Fueled by the Edward Snowden scandal, more Americans than ever are asking the NSA if their personal life is being spied on.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. will begin removing spent fuel today from the wrecked Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear facility, an early milestone in decommissioning that could threaten another crisis if mishandled.
Dave Pratt winced when his teenage son bought himself a Jeep, thinking of how high the insurance would be on a young driver with a flashy car.
A Corrections Department agent, who works at the Puerto Rico Pretrial Services Office’s monitoring center for defendants free on bail, placed a GPS ankle bracelet on the court podium and made a call from the device to a technician of the SecureAlert company, which provides them at a facility in Sandy, Utah.
The Motor City Muckracker obtained the videos from a source whose identity was withheld due to safety concerns. Investigative journalist Steve Neavling declined to publish all the videos, describing them as “humiliating.”
et another major news organization has decided that it no longer needs credibility.
Another day, another shooting, this time however in Paris, and one involving French mega bank SocGen.
If there were any shreds of hope left that the stunning decline of the middle class could be turned around, Obamacare has absolutely destroyed them. Over the past decade or so, the middle class in the United States has been absolutely eviscerated.
The new State Secrecy Bill put forward by the Japanese government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will lead to a highly secretive regime and undermine the basic democratic right to scrutinise government operations and policy.
ablets and toddlers: A warning for parents of tech-savvy children. The American Academy of Pediatrics says children under two should avoid all screen time.
The new surveillance technology is the StingRay (also marketed as Triggerfish, IMSI Catcher, Cell-site Simulator or Digital Analyzer), a sophisticated, portable spy device able to track cell phone signals inside vehicles, homes and insulated buildings.
Israel claims that the witness could divulge state secrets that would endanger the country, but others say Israel is more concerned about its trade ties with China.
Afghan villagers discovered the beheaded bodies of six government contractors Sunday in the country's restive south, the apparent victims of insurgents who regularly target state projects, officials said.
Skyway Global LLC, the St. Petersburg, FL company that owned the DC-9 airline busted in Mexico carrying 5.5 tons of cocaine, made its headquarters in a 79,000 sq ft building owned by Verint Systems (NASDAQ: VRNT), a foreign tele-communications company with a contract to wiretap the U.S. for the NSA through the communication lines of Verizon, which handles almost half of all landline and cell phone calls in the U.S.
Britain's GCHQ intelligence service monitors diplomats' travels using a sophisticated automated system that tracks hotel bookings. Once a room has been identified, it opens the door to a variety of spying options.
The United States has paid more than $150 million to local contractors in Afghanistan who have allegedly helped in terrorist attacks on American soldiers and posts, according to an “alert letter” from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) to Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel. Although shocking, the allegations are reminiscent of the fact that several large U.S. corporations worked for the Nazi regime during World War II.
A drone being used as part of a Navy training exercise malfunctioned and struck a ship off the coast of Point Mugu Saturday, leaving two sailors with minor burns, the Navy said in a statement.
Israel is working on coordinating plans for a possible military strike with Saudi Arabia, with Riyadh prepared to provide tactical support to Jerusalem, a British newspaper reported early Sunday.
Mission Accomplished
Last month in a shootout between Mexican police and drug cartel members, three officers were killed, but following the shootout it appears that another US weapons smuggling operation was uncovered, one that includes "Kingery" grenades.
The United States has paid more than $150 million to companies in Afghanistan that are accused of helping to finance terrorist attacks on American soldiers and facilities, according to the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.
Hailed as the most sweeping overhaul of farm and food policy since the Great Depression, many fear the law will actually make our food supply less safe – not to mention sterile – by regulating small, organic farmers out of business and leaving it in the hands of a few mega farmers and processors.
This isn’t a surprise. There is no way she would have been considered for the top job at the Fed had she been for an audit.
Amazon hints at details on its CIA Franken-cloud
Available evidence does not support whether behavioral indicators, which are used in the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) Screening of Passengers by Observation Techniques (SPOT) program, can be used to identify persons who may pose a risk to aviation security.
Local law enforcement is getting the kind of technological boost that used to be limited to three-letter agencies, thanks to Web-based software services that mine social media for intelligence.
Honestly, I hate posting stuff like this, but it’s important for parents to realize the danger that our children face in the public school systems across the country.
We’ve previously noted that mass surveillance is killing American tech companies.
Today and Monday, individual investors have a unique opportunity to “benefit” from the greatest bond bubble in history, even before institutional investors get to jump in, and buy sewer bonds – yup, that’s where they belong – issued by a county that landed in bankruptcy court because it defaulted on its prior sewer bonds.
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (DECE) at the University of Toronto (UoT) have revealed researchers created a cloak that is thin, scalable and adaptive to various objects and sizes to hide an object to radar detection.
The Exxon Mobil stake, while large, is still only a fraction of Berkshire Hathaway's overall holdings, which are valued at $92 billion, according to the regulatory filing.
Anonymous hacktivist told court FBI informant and fellow hacker Sabu supplied him with list of countries vulnerable to cyber-attack
Data reveal that billions of American taxpayer dollars continue to fund questionable or openly corrupt contractors in Afghanistan. The findings underscore the inability of the American military to filter suspicious contractors from the thousands who work with the United States on a regular basis to build bases and transport supplies.
