Shadow Government

[Blue Frost]

They have an algorithm that picks up on words in their database, and if enough comes up they will look closer.
I think Ill find out some of the words, and make an email account up, and just send myself them, and terrorize myself
Maybe ill make up my own country, and threaten a nuclear attack on it

[Gary Oak]

Is privacy eventually going to be outlawed ?


Privacy Advocates Wary Of Push To Mandate Auto 'Black Boxes'

http://www.mercurynews.com

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The increasing computerization of cars allows them to capture and transmit data that can help improve highway and driver safety, federal officials said.

But the technology also raises privacy concerns about the ownership and unintended uses of that data, experts said.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is seeking a law that would require automakers to install "black boxes" in every new car and light truck sold starting September 2014. But unbeknownst to their owners, many vehicles already carry event data recorders, or EDRs. The NHTSA estimates that about 96 percent of all 2013 vehicles have the devices.

The recorders, typically triggered by a crash or air bag deployment, can produce data generated shortly before and during a crash, including vehicle speed, whether the brake was used and whether the driver's seat belt was buckled. The device records data from a variety of vehicle sensors and typically is attached to the floor.

"EDRs provide critical safety information that might not otherwise be available to the NHTSA to evaluate what happened during a crash -- and what future steps could be taken to save lives and prevent injuries," said David Strickland, the agency's administrator, in a statement.

But privacy advocates say the technology is a new source of data collection on consumers.

For example, some auto insurance companies are offering on-board devices that monitor mileage data and other driver

behavior, often in exchange for discounted insurance rates.

"It is going to be harder and harder for people to ever get off the grid. There are so many ways now that you can be monitored," said Thaddeus Hoffmeister, a University of Dayton associate professor of law.

The Electronic Privacy Information Center, a Washington D.C.-based public interest research group, has urged the NHTSA to adopt comprehensive privacy safeguards for vehicle owners and operators, including driver ownership of data, limitations on disclosure and better security for the data collected.

Thirteen states have passed laws that limit use of the recorders. Ohio is not among them.

The Dayton Daily News obtained a copy of the proposed law, which would require the recorders as mandatory equipment in vehicles that weigh less than 8,500 pounds. The proposal also includes standardized data collection requirements and mandates that automakers provide a commercially available tool for copying the data.

The law would make it possible to seek civil penalties for failure to provide an event data recorder or one that performs properly.

The cost per recorder is estimated to be $20 per vehicle, because the devices capture data that is already being processed by the vehicle. The estimated total costs associated with the proposal would be $26.4 million for technical improvements and other costs related to the 1.32 million vehicles that don't currently have recorders.

The NHTSA said it would treat recorder data as the property of the vehicle owner and that it would not be used or accessed by the agency without owner consent.

The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers said it does not object to the concept of requiring all light vehicles to be equipped with EDRs, but it "strongly opposes" a law to impose such a mandate. Most alliance members have voluntarily installed the recorders in their vehicles for many years, officials said.

Some automakers, including General Motors, have been installing car "black boxes" since the 1990s to help measure and improve the performance of vehicle safety equipment.

Electronic data recorder evidence has been accepted by courts in at least 19 states, as well as in federal court, in cases involving crash investigations, according to Harris Technical Services, a Florida-based crash reconstruction firm.

Progressive Insurance offers a voluntary, usage-based insurance program called Snapshot that collects driver data in exchange for an insurance discount. This month, Progressive surpassed more than 7 billion miles of driving data from the more than 1 million customers who have used Snapshot, said company spokeswoman Erin Vrobel.

Snapshot uses a small device that plugs into the vehicle's on-board diagnostic port to collect data on how much the customer drives, the time of day they drive and how many times they brake hard. Progressive uses that information to calculate the customer's rate, with an average annual savings of $150, Vrobel said.

"The device doesn't have GPS, so we don't know your location," she said.

