™s choosing. Privacy, as we have known it, is dead.

The police state is about to pass off the baton to the surveillance state.

Having already transformed local police into extensions of the military, the Department of Homeland Security, the Justice Department and the FBI are preparing to turn the nationā€™s soldier cops into techno-warriors, complete with iris scanners, body scanners, thermal imaging Doppler radar devices, facial recognition programs, license plate readers, cell phone Stingray devices and so much more.

This is about to be the new face of policing in America.

The National Security Agency (NSA) has been a perfect red herring, distracting us from the governmentā€™s broader, technology-driven campaign to render us helpless in the face of its prying eyes. In fact, long before the NSA became the agency we loved to hate, the Justice Department, the FBI, and the Drug Enforcement Administration were carrying out their own secret mass surveillance on an unsuspecting populace.

Just about every branch of the governmentā€”from the Postal Service to the Treasury Department and every agency in betweenā€”now has its own surveillance sector, authorized to spy on the American people. Then there are the fusion and counterterrorism centers that gather all of the data from the smaller government spiesā€”the police, public health officials, transportation, etc.ā€”and make it accessible for all those in power. And of course that doesnā€™t even begin to touch on the complicity of the corporate sector, which buys and sells us from cradle to grave, until we have no more data left to mine.

The raging debate over the fate of the NSAā€™s blatantly unconstitutional, illegal and ongoing domestic surveillance programs is just so much noise, what Shakespeare referred to as ā€œsound and fury, signifying nothing.ā€

It means nothing: the legislation, the revelations, the task forces, and the filibusters.

The government is not giving up, nor is it giving in. It has stopped listening to us. It has long since ceased to take orders from ā€œwe the people.ā€

If you havenā€™t figured it out yet, none of itā€”the military drills, the surveillance, the militarized police, the strip searches, the random pat downs, the stop-and-frisks, even the police-worn body camerasā€”is about fighting terrorism. Itā€™s about controlling the populace.

Despite the fact that its data snooping has been shown to be ineffective at detecting, let alone stopping, any actual terror attacks, the NSA continues to operate largely in secret, carrying out warrantless mass surveillance on hundreds of millions of Americansā€™ phone calls, emails, text messages and the like, beyond the scrutiny of most of Congress and the taxpayers who are forced to fund its multi-billion dollar secret black ops budget.

Legislation such as the USA Patriot Act serves only to legitimize the actions of a secret agency run by a shadow government. Even the proposed and ultimately defeated USA Freedom Act, which purported to restrict the reach of the NSAā€™s phone surveillance programā€”at least on paperā€”by requiring the agency to secure a warrant before surveillance could be carried out on American citizens and prohibiting the agency from storing any data collected on Americans, amounted to little more than a paper tiger: threatening in appearance, but lacking any real bite.

The question of how to deal with the NSAā€”an agency that operates outside of the system of checks and balances established by the Constitutionā€”is a divisive issue that polarizes even those who have opposed the NSAā€™s warrantless surveillance from the get-go, forcing all of usā€”cynics, idealists, politicians and realists alikeā€”to grapple with a deeply unsatisfactory and dubious political ā€œsolutionā€ to a problem that operates beyond the reach of voters and politicians: how do you trust a government that lies, cheats, steals, sidesteps the law, and then absolves itself of wrongdoing to actually obey the law?

Since its official start in 1952, when President Harry S. Truman issued a secret executive order establishing the NSA as the hub of the governmentā€™s foreign intelligence activities, the agencyā€”nicknamed ā€œNo Such Agencyā€ā€”has operated covertly, unaccountable to Congress all the while using taxpayer dollars to fund its secret operations. It was only when the agency ballooned to 90,000 employees in 1969, making it the largest intelligence agency in the world with a significant footprint outside Washington, DC, that it became more difficult to deny its existence.

In the aftermath of Watergate in 1975, the Senate held meetings under the Church Committee in order to determine exactly what sorts of illicit activities the American intelligence apparatus was engaged in under the direction of President Nixon, and how future violations of the law could be stopped. It was the first time the NSA was exposed to public scrutiny since its creation.

The investigation revealed a sophisticated operation whose surveillance programs paid little heed to such things as the Constitution. For instance, under Project SHAMROCK, the NSA spied on telegrams to and from the U.S., as well as the correspondence of American citizens. Moreover, as the Saturday Evening Post reports, ā€œUnder Project MINARET, the NSA monitored the communications of civil rights leaders and opponents of the Vietnam War, including targets such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Mohammed Ali, Jane Fonda, and two active U.S. Senators. The NSA had launched this program in 1967 to monitor suspected terrorists and drug traffickers, but successive presidents used it to track all manner of political dissidents.ā€

Senator Frank Church (D-Ida.), who served as the chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence that investigated the NSA, understood only too well the dangers inherent in allowing the government to overstep its authority in the name of national security. Church recognized that such surveillance powers ā€œat any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left, such is the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesnā€™t matter. There would be no place to hide.ā€

Noting that the NSA could enable a dictator ā€œto impose total tyrannyā€ upon an utterly defenseless American public, Church declared that he did not ā€œwant to see this country ever go across the bridgeā€ of constitutional protection, congressional oversight and popular demand for privacy. He avowed that ā€œwe,ā€ implicating both Congress and its constituency in this duty, ā€œmust see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision, so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return.ā€

The result was the passage of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), and the creation of the FISA Court, which was supposed to oversee and correct how intelligence information is collected and collated. The law requires that the NSA get clearance from the FISA Court, a secret surveillance court, before it can carry out surveillance on American citizens. Fast forward to the present day, and the so-called solution to the problem of government entities engaging in unjustified and illegal surveillanceā€”the FISA Courtā€”has unwittingly become the enabler of such activities, rubberstamping almost every warrant request submitted to it.

