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Revealed: New study shows how domestic surveillance system sees you

The surveillance system that was set up after the staged attacks of September 11, 2001... more

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Mexican Drone Crashes in South Texas

Federal authorities are investigating why a Mexican drone was in Texas airspace and... more

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Top secret American spy plane returns to Earth after seven months... but U.S. still won't say what it was doing in space

The U.S.'s first unmanned re-entry spacecraft landed at an airfield today, seven... more

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Drunk Santa Caught On Surveillance Cam !

Drunk Santa is caught on surveillance camera entering a parking garage.... more

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GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING: Scariest speed camera of all... It checks your insurance, tax and even whether you are tailgating or not wearing a seatbelt

Even the most law-abiding driver might feel a shiver down the spine when spotting this... more

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Caught Spying on Student, FBI Demands GPS Tracker Back

A California student got a visit from the FBI this week after he found a secret GPS tracking device on his car, and a friend posted photos of it online. The post prompted wide speculation about whether the device was real, whether the young Arab-American was being targeted in a terrorism investigation and what the authorities would do.

It took just 48 hours to find out: The device was real, the student was being secretly tracked and the FBI wanted their expensive device back, the student told Wired.com in an interview Wednesday.

The answer came when half-a-dozen FBI agents and police officers appeared at Yasir Afifi’s apartment complex in Santa Clara, California, on Tuesday demanding he return the device.

Afifi, a 20-year-old U.S.-born citizen, cooperated willingly and said he’d done nothing to merit attention from authorities. Comments the agents made during their visit suggested he’d been under FBI surveillance for three to six months.

An FBI spokesman wouldn’t acknowledge that the device belonged to the agency or that agents appeared at Afifi’s house.

“I can’t really tell you much about it, because it’s still an ongoing investigation,” said spokesman Pete Lee, who works in the agency’s San Francisco headquarters.

Afifi, the son of an Islamic-American community leader who died a year ago in Egypt, is one of only a few people known to have found a government-tracking device on their vehicle.

His discovery comes in the wake of a recent ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals saying it’s legal for law enforcement to secretly place a tracking device on a suspect’s car without getting a warrant, even if the car is parked in a private driveway.

Brian Alseth from the American Civil Liberties Union in Washington state contacted Afifi after seeing pictures of the tracking device posted online and told him the ACLU had been waiting for a case like this to challenge the ruling.

“This is the kind of thing we like to throw lawyers at,” Afifi said Alseth told him.

“It seems very frightening that the FBI have placed a surveillance-tracking device on the car of a 20-year-old American citizen who has done nothing more than being half-Egyptian,” Alseth told Wired.comA California student got a visit from the FBI this week after he found a secret GPS... more

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Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera

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Caught On Surveillance: Man Stabs Ex-Wife Infront of Kids in Fethiye, Turkey - The Daily Blender

Fethiye, Turkey, 4 October 2010 - The 44 year old man stabbed his 28 year old ex-wife... more

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WTF Asian Guy On Scooter Totally Gets The Shaft, Literally (VIDEO) - The Daily Blender

Korean guy on a scooter is to damn impatient to wait for the next elevator. So he... more

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What Was Caught on the Russian Security Camera at a Night Club in the Women's Bathroom (VIDEO) - The Daily Blender

Russia, Moscow. Night Club. Recorded from their surveillance cameras.

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Caught On Surveillance: Man Ends His Life After Breaking Up With Girlfriend (GRAPHIC VIDEO) - The Daily Blender

Warning Viewer Discretion Is Advised. Disturbing Material. (18+) After breaking up... more

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Tragic Accident Captured On Surveillance Camera In China (VIDEO) - The Daily Blender

Viewer Discretion Is Advised - Woman Gets Struck And Killed By Truck August 17,... more

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Trashing the Cat: Security Camera Theatre

The problem with the video of this seemingly harmless London woman trashing an equal... more

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U.S. Court Rules That Government Can Secretly Track You With GPS, Privacy is For Rich People Only

TIME report details legal ruling that befits activity of KGB or the East German... more

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The Government's New 'Right' to Track Your Every Move With GPS

~So they gain even more spy powers on citizens, yet can't find a guy who jumps... more

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The Olympigs are here!

1. Colombian attack on the indigenous 2. Blocking the flows of carbon 3. Mending the... more

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Eye in the Sky: NY High-Tech crackdown on illegal pools - latest assault on your right to privacy?

In an unprecedented proliferation of public spying, government is casting its watchful... more

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NSA Executive Leaked After Official Reporting Process Failed Him | Threat Level | Wired.com

A former NSA executive who is fighting government charges of leaking classified... more

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WSJ says "Perfect Citizen" is Big Brother

The secret $100 Million Raytheon developed clandestine surveillance program for the... more

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Policing Free Speech / Political Spying: ACLU Review

Welcome to the surveillance society
That’s what the American Civil Liberties Union concluded Tuesday with a report chronicling government spying and the detention of groups and individuals “for doing little more than peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights.”

The report, Policing Free Speech: Police Surveillance and Obstruction of First Amendment-Protected Activity (.pdf),http://www.aclu.org/files/assets/Spyfiles_2_0.pdf
surveys news accounts and studies of questionable snooping and arrests in 33 states and the District of Columbia over the past decade.

The survey provides an outline of, and links to, dozens of examples of Cold War-era snooping in the modern age.

“Our review of these practices has found that Americans have been put under surveillance or harassed by the police just for deciding to organize, march, protest, espouse unusual viewpoints and engage in normal, innocuous behaviors such as writing notes or taking photographs in public,” Michael German, an ACLU attorney and former Federal Bureau of Investigation agent, said in a statement.

Here are a few examples:

At a California State University, Fresno lecture on veganism, six of the 60 in attendance were undercover officers from the local and campus police. The Oakland Police Department in California had infiltrated a police-brutality demonstration, and its undercover officers selected “the route of the march.”

A vegetarian activist in Georgia was arrested for jotting down the license plate of a Department of Homeland Security agent who was snapping photos of a protest outside a Honey Baked Ham store. A Joint Terrorism Task Force in Illinois went on a three-day manhunt in Chicago searching for a Muslim man for his suspicious activity of using a hand counter on a bus. As it turned out, the man was counting his daily prayers.

A Kentucky minister was detained at Canadian border trying to enter the United States because he had purchased copies of the Koran on the internet following the 2001 terror attacks. A New York, Muslim-American student journalist was detained for taking pictures of Old Glory outside a Veterans Affairs building as part of a class project. The authorities deleted the pictures before releasing her an hour later.Welcome to the surveillance society That’s what the American Civil Liberties... more

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