Creative Ways to Beat the Developing Global Surveillance State

"Surveillance takes far more from the people than it gives."

REVIEW 'Lockdown High:' When the Schoolhouse Becomes a Jailhouse

[Annette] Fuentes Navigates Readers Through Terrorism Classifications and Prison Surveillance Norms in US Schools

"School violence has fallen steadlily for twenty years. Yet in schools throughout the United States, [author] Annette Fuentes finds metal detectors and drug tests for aspirin, police profiling of students with no records, arbitrary expulsions, armed teachers, increased policing, and all-seeing electronic surveillance." 

 "Lockdown High," released by Verso (2011), makes highly recommended reading at a time where extreme polices are being evaluated along with moderate approaches in light of the Newtown, CT school shootings.

