The government will soon be able to scan your body, car or belongings for just about any molecule or substance they please without you knowing. Laser scanner technology can penetrate clothing and many other organic materials and offers spectroscopic information. Their plan is to install this molecular-level scanning in airports and border crossings all across the United States. The official, stated goal of this arrangement is to be able to quickly identify explosives, dangerous chemicals, or bioweapons at a distance. The Spy in Your Television: The new Smart TVs which connect to the internet, send and receive data on your viewing habits back to the televisions manufacturer in China, Korea etc. This data sends details of not just every show you watch but every button you press on your remote control. The TV manufacturer sells this information on the open market. RFID Technologies: Have you ever heard of the Internet of Things? Soon nearly every inanimate object we come into contact with will be enabled with RFID tags. Your every move can be easily tracked by the prying eyes of corporations and governments through the ordinary objects in your possession such as your cell phone, your key fob, your watch, your jewelry, your purse or your wallet. They use the chips to evaluate your status, age, sex, purchasing preferences and more. For more info on RFID refer to my last post. Biometrics: Biometrics is the science and technology of measuring and analyzing biological data. In information technology, biometrics refers to technologies that measure and analyze human body characteristics, such as DNA, fingerprints, eye retinas and irises, voice patterns, facial patterns and hand measurements, for authentication purposes. Biometric palm scanners are being introduced in airports, schools and even Disney World. A patent application filed by Samsung seems to indicate that next-generation Galaxy smartphones might feature biometric authentication as an alternative to PINs or passwords. The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has begun rolling out its new $1 billion biometric Next Generation Identification (NGI) system. In essence, NGI is a nationwide database of mug shots, iris scans, DNA records, voice samples, and other biometrics, that will help the FBI identify and catch criminals NGI's facial recognition systems can find a single face from a pool of 1.6 million mug shots and passport photos with 92% accuracy in less than 1.2 seconds - even using photos in which the subject isn't looking at the camera. But it is how this biometric data is captured, through a nationwide network of cameras and photo databases that is of great concern to privacy advocates. Iris Scanning Devices in Our Schools: A growing number of schools are replacing traditional identification cards with iris scanners. Cell Phone Tower Stingrays: So-called stingrays are one of the new high-tech tools that authorities are using to track and identify you. The devices, about the size of a suitcase, spoof a legitimate cellphone tower in order to trick nearby cellphones and other wireless communication devices into connecting to the tower, as they would to a real cellphone tower. The government maintains that the stingrays dont violate Fourth Amendment rights, since Americans dont have a legitimate expectation of privacy for data sent from their mobile phones and other wireless devices to a cell tower. Our Cell Phones Track Our Movements: If you have GPS on your phone you can be tracked anywhere, anytime. Extraction Devices: Michigan State Police have a handful of portable machines called extraction devices that have the potential to mine the data of motorists they pull over from downloaded personal information taken directly from the motorist cell phone. The devices, sold by a company called Cellebrite, can download text messages, photos, video, and even GPS data from most brands of cell phones. The handheld machines have various interfaces to work with different phone models and can bypass security passwords and access data files stored on your phone. Automated License Plate Readers: Strategically placed cameras scan license plates in real time, helping police pinpoint stolen cars and fleeing killers. However, police agencies have now begun storing the information from the cameras, building databases that document the travels of millions of vehicles. This is also easily accomplished through RFID chips embedded in license plates driving past RFID readers established at toll booths, intersections etc. Somebody out there somewhere knows that you took a road trip to Nebraska on September 14th 2013. Street Lights That Can Record Private Conversations: Federally-funded high-tech street lights called Intellistreets are now being installed in American cities. These LED-based streetlights can auto-adjust to the brightness outside to help save power; they also include a Wi-Fi connection and built-in speakers, to stream audio broadcasts to anyone within earshot. By the way, they also have audio and video recorders. These are supposedly to field calls for assistance. Doesnt it give you a whole new level of comfort knowing that each lamppost you walk by is equipped with Wi-Fi transmitters, a camera, and a microphone? The Spy in your Video Game: Users of the new Xbox One are complaining that Kinect is monitoring their Skype conversations for swearing and then punishing them with account bans. Microsoft has admitted it is punishing gamers for bad language but denied that it is snooping on private Skype chats. A National Database of All Financial Transactions: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is looking to record every financial transaction of every American. The government will be able to see every detail of your finances. Your permission will not be needed. A National DNA Database: In April of 2008, President Bush signed into law S.1858 which allows the federal government to screen the DNA of all newborn babies in the U.S. Six months later the law was fully implemented, and data collection is now being carried out. All 50 states are now routinely providing results of genetic screenings to the Department of Homeland Security. You can read the full bill at the link: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/110/s1858 The Systematic Recording Of Talk Radio Programs: Next time you call a talk radio station, beware: The FBI may be listening. Spywares in the Workplace: Employers now regularly install monitoring software on their employees computers to capture their communications. Software, sold by SpectorSoft could do more than vacuum up e-mails It can intercept a Tweet or a Facebook post. It can snap screen shots of computers or track an employees keystrokes, retrieve files from hard drives or search for keywords. Mobile Backscatter Vans Remember those super-revealing backscatter X-ray machines that were removed from airports after loud protests? Well, they may come rolling down the street of your neighborhood. American Science and Engineering's Z Backscatter Vans look like any box truck you see on the road, but they'll peer through the cars of anyone in range