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Ford exec apologizes for 'We know everyone who breaks the law' remark

RT

January 10, 2014

Ford's global vice president in charge of marketing and sales now says the automobile company doesn't keep a close eye on their customers' driving habits after recent remarks at a Las Vegas trade show raised concerns among car owners.

On Thursday, Ford's Jim Farley told Business Insider that he didn't accurately portray the company's operations with regards to recording and logging user data with new smart car technology when he told a crowd at the CES electronics show in Vegas over the weekend, "We know everyone who breaks the law, [and[ we know when you're doing it" "We have GPS in your car, so we know what you're doing," Farley said on Sunday.

US govt attempts to block lawsuit against NSA

RT

January 9, 2014

Lawyers from the Justice Department have urged a judge to halt a lawsuit against the NSA's spy programs. This comes after the judge's previous ruling that the NSA's collection of metadata was likely unconstitutional and "almost Orwellian" in nature.

On Wednesday, government lawyers appealed to US District Court Judge Richard Leon to put court proceedings on hold for two lawsuits against the NSA filed by conservative legal activist, Larry Klayman. Klayman has challenged the legality of the NSA's programs that collect and store the metadata of American citizens on a massive scale. The lawyers argued that if the lawsuits were allowed to go further, they would lead to the disclosure of classified information which would represent a "significant risk" to national security. "Plaintiffs have made clear their intentions to seek discovery of this kind of still-classified information, concerning targets and subjects, participating providers, and other operational details of the challenged NSA intelligence programs," said the motion.

Pirate bay founder back in court as 'proper treatment' petition gets over 50,000 signatories

RT

January 9, 2014

The Pirate Bay founder, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, has returned to Danish court after his imprisonment was extended for three weeks in December. Meanwhile, an online petition to improve his jail conditions has gained over 54,000 signatures.

The hearing is being held behind closed doors. During a previous hearing last month, entry to the proceedings was also restricted. His attorney Louisa Hoj maintains this is an unnecessary precaution. "The prosecutor has so far argued that the case is sensitive and that the hearings should be held behind closed doors, but I don't think that the things we are discussing are particularly delicate, and it would be good for the Danish people to see what is really going on in this case," Hoj told The Copenhagen Post.

thepatriotnation.net

January 7, 2014

Facebook, the popular social network with over a billion users world wide, has just been hit with a class-action lawsuit.

The allegations, revealed in the FT, are that Facebook systematically scans the content of private messages so it can sell the data to third parties such as advertisers. Facebook's entire business model is based on the fact that it monitors what users write, like and up-load in order to sell this information on to others. I have covered some of the concerns about this in my articles 'How Facebook Exploits Your Private Information' and 'How Facebook Likes Reveal Your Intimate Secrets'. In principle, there is nothing wrong with Facebook using our data to make commercial gains. In the end, the service is free and Facebook has to make money somehow. However, my biggest concern is that the data mining activities are not as transparent as they should be.

Need more reasons to feel paranoid about the NSA? Watch this.

io9.com

January 6, 2014

This is a terrific presentation from tech researcher and journalist Jacob Appelbaum. At December's Chaos Computer Congress in Hamburg, he presented the latest documented revelations about how deep the NSA spying rabbit hole really goes.

Appelbaum timed his talk to come out at the same time as a Der Spiegel article detailing the discovery of an NSA group called TAO, which helps the agency spy on citizens' private computers - even intercepting computer deliveries to add backdoors to targeted people's machines. Working with the German news magazine, Appelbaum carefully explains what he found and how it affects ordinary people around the world. The extreme overzealousness of the NSA's spying programs has been revealed bit by bit in the wake of whistleblower Edward Snowden's revelations last year. Now, even conservative politicians like Republican Sen. Rand Paul are saying that the NSA is going too far. Paul recently threatened to sue the federal government for spying on its own citizens.

NSA has complete control of your iPhone, can activate your microphone and camera without you knowing

benswann.com

December 30, 2013

Leaked documents now show what we all suspected: the NSA can turn your iPhone's microphone and camera on and off without you knowing.

"The NSA's ANT division develops implants for mobile phones and SIM cards. One of these is a spyware implant called "DROPOUTJEEP" - designed for the first generation of iPhones - which was still in development in 2008, shortly after the iPhone's launch. This spyware was to make it possible to remotely download or upload files to a mobile phone. It would also, according to the catalog, allow the NSA to divert text messages, browse the user's address book, intercept voicemails, activate the phone's microphone and camera at will, determine the current cell site and the user's current location, "etc." ANT's technicians also develop modified mobile phones, for use in special cases that look like normal, standard devices, but transmit various pieces of information to the NSA - that can be swapped undetected with a target's own mobile phone or passed to informants and agents. In 2008, ANT had models from Eastcom and Samsung on offer, and it has likely developed additional models since."

9 Huge Government Conspiracies That Actually Happened

businessinsider.com

December 23, 2013

Declassified documents prove them.

We all know the conspiracy theories - the government's plan for 9/11, the second gunman who shot JFK, the evolution of the elite from a race of blood-drinking, shape-shifting lizards. But the people who spread these ideas usually can't prove them. As the years pass, however, secrets surface. Government documents become declassified. We now have evidence of certain elaborate government schemes right here in the U.S. of A.

21-Year Vet Cop Says if you don't want to be Filmed doing Something Corrupt, Stop Being Corrupt

thefreethoughtproject.com

November 28, 2013

Says 21-year police veteran Lt. Hawkes. It seems as though filming police is having a positive effect!

In a recent post on the law enforcement forum PoliceOne.com, Lt. Hawkes uses logic and reason to appeal to officers who are upset about losing their "above the law" privileges like speeding for no reason. If you don't want to be filmed doing something corrupt, stop doing something corrupt. Below is the rest of Lt. Hawkes statement. "On YouTube you can see plenty of America's finest being made to look like idiots - be smart because when we do senseless things, we only give the 'anti-police crowd' more ammunition"

US govt caught using pirated software for military, settles for $50mn

RT

November 28, 2013

The Obama administration has agreed to pay Apptricity US$50 million for pirating the company's logistics software the US Army used beyond contracted parameters.

While the Obama administration's has launched efforts against intellectual property theft - including the Joint Strategic Plan run by Vice President Joe Biden that aims to curb copyright infringement - the US Army was concurrently using pirated Apptricity enterprise software that manages troop and supply movements. The company sued the government, accusing the US military of willful copyright infringement. The Administration settled with the company, it was recently announced, agreeing to pay US$50 million, though Apptricity originally called for over four times that amount to cover unpaid licenses, TorrentFreak reported. In 2004, Apptricity agreed with the US Army to license the troop-movement software, allowing the government to use it on five servers and 150 standalone devices. Despite the deal, the Army has used the software worldwide.

NSA spied on porn habits, HuffPo reports

usatoday.com

November 27, 2013

NSA found vulnerabilities including "viewing sexually explicit material online" and "using sexually explicit persuasive language when communicating with inexperienced young girls," HuffPo reports

The National Security Agency collected evidence of online sexual activity and visits to pornographic websites as part of a proposed plan to harm the reputations of six people the agency considered "radicalizers," the Huffington Post reported, citing documents released by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. The targets, all Muslims, are described in the document as examples of how "personal vulnerabilities" can be learned through electronic surveillance, and then exploited to undermine a target's credibility, reputation and authority, HuffPo said in its report. Among the vulnerabilities are "viewing sexually explicit material online" and "using sexually explicit persuasive language when communicating with inexperienced young girls," according to the NSA document, dated Oct. 3, 2012.

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