CPS Investigating Parents for Letting Kids Walk Home AloneBy all appearances, Daniel and Alexander Meitiv are smart, responsible parents who want to instill independence in their children. They don’t like to throw caution to the wind, but they do believe that kids should be granted some freedom, so that they may learn how to take care of themselves from an early age.
They practice what’s known as “free range parenting” as opposed to hovering over their kids and showering them with fear and paranoia like ... (more)
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UK Intelligence Boss: We Had All This Info And Totally Failed To Prevent Charlie Hebdo Attack... So Give Us More InfoWe already wrote about surveillance state opportunists like Michael Hayden using the Charlie Hebdo attacks as evidence for why the surveillance state should be allowed to spy on everyone, and now the head of the UK's MI5 intelligence agency has similarly used the attack as an excuse to demand more surveillanc... (more)
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MPAA Wants Regulators To Force ISPs To Block Sites 'At The Border'When SOPA died its inglorious death, the MPAA's best shot at ISP-level site blocking died with it. But the MPAA is nothing if not stubborn and is still willing to wreak havoc on the internet in exch... (more)
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License Plate Reader Technology Looks At FacesThe leading suppler of automated license plate reader technology in the US (ALPR, also known as ANPR in Europe) is expanding its offerings to law enforcement. Vehicle owners have already had their movements tracked by the company Vigilant Solutions, which boasts 2 billion entries in its nationwide database, with 70 million additional license plate photographs being added each month. Now passengers can also be tracked if they hitch a ride with a friend and are photographed by a camera aimed at th... (more)
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NSA Reports It May Have Broken Laws With Decade of Spying on U.S. CitizensThe National Security Agency today released reports on intelligence collection that may have violated the law or U.S. policy over more than a decade, including unauthorized surveillance of Americans’ overseas communications.
The NSA, responding to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union, released a series of required quarterly and annual reports to the President’s Intelligence Oversight Board that cover the period from the fourth qu... (more)
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Sony Hack Reinvigorates Support for Privacy-Busting CISPA-Style LegislationThe Sony hack attack has reinvigorated support for privacy-busting CISPA-style cybersecurity legislation that was previously considered dead, prompting calls to make the issue a top priority in 2015.
With the White House declaring the hack to be a “national security issue” yesterday, numerous prominent lawmakers jumped on the issue to push a “zombie” cybersecurity bill – the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act – which failed to make the Senate... (more)
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Government Wastes Taxpayers' Money On Crappy "Shark-Like Spy Drone"
Here's the latest scam the government is burning your money on: a "shark-like spy drone" that looks somewhat like a shark and swims like a physically disabled fish.
UPI reports:
The U.S. Navy has ... (more)
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Silk Road Prosecutors Rely on Slander As Trial ApproachesWhat does a prosecutor do when their primary "evidence" was likely gathered through parallel construction of illegally hacked data, and support for the defendant is gaining whether he's innocent or not? They slander him, of course.
Since Silk Road prosecutors have no actual victims to parade in front of the public or the jury to bolster their case against its alleged mastermind, Ross Ulbricht, they have to invent victims by rehashing unsubstantiated claims of "murder-for-hire" plo... (more)
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Copyright Law as a Tool for State Censorship of the Internet When state officials seek to censor online speech, they're going to use the quickest and easiest method available. For many, copyright takedown notices do the trick. After years of lobbying and increasing pressure from content industries on policymakers and tech companies, sending copyright notices to take media offline is easier than ever.
The copyright law that state actors most often invoke is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The DMCA was the first maj... (more)
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