looking for ... who knows what? The company's marketing materials say that the trucks' "primary purpose is to image vehicles and their contents." Unmanned Aerial Drones: Obamas Environmental Protection Agency is using aerial drones to spy on farmers in Nebraska and Iowa. You might be next. But dont worry its okay, the U.S. Supreme Court has found these camera taking flights to be perfectly legal. NSA Snooping: Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who first broke the news on the Snowden NSA leaks has reported that the NSAs new technology gives it the power to redirect into its own repositories one billion cell phone calls every single day. This means theyre storing every phone call, have the capability to listen to them at any time, and are collecting millions upon millions upon millions of our phone and email records. U.S. Intelligence infiltrating social media: Almost everyone knows that social media activities leave you as openly exposed as jogging down the interstate in your jockstrap, but what you might not know is that intelligence agencies take advantage of social media platforms such as Twitter, YouTube, Flickr and Facebook to spread disinformation and propaganda, as well as potentially foment public protests. The Associated Press recently revealed a clandestine operation calling it The Bay of Tweets - run by US Agency for International Development (USAID) to create a Twitter-like Cuban communications network to promote dissenting viewpoints among its audience. Wearable Technologies: For unfathomable reasons, some folks actually want others to know every intimate detail about their day to day lives and are oh so happy to broadcast it to the world. Lifeblogging tools such as the Narrative Clips GPS-enabled, wearable cameras allow users to document and share virtually every instant of their lives. The tiny, always-on cameras capture photos of everybody and everything you come into contact with. The images are then uploaded and broadcasted to the world. The obvious danger is that while the cameras can create a detailed journal of an individuals life, they can also invade the privacy of friends and others being photographed without their knowledge or permission. Other wearable technologies include Smart Eyewear such as Google Glass, Smartwatches, SmartClothing activity monitors etc. I will have more on wearable and self- implanted technologies in an upcoming blog.
What happens is you have your democrat and republican sheeple who each allow the government to take more and more control as long as they feel the regulation somehow suits the party they follow.... or harms the party they hate. The sheeple are allowing this country to be destroyed . Almost every thread on this forum turns into a republican vs democrat stupid fest.
you need to fear the corporations more then the gov... they are the ones pushing this stuff.... and consumers are buying... you may not always have a gun, but 24\7 video recorded in the cloud, with facebook tagging all the people you meet, you would be able to get justice afterwards if you were assaulted or what not... it's the ol trading security for freedom and many are willing to hop aboard that train.... at some point, the police will be able to tell the bad guys... cause they wont wear the stuff, so they would be suspect.... .
Nope , much more fearful of a government that can toss us in jail and make us disappear than a company selling something .
Someone, may have been Ben Franklin, had a thought about that. And it won't be only bad guys that will choose not to wear dog collars.
your correct, but looking at face book, the majority with nothing to hide will offer up their data freely, which leaves a smaller group police would want to look at not saying I agree with it... just the future I see coming I also foresee a day when there will be a chip in all your devices, you register it and when ever anyone passes by it with a cell phone it registers online, so the police only have to wait for someone with a cell phone to come within like 100 feet of it - your cell phone already tells what wifi's are around when the gps is on... you no longer need a gps turned on to track you, just a nearby wifi that has already been logged by a cell phone passer by the DMCA could already be used to make it a crime to disable the device, which will be in everything, cars, tv's, you name it... this is from 2011.... http://www.zdnet.com/blog/networking/how-google-and-everyone-else-gets-wi-fi-location-data/1664 "How it works, according to Google, is that the Android Location Services periodically checks on your location using GPS, Cell-ID, and Wi-Fi to locate your device. When it does this, your Android phone will send back publicly broadcast Wi-Fi access points' Service set identifier (SSID) and Media Access Control (MAC) data. Again, this isn't just how Google does it; it's how everyone does it. It's Industry practice for location database vendors. " .
just found this out there... https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/trackr-bravo-the-thinnest-item-tracking-device-ever "If an item goes missing, TrackR's Crowd GPS network will help you find it. When another user of the TrackR app comes within 100ft range of your lost item, you will receive a GPS update of where your item is. " uses Bluetooth to track down your item and uses other people cell phones to crowd source the search for you [video=youtube;SZNaVAACTwI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SZNaVAACTwI[/video] it's creepy but cool at the same time.... .
Been working on similar tags & beacons (this is a step up, thanks for sharing). Facial recognition is another issue. Scariest part is: neither tech scares anyone.
Enhanced Drivers Licenses: What Are They? State-issued enhanced drivers licenses (EDLs) provide proof of identity and U.S. citizenship, are issued in a secure process, and include technology that makes travel easier. They provide travelers with a low-cost, convenient alternative for entering the United States from Canada, Mexico or the Caribbean through a land or sea port of entry, in addition to serving as a permit to drive. The Department has been working with states to enhance their drivers licenses and identification documents to comply with travel rules under the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI), effective June 1, 2009. The states of Michigan, New York, Vermont and Washington are issuing these enhanced drivers licenses. Enhanced drivers licenses make it easier for U.S. citizens to cross the border into the United States because they include a vicinity Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chip that will signal a secure system to pull up your biographic and biometric data for the CBP officer as you approach the border inspection booth, and a Machine Readable Zone (MRZ) or barcode that the CBP officer can read electronically if RFID isn't available. The top 39 land ports of entry, which process more than 95 percent of land border crossings, are equipped with RFID technology that helps facilitate travel by individual presenting EDLs or one of the other RFID-enabled documents. (more info)