The 9/11 attacks served as a watershed moment in our nationā€™s history, ushering in an era in which immoral and/or illegal government activities such as surveillance, torture, strip searches, SWAT team raids are sanctioned as part of the quest to keep us ā€œsafe.ā€

In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, George W. Bush secretly authorized the NSA to conduct warrantless surveillance on Americansā€™ phone calls and emails. That wireless wiretap program was reportedly ended in 2007 after the New York Times reported on it, to mass indignation.

Nothing changed under Barack Obama. In fact, the violations worsened, with the NSA authorized to secretly collect internet and telephone data on millions of Americans, as well as on foreign governments.

It was only after whistleblower Edward Snowdenā€™s revelations in 2013 that the American people fully understood the extent to which they had been betrayed once again.

What this brief history of the NSA makes clear is that you cannot reform the NSA.

As long as the government is allowed to make a mockery of the lawā€”be it the Constitution, the FISA Act or any other law intended to limit its reach and curtail its activitiesā€”and is permitted to operate behind closed doors, relaying on secret courts, secret budgets and secret interpretations of the laws of the land, there will be no reform.

Presidents, politicians, and court rulings have come and gone over the course of the NSAā€™s 60-year history, but none of them have done much to put an end to the NSAā€™s ā€œtechnotyranny.ā€

The beast has outgrown its chains. It will not be restrained.

The growing tension seen and felt throughout the country is a tension between those who wield power on behalf of the governmentā€”the president, Congress, the courts, the military, the militarized police, the technocrats, the faceless unelected bureaucrats who blindly obey and carry out government directives, no matter how immoral or unjust, and the corporationsā€”and those among the populace who are finally waking up to the mounting injustices, seething corruption and endless tyrannies that are transforming our country into a technocrized police state.

At every turn, we have been handicapped in our quest for transparency, accountability and a representative democracy by an establishment culture of secrecy: secret agencies, secret experiments, secret military bases, secret surveillance, secret budgets, and secret court rulings, all of which exist beyond our reach, operate outside our knowledge, and do not answer to ā€œwe the people.ā€

What we have failed to truly comprehend is that the NSA is merely one small part of a shadowy permanent government comprised of unelected bureaucrats who march in lockstep with profit-driven corporations that actually runs Washington, DC, and works to keep us under surveillance and, thus, under control. For example, Google openly works with the NSA, Amazon has built a massive $600 million intelligence database for CIA, and the telecommunications industry is making a fat profit by spying on us for the government.

In other words, Corporate America is making a hefty profit by aiding and abetting the government in its domestic surveillance efforts. Conveniently, as the Intercept recently revealed, many of the NSAā€™s loudest defenders have financial ties to NSA contractors.

Thus, if this secret regime not only exists but thrives, it is because we have allowed it through our ignorance, apathy and naĆÆve trust in politicians who take their orders from Corporate America rather than the Constitution.

If this shadow government persists, it is because we have yet to get outraged enough to push back against its power grabs and put an end to its high-handed tactics.

And if this unelected bureaucracy succeeds in trampling underfoot our last vestiges of privacy and freedom, it will be because we let ourselves be fooled into believing that politics matters, that voting makes a difference, that politicians actually represent the citizenry, that the courts care about justice, and that everything that is being done is in our best interests.

Indeed, as political scientist Michael J. Glennon warns, you can vote all you want, but the people you elect arenā€™t actually the ones calling the shots. ā€œThe American people are deluded ā€¦ that the institutions that provide the public face actually set American national security policy,ā€ stated Glennon. ā€œThey believe that when they vote for a president or member of Congress or succeed in bringing a case before the courts, that policy is going to change. But ā€¦ policy by and large in the national security realm is made by the concealed institutions.ā€

In other words, it doesnā€™t matter who occupies the White House: the secret government with its secret agencies, secret budgets and secret programs wonā€™t change. It will simply continue to operate in secret until some whistleblower comes along to momentarily pull back the curtain and we dutifullyā€”and fleetinglyā€”play the part of the outraged public, demanding accountability and rattling our cages, all the while bringing about little real reform.

Thus, the lesson of the NSA and its vast network of domestic spy partners is simply this: once you allow the government to start breaking the law, no matter how seemingly justifiable the reason, you relinquish the contract between you and the government which establishes that the government works for and obeys you, the citizenā€”the employerā€”the master.

Once the government starts operating outside the law, answerable to no one but itself, thereā€™s no way to rein it back in, short of revolution. And by revolution, I mean doing away with the entire structure, because the corruption and lawlessness have become that pervasive.



The NSAā€™s Technotyranny: One Nation Under Surveillance
 

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