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my.barackobama.com: Senator Obama - Please Vote NO on Telecom Immunity - Get FISA Right
This group on my.barackobama.com protests Obama's lack of a clear stance on telecom immunity.
yasns  privacy  surveillance  elections 
july 2008 by McChris
City Pages: Moles Wanted
The FBI is looking for informants to go to "Vegan Potlucks" in the Twin Cities and report on potential protests during this years Republican National Convention.
minnesota  surveillance  vegan  protest  lawenforcement 
may 2008 by McChris
design history: The Evolution of Mugshot Design
There are only four examples on this LiveJournal post, but they do provide some insights into the priorities of inmate information management over the last two centuries.
photography  lawenforcement  surveillance  information_design 
march 2008 by McChris
TPM Muckraker: U.S. Court Shuts Down Whistleblower Site
A California judge has ordered an ISP to stop DNS service for Wikileaks.org at the request of a Swiss bank.
wiki  law  censorship  surveillance 
february 2008 by McChris
Camera Van by Harrod Blank
The Camera Van was one of the cooler things I saw at Maker Faire. Most of the cameras are clearly non-functional, but apparently it takes pictures too.
artcar  transportation  maker_faire  neato  surveillance 
october 2007 by McChris
Get My FBI File
This free service apparently drafts FOIA requests for folks interested in knowing what's in their federal surveillance files.
surveillance  lawenforcement  humor  neato 
october 2007 by McChris
Leaked Media Defender e-mails reveal secret government project
bittorrent  surveillance  copyright  p2p  lawenforcement 
september 2007 by McChris
Google's "Street View" and Privacy in Public
Michael Zimmer discusses how unwitting participants can appear in Google Maps' "street view" and suggests a few policies to maintain persons' privacy online.
google  privacy  photography  surveillance  googlemaps 
may 2007 by McChris
Cinematical: Director Mike Figgis Detained for Threatening to "Shoot a Pilot"
I think it's worth posting this story from the weekend, but I suspect the TSA agent wasn't so stupid as he or she wanted to be a jerk. It was LAX after all.
stupid  homelandsecurity  TV  surveillance 
may 2007 by McChris
German Police Collecting Scents on Protestors
In anticipation of the G8 summit, cops are experimenting with a technique that uses scent to identify activists. Clearly tahis is a case of patchouli profiling.
surveillance  lawenforcement  protest 
may 2007 by McChris
MPAA’s Anti-Piracy Dogs, Great Publicity but Nothing Special
This TorrentFreak post discusses how the MPAA's dogs supposedly trained to sniff out pirated DVDs are in practice useless because many common objects are made of the same polycarbonate plastic.
stupid  surveillance  MPAA  intellectualproperty  DVD 
april 2007 by McChris
O'Reilly Radar: Call for a Blogger's Code of Conduct
Tim O'Reilly calls for a blogger's code in response to the harassment of Kathy Sierra. The problem is that trolls and griefers aren't going to follow the rules.
blog  ethics  surveillance 
april 2007 by McChris
Michael Zimmer: All Eyes On You: Cellphone cameras & cyber-shaming
I do wonder how cyber-shaming is different from sousveillance, but I do think this practice creates interesting and important ethical issues.
ethics  surveillance  privacy 
march 2007 by McChris
Stateville Prison in Joliet, 1992
This Illinois prison has a furreal panopticon.
image  prison  surveillance 
february 2007 by McChris
27B Stroke 6: Wikileaks spilled
The archive of the email list used to organize Wikileaks has been posted online. Wikileaks seems like a really interesting project, partly because a wiki seems like the wrong software solution for their project.
wiki  surveillance  email 
january 2007 by McChris
The Texas Observer: The Spies of Texas
"Newfound files detail how UT-Austin police tracked the lives of Sixties dissidents." Lloyd Doggett, Janis Joplin, and Kinky Friedman were all under surveillance.
austin  utexas  surveillance  lawenforcement  history  politics 
november 2006 by McChris
AlterNet: MediaCulture: Will Google Take the Internet Over the Cliff?
"as the Goo-Tube model develops, behind each video will be a powerful connection to an ad, targeted to the user's online behavior, as well as the stealth collection of personal data."
TVontheWeb  surveillance  google  advertising 
october 2006 by McChris
Caution: You’re live on the web
While TV news crews think they may be off the air, some feeds are still available live online. During yesterday's coverage of a plane crash in Manhattan, a local reporter told the internets a camera was "a hunk of junk."
