Revealed: The CCTV cameras spying on hundreds of classrooms
CCTV monitors classrooms at one in 14 schools, according to a survey. The poll of teachers also found that almost a quarter feared there might be more cameras hidden around the campus that they did not know about. Most said their schools were fitted with surveillance cameras. Almost 80 per cent said there were cameras at the entrance and more than 7 per cent said there were some in classrooms. Nearly 10 per cent of teachers polled by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers said there were cameras...
August 19, 2008
BBC: Some residents ‘furious’ over NYC terror checks
Operation Sentinel,’ a project of the New York Police Department which would have every vehicle in Manhattan tracked by a series of license plate scanners, is cause for fury among some New York City residents. Details of the program were reported by RAW STORY on August 12. A similar security grid is being developed for Washington, D.C. In an August 19 report, BBC’s Wendy Urquhart found that while some are accepting of the plan’s invasive measures, others are not taking the news...
August 19, 2008
NYPD Monitors ‘Ring of Steel’ Plan
The New York Police Department (NYPD) is looking to London for help to secure the city against a potential terror attack, police chiefs said. Commissioner Ray Kelly said New York could learn from London’s so-called “ring of steel”, a security and surveillance cordon which surrounds the city with concrete barriers, checkpoints and thousands of video cameras. The NYPD wants to track every vehicle that enters Manhattan to strengthen New York’s protection against a potential terror...
August 15, 2008
Illinois Gov hopes to raise millions to fight crime by putting cameras on interstates
To make good on his offer to help Chicago combat violence, Gov. Blagojevich envisions putting speed cameras on interstates across Illinois — and using the revenue to form an “elite tactical team” that would operate in Chicago and other cities. The idea is in its infancy, with no budget and no timetable. But the governor also is providing Chicago with immediate assistance, said Lucio Guerrero, a spokesman for the governor. About 50 Illinois State Police employees have been assigned...
August 7, 2008
Sprint early termination fees are illegal, CA judge rules
COURT: CALIFORNIA LAW FORBIDS EARLY TERMINATION CHARGES Californians fed up with being charged for ending their cell phone service prematurely won a major victory in a Bay Area court decision that concluded such fees violate state law. In a preliminary ruling Monday, Alameda County Superior Court Judge Bonnie Sabraw said Sprint Nextel must pay California mobile-phone consumers $18.2 million as part of a class-action lawsuit challenging early termination fees. Though the decision could be appealed,...
August 1, 2008
Scahill: Blackwater now in the private intelligence business
Jeremy Scahill, author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army, is worried about the giant mercenary firm’s latest foray into private intelligence. “They’re marketing their services to not only foreign governments, but to Fortune 500 corporations,” he recently told an interviewer. The forthcoming paperback edition of Scahill’s book on Blackwater, which appeared in hardcover in February 2007, will include 100 pages of new material, including...
July 31, 2008
UK authorities launched 10,000 snooping operations last year
More than half a million requests for highly personal communications data, such as records of private telephone calls and e-mails, were also lodged by councils and law enforcement agencies. Snooping by local authorities has now become so widespread that a Government watchdog has threatened to strip councils of their powers to spy on people, and Gordon Brown has ordered an inquiry into the rapid increase in the use of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (Ripa). It is the latest in a string...
July 23, 2008
U.S. Triples Scanners That See Under Fliers’ Clothes
July 15 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. Transportation Security Administration will triple the number of devices at airports that can detect bombs under airline passengers’ clothing. The purchase of 80 so-called Passenger Imager machines will bring the total in use next year to 120 at 21 airports, agency spokesman Christopher White said today. The imagers are produced by L-3 Communications Holdings Inc., OSI Systems Inc.’s Rapiscan unit and American Science & Engineering Inc. The TSA...
July 19, 2008
Big Brother database recording all our calls, texts and e-mails will ‘ruin British way of life’
Plans for a massive database snooping on the entire population were condemned yesterday as a ‘step too far for the British way of life’. In an Orwellian move, the Home Office is proposing to detail every phone call, e-mail, text message, internet search and online purchase in the fight against terrorism and other serious crime. But the privacy watchdog, Information Commissioner Richard Thomas, warned that the public’s traditional freedoms were under grave threat from creeping state...
July 17, 2008
One million on US terrorist watch list: rights group
A watch list of suspected and known terrorists, compiled by the US authorities, has ballooned and contains more than one million names, the American Civil Liberties Union said Monday. The ACLU said it derived that figure from a Justice Department report on the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center, which consolidates terrorist watch list information. The Center “had over 700,000 names in its database as of April 2007 and that the list was growing by an average of over 20,000 records per month,”...
July 14, 2008
The Raw Story- Congress requests special counsel on rendition
- Did Rove bolt from the country to avoid testifying?
- Journo: FISA vote 'step toward fascism'; ACLU sues gov't
- Impeach bill: Bush lied America into war
- US: Real or not, Iranian missile tests must stop
- Poll: Turnout expected to skyrocket in November
- After FISA flip, Obama vets Dodd for VP
- Group: Obama finance disclosure less than Bush
- McCain questioned about PNAC, 9/11
- Poll: Obama up 48-40
- Antiwar
- The Most Dangerous Man in America
- The Narrative Versus the News
- Why Bush Will Pardon AIPAC for Espionage
- Big Three Block Iran Attack
- Bush Covered Up Musharraf Ties With al-Qaeda, Khan
- Kosovo Casts Shadow on South Ossetian Standoff
- Double Standards in the Global War on Terror: Anthrax Department
- Please Mr. President, Don't Make Promises to Fools
- Who Started Cold War II?
- Arar Faces Uphill Legal Battle
- Truth News
- The Matrix & Other 9/11 Hollywood Symbolism
- Did Tom Clancy’s “lucky assertions” foretell the Georgia Conflict of 2008 in 2001 and the SPP of 2005 in 2004?
- We Are Change L.A. questions Dennis Kucinich about 9/11
- Fmr President Ford secretly told FBI about panel’s doubts on JFK murder
- Flashback: U.S.-Georgia training begins amid Russia strain
- Pentagon closes controversial intelligence unit
- What the Iraq Forgery Says About 9/11
- Chemical Traces of High Explosives in WTC Debris
- Law Professor: Counter Terrorism Czar Told Me There Is Going To Be An i-9/11 And An i-Patriot Act
- Get Outraged And Get Active About Internet Censorship
