Say cheese!
The FBI’s new Next Generation Identification system is up and running, and is expected to absorb some 52 million photos in its first year alone. In an announcement posted to their website, the FBI describes the project as an upgrade to its already-existing fingerprint database, which contains more than 100 million records:
Yipes
The FBI Just Completed its Facial Recognition System, and It’s Absolutely Terrifying
Say cheese!
The FBI’s new Next Generation Identification system is up and running, and is expected to absorb some 52 million photos in its first year alone. In an announcement posted to their website, the FBI describes the project as an upgrade to its already-existing fingerprint database, which contains more than 100 million records:
Yipes
The FBI Just Completed its Facial Recognition System, and It’s Absolutely Terrifying
Key Findings:
Party Competition and Industrial Structure in the 2012 Elections | Next New Deal
Key Findings:
Party Competition and Industrial Structure in the 2012 Elections | Next New Deal
Since 2010 the National Security Agency has been exploiting its huge collections of data to create sophisticated graphs of some Americans’ social connections that can identify their associates, their locations at certain times, their traveling companions and other personal information, according to newly disclosed documents and interviews with officials.The agency was authorized to conduct “large-scale graph analysis on very large sets of communications metadata without having to check foreignness” of every e-mail address, phone number or other identifier, the document said. Because of concerns about infringing on the privacy of American citizens, the computer analysis of such data had previously been permitted only for foreigners.
The agency can augment the communications data with material from public, commercial and other sources, including bank codes, insurance information, Facebook profiles, passenger manifests, voter registration rolls and GPS location information, as well as property records and unspecified tax data, according to the documents. They do not indicate any restrictions on the use of such “enrichment” data, and several former senior Obama administration officials said the agency drew on it for both Americans and foreigners.
This is merely old information, rehashed with new and official information through more revelations reported by the NYTimes. It’s essentially to wake people up – we all use social networks – and to show how the government and the NSA collects our information that we share on social media, creating extensive maps and graphs.
The NSA just wants to be your friend.
Friend the NSA.
Follow the NSA.
The NSA is following you.
Since 2010 the National Security Agency has been exploiting its huge collections of data to create sophisticated graphs of some Americans’ social connections that can identify their associates, their locations at certain times, their traveling companions and other personal information, according to newly disclosed documents and interviews with officials.The agency was authorized to conduct “large-scale graph analysis on very large sets of communications metadata without having to check foreignness” of every e-mail address, phone number or other identifier, the document said. Because of concerns about infringing on the privacy of American citizens, the computer analysis of such data had previously been permitted only for foreigners.
The agency can augment the communications data with material from public, commercial and other sources, including bank codes, insurance information, Facebook profiles, passenger manifests, voter registration rolls and GPS location information, as well as property records and unspecified tax data, according to the documents. They do not indicate any restrictions on the use of such “enrichment” data, and several former senior Obama administration officials said the agency drew on it for both Americans and foreigners.
This is merely old information, rehashed with new and official information through more revelations reported by the NYTimes. It’s essentially to wake people up – we all use social networks – and to show how the government and the NSA collects our information that we share on social media, creating extensive maps and graphs.
The NSA just wants to be your friend.
Friend the NSA.
Follow the NSA.
The NSA is following you.
He wakes up. He is nervous about drones. He is nervous about drinking too much coffee. He is nervous about his white patriarchal privilege. He is nervous about the folded in unconscious racism that is his legacy. Likewise sexism. Likewise homophobia. He is nervous about the too hot shower and then the too cold shower. He is nervous that the shower has not cleaned him and that even with the deodorant the stink of his body is emanating from every pore – a visible cloud following him to the bus. He is nervous about the looks he gives other people. He is nervous for not giving a man a quarter when he did not happen to have a quarter. He is nervous about misrepresenting Miley Cyrus as a racist to a small child. He is nervous about the surveillance state. He is nervous about Nuclear War. He is nervous about President Rouhani. He is nervous about President Obama. He is nervous about Brazil. He is nervous about President Rousseff. He is nervous during his therapy. He is nervous about not doing enough work. He is nervous about doing too much work. He is nervous that he is being surveilled. He is nervous that he is being ignored. He is nervous that he is getting old. He is nervous that he is making prisons for himself. He is nervous that he isn’t important to warrant a back ground check. He is nervous that he is an imposter and his real self has been renditioned to a black site somewhere in a nameless country a bag on his head and his wrists in manacles. He is nervous that he is about to lose his job. He is nervous that he has no savings. He is nervous. He goes to sleep.
Next Media Animation deliver again with this weird animation summarizing our new Police State
Next Media Animation deliver again with this weird animation summarizing our new Police State
So you can build your own police surveillance robot.
That’s an unusual thing.
This is where Skynet begins.
So you can build your own police surveillance robot.
That’s an unusual thing.
This is where Skynet begins.
Oversight: Thank you for volunteering, citizen.
It’s only a matter of time before this stops being satire.
Oversight: Thank you for volunteering, citizen.
It’s only a matter of time before this stops being satire.
A Long Island journalist set the internet aflame today by claiming that Joint Terrorism Task Force agents visited her house to find out why Google searches for “pressure cooker” and “backpack” were run from the family’s internet connection. But the local police department that actually visited Catalano’s husband finally explained themselves, and it turns out the story is more about an employment dispute than rampant secret police surveillance. Here’s the statement from the Suffolk County Police Department.
An update on that pressure cooker and backpack google search story
A Long Island journalist set the internet aflame today by claiming that Joint Terrorism Task Force agents visited her house to find out why Google searches for “pressure cooker” and “backpack” were run from the family’s internet connection. But the local police department that actually visited Catalano’s husband finally explained themselves, and it turns out the story is more about an employment dispute than rampant secret police surveillance. Here’s the statement from the Suffolk County Police Department.