TVontheWeb  broadcast  surveillance  weird 
october 2006 by McChris
Satellite Radio TechWorld: Arbitron Personal Meter
Via TechDirt, the FCC has approved Arbitron's portable people meter, which constantly monitors media for audio watermarks to get ratings.
audience  radio  FCC  ratings  surveillance 
october 2006 by McChris
The Register: Google developing eavesdropping software
Via Slashdot, this system would use internal PC microphones to monitor the media diets of users. When Nielsen and Arbitron roll out their portable "People Meters" a lot of content will be watermarked for data collection like this.
surveillance  google  privacy  advertising  audience  business 
september 2006 by McChris
BBC NEWS: Two killed as artwork 'lifts off'
"The sculpture - called Dreamspace - is thought to have drifted for up to 40 metres before catching on a CCTV camera post and coming down near a children's playground." I say we blame the surveillance cameras rather than the inflatable sculpture.
art  surveillance  disaster  scary 
july 2006 by McChris
Little Brother Is Watching
I think I missed this the first time around, but plans are in the works to have Hong Kong scouting-like groups to scour message boards for copyright infringement.
scouting  China  surveillance  copyright  intellectualproperty 
july 2006 by McChris
Collectivate.net - 'journalisms' - Collective Action
This is an interesting rant about commons-based peer production, Wikipedia, del.icio.us, and all that jazz.
production  del.icio.us  wikipedia  surveillance  politicaleconomy  Web2.0 
july 2006 by McChris
New Scientist Technology - Pentagon sets its sights on social networking websites
"New Scientist has discovered that Pentagon's National Security Agency, which specialises in eavesdropping and code-breaking, is funding research into the mass harvesting of the information that people post about themselves on social networks. "
surveillance  myspace  yasns  nsa  privacy 
june 2006 by McChris
Graphic language for touch / timo arnall
These icons are designed to identify how a given RFID tag operates.
surveillance  design  rfid 
may 2006 by McChris
Wired News: Whistle-Blower's Evidence, Uncut
The internet news site has published 30 pages of documents that detail AT&T's compliance with the NSA's domestic spying program. These are under seal in the EFF's litigation against AT&T, but I'm glad they're out in the open.
news  telecom  nsa  surveillance 
may 2006 by McChris
Dear NSA
"Mining our collective wisdom since 2001 — we really listen to your problems!"
humor  surveillance 
may 2006 by McChris
Talking Points Memo: phone companies are spooky places ...
A TPM reader describes his experience working at a Bell. It doesn't surprise me that intelligence folks are experts in data management and mining, but it's icky the RBOCs would be so buddy-buddy with the intelligence world.
power  telecom  surveillance 
may 2006 by McChris
RFID for animals in heat
Let's just hope they don't develop a similar system for humans.
weird  agriculture  surveillance  rfid 
may 2006 by McChris
London 2006, Meet 1984
British surveillance camera footage to be offered live and on-demand to home subscribers.
TV  cable  whoa  surveillance 
may 2006 by McChris
Spacegrinder! - MPAA training police dogs to sniff out DVDs
via /. - the copyright cops are really out of control.
lawenforcement  DVD  film  intellectualproperty  copyright  surveillance 
may 2006 by McChris
Laugh Trackers
Excerpt from a recently declassified FBI memo concerning the 1960s skit comedy show "Laugh-In." Frankly, I would be more worried about the Smothers Brothers.
stupid  lawenforcement  TV  surveillance 
may 2006 by McChris
CIA mines 'rich' content from blogs
CIA now uses blogs to get public opinion data.
politics  power  blog  surveillance 
april 2006 by McChris
Cops Walk the Cyberbeat in MySpace
Newsweek story about law enforcement's use of MySpace to solve crimes, maintain order.
yasns  surveillance  myspace  lawenforcement 
april 2006 by McChris
Clooney Takes Aim at 'Gawker Stalker' Site
George Clooney plans to crapflood Gawker to make it's celebrity sightings useless. Interesting instance of a breakdown of trust on the semantic Web. :)
blog  surveillance  media  celebrity 
april 2006 by McChris
Ticketed for wearing earphones on a bus
Yet another reason I'm glad I didn't move to Orange County. I don't think I saw a bus the whole time I was there.
lawenforcement  stupid  surveillance  power  music 
march 2006 by McChris
Indymedia, Food Not Bombs on “Terrorist Watch List”
Austin Indymedia reports on a talk given by an FBI officer at UT Law School. I'm not sure how giving food to hungry people is a terrorist act.
power  surveillance  indymedia  lawenforcement  anti-war  stupid 
march 2006 by McChris
The Minnesota GOP’s Stealth Attack On Privacy
Republican spyware with no privacy policy
surveillance  politics  power  spyware 
march 2006 by McChris
Inside Higher Ed :: Facebook Face Off
Syracuse students disciplined for talking smack about a freshman comp instructor on Facebook.
yasns  surveillance  power  blog 
february 2006 by McChris
Attention Trust
Organization to push for greater transparency in the way that user data is collected, stored, and analyzed. It's a great idea, but seems a little impractical today.
surveillance  attention  Web2.0  power 
february 2006 by McChris
The MySpace Report :: Trent Lapinski's Blog :: Everything and Nothing At All
This describes the background of MySpace principals including their involvement with shady dot-coms with invasive privacy policies.
yasns  surveillance 
february 2006 by McChris
Surveillance Prompts a Suit: Police v. Police - New York Times
NYPD spying on union and political activities of officers.
surveillance  politics  power  labor  socialjustice 
february 2006 by McChris
A Protest, a Spy Program and a Campus in an Uproar - New York Times
anti-war  surveillance 
january 2006 by McChris

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