U.S. Terrorism Agency to Tap a Vast Database of Citizens

[Busybody]

U.S. Terrorism Agency to Tap a Vast Database of Citizens


Top U.S. intelligence officials gathered in the White House Situation Room in March to debate a controversial proposal. Counterterrorism officials wanted to create a government dragnet, sweeping up millions of records about U.S. citizens—even people suspected of no crime.

Not everyone was on board. "This is a sea change in the way that the government interacts with the general public," Mary Ellen Callahan, chief privacy officer of the Department of Homeland Security, argued in the meeting, according to people familiar with the discussions.

A week later, the attorney general signed the changes into effect

 

[Busybody]

Good thing Bush or an R aint President

Or we wont hear the end of THIS

 

[phrodeau]

I hope you crapped your pants in fear.

I suppose posting in your threads makes me a "person of interest".

 

[Busybody]

no one is interested in you

 

[Busybody]

4th Amendment Over: Public Buses Adding Microphones To Record Conversations
Via Mike Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
Believe it or not the article itself is actually a lot worse than even the title implies. These microphones are in many cases being coupled with cameras in order to gain an even greater level of surveillance. All with grants from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Now honestly, does anyone really think this is for Al Qaeda? This is a great follow up to my piece from last week titled: Coming to Your Car: Mandatory Black Boxes That Record Everything.
From Wired:
Transit authorities in cities across the country are quietly installing microphone-enabled surveillance systems on public buses that would give them the ability to record and store private conversations, according to documents obtained by a news outlet.

The systems are being installed in San Francisco, Baltimore, and other cities with funding from the Department of Homeland Security in some cases, according to the Daily, which obtained copies of contracts, procurement requests, specs and other documents.

The systems use cables or WiFi to pair audio conversations with camera images in order to produce synchronous recordings. Audio and video can be monitored in real-time.

In Eugene, Oregon, the Daily found, transit officials requested microphones that would be capable of “distilling clear conversations from the background noise of other voices, wind, traffic, windshields wipers and engines” and also wanted at least five audio channels spread across each bus that would be “paired with one or more camera images and recorded synchronously with the video for simultaneous playback.”

The 4th Amendment is dead. I repeat, the terrorists won.

 

[Busybody]

Good thing Bush or an R aint President

Or we wont hear the end of THIS

 

[koalabear]

I don't see a problem. The buses around here drive around empty.

 

[Busybody]

HOPEY-CHANGEY! U.S. Drone Tweets Reveal “Double-Tap” Plan. “Known as the ‘double tap,’ the tactic involves bombing a target multiple times in relatively quick succession, meaning that the second strike often strikes first responders.” I doubt the first responders in Taliban country are firemen and EMTs, though.

But hey, who cares? We’ve got a Democrat in the White House. It can’t really be a “war crime” unless the President is a Republican.

 

[Busybody]

HOPEY-CHANGEY! Expiring Warrantless Spy Bill to Be Reauthorized by Year’s End.

 

[Busybody]

Good thing Bush or an R aint President

Or we wont hear the end of THIS

 

[LadyVer]

I think you left part of the story out.

 

[Busybody]

I think you left part of the story out.

tell me

which part

 

[LadyVer]

The reason behind the meeting, BB.

 

[Busybody]

what meeting, LIB LOON?

 

[LadyVer]

what meeting, LIB LOON?

See your op (# 1 post), dearest.

 

[blobfish]

Tapping a vast database? More cushion for the pushin'.

 

[JohnnySavage]

This is why I cut up my CVS Extra Savings Card. I don't want my vast database tapped.

 

[Busybody]

See your op (# 1 post), dearest.

I did

I didn't miss ANYTHING


YOU DID

 

[Busybody]

This is why I cut up my CVS Extra Savings Card. I don't want my vast database tapped.

You are clueless

 

[JohnnySavage]

You are clueless

Says you, who is probably in all kinds of government databases. I live life through several LLC's. I'm invisible. Like a cheetah.


We should be most alert when the government professes benevolence.

 

[LadyVer]

Whatever you say, Obe Wan Kanobe.

 

[blobfish]

Whatever you say, Obe Wan Kanobe.

Intentional?

 

[Busybody]

. I'm invisible.

Oh yeah

You SURE are

Like the guy on the LEFT

 

[eyer]

GET OFF THE GRID

STAY UNDER THE RADAR​

 

[Busybody]

Whatever you say, Obe Wan Kanobe.

here is the point, LIB LOON


under Bushco and under an R

this exact shit

WAS ALL OVER THE NEWS....war crimes....FACISTS.....ETC ETC

Under, NIGGER HO!, you and your fellow stooges.....