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Google Talks Transparency, But Hides Surveillance Stats: Wired

wired.com | Posted 12.20.2009 | Technology

Read More: Google, Internet, Surveillance Google, Google Surveillance, Google Transparency, Surveillance, Internet Transparency, Google Company Policy, Technology News

Google likes to trumpet transparency and free expression, especially when it concerns the internet, part of its commitment to the corporate motto, "Do...

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White Collar Criminals: America's Most Wanted

businessinsider.com | Lawrence Delevingne | Posted 12.01.2009 | Business

Read More: Surveillance, Ponzi Scheme, Fbi-Most-Wanted, White Collar Crime, Bernie Madoff, White Collar Criminals, Business News

Worried Dick Fuld and Jimmy Cayne will never be charged? Fortunately, we've found some new alleged white collar criminals to bear the brunt of your w...

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How America's Wars Are Systematically Destroying Our Liberties

Alfred W. McCoy | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Government Surveillance, Surveillance, War on Terror, Counterterrorism, Civil Rights, Politics News
Alfred W. McCoy

Think of our counterinsurgency wars abroad as so many living laboratories for the undermining of a democratic society at home, a process historians of such American wars can tell you has been going on for a long, long time.

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FBI Watch List Includes 400,000 People

Washington Post | Walter Pincus | Posted 10.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Feingold, Special Agents, Steven Aftergood Secrecy News, Robert S. Mueller, Terrorism, Doj, Surveillance, Secrecy News, Robert Mueller, Unique Names, Citizens, Intelligence, Justice Department, Fbi Recruits, Polygraphs, Watch List, No Fly List, Fbi, US Citizens, Politics News

During a 12-month period ended in March this year, for example, the U.S. intelligence community suggested on a daily basis that 1,600 people qualified...

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Passing Oceania

Matt Osborne | Posted 11.28.2009 | Media

Read More: John McCain, Bob Cesca, Citizen Journalism, George Orwell 1984, Glenn Beck Fox News, Naomi Klein, William Gibson, Surveillance, China, China Human Rights, Arianna Huffington, Eyewitness Fallacy, Media Matters, Iran Protests, Media Criticism, Youtube, Glenn Beck, Gibson's Law, Nico Pitney, Big Brother, Media News
Matt Osborne

For all our worries about Big Brother intruding on our lives, Big Brother has no way to stop individuals from intruding on him.

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Government Technology: New Alcohol Sweat Monitor Threat To Privacy

washingtonpost.com | Posted 11.25.2009 | Technology

Read More: Government, Government Surveillance, Gov 2.0, Government Technology, SCRAM Anklet, Sweat Alcohol Monitor, Surveillance, Government-Monitoring, Scram, Big Brother, Technology News

The idea that governments could monitor its citizens' every move with technology has been the stuff of fiction for decades, and the technology that al...

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The Stranger in Everyday Life

Reverend Billy | Posted 11.23.2009 | New York

Read More: Consumerism, Neighborhoods, New York City, Jane Jacobs, City Life, Urban Planning, Developers, Surveillance, Immigrants, JFK Airport, New York News
Reverend Billy

The city-as-monoculture can only continue with surveillance, stop-and-frisks, eminent domain, developer tax windfalls and all the illegal activity brazenly called Progress and New York Greatness.

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Patriot Act Changes: Congress Weighs Extension, Changes

L.A. Times | David G. Savage | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Surveillance, Computer Information, Usa Patriot Act, House, Patrick Leahy, Patriot Act Changes, Homeland Security, George W. Bush, Patriot Act Extension, Renewal, 9/11, Obama, Barack Obama, Bush, Senate Bill, Patriot Act, National Security, JUSTICE Act, Nadler, Wiretapping, Financial Records, Senate, Fbi, Warrants, Politics News

Reporting from Washington - The Patriot Act -- a favorite tool in the George W. Bush administration's fight against terrorism -- may be renamed later...

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2009 Summer Movie Review Part I: The Moments That Mattered.

Scott Mendelson | Posted 10.20.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Angels & Demons, Inglourious Basterds, Summer, Orphan, The Hangover, Transformers, Surveillance, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Hurt Locker, News, Christopher Waltz, Movies, 2009, Scott Mendelson. Up, Entertainment News
Scott Mendelson

Remembering Up, Transformers 2, Harry Potter, Inglourious Basterds and more.

