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Google says the FBI is monitoring the Web for potential terrorist activity. But it can’t say how extensive the surveillance is.

As part of the Google Transparency Report, the Internet giant this week released data on so-called National Security Letters — official requests for data under the Patriot Act passed after the September 11, 2001 attacks. Read More

DHS built domestic surveillance tech into Predator drones(0)

Homeland Security’s specifications say drones must be able to detect whether a civilian is armed. Also specified: “signals interception” and “direction finding” for electronic surveillance.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has customized its Predator drones, originally built for overseas military operations, to carry out at-home surveillance tasks that have civil libertarians worried: identifying civilians carrying guns and tracking their cell phones, government documents show. Read More

Data Leak Reveals Bank of America Spying on Internet(0)

Activist Post

A group called Par:AnoIA, linked to Anonymous, has obtained 14 gigabytes of data available openly on a server in Tel Aviv, Israel proving that Bank of America has invested in spying on web activity. Read More

Facebook tracks data from users who have logged out(0)

The hacker Nik Cubrilovic has revealed that Facebook collects data from users who have logged out. Facebook confirmed but insisted the information is only used for security purposes, aggregate statistics or it it not logged at all, the Wall Street Journal reports. Read More

City says it won’t turn on 30 new cameras without public comment(0)

By Christine Clarridge

The city will not activate the 30 surveillance cameras installed along the Seattle waterfront until the public has a chance to weigh in, Mayor Mike McGinn said.

“The system will not be operated until a thorough public vetting of the system has been completed and the public has provided input,” McGinn said in prepared statement. Read More

FAA official: No armed drones in U.S(0)

An official with the Federal Aviation Administration reassured the public Wednesday that no armed drones will be permitted in U.S. airspace, but he acknowledged the agency can do little about privacy fears associated with the unmanned craft. Read More

CIA admits Full Monitoring of Facebook and other Social Networks(0)

Most people use social media like Facebook and Twitter to share photos of friends and family, chat with friends and strangers about random and amusing diversions, or follow their favorite websites, bands and television shows.

But what does the US military use those same networks for? Well, we can’t tell you: That’s “classified,” a CENTCOM spokesman recently informed Raw Story. Read More

Christopher Dorner Is Now a Target For Drones on Domestic Soil(0)

Mike Parker
Express.co.uk

Police plan to use spy drones in the hunt for a Rambo-style ex-soldier and policeman who has murdered three people and vowed to kill again.

They believe burly, heavily-armed Christopher Dorner is holed-up in the wilderness of California’s snow-capped San Bernardino mountains 80 miles east of Los Angeles. Read More

Author of Cryptocat (encrypted chat software) hacked and harassed by CSIS(0)

I’ve decided that the way I’m going to deal with this is by doing disk forensics on my computer and moving on, continuing my life as normal. I am not going to slip into total paranoia because of this incident. I have a history of attempted entrapments, of border interrogations and of surveillance, and with this incident, here’s what I’ll say: Read More

Blimps will soon be spying over DC “to defend against missiles, rockets and cars”(0)

By Jim Wolf

A pair of big, blimp-like craft, moored to the ground and flying as high as 10,000 feet, are to be added to a high-tech shield designed to protect the Washington D.C. area from air attack, at least for a while.

The bulbous, helium-filled “aerostats” – each more than three quarters the length of a football field at 243 feet – are to be stitched into existing defenses as part of an exercise of new technology ordered by the Defense Department. Read More

UK planning broad online domestic spying regime(0)

UK officials plan to monitor Britons’ online activities by placing surveillance devices on the country’s telecom networks, a Parliamentary report says. The program would keep tabs on which websites were visited as well as who contacted whom. Read More

Government Wants to Create Free Public Wi-Fi, So it can REALLY spy on you(0)

By Alex Fitzpatrick

Looking for public Wi-Fi in your town or city? The hunt may be about to get easier: the Federal Communications Commission is reportedly considering the development of free and public “super Wi-Fi” networks across the United States. Read More

Hackers (and Gov’t) Can Spy on You Through Your Webcam(0)

NBC

The video below shows how easy it is for a hacker to turn on the webcam on your computer and watch your every move. It’s reasonable to deduce that if a low-grade hacker can do this, then it is likely to be child’s play for government spy agencies to do the same. Read More

Big Sis: Internet Users Need to Practice Good ‘cyber-hygiene’(0)

Charlie Spiering
Washington Examiner

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano warned internet users at the Wilson Center this morning that cyberspace was becoming more dangerous as more and more Americans go online. Read More

FBI to ACLU: Nope, we won’t tell you how, when, or why we track you(0)

by Cyrus Farivar

Back in August 2012, we reported on how the American Civil Liberties Union was compelling the FBI to fully disclose how it interprets the results of the United States v. Jones case—a unanimous Supreme Court decision establishing that law enforcement does not have the authority to put a warrantless GPS tracker on a suspect’s car. Read More