An update on that pressure cooker and backpack google search story
A Long Island journalist set the internet aflame today by claiming that Joint Terrorism Task Force agents visited her house to find out why Google searches for “pressure cooker” and “backpack” were run from the family’s internet connection. But the local police department that actually visited Catalano’s husband finally explained themselves, and it turns out the story is more about an employment dispute than rampant secret police surveillance. Here’s the statement from the Suffolk County Police Department.
So, a little update from earlier.
Life is so complicated.
A Long Island journalist set the internet aflame today by claiming that Joint Terrorism Task Force agents visited her house to find out why Google searches for “pressure cooker” and “backpack” were run from the family’s internet connection. But the local police department that actually visited Catalano’s husband finally explained themselves, and it turns out the story is more about an employment dispute than rampant secret police surveillance. Here’s the statement from the Suffolk County Police Department.
So, a little update from earlier.
Life is so complicated.
Has the U.S. government lied about spying on its own citizens? Let’s go to the videotape.
Yes, let’s do that.
This is the best video.
With the best music.
Has the U.S. government lied about spying on its own citizens? Let’s go to the videotape.
Yes, let’s do that.
This is the best video.
With the best music.
It’s like trying to find a needle in a stack of individually labelled needles.
It’s like trying to find a needle in a stack of individually labelled needles.
Secrets are so 20th century now that we have the ability to collect and store billions of pieces of data forever
And this is all okay with everyone?
Secrets are so 20th century now that we have the ability to collect and store billions of pieces of data forever
And this is all okay with everyone?
It was a confluence of magnificent proportions that led six agents from the joint terrorism task force to knock on my door Wednesday morning…
You know, just surveillance and all that and having your door knocked down because of web searches.
You know, the usual.
It was a confluence of magnificent proportions that led six agents from the joint terrorism task force to knock on my door Wednesday morning…
You know, just surveillance and all that and having your door knocked down because of web searches.
You know, the usual.
The surprising locations of the servers… reportedly include China, Ecuador, Russia, Sudan, and Venezuela. In short, the NSA has managed to either place or gain access to servers in a collection of countries that are deeply hostile to the United States. Put another way, computer technicians in every one of those countries are probably combing through their systems right now to figure out ways to boot out the NSA.
This is an interesting angle on the latest of Edward Snowden’s revelations.
Meet the NSA’s New Data Centers: Russia, China, and Venezuela
The surprising locations of the servers… reportedly include China, Ecuador, Russia, Sudan, and Venezuela. In short, the NSA has managed to either place or gain access to servers in a collection of countries that are deeply hostile to the United States. Put another way, computer technicians in every one of those countries are probably combing through their systems right now to figure out ways to boot out the NSA.
This is an interesting angle on the latest of Edward Snowden’s revelations.
Meet the NSA’s New Data Centers: Russia, China, and Venezuela
A guide to ditching the 9 companies named as part of a broad government surveillance scheme.
If you really are truly worried about the government keeping tabs on your activities, there’s really only one option: go nuclear, disconnect everything, and go live on a secluded island for the rest of your days.
A guide to ditching the 9 companies named as part of a broad government surveillance scheme.
If you really are truly worried about the government keeping tabs on your activities, there’s really only one option: go nuclear, disconnect everything, and go live on a secluded island for the rest of your days.
Bradley Manning not guilty of the most serious charge of aiding and abetting the enemy.
Bradley Manning not guilty of the most serious charge of aiding and abetting the enemy.
As Pfc. Bradley Manningu2019s court martial came to a close Friday, the charge of ‘aiding the enemy’ has huge implications for journalism.
One more before bed, just because it’s probably worth talking about or at least reading or at least posting and/or reblogging
As Pfc. Bradley Manningu2019s court martial came to a close Friday, the charge of ‘aiding the enemy’ has huge implications for journalism.
One more before bed, just because it’s probably worth talking about or at least reading or at least posting and/or reblogging
“The security of the government from it’s own population.”
“The security of the government from it’s own population.”
To be free we not only need to have no fear of interference but no fear that there could be interference. But that latter assurance is precisely what cannot be given if our actions are under surveillance. So long as surveillance is going on, we always could have our freedom of action limited if someone chose to limit it. The fact that they may not make that choice does not make us any less free, because we are not free from surveillance and the possible uses that can be made of it. Only when we are free from such possible invasions of our rights are we free; and this freedom can be guaranteed only where there is no surveillance.
I feel that with every post I get but one step further away from that green card I crave.
Liberty, Liberalism and Surveillance: a historic overview | openDemocracy
To be free we not only need to have no fear of interference but no fear that there could be interference. But that latter assurance is precisely what cannot be given if our actions are under surveillance. So long as surveillance is going on, we always could have our freedom of action limited if someone chose to limit it. The fact that they may not make that choice does not make us any less free, because we are not free from surveillance and the possible uses that can be made of it. Only when we are free from such possible invasions of our rights are we free; and this freedom can be guaranteed only where there is no surveillance.
I feel that with every post I get but one step further away from that green card I crave.
Liberty, Liberalism and Surveillance: a historic overview | openDemocracy
tetw:
A Tetw reading list
Suffering from information overload? Perhaps a little more information about all that information is the answer?
Info-bath – Let the Deluge begin!
tetw:
A Tetw reading list
Suffering from information overload? Perhaps a little more information about all that information is the answer?
Info-bath – Let the Deluge begin!
All seeing eye
Low slung
Up High
Blinkless hive-mind
Panopticon Watching.
The SleepCoat League Presents: 