After Bin Laden was assassinated, a Tacoma, Washington 7th grader, Timi Robertson, posted to his Facebook page. He suggested that President Obama should be careful and lookout for retaliation in the form of suicide bombings.
Then the Secret Service showed up at his middle school. He was pulled out of class and interrogated without his parents present.
If you don’t think privacy matters all that much, the unfolding British eavesdropping saga should make you think again.
The BBC reports that Scotland Yard's first camera was used to spy on the 'terrorists' of 1912: women fighting for their right to vote. (via BoingBoing)
DHS documents published by the "Uncover the Truth" coalition reveal that the FBI is using biometric data gleaned through the immigration program "Secure Communities" to beef-up its new mega-database of biometric information, the "Next Generation Identification" system. Read more and see the documents.
According to J. Edgar Hoover's FBI, yes! Wales Online reports on a BBC 2 documentary that will be aired today in the UK describing how Robeson was the target of a cross-continental FBI and M15 investigation. Robeson apparently had the largest FBI file of any entertainer ever.
The Wall Street Journal reports that the Chinese government has selected Cisco Systems Inc. to help it implement a vast surveillance regime in the Chongqing region. The project will involve up to 500,000 surveillance cameras.
The 2010 US government wiretap report has been released, showing an increase of 34% from 2009 with 84% of wiretap cases involving drugs. But as many security experts have observed, the numbers in the official wiretap report are necessarily vastly understated.