#surveillence

[esotericworld]

FBI reveals it uses CIA and NSA to spy on Americans

Details about how the FBI uses the CIA and National Security Agency to probe the private lives of Americans without a warrant are revealed i

..and Twitter

[futuramb]

There Are Spying Eyes Everywhere—and Now They Share a Brain

Security cameras. License plate readers. Smartphone trackers. Drones. We’re being watched 24/7. What happens when all those data streams fuse into one?

Fusion technology eviscerates those spaces. With the click of an “INVESTIGATE” button, our digital footprints, once scattered, become a single uninterrupted life history, leaving not only our enemies, but also our friends and our lovers, with nowhere to hide.

For many years IT service companies have been working with integration between different systems and data streams aiming at connecting different data sources with companies in order to provide e g integrated service offerings as well as creating "company dashboards" where everything can be monitored and managed.

When these ideas are entering Darpa and other government bodies we are entering a new arena. We are not talking about integrating data streams consisting of data from production and sales. Fusion technologies are tools for integrating all data connected to, say a single license plate on a car parked in the neighborhood of an appartment block where a group of people gathered to talk about politics.

He clicked “INVESTIGATE,” and Citigraf got to work on the reported assault. The software runs on what Genetec calls a “correlation engine,” a suite of algorithms that trawl through a city’s historical police records and live sensor feeds, looking for patterns and connections. Seconds later, a long list of possible leads appeared onscreen, including a lineup of individuals previously arrested in the neighborhood for violent crimes, the home addresses of parolees living nearby, a catalog of similar recent 911 calls, photographs and license plate numbers of vehicles that had been detected speeding away from the scene, and video feeds from any cameras that might have picked up evidence of the crime itself, including those mounted on passing buses and trains. More than enough information, in other words, for an officer to respond to that original 911 call with a nearly telepathic sense of what has just unfolded.

These fusion technologie are now maturing and will likely rapidly change the balance of power between governments and citizens.

[emergentfutures]

China's 'midnight patrol' uses facial recognition to boot young players out of their virtual world

Every midnight, millions of younger Chinese gamers now face another foe — a digital 'patrol' using facial recognition technology that could boot them out of their virtual worlds.

[justsomeantifas]

The Future of Crime-Fighting Is Family Tree Forensics

Genealogy is about to send a lot more people to jail.

IN APRIL, A citizen scientist named Barbara Rae-Venter used a little-known genealogy website called GEDMatch to help investigators find a man they’d been looking for for nearly 40 years: The Golden State Killer. In the months since, law enforcement agencies across the country have flocked to the technique, arresting a flurry of more than 20 people tied to some of the most notorious cold cases of the last five decades. Far from being a forensic anomaly, genetic genealogy is quickly on its way to becoming a routine police procedure. At least one company has begun offering a full-service genetic genealogy shop to law enforcement clients. And Rae-Venter’s skills are in such high demand that she’s started teaching her secrets to some of the biggest police forces in the US, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Identifying individuals from their distant genetic relatives, a technique called long-range familial searching, is a potent alternative to the types of DNA searches commonly available to cops. Those are typically limited to forensic databases, which can only identify close kin—a sibling, parent, or child—and are highly regulated. No court order is required to mine GEDMatch’s open source trove of potential leads, which, unlike forensic databases, contains genetic bits of code that can be tied to health data and other personally identifiable information.

Currently, there aren’t any laws that regulate how law enforcement employs long-range familial searching, which hobbyists and do-gooders have turned to for years to find the biological families of adoptees. But some legal experts argue its use in criminal cases raises grave privacy concerns. They expect to see a legal challenge at some point, though probably not in the next year. In the meantime, GEDMatch is becoming even more powerful, as it grows by nearly a thousand new uploads every day. And with hundreds more cases currently in the hands of full-time family-tree builders, one thing’s for sure: In 2019, genealogy is going to send a lot more people to jail. 

[pxssagat]

Broomber & Chanarin / The Revolutionary, Spirit is a bone, 2013

[akanshaborthakr]

A daily reminder

[anarchistnewsdaily]

2 microphones, 1 GPS and a device with an aerial equipped with a TIM chip and a 16G memory stick have been found in a comrade’s car.

“2 microphones, 1 GPS and a device with an aerial equipped with a TIM chip and a 16G memory stick have been found in a comrade’s car. Red/black power cables were linked to fuses and to cables placed below the dashboard, while the GPS with magnet and the device with various chips and the aerial were placed behind the speedometer.The 2 microphones were under the cover of the roof of her car and the cables reached their power input through the car door. As far as could be ascertained, everything had been set up in the comrade’s car over a year ago and recordings were active at a distance of several metres even with the car engine switched off.”