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Brennan Suggests He Played Role In Domestic Surveillance

The Washington Independent | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: National Counterterrorism Center, Bush Administration, Cia, Counterterrorism, Domestic Surveillance, Brennan, John Brennan, Surveillance, Terrorist Threat Integration Center, Marcy Wheeler, Politics News

I'll have a broader piece up soon about John Brennan's speech about counterterrorism, which in many ways represented a stark departure from several ke...

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City Wants Over 3,000 Cameras Around Public Housing

Chi-Town Daily News | Adrian G. Uribarri | Posted 08.20.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Surveillance, Chicago Public Housing, Privacy, Chicago Surveillance Cameras, Big Brother, Chicago News

A $23 million proposal to place more than 3,000 cameras around public-housing developments has alarmed privacy advocates and raised questions over the...

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Obama's "Drip, Drip, Drip..." Intelligence Problem

Chris Weigant | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, White House, President Obama, Central Intelligence Agency, Pat Leahy, Cia, Leon Panetta, Truth Commission, Cheney, Surveillance, Obama, Eric Holder, President, Bush, Dick Cheney, Intelligence, Drip Drip Drip, Assassination, Detainee Abuse, Briefed, Panetta, Brief, Attorney General, Warrantless Wiretapping, Congress, Justice Department, Intelligence Committee, Barack Obama, Investigation, Detainee, Saturday Night Massacre, Briefing, Prisoner, Vice-President, Chris Weigant, Wiretapping, I Was Only Following Orders, Leahy, Waterboarding, Hit Squad, Water Torture, Nixon, Torture, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Obama faces a steady drip, drip, drip of stories leaking and becoming public. Wiretapping stories, torture stories, and secret CIA covert stories were all in the news in the past week alone.

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In the Digital Iran, Censorship and Surveillance Merge

Bob Ostertag | Posted 07.26.2009 | World

Read More: Government Surveillance, Iran Blog, Iran Video, Internet Censorship, Iran Updates, Iran Live Blog, Iran Election, Iran News, Surveillance, Iran Videos, Censorship, Iran Violence, Iran Liveblogging, World News, World News
Bob Ostertag

For nearly two weeks, they have managed to keep one step ahead of the Iranian censors. But censoring these communications and surveilling them are very different matters.

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HuffPost Interview: Director Jennifer Lynch and Surveillance

Marshall Fine | Posted 07.24.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: David Lynch, Surveillance, Jennifer Lynch, Horror Movies, Bill Pullman, Julia Ormond, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

When David Lynch tells you you've gone too far, it's hard to know whether it's a badge of honor or a sign that the bottom has fallen out.

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How Do You Say "Overcollection" in Farsi?

Bob Ostertag | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Civil Liberties, Violent Clashes in Iran, Iran Police, Iran Election Video, Iranian Riots Videos, Iran Election, Surveillance, Fisa, Video of Demonstrations in Tehran, Iran Demonstrations, Demonstrations in Iran Iran, Barack Obama, Iran Violence, World News, Iran Clashes, Iran Riot Video, Iranian Riots, Censorship, Politics News
Bob Ostertag

One of the surest clues to the abuse of power is when state officials start inventing new words to describe their own actions.

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200 Surveillance Cameras Installed At Navy Pier, Lakefront Sites

Chicago Tribune | Dan P. Blake | Posted 07.11.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Navy Pier Cameras, Surveillance, Chicago Surveillance Cameras, Navy Pier, Chicago Security Cameras, Chicago News

City officials today unveiled new security cameras at Navy Pier, part of what they said is an effort to expand camera coverage to lakefront beaches, M...

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Secrecy Sacrificing National Security

Shahid Buttar | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Secrecy, Civil Liberties, First Amendment, Government Secrecy, Warrantless Surveillance, Rule of Law, Surveillance, Fbi, Democracy, Racial Profiling, Torture, FBI Surveillance, Nsa, Guantanamo Detainees, Michael Mukasey, Dianne Feinstein, Guantanamo, Cointelpro, Abu Ghraib, American Muslims, Guantanamo Bay, Fisa, Constitution, China, Terrorist Surveillance Program, Politics News
Shahid Buttar

Our nation's most notorious criminals violate our most fundamental laws and remain not only free, but actively engaged in influencing our national security policies.

