14
Incredibly Creepy Surveillance Technologies That Big Brother Will Be Using To
Spy On You
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‘Most of us don't think much about it, but the
truth is that people are being watched, tracked and monitored more today than
at any other time in human history. The explosive growth of technology in
recent years has given governments, spy agencies and big corporations
monitoring tools that the despots and dictators of the past could only dream
of. Previous generations never had to deal with "pre-crime"
surveillance cameras that use body language to spot criminals or unmanned
drones watching them from far above. Previous generations would have
never even dreamed that street lights and refrigerators might be spying on
them. Many of the incredibly creepy surveillance technologies that you
are about to read about are likely to absolutely astound you. We are
rapidly heading toward a world where there will be no such thing as privacy
anymore. Big Brother is becoming all-pervasive, and thousands of new
technologies are currently being developed that will make it even easier to spy
on you. The world is changing at a breathtaking pace, and a lot of the
changes are definitely not for the better.
The
following are 14 incredibly creepy surveillance technologies that Big Brother
will be using to watch you....
#1 "Pre-Crime"
Surveillance Cameras
A
company known as BRS Labs has developed "pre-crime" surveillance
cameras that can supposedly determine if you are a terrorist or a criminal even
before you commit a crime.
Does
that sound insane?
Well,
authorities are taking this technology quite seriously. In fact, dozens
of these cameras are being installed at major transportation hubs in San Francisco....
In
its latest project BRS Labs is to install its devices on the transport system
in
The
company says will put them in 12 stations with up to 22 cameras in each,
bringing the total number to 288.
The
cameras will be able to track up to 150 people at a time in real time and will
gradually build up a ‘memory’ of suspicious behaviour
to work out what is suspicious.
#2 Capturing Fingerprints From 20 Feet Away
Can
you imagine someone reading your fingerprints from 20 feet away without you
ever knowing it?
This
kind of technology is actually already here according to POPSCI....
Gaining access to your gym or office building could soon be as simple as waving a hand at the front door. A Hunsville, Ala.-based company called IDair
is developing a system that can scan and identify a fingerprint from nearly 20 feet away. Coupled with other biometrics, it could soon allow security systems to grant or deny access from a distance, without requiring users to stop and scan a fingerprint, swipe an ID card, or otherwise lose a moment dealing with technology.Currently
IDair’s primary customer is the military, but the
startup wants to open up commercially to any business or enterprise that wants
to put a layer of security between its facilities and the larger world. A gym
chain is already beta testing the system (no more using your roommate’s gym ID
to get in a free workout), and IDair’s founder says
that at some point his technology could enable purchases to be made
biometrically, using fingerprints and irises as unique identifiers rather than
credit card numbers and data embedded in magnetic strips or RFID chips.
#3
Police
all over
American
cops are set to join the US military in deploying American Science &
Engineering's Z Backscatter Vans, or mobile
backscatter radiation x-rays. These are what TSA officials call "the
amazing radioactive genital viewer," now seen in airports around
These
pornoscannerwagons will look like regular anonymous
vans, and will cruise
You
can see a YouTube video presentation about this new technology right here.
#4 Hijacking Your Mind
The
The
Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) wants to
understand the science behind what makes people violent, and then find ways to
hijack their minds by implanting false, but believable stories in their brains,
with hopes of evoking peaceful thoughts: We’re friends, not enemies.
Critics
say this raises ethical issues such as those addressed in the 1971 sci-fi
movie, A Clockwork Orange, which attempted to change
people’s minds so that they didn’t want to kill anymore.
Advocates,
however, believe that placing new plausible narratives directly into the minds
of radicals, insurgents, and terrorists, could transform enemies into kinder,
gentler citizens, craving friendship.
Scientists
have known for some time that narratives; an account of a sequence of events that are
usually in chronological order; hold powerful sway over the human mind, shaping
a person’s notion of groups and identities; even inspiring them to commit
violence. See DARPA proposal request HERE.
