Advanced Orwellian (Police) Surveillance Systems

Space And Naval Warfare Systems Command - Mini VTOL(Vertical TakeOff and Landing) UAV for Law Enforcement:

Remotely operated vehicle systems, ground and air, have great potential for supporting law enforcement operations. These systems with their onboard sensors, can assist in collecting evidence, performing long-term surveillance or in assessing hazardous situations prior to committing personnel. Remote ground vehicles are presently used by many police departments for ordnance clearing missions...
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1999SPIE.3577...35M

Two weekends ago at the V Festival, revellers were surprised to see a remote-controlled surveillance drone flying and filming overhead. Little to nothing was known beforehand about the drone’s use, and news reports after the fact shed little light on why or how its use was approved. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article2381368.ece?openComment=true

British Police Test Eye in the Sky Drone http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20070521/britain-drone.htm
UK's first police drone takes to the skies http://www.merseyside.police.uk/html/news/news/may/cd21-05b-police.htm

Biometrics/fringerprinting (& getting the children used to surveillance):

Child fingerprinting sign of government's surveillance state http://www.libdems.org.uk/news/child-fingerprinting-sign-of-governments-surveillance-state-clegg.12106.html

Children of 11 to be fingerprinted http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1466943.ece

Children tricked into giving fingerprints http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=441427&in_page_id=1770&in_a_source

Motorists to give fingerprints: Drivers who get stopped by the police could have their fingerprints taken at the roadside, under a new plan to help officers check people's identities. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6170070.stm

Kiddiprinters! EU biometric ID plans reach out for the children
The EU is planning to fingerprint children from as young as six, and earlier just as soon as it is technically feasible, according to documents obtained by Statewatch. The matter has already caused considerable debate (albeit behind closed doors and with no visible civil liberties concerns) among member states, but is being pushed ahead as part of a broader push towards biometric identifiers, without reference to the European Parliament. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/31/eu_fingerprinting_kids/

Video fingerprinting due soon (youtube, video google)
http://www.theage.com.au/news/web/video-fingerprinting-due-soon/2007/07/28/1185647742523.html

France to trial biometric boarding cards
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070905/tc_afp/franceairlinetravelairfrancebiometric_070905115141

Pupils face tracking bugs in school blazers: A school uniform maker said yesterday it was "seriously considering" adding tracking devices to its clothes after a survey found many parents would be interested in knowing where their offspring were. http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,2153054,00.html

Where Big Brother Watches and Talks to You ...

...operator in the control room spotted their actions, and a disembodied voice coming from a speaker attached to a CCTV camera stopped the offenders in their tracks...http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=2508521&page=

Big Brother is watching us all: cameras capture face in one second

The US and UK governments are developing increasingly sophisticated gadgets to keep individuals under their surveillance. When it comes to technology, the US is determined to stay ahead of the game. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/6995061.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3263343.stm

Behavior detection systems:

Behavior detection officers are keeping a close eye on travelers

Amy Kudwa, a Transportation Security Administration public affairs specialist, said the agency hopes to have 500 behavior detection officers in place by the end of 2008. Kudwa described the effort, which began as a pilot program in 2006, as “very successful” at identifying suspicious airline passengers. Terrorism suspects have been apprehended, two independent sources said.At the heart of the new screening system is a theory that when people try to conceal their emotions, they reveal their feelings in flashes that Ekman calls “micro-expressions.” Fear and disgust are the key ones, he said, because they are associated with deception. http://www.kansascity.com/105/story/238871.html(pdf)

Homeland Security explores behavior detector http://209.85.135.104/search?q=cache:33NjL-Homeland+Security+explores+behaivor+be

Brain Scan Reveals an Actual Lie ...

...company based in San Diego called No Lie MRI, which claims to use "the first and only direct detection of lies in human history" by actually mapping the portion of the brain that's used in deception. http://abcnews.go.com/WN/story?id=3542921&page=1

New York City Mobile Surveillance vans deployed on 9/11/07(find the terr0ritzzts!):










Europol: Shopping list could make you 'a terror suspect:

access for Europol to personal data could lead to individuals being labelled as terror suspects based on hearsay or records of their shopping habits. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/04/09/weuropol09.xml

US agencies train spy satellites on civilians

...a plan to allow emergency response, border control and, eventually, law enforcement agencies greater access to the sophisticated satellites... http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1311872007

U.S. to Expand Domestic Use Of Spy Satellites http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB118714764716998275.html?mod=blog

British motorists face spy in sky monitoring

Monitoring would be via a combination of static cameras to capture license plate details, electronic tags in vehicles that would be read by roadside monitoring stations and global positioning system satellites to read on-board transponders http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSL013370320070501?feedType=RSS

European Commission & RFID technology at CeBIT Event

European Commission launched a wide-ranging public consultation on the challenges and opportunities of RFID for government, industry and society at large. http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/cebit_07/index_en.htm

(over RFID chipping zal ik later nog eens een aparte post moeten maken, van 967 paginas)

$228,752 in surveillance equipment for Bayonne High

The Bayonne Board of Education voted last week to accept $228,752 in mostly federal grants to install surveillance cameras throughout the high school. http://www.jonesreport.com/articles/021006_surveillance_high.html

And now the funny(f*ckface): Real ID will 'strengthen' Americans' privacy, Chertoff says

Bush administration's Real ID plans, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said the national-identification scheme will actually "strengthen" personal privacy by providing added protection against identity theft. Starting on May 11, 2008, Americans will need a federally approved, "machine readable" ID card to travel on an airplane, open a bank account, collect Social Security payments or take advantage of nearly any government service. http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9771953-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5

the new new Osama Tape!

