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What’s going on with the New York City subway system?
Contrary to the company's August 13, 2012 claim, evidence suggests that Cubic Corporation, a defense and transportation services company, manages sales of TrapWire to US law enforcement through a McClean, VA based firm, Abraxas Applications.
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Charlotte activist held on $10,000 bail for revoked license, told he is on “terror” watch list
A strange thing happened in Charlotte during the run-up to the Democratic National Convention. James Ian Tyson, a local activist, was on his way to a counter-DNC protest when he was arrested for driving with a revoked license. Police held him on a $10,000 cash bond, a highly unusual sum for such a minor crime.
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Who’s Watching the Watch-Lists?
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...
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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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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
Drug war provides cover for retroactive surveillance without probable cause
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Biometrics nightmare: coming to a street corner near you
Think you can escape the biometrics matrix because you've never been arrested, or because you are a US citizen? Not so fast.