The Fed controls the supply of money by increasing or decreasing the monetary base. The monetary base is related to the size of the Fed's balance sheet; specifically, it is currency in circulation plus the deposit balances that depository institutions hold with the Federal Reserve.
When the first leaks began to come out about NSA surveillance, the Obama Administration sought to replace demands for reform with promises of increased transparency. Apparently even that’s too much to hope for now
'Collected data goes beyond basic financial records and uses Social Security numbers to tie financial activity to a specific person
Researchers at the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) believe they may be on the cusp of using neural input to fundamentally change the human-machine interface.
The legislation, known as the “Ley Habilitante,” or Enabling Act, would allow Maduro to bypass the country’s top legislative body for a limited time – in this case for a twelve-month period. The national assembly is also able to strip the president of such powers should it vote to do so.
China has pledged to loosen its one-child policy and end a controversial “re-education through labour” programme, state media reported on Friday, days after the conclusion of a meeting of top Communist party leaders in Beijing.
State lawmakers in Ohio want to limit the use of drones by law enforcement agencies in the state.A proposed bill would require law enforcement to obtain a search warrant before using drones. It would prohibit law enforcement from using drones to search for missing persons, locate illegal marijuana operations, or perform several actions officers currently handle with helicopter surveillance.
As America’s undetectable firearms ban is expiring within less than a month, the country’s law enforcement united with lawmakers to label 3D-printed arms a national security threat – with over 300 million steel-made guns scattered throughout the US.
Charting the propaganda and drone war in one graph.
This week was considerably prolific, even as my family and I continue the move, and I battled with a horrid cold. Thanks to all the well wishers that contacted me! We we will continue to do the work that the majority of corporate media can't, or won't.
Telesign pulls where the phones were registered and who provides the service. The older an account is, the better. And if the number shows up as attached to legitimate accounts with companies, apps, and websites to which Telesign provides services, that’s a good thing.
Moody’s is to cut the credit rating of US major banks, including Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and Bank of New York Mellon. The rating agency thinks the government is now less likely to support the lenders in times of new financial difficulties.
Crime rates will soar, economies will stagnate and Europe’s social fabric will deteriorate if policymakers do not act to address youth unemployment, World Economic Forum report warns.
“Beyond Silk Road: Potential Risks, Threats, and Promises of Virtual Currencies,” in which witness would be invited to testify about “the challenges facing law enforcement and regulatory agencies, and include views from “non-governmental entities who can discuss the promises of
virtual currency for the American and global economies.”
Anti-alcohol fanaticism caused the government to "legally murder" people who drank the forbidden beverage.
The city of Boston has a problem with public scrutiny.
Peaceful protests could be outlawed on the sole grounds that they might annoy nearby residents under contentious new powers being granted to councils, campaign groups warn.
China is set to usurp India as the world’s largest gold consumer this year, according to forecasts from the World Gold Council (WGC) on Thursday, as a slide in the rupee's value and strict import curbs saw India’s gold demand drop by nearly 24 percent.
Resulting story on Yemen led to a federal leaks investigation and the seizure of journalists' phone records in search for the source
Central Intelligence Agency is secretly collecting bulk records of international money transfers handled by companies like Western Union — including transactions into and out of the United States — under the same law that the National Security Agencyuses for its huge database of Americans’ phone records, according to current and former government officials.
The United States Central Intelligence Agency has declassified 1,400 pages of intelligence files relating to the Camp David Accords, the historic peace treaty between Egypt and Israel, which was signed in 1978. The treaty, the first between Israel and an Arab country, was signed on September 17, following thirteen days of high-level negotiations between Egypt and Isarel at the Camp David presidential retreat in the US state of Maryland.
We posted on the New York Times news story that opposition in the House to authorization of “fast track” authority to the Administration on its pending Pacific and Atlantic trade deals was stiffening right just before a related story broke: that Wikileaks had disclosed the end of August draft of one of the critical chapters of one of the deals.
The Federal Reserve is creating hundreds of billions of dollars out of thin air and using that money to buy U.S. government debt and mortgage-backed securities and take them out of circulation. Since the middle of 2008, these purchases have caused the Fed's balance sheet to balloon from under a trillion dollars to nearly four trillion dollars.
Militant Islamist rebels in Syria linked to al-Qaeda have asked for “understanding and forgiveness” for cutting off and putting on display the wrong man’s head.
The next Cuban missile crisis could be resolved through the power of music rather than an armed standoff between nuclear powers, military officials and researchers speculate.
After years of secret trade negotiations over the future of intellectual property rights (and limits on those rights), the public gets a chance to looks at the results. For those of us who care about free speech and a balanced intellectual property system that encourages innovation, creativity, and access to knowledge, it’s not a pretty picture.
We have all sorts of concerns about the TPP Agreement (Trans Pacific Parntership), but as we've discussed (both recently and in the past), a huge concern is over "trade promotion authority" or "fast track authority," in which Congress completely abdicates its Constitutional role "to regulate commerce with foreign nations."