#5 Unmanned Drones In
Law
enforcement agencies all over the United States are starting to use unmanned
drones to spy on us, and the Department of Homeland
Security is aggressively seeking to expand
the use of such drones by local authorities....
The
Department of Homeland Security has launched a program to "facilitate and
accelerate the adoption" of small, unmanned drones by police and other
public safety agencies, an effort that an agency official admitted faces
"a very big hurdle having to do with privacy."
The
$4 million Air-based Technologies Program, which will test and evaluate small,
unmanned aircraft systems, is designed to be a "middleman" between
drone manufacturers and first-responder agencies "before they jump into
the pool," said John Appleby, a manager in the DHS Science and Technology
Directorate's division of borders and maritime security.
The
fact that very few Americans seem concerned about this development says a lot
about where we are as a nation. The EPA is already using drones to spy on
cattle ranchers in Nebraska and Iowa.
Will we eventually get to a point where we all just consider it to be
"normal" to have surveillance drones flying above our heads
constantly?
#6 Law Enforcement Using Your Own
Cell Phone To Spy On You
Although
this is not new technology, law enforcement authorities are using our own cell
phones to spy on us more extensively than ever before as a recent Wired article described....
Mobile
carriers responded to a staggering 1.3 million law enforcement requests last
year for subscriber information, including text messages and phone location
data, according to data provided to Congress.
A
single "request" can involve information about hundreds of
customers. So ultimately the number of Americans affected by this could
reach into "the tens of millions"
each year....
The
number of Americans affected each year by the growing use of mobile phone data
by law enforcement could reach into the tens of millions, as a single request
could ensnare dozens or even hundreds of people. Law enforcement has been
asking for so-called “cell tower dumps” in which carriers disclose all phone
numbers that connected to a given tower during a certain period of time.
So,
for instance, if police wanted to try to find a person who broke a store window
at an Occupy protest, it could get the phone numbers and identifying data of
all protestors with mobile phones in the vicinity at the time — and use that
data for other purposes.
Perhaps
you should not be using your cell phone so much anyway. After all,
there are more than 500 studies that
show that cell phone radiation is harmful to humans.
#7 Biometric Databases
All
over the globe, governments are developing massive biometric databases of their
citizens. Just check out what is going on in India....
In
the last two years, over 200 million Indian nationals have had their
fingerprints and photographs taken and irises scanned, and given a unique
12-digit number that should identify them everywhere and to everyone.
This
is only the beginning, and the goal is to do the same with the entire
population (1.2 billion), so that poorer Indians can finally prove their
existence and identity when needed for getting documents, getting help from the
government, and opening bank and other accounts.
This
immense task needs a database that can contain over 12 billion fingerprints,
1.2 billion photographs, and 2.4 billion iris scans, can be queried from
diverse devices connected to the Internet, and can return accurate results in
an extremely short time.
#8 RFID Microchips
In a
previous article, I detailed how the
Most
Americans don't realize this, but RFID microchips are steadily becoming part of
the very fabric of our lives. Many of your credit cards and debit cards
contain them. Many Americans use security cards that contain RFID
microchips at work. In some parts of the country it is now mandatory to
inject an RFID microchip into your pet.
Now,
one school system down in
District
officials said the Radio Frequency Identification System (RFID) tags would
improve safety by allowing them to locate students — and count them more
accurately at the beginning of the school day to help offset cuts in state
funding, which is partly based on attendance.
#9 Automated License Plate Readers
In a previous article, I quoted a Washington Post piece
that talked about how automated license plate readers are being used to track
the movements of a vehicle from the time that it enters Washington D.C. to the
time that it leaves....
More
than 250 cameras in the District and its suburbs scan license plates in real
time, helping police pinpoint stolen cars and fleeing killers. But the program
quietly has expanded beyond what anyone had imagined even a few years ago.
With
virtually no public debate, police agencies have begun storing the information
from the cameras, building databases that document the travels of millions of
vehicles.
