Daily Archives: August 15, 2007 »
China’s ‘Big Brother surveillance’ to dwarf UK
By Richard Spencer China has launched an ambitious “Big Brother” surveillance programme using everything from closed circuit television systems that can recognise faces to identity card computer chips to monitor its population. A high-tech
Read More »Bush Administration Spends $1.6 Billion On Propaganda
By Christopher Lee How much is good press worth? To the Bush administration, about $1.6 billion. That’s how much seven federal departments spent from 2003 through the second quarter of 2005 on 343 contracts
Read More »US moves to use spy satellites for domestic surveillance
AFP The United States is moving to expand the use of spy satellites for domestic surveillance, turning its “eyes in sky” inward to counter terrorism and eventually for law enforcement, a US official said
Read More »Wikipedia ‘shows CIA page edits’
By Jonathan Fildes An online tool that claims to reveal the identity of organisations that edit Wikipedia pages has revealed that the CIA was involved in editing entries. Wikipedia Scanner allegedly shows that workers
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