MetaFilter posts tagged with CivilRights and Surveillance

Surveillance Self-Defense

homunculus — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:11:51 -0800

The SSD Project. "The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has created this Surveillance Self-Defense site to educate the American public about the law and technology of government surveillance in the United States, providing the information and tools necessary to evaluate the threat of surveillance and take appropriate steps to defend against it." [Via]

Main Core

homunculus — Tue, 20 May 2008 12:25:17 -0800

The Last Roundup. "Is the government compiling a secret list of citizens to detain under martial law?" [Via]

Bikes Against Bush

homunculus — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:39:46 -0800

NYPD Intelligence Op Targets Dot-Matrix Graffiti Bike. More details on the premeditated arrest of Joshua Kinberg by the NYPD just before the 2004 Republican National Convention. Kinberg, now the CEO of FireAnt, was targeted by the "R.N.C. Intelligence Squad" for his Bikes Against Bush project. The police lost his Xtracycle. [Via BB.]

Irontom — Mon, 09 Sep 2002 06:23:00 -0800

"It's a terrible thing, but it's time to embrace Big Brother" A high school in Santee California has implemented "security procedures" that would do Mr. Orwell proud. Wireless cameras the face and license plate of every driver and car entering the parking lot. If you go to the bathroom, your picture gets logged. Hall monitors will soon carry wireless computers that can pull up a student's school picture and class schedule. And they are considering implementing face recognition software. Installed over the summer, a few parents complained to the school system - NOT that it was being done, but that they hadn't been notified. (LA Times Link - metafilter99/metafilter99)

( .)(. ) — Tue, 23 Jul 2002 09:23:03 -0800

Big Brother is here! Close to a thousand Brirish schools have collected their student`s fingerprints via library scanners; all this without the consent or knowledge of the parents. Please commend my success in refraining from oversentionalizing the story. YES!