Terrorist watch lists are supposed to flag terrorist suspects. But far from pinpointing actual threats, they are becoming a watchword for database mistakes and information overload. According to the December 30, 2010 Washington Post, “a single source tip, as long as it...
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.
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
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Please note that by playing this clip YouTube and Google will place a long-term cookie on your computer. Target corporation was the first to join a DHS program meant to bring corporations to the table for national security and disaster related discussions. In the video above, two Target executives sit at the table with FEMA for an event kicking off their collaboration.
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The recent dramatic expansion of intelligence collection at the federal, state and local level raises profound civil liberties concerns regarding individual privacy and other freedoms and protections we used to take for granted. No one who has a bank account and makes...
Drug war provides cover for retroactive surveillance without probable cause
Target is really, really into surveillance
The monster in our midst
It’s no secret that the Department of Homeland Security with some 200,000 employees is a federal bureaucracy on steroids.
DHS: we don’t spy on activists! NYPD: we do!
Targets of the Surveillance System: We the People in a “Nation of Immigrants”
Who knew our country was crawling with terrorists?