Google, CIA Fund Startup To Monitor Internet

This just in from Wired.com’s Danger Room blog: Google and the CIA are working together to monitor people on the internet real-time in order to predict people’s actions and behaviors as well as events. The report states that both the Central Intelligence Agency and Google are backing a company called Recorded Future. Recorded Future monitors […]

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Australia Creating Facial Recognition Database of Citizens

The Australian government has been busy mapping the facial features of adult citizens that will be stored in a government database and used with facial recognition software to identify and track people on public surveillance cameras. Until now, few Australians were aware that their facial features were being mapped and stored in a central database […]

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People Worried About Big Brother Surveillance In Britain

Due to its heavy reliance on public surveillance cameras, growing public databases and intrusive government power over its citizens daily lives, Britain has become a poster nation for the modern “surveillance society”. Britain was recently ranked as one of the five worst nations for its record on privacy and surveillance. However the surveillance of citizen […]

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Parents Hire Drug Sniffing Dogs To Monitor Teens

Ali is a specially trained German shepherd that has eight years of experience sniffing out narcotics for law enforcement. He now works for a private company, sniffing around teenagers’ bedrooms for drugs. Ali works for a New Jersey company called Sniff Dogs. Sniff Dogs rents drug-sniffing dogs to parents for around $200 an hour. The […]

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People Recorded 3,000 Times A Week By British Surveillance Network

The U.K.’s Telegraph is reporting that the average British citizen is recorded around 3,000 times per week. Every phone call, use of a card or computer, creates personal information that is being recorded and stored on British citizens. The Sunday Telegraph is reporting on the vast amounts of personal data that is being recorded on […]

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