One of the nation’s most secretive intelligence agencies is pressuring its polygraphers to obtain intimate details of the private lives of thousands of job applicants and employees, pushing the ethical and legal boundaries of a program that’s designed instead to catch spies and terrorists.
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FBI quietly forms secretive Net-surveillance unit
CNET has learned that the FBI has formed a Domestic Communications Assistance Center, which is tasked with developing new electronic surveillance technologies, including intercepting Internet, wireless, and VoIP communications.
Posted in Created Terror, Cyberwar, Data Theft, Intelligence, North America
Also tagged DCAC, DEA, FBI, Going Dark, Internet, social networks, Surveillance, US, Wiretapping
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Are Police Building a Massive DNA Database?
On March 19, New York governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law a bill expanding the ability of the police to collect DNA samples from citizens of the state.
US No-Fly list doubles in past year to 21,000 known or suspected terrorists
The no-fly list jumped from about 10,000 known or suspected terrorists one year ago to about 21,000, according to government figures provided to the AP. Most people on the list are from other countries; about 500 are Americans.
Posted in Created Terror, Data Theft, Intelligence, North America
Also tagged planes, terrorism, US
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That budget isn’t going anywhere
A note on Obama’s budget. Maybe he knows the Republicans are never going to accept it (and they didn’t), and knows that the Democrats are going to hate it (and they do) and also will never accept it (which they won’t).