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U.S. Chamber of Commerce: Betting Against the American Middle Class

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 06.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Citigroup Inc., “No Holds Barred”, Kate Bronfenbrenner, Secret Ballot Elections, Wal-Mart, Union Organizers, Interrogation, Threats, Cornell University, Employee Free Choice Act, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Surveillance, Stewart Acuff, Usw, Afl-Cio, United Steelworkers, American Middle Class, Home Depot, National Labor Relations Board, Harassment, National Labor Relations Act, Efca, Aig, Bank of America, Public Sector, Bailout Money, Nlrb, Glenn Spencer, Bernie Marcus, Randel K. Johnson, Business News
Leo W. Gerard

Unionization is how the middle class re-emerges. America could do without a few filthy-rich boys lolling on yachts in the Mediterranean.

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Swine Flu: The Need for a Strong Public Health System

Gina Solomon | Posted 05.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Centersfordiseasecontrol, Climatechange, Disease, H1n1, Swineflu, Surveillance, Cdc, Monitoring, Influenza, Green News
Gina Solomon

Swine flu is a wake-up call: we have one of the best public health systems in the world, but it has been mismanaged and starved for resources for years.

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The Groundwork Has Already Been Laid for Martial Law

John W. Whitehead | Posted 04.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Surveillance, Martial Law, Military, Army War College, Executive Power, Police State, George Bush, Politics News
John W. Whitehead

Bush laid the groundwork for an imperial presidency and a potentially totalitarian government -- a state of affairs that has not ended with Barack Obama's ascension to the Oval Office, despite hopes to the contrary.

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A Googlement Above the People, Around the People, and Ahead of the People

Randall Amster | Posted 03.13.2009 | Media

Read More: The Internet, Google, Internet, Google Earth, Twitter, Gps, Darpa, Total Information Awareness, Information Age, Surveillance, Shadow Government, Information Technology, Facebook, Myspace, Big Brother, New World Order, Brave New World, Media News
Randall Amster

Who else would you want keeping track of stuff, watching your back (and front), fighting our undeclared cyber-wars, and making the trains run on time? Next stop, Googletopia!

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Support John Conyers' Truth Commission

Chris Weigant | Posted 02.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Eavesdropping, Detention, Tammy Baldwin, Truth Commission, Cheney, Surveillance, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, William Delahunt, Jerrold Nadler, Bush, Dick Cheney, Conyers, Intelligence, Kidnapping, Rick Boucher, Hank Johnson, Janice Schakowsky, Report, Enhanced Interrogation, War Powers, John Conyers, Judiciary Committee, Steve Cohen, Valerie Plame Wilson, House, Interrogation, Warrantless Wiretapping, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, Imperial Presidency, Rendition, Prisoner, Sheila Jackson Lee, Luis Gutierrez, Bobby Scott, Blue Ribbon Commission, Bush Administration, Chris Weigant, War Powers Commission, Co-Sponsor, Wiretapping, Torture, Extraordinary Rendition, hr104, Representative, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Are you frustrated by all the "we need to look forward, not backward" language from Barack Obama and other Democratic leaders? Well, now you can do something about it.

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CIA: The Panetta Pick and the Feinstein Factor

William Bradley | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Josh Brolin, Afghanistan, Dan White, President Obama, Guantanamo, Dianne Feinstein, Harvey Milk, Fisa, Surveillance, Pete Wilson, Taliban, George Moscone, Rendition, Abu Ghraib, Barack Obama, Al Qaeda, Sean Penn, George W. Bush, Stephen Kappes, Dick Cheney, Iraq, Leon Panetta, Torture, Central Intelligence Agency, Leon Panetta Obama, Obama Cabinet, Obama Appointees, Central Intelligence Agency Obama, Leon Panetta CIA, Cia Director, Obama Transition, Cia, Obama Appointments, Politics News
William Bradley

Feinstein's call for the appointment of a CIA director who can be linked to the practices Obama has made clear must end demonstrates how out of touch she is on intelligence.

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You Are Being Watched!

Barry Steinhardt | Posted 02.12.2009 | Home

Read More: Ring of Steel, Surveillance, Nypd, Technology, Homeland Security, Privacy, Home News
Barry Steinhardt

You are being watched! Once that might have just been the ravings of a paranoid, but increasingly it’s all too true. More and more of the publ...

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Could Gitmo Get Worse? The Policy Implications of Executive Accountability

Shahid Buttar | Posted 02.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: War Crimes, Rule of Law, Donald Rumsfeld, Guantanamo, Treason, Surveillance, Obama Transition, Dick Cheney, Torture, Special Prosecutor, Congress, Accountability, Eric Holder, Military Commissions, 9/11, Paul Wellstone, 9-11, Politics News
Shahid Buttar

If we can't attain a national consensus against surveillance trampling the rights of every American, what hope exists of a progressive consensus emerging on torture or detention?

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