Loss of Privacy

From Democracy Now! You can read the transcript while watching the video.

Investors at the CIA and Google are backing a company called “Recorded Future” that monitors tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts in real time in order to find patterns, events and relationships that may predict the future. The news comes amidst Google’s so-called “Wi-Spy” scandal, that refers to revelations that Google’s Street View cars operating in some thirty countries snooped on private Wi-Fi networks over the last three years.

From EPIC:

On July 20, 2010, the Department of Homeland Security announced a substantial change in the deployment of body scanners in US airports. According to the DHS Secretary, the devices, which had once been part of a pilot program for seconary screening, will now be deployed in 28 additional airports. The devices are designed to capture and store photographic images of naked air travelers. EPIC has filed an emergency motion in federal court, urging the suspension of the program and citing violations of several federal statutes and the Fourth Amendment. Public opposition to the program is also growing. For more information, see EPIC v. DHS (Body scanners) and EPIC Body Scanners.

For more information, check out their site.

I can see how this will eventually become standard on cars, but it’s a huge distraction. It’s going to cause a lot of accidents.

This news piece praises the use of talking CCTV. Opposition to the cameras got a whole eight seconds on TV. At least he got his copy of 1984 on screen.

The cameras are going to be placed in Darlington as a means to combat littering. What would happen if you didn’t listen to the warnings?