De politie, uw vriend

Pop up policemen to patrol the web

Police in China's capital said they will start patrolling the web using animated beat officers that pop up on a user's browser and walk, bike or drive across the screen warning them to stay away from illegal internet content.
"It is our duty to wipe out information that does public harm and disrupts social order," the newspaper quoted the bureau's deputy chief of Internet surveillance, Zhao Hongzhi, as saying.He said the virtual police officers would protect "netizens" from harm.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/web/pop-up-policemen
Virtual police patrol China web http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6968195.stm

Now police are told they can use Taser guns on children

Police have been given the go-ahead to use Taser stun guns against children.
The relaxing of restrictions on the use of the weapons comes despite warnings that they could trigger a heart attack in youngsters...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=479341&in_page_id=1770

Man bursts into flames after being shot by a taser gun

Police are investigating the firey death of a man who burst into flames after dousing himself in petrol and then being shot with a taser gun.
Officers used the gun after the man had poured gasoline over himself.
Juan Flores Lopez, 47, died on Tuesday at a hospital in Texas.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=463321&in_page_id=1811

11-Year-Old Arrested For Using Rubber Band Gun

http://www.wftv.com/news/13448349/detail.html

Handcuffed 5-Year-Old Sparks Suit

St. Petersburg (Fla.) police officers handcuffed an unruly 5-year-old girl after she acted up in her kindergarten class.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/04/25/earlyshow/main690601.shtml

The police are becoming an anti-terror law unto themselves

THE Metropolitan Police took a lot of flak last week for using anti-terrorism powers to manage the Heathrow climate change protest.
Since 9/11 there has been a rapid increase in anti-terrorism powers and a consequent diminution in our own civil liberties. Indefinite detention without charge for foreign nationals, subsequently replaced (following legal challenge) by the control order regime; pre-charge detention increased from 14 days to 28 days; new infringements on freedom of speech; banning orders on non-violent groups which promote terrorism; restrictions on the right to protest ... the list goes on. http://news.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=1355332007&format=print

After the Taser.. police gun that makes you sick

The latest weapon in the fight against crime is a "sick gun" that makes you vomit.
It looks like a normal torch but sends out rapidly-changing, different-coloured strobelights which blind and disorientate whoever it is shined at.
http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/news/sunday/2007/08/19/chunder-arrest-98487-19658122/

U.S.: Attack Dogs Used Against Prisoners

Worst Offenders Are State Prisons in Connecticut and Iowa
(New York, October 11, 2006) – Five state prison systems in the United States permit the use of
aggressive, unmuzzled dogs to terrify and even attack prisoners in efforts to remove them from their cells, Human Rights Watch said today in a new report.
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/10/06/usdom14362_txt.htm

Egyptian Police Sexually Humiliate Female Demonstrators (Egypt finds democracy can wait)

President Hosni Mubarak's enforcers have a particular way of dealing with female demonstrators: they sexually humiliate them.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/egypt/story/0,,1775587,00.html

Tickets For Good Driving

Travis County deputies kicked off what has become a controversial reward program.
You know that heart-stopping feeling you get when seeing the flashing red lights of law enforcement in the rear view mirror? Well, you won't see that if you're a good driver, but you may get pulled over.
Getting pulled over for doing nothing wrong may not sound right to a lot of people.
http://www.kxan.com/Global/story.asp?S=4605380

Related:

FBI to restrict student freedoms

US university students will not be able to work late at the campus, travel abroad, show interest in their colleagues' work, have friends outside the United States, engage in independent research, or make extra money without the prior consent of the authorities, according to a set of guidelines given to administrators by the FBI. Federal agents are visiting some of the New England's top universities, including MIT, Boston College, and the University of Massachusetts, to warn university heads about the dangers of foreign spies and terrorists stealing sensitive academic research.
http://pressesc.com/01182668252_espionage_indicators

School enforces strict No-Touching Rule

All touching -- not only fighting or inappropriate touching -- is against the rules at Kilmer Middle School in Vienna. Hand-holding, handshakes and high-fives? Banned. The rule has been conveyed to students this way: "NO PHYSICAL CONTACT!!!!!"
"I think hugging is a good thing," said Hal, a seventh-grader, a few days before the end of the school year. "I put my arm around her. It was like for 15 seconds. I didn't think it would be a big deal." That landed him a trip to the school office.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/17/AR2007061701179_pf.htm

Follow-up ivm provocateurs @SPP Quebec
Nu geven ze toe dat het agenten zijn maar ze deden niets verkeerd etc
(video in vorige post, ze hadden stenen in de hand, schold oa protestleider uit, riepen andere toe om aggressiever te zijn etc)

Quebec Police Defend Undercover Montebello Officers:

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_yEbNNLm_0

Provocateurs busted @ SPP meeting Ottowa!

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St1-WTc1kow
• http://www.thestar.com/News/article/248608
• foto kijk naar de schoenen van de "demonstranten" vs die van de stormtroomers HIER
• NDP calls for inquiry into Montebello security allegations