Nowhere
is that more prevalent than in the District, which has more than one
plate-reader per square mile, the highest concentration in the nation. Police
in the
#10 Face
Can
computers tell what you are thinking just by looking at your face?
Don't
laugh.
Such
technology is actually being actively developed. The following is from a
recent NewScientist
article....
IF
THE computers we stare at all day could read our faces, they would probably
know us better than anyone.
That
vision may not be so far off. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology's Media Lab are developing software that can read the feelings
behind facial expressions. In some cases, the computers outperform people. The
software could lead to empathetic devices and is being used to evaluate and
develop better adverts.
#11 Data Mining
The
government is not the only one that is spying on you. The truth is that a
whole host of very large corporations are gathering every shred of information
about you that they possibly can and selling that information for profit.
It is called "data mining", and it is an
industry that has absolutely exploded in recent years.
One
very large corporation known as Acxiom actually compiles information on more than 190 million
people in the
The
company fits into a category called database marketing. It started in 1969 as
an outfit called Demographics Inc., using phone books and other notably
low-tech tools, as well as one computer, to amass information on voters and
consumers for direct marketing. Almost 40 years later, Acxiom has detailed
entries for more than 190 million people and 126 million households in the
#12 Street Lights Spying On Us?
Did
you ever consider that street lights could be spying on you?
Well,
it is actually happening. New high tech street lights that can actually
watch what you do and listen to what you are saying are being installed in some
major
Federally-funded
high-tech street lights now being installed in American cities are not only set
to aid the DHS in making “security announcements” and acting as talking
surveillance cameras, they are also capable of “recording conversations,”
bringing the potential privacy threat posed by ‘Intellistreets’
to a whole new level.
#13 Automated ISP Monitoring Of Your
Internet Activity
As I
have written about before, nothing you do on the
Internet is private. However, Internet Service Providers and the
entertainment industry are now taking Internet monitoring to a whole new level....
If
you download potentially copyrighted software, videos or music, your Internet
service provider (ISP) has been watching, and they’re coming for you.
Specifically,
they’re coming for you on Thursday, July 12.
That’s
the date when the nation’s largest ISPs will all voluntarily implement a new
anti-piracy plan that will engage network operators in the largest digital
spying scheme in history, and see some users’ bandwidth completely cut off
until they sign an agreement saying they will not download copyrighted
materials.
Word
of the start date has been largely kept secret since ISPs announced their plans
last June. The deal was brokered by the Recording Industry Association of
Spying On Us Through
Our Appliances
Could
the government one day use your refrigerator to spy on you?
Don't
laugh.
That
is exactly what CIA Director David Petraeus says is coming....
Petraeus says that
web-connected gadgets will 'transform' the art of spying - allowing spies to
monitor people automatically without planting bugs, breaking and entering or even
donning a tuxedo to infiltrate a dinner party.
'Transformational’
is an overused word, but I do believe it properly
applies to these technologies,' said Petraeus.
'Particularly to their effect on clandestine
tradecraft. Items of interest will be located, identified,
monitored, and remotely controlled through technologies such as radio-frequency
identification, sensor networks, tiny embedded servers, and energy harvesters
- all connected to the next-generation internet using abundant, low-cost,
and high-power computing.'
Petraeus was
speaking to a venture capital firm about new technologies which aim to add
processors and web connections to previously 'dumb'
home appliances such as fridges, ovens and lighting systems.
For
many more ways that Big Brother is spying on you, please see these articles....
"Every
Breath You Take, Every Move You Make – 14 New Ways That The
Government Is Watching You"
"30
Signs That The United States Of America Is Being
Turned Into A Giant Prison"
The
things that I have written about above are just the things that they admit to.
There
are also many "black box technologies" being developed out there that
the public does not even know about yet.
So
how far will all of this go?
Has
Big Brother already gone way too far?
Please
feel free to post a comment with your opinion below....
