Tag Archives: Big Brother

AU: Big brother wants all your bits and bytes

By Gideon Swift | Published: June 13, 2010
Source: theage.com.au THE federal government wants your personal internet data, and they don’t want to have to apply to a court to get it. Revelations that the federal government wants Australia’s 400-odd internet service providers (ISPs) to log and retain customers’ web browsing data, so law enforcement can access it during criminal cases, have sparked [...]
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Meet the face of Big Brother in New South Wales

By Gideon Swift | Published: June 3, 2010
Source: The Daily Telegraph THE State Government is quietly compiling a mathematical map of almost every adult’s face, sharing information that allows law enforcement to track people by CCTV. Experts said yesterday few people realised their facial features were being recorded in an RTA database of drivers licence photos that the Government has allowed both [...]
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Colorado’s Big Brother E-Commerce Law

By Gideon Swift | Published: May 26, 2010
Source: InformationWeek Record-breaking budget shortfalls have caused states to search for new revenue using tools that arguably are unconstitutional and, at a minimum, violate the consumer privacy that online shoppers have come to expect. A new twist to increasing taxes is an effort — adopted by Colorado and under consideration in California and Tennessee — [...]
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Intel: Chips in brains will control computers by 2020

By Gideon Swift | Published: April 12, 2010
So people will stumble all over themselves to have an implant because it’s so darn handy and produces ‘freedom.’  OK.   Before long these people won’t know which way is up.  They’ll be fully jacked into the Matrix, and that’s the last we’ll see of them, but that’s their ‘choice’, right?  So what about the small, [...]
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UK: Spy chips hidden in 2.5 MILLION dustbins: 60pc rise in electronic bugs as council snoopers plan pay-as-you-throw tax

By Gideon Swift | Published: March 8, 2010
The growing threat of a stealth tax on the rubbish we throw away was exposed by startling figures yesterday. More than 2.5million homes now have wheelie bins fitted with microchips to weigh their contents. This is an increase of nearly two-thirds in just a year. The bins, which can be electronically identified and weighed, are [...]
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The DNA snatchers: Police arresting innocents just to grab genetic details for Big Brother database

By Gideon Swift | Published: November 25, 2009
Police are arresting innocent people in order to get their hands on as many DNA samples as possible, senior Government advisers revealed last night. The Human Genetics Commission said the Big Brother tactic was creating a ‘spiral of suspicion’ among the public. The panel – which contains some of Britain’s leading scientists and academics – [...]
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Online ads: Big Brother or customer service?

By Gideon Swift | Published: October 9, 2009
U.S. marketers and consumer advocates are preparing for battle over the rules governing online advertising tailored to individual browsing habits, often tracked and collected without notice or permission. The U.S. Congress is due to intervene in the issue in the coming weeks, with a bill in the House of Representatives that would oblige websites to [...]
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Big Brother Switzerland: real-time internet interception to start on August 1, 2009

By Gideon Swift | Published: July 21, 2009
Grab it at  Wikileaks These confidential documents detail information on an official program for centralized, real-time, interception of Internet traffic in Switzerland. The interception will start on August 1, 2009. The documents are those referenced yesterday by the Swiss-German weekly newspaper WOZ
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Proposed Canadian Law Would Let Police Snoop On What You Do Online

By Gideon Swift | Published: June 19, 2009
It’s not exactly Big Brother and the overall intentions seem to have the public’s best interests at heart. But many are very uncomfortable about a proposed new law introduced in the House of Commons on Thursday that could affect anyone using the Internet in Canada. The bill, with the unwieldy name of "An Act Regulating [...]
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Former MI6 chief Sir Richard Dearlove warns against ‘disturbing’ surveillance society

By Gideon Swift | Published: June 4, 2009
  The former head of MI6 has hit out at ‘striking and disturbing’ invasions of privacy by the Big Brother state.   Sir Richard Dearlove, who led the Secret Intelligence Service from 1999 to 2004, claimed some were an ‘abuse’ of the law. He attacked the ‘loss of liberties’ caused by expanding surveillance powers and [...]
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