A strain of bird flu that scientists thought could not infect people has shown up in a Taiwanese woman, a nasty surprise that shows scientists must do more to spot worrisome flu strains before they ignite a global outbreak, doctors say.
The Kinect is one of the most amazing pieces of consumer hardware on the planet. It can recognize the human anatomy with incredible logic and accuracy.
Despite cannabis being legal in Colorado, an 'odor ordinance' could spell trouble for users.
Tech giant Apple is making the news with another case of massive tax evasion; Italy claims that Apple has shielded 1 billion euros ($1.34 billion US) in profits from being taxed in 2010 and 2011.
As the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) doles out billions of dollars to convince local police departments to surrender control to the federal agency, a recent report indicates that intelligence gathered at precincts-cum-surveillance-centers will be shared among all levels of law enforcement.
The first steps towards the outlawing of “killer robots” could be taken on Thursday, as a UN committee meets to decide whether to investigate banning the controversial technology.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) must disclose its plans for a so-called Internet “kill switch,” a federal court ruled on Tuesday.
First, President Obama had to backtrack from his promise that if you like your health insurance plan, under Obamacare "you can keep it." Now, a new study is suggesting that, under Obamacare, "If you like your workweek, you can’t necessarily keep it, either."
Hackers have attempted more than a dozen cyber attacks against the Obamacare website, according to a top Homeland Security Department official.
Many observers believe the U.S. dollar (USD) will lose its status as the world’s reserve currency sooner rather than later. Proponents of this view often mention China’s agreements with various trading partners to settle trade in their own currencies rather than the dollar as evidence of this trend.
Cisco chief executive John Chambers said on the company’s earnings call that he believes other American technology companies will be similarly affected.
Cisco saw orders in Brazil drop 25% and Russia drop 30%.
Police in Seattle, Washington have responded to a major public outcry by disabling a recently discovered law enforcement tool that critics said could be used to conduct sweeping surveillance across the city.
Hoping to cast some light on the issue, a group of Lower Manhattan residents is preparing to sue the New York Police Department over its security plan for the World Trade Center, saying that the plan will leave the center in “fortresslike isolation” and the area around it “as impervious to traffic as the Berlin Wall.”
Janet Yellen will say the US economy is performing “far short” of its potential at her confirmation hearing this morning in prepared remarks that justify continued monetary stimulus,
reports FT.
White House and State Department officials are behind the blocking of the four-year Chilcot inquiry, which the UK’s Cabinet Office has been criticized for halting.
The Government Accountability Office, which is Congress‘ chief watchdog, said it has reviewed all of the major research and said, at best, the Transportation Security Administration’s behavior detection officers do only slightly better than random chance in singling out high-risk passengers.
The Department of Homeland Security is soliciting information from potential contractors for a new program that the DHS hopes will enable it to use DNA tests to identify criminal suspects and track their family relationships.
U.S. agencies collected and shared the personal information of thousands of Americans in an attempt to root out untrustworthy federal workers that ended up scrutinizing people who had no direct ties to the U.S. government and simply had purchased certain books.
Two Secret Service supervisors on President Barack Obama’s protective detail are under investigation for alleged misconduct, a federal law enforcement source with knowledge of the internal Secret Service investigation told CNN’s John King.
An international treaty being negotiated in secret which would not only crack down on Internet privacy much more than SOPA or ACTA, but would actually destroy the sovereignty of the U.S. and all other signatories.
Did you know that the Obama administration is negotiating a super secret "trade agreement" that is so sensitive that he isn't even allowing members of Congress to see it? The Trans-Pacific Partnership is being called the "NAFTA of the Pacific" and "NAFTA on steroids", but the truth is that it is so much more than just a trade agreement.
US "Dollar Doom" has become a popular platform for Russia politicians.
Robert Malsam nearly went broke in the 1980s when corn was cheap. So now that prices are high and he can finally make a profit, he's not about to apologize for ripping up prairieland to plant corn.
ACLU report chronicles thousands of lives ruined by life sentences for crimes such as shoplifting or possession of a crack pipe
ShotSpotter, the gunshot detection system used in roughly 80 cities around the globe (70 of them in the U.S.), is joining the game. An unnamed Oakland charter school will be the first one in the country to use the ShotSpotter SiteSecure system.
“The Rise of Big Chocolate” certainly sounds like a lascivious porno movie, but if there is any movie that comes to mind in this article, it’s Willy Wonka and the Chocolate
A recent project by designer Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg proposes that genetically-engineered creatures be released into the wild to save endangered species and clean up pollution. And she's already designed four organisms to do it, including soil-scouring slugs and seed-dispersing porcupines.
It is well-documented that the U.S. government has – at least at some times in some parts of the world – protected drug operations.
Most of the more than 1,000 jihadists who have poured into Syria to fight alongside Al Qaeda carry passports from North America and Europe, raising the possibility that they could easily bring terror back to the west, according to a key lawmaker who receives regular briefings on the issue.
Take your smartphone, for instance. There’s definitely a primary OS — Android, iOS,
Windows Phone — but there’s also at least two other operating systems: The baseband OS and the
SIM card OS, both of which run on their own processor that’s separate from the SoC.
