Militarized police encounter few protesters in Tampa
The federal government flooded Tampa with $50 million for weapons, high-tech CCTV cameras and other police and surveillance costs associated with this week's Republican National Convention.
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Who says some NSA officials ain’t misbehavin’?
We don’t know much about what the NSA is doing. What we do know – and what we suspect - is featured in today’s New York Times.
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Longtime Black Panther associate was FBI informant, report says
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Corporate data management for law enforcement and confidential informants
Yesterday I wrote a quick blog about the data-mining and electronic systems management firm NTREPID, which produced a strange document purporting to show the network of power connecting "anarchists" in the United States. The most powerful image associated with that product was the following, which purports to lay out the connections between supposedly "anarchist" activists and organizations, including PBS, Citizen Radio and Occupy Oakland.
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Terror Tuesday: The duel over state-sponsored homicide
United Nations headquarters, NYC
The combatants are hardly evenly matched. A man armed with nothing but the paper weapon of international law stares down the firing range at the most formidable military machine the world has ever known.
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Anarchist threat modeling and private data-mining for intelligence
Yesterday the independent surveillance researcher Asher Wolf tweeted an astonishing link to a private intelligence corporation's website containing a document entitled: "Tartan Influence Model: Anarchist Groups." The document was published by a corporation called Tartan Metrics, a division of the information security, cyberwar and surveillance company NTREPID -- a company that
Spy tech secretly embeds itself in phones, monitors and operates them from afar
In 2008, a Reston, VA based corporation called Oceans' Edge, Inc. applied for a patent. On March, 2012 the company's application for an advanced mobile snooping technology suite was approved.
Trapwire and data mining: What we know
These days every news cycle brings us more thoroughly disturbing reasons to be concerned about pervasive digital monitoring in the United States. This week things got extra interesting with the revelation of an enormous, shadowy surveillance company with deep ties to the CIA: Trapwire exploded on the surveillance scene like a bat out of hell. And people are justifiably freaked out about it.
