TheEconomicCollapse What do speed traps, parking tickets, toll roads, speed cameras and red light cameras all have in common?  They are all major revenue sources for state and local governments.  All over America today there are state...

Cindy Cohn and Trevor Timm/EFF Since the tragedy in Boston two weeks ago, there has been much talk in the media and political circles about technology that helped capture the suspects, the role of surveillance, and the...

CNET Senior Obama administration officials have secretly authorized the interception of communications carried on portions of networks operated by AT&T and other Internet service providers, a practice that might otherwise be illegal under federal wiretapping laws. The...

Big Brother is watching. Now get used to it! Envisioning a future where privacy is a thing of the past, Mayor Bloomberg said Friday it will soon be impossible to escape the watchful eyes of surveillance cameras...

Brandon Turbeville/Activist Post Coming in combination with such recent announcements as the open desire of agencies like DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) to create an Internet server that will house all verbal communications, it can scarcely be...

Bruce Schneier/CNN  I’m going to start with three data points. One: Some of the Chinese military hackers who were implicated in a broad set of attacks against the U.S. government and corporations were identified because they accessed Facebook from the same...

Our Secret House

The following video highlights one of the scariest surveillance technologies you’ve ever seen. With Congress having recently authorized 30,000 drones to patrol America’s skies by 2015, this technology will soon become available to law enforcement officials all...

RTAmerica Click here to view the embedded video. A secret surveillance program known as TrapWire was revealed by WikiLeaks last week.  However, continuing distributed denial of service attacks have in turn eliminated access to the site for...

If you didn’t believe that everything you do is monitored before today, this latest confirmation should seal the deal. The information, of course, was not officially released, but when hackers gained access to highly secure emails at...