Search Results for ‘fusion center’ — 173 articles
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Target is really, really into surveillance
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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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DHS findings: People are insufficiently suspicious of their neighbors!
How can you be a better
snitchpatriot? How can DHS make you feel more comfortable calling, texting, tweeting, facebooking, emailing, or mobile app-ing your concerns about the people around you to the police or the feds? Why don't you feel comfortable doing this now? Why aren't you more afraid?DHS wants to know.
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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.
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DHS: we don’t spy on activists! NYPD: we do!
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Targets of the Surveillance System: We the People in a “Nation of Immigrants”
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...
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“How Big Brother is Getting Bigger in the Internet Age”
by Carol Rose Henry Steele Commager Annual Speech Greenfield Community College | November 2010 It is an honor to be invited to give the Henry Steele Commager address, since Professor Commager was an ardent defender of the Constitution and the...
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What is a “police state”? Do we live in one?
In a police state the government maintains a repressive social control over the population, and people have little freedom to exercise political power or openly express controversial views. In many police states, the military is in charge. In the United...
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The ghosts in our machines: DHS’ “complete operational awareness”
You are leaving work, walking through the city, tweeting about politics and texting your friend about dinner plans. You turn the corner to skip down the stairs to get the train. You are focused on your phone: twitter, the music in your ears. You slide your metro card through the electronic card reader and step inside.
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Thursday technology links round-up
From über cheap internet sniffing spyware to surveillance drones capable of capturing 80 years worth of video in a day, this week's been another doozy in the technologies of control department. Oh, and if you are reading this, the FBI probably thinks you are suspicious.