Travelers Insurance offers a similar program, IntelliDrive, in eight states. In the program, vehicle operation data is wirelessly transmitted to the company in exchange for a small discount. Travelers markets the voluntary program to the parents of teen drivers, who can track how, when and where their child drives, said Tony Hare, the company's managing product director.

Customers can monitor their teen's driving using a secure online dashboard. They also can receive email or text alerts when their teen drives outside of parameters set by parents, including speed, time of day or geographic boundaries. Unlike cars' black boxes, the IntelliDrive device uses GPS technology, as well as an accelerometer to track acceleration and braking information.

Travelers maintains the data, but doesn't use it for rating customers, Hare said.

"We use it at a high level for research purposes so that we can understand how vehicles are used," he said.

WHAT CAR 'BLACK BOXES' RECORD

[Blue Frost]

Most rental cars have black boxes, and have for years now.

[Gary Oak]

I suspect that bug brother is watching too

[Blue Frost]

That's old news, and you can turn off photo location on most phones.
It's a good security feature to have turned off if posting all your stuff, anyone can see what you own, or where you are just looking it up on Tiny Pic .

[Tribrid Vampire]

You can turn gps off on your smartphone. When you take a picture the location is not tagged if gps was off. When I take a pic with my smartphone in my house I always make sure that gps was off. If I'm out at a park I leave it on. Wish my digital camera have gps. On Flickr I have to tag the location myself manually.

[Blue Frost]

That's great to here GF, and smart. I have told my sisters, and brother about photos on the phone, and I know one sister stopped with them.
Tech is great for criminals as well as for you.

[Gary Oak]

http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2013/June20/201.html

[Blue Frost]

I quote 20, and 21 all the time to people, but they are dumb to the meaning of Freedom.

#20 Benjamin Franklin once wrote the following

[Blue Frost]

http://prism-break.org/
http://www.opennicproject.org/

[Tribrid Vampire]

Some stories from last night.

Suppressed Stories:

In the first half of Sunday's program, George Knapp welcomed publisher of suppressed works, Kris Millegan,

[Blue Frost]

What a shame that the people that helped got slaughtered like that Men, woman, and children, all dead for being themselves.
I say the State Department, and any leadership that knew about it, and there had to be some need jailed.

[Blue Frost]

How to stay out of reach of US extradition treaties

http://qz.com/97428/map-how-to-stay-out ... -treaties/ Map at link



Advice for future Edward Snowdens: You can

[Gary Oak]

FBI To Internet Providers: Install Surveillance

They just can't take away enough privacy and freedoms. How extremem is it going to eventually get ?

http://news.cnet.com/

The U.S. government is quietly pressuring telecommunications providers to install eavesdropping technology deep inside companies' internal networks to facilitate surveillance efforts.

FBI officials have been sparring with carriers, a process that has on occasion included threats of contempt of court, in a bid to deploy government-provided software capable of intercepting and analyzing entire communications streams. The FBI's legal position during these discussions is that the software's real-time interception of metadata is authorized under the Patriot Act.

Attempts by the FBI to install what it internally refers to as "port reader" software, which have not been previously disclosed, were described to CNET in interviews over the last few weeks. One former government official said the software used to be known internally as the "harvesting program."

Carriers are "extra-cautious" and are resisting installation of the FBI's port reader software, an industry participant in the discussions said, in part because of the privacy and security risks of unknown surveillance technology operating on an sensitive internal network.

It's "an interception device by definition," said the industry participant, who spoke on condition of anonymity because court proceedings are sealed. "If magistrates knew more, they would approve less." It's unclear whether any carriers have installed port readers, and at least one is actively opposing the installation.

In a statement from a spokesman, the FBI said it has the legal authority to use alternate methods to collect Internet metadata, including source and destination IP addresses: "In circumstances where a provider is unable to comply with a court order utilizing its own technical solutions, law enforcement may offer to provide technical assistance to meet the obligation of the court order."

AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, Comcast, and Sprint declined to comment. A government source familiar with the port reader software said it is not used on an industry-wide basis, and only in situations where carriers' own wiretap compliance technology is insufficient to provide agents with what they are seeking.

For criminal investigations, police are generally required to obtain a wiretap order from a judge to intercept the contents of real-time communication streams, including e-mail bodies, Facebook messages, or streaming video. Similar procedures exist for intelligence investigations under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which has received intense scrutiny after Edward Snowden's disclosures about the National Security Agency's PRISM database.

There's a significant exception to both sets of laws: large quantities of metadata can be intercepted in real time through a so-called pen register and trap and trace order with minimal judicial review or oversight. That metadata includes IP addresses, e-mail addresses, identities of Facebook correspondents, Web sites visited, and possibly Internet search terms as well.

"The statute hasn't caught up with the realties of electronic communication," says Colleen Boothby, a partner at the Washington, D.C. firm of Levine, Blaszak, Block & Boothby who represents technology companies and industry associations. Judges are not always in a position, Boothby said, to understand how technology has outpaced the law.

Judges have concluded in the past that they have virtually no ability to deny pen register and trap and trace requests. "The court under the Act seemingly provides nothing more than a rubber stamp," wrote a federal magistrate judge in Florida, referring to the pen register law. A federal appeals court has ruled that the "judicial role in approving use of trap and trace devices is ministerial in nature."

A little-noticed section of the Patriot Act that added one word -- "process" -- to existing law authorized the FBI to implant its own surveillance technology on carriers' networks. It was in part an effort to put the bureau's Carnivore device, which also had a pen register mode, on a firmer legal footing.

A 2003 compliance guide prepared by the U.S. Internet Service Provider Association reported that the Patriot Act's revisions permitted "law enforcement agencies to use software instead of physical mechanisms to collect relevant pen register" information.

Even though the Patriot Act would authorize the FBI to deploy port reader software with a pen register order, the legal boundaries between permissible metadata and impermissible content remain fuzzy.

"Can you get things like packet size or other information that falls somewhere in the grey area between traditional pen register and content?" says Alan Butler, appellate advocacy counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center. "How does the judge know the box is actually doing? How does the service provider know? How does anyone except the technician know what's going on?"

An industry source said the FBI wants providers to use their existing CALEA compliance hardware to route the targeted customer's communications through the port reader software. The software discards the content data and extracts the metadata, which is then provided to the bureau. (The 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, or CALEA, requires that communication providers adopt standard practices to comply with lawful intercepts.)

Whether the FBI believes its port reader software should be able to capture Subject: lines, URLs that can reveal search terms, Facebook "likes" and Google+ "+1s," and so on remains ambiguous, and the bureau declined to elaborate this week. The Justice Department's 2009 manual requires "prior consultation" with the Computer Crime and

Intellectual Property Section before prosecutors use a pen register to "collect all or part of a URL."

"The last time I had to ask anybody that, they refused to answer," says Paul Rosenzweig, a former Homeland Security official and founder of Red Branch Consulting, referring to Subject: lines. "They liked creative ambiguity."


Read more at http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2013/A ... 8wOygHy.99

[Blue Frost]

I posted someplace on here about Pirate Bay starting a new browser that they say has no tracking till you get on a page, might be good.

[Gary Oak]

How You're Tracked Digitally All Day

http://www.today.com/

Our daily habits

[Gary Oak]

http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/st ... 91528.html

Take a look at this ! A man doesn't want smart meters so the police confiscate his guns ! We are getting way too big brother here in Canada too

[Blue Frost]

I wonder how they correlate guns, and meters

[Gary Oak]

http://rt.com/usa/california-modesto-co ... uinen-149/

Well apparently handing out copies of the American constitution is illegal to hand out in the USA now. This has got to be a giant victory for Obama

[Blue Frost]

It's a liberal campus as most are now days, nothing to do with Obama, but I'm sure he appreciates it.
Free thinking minds, and Freedom is dangerous, and should be stopped they think.
You must mold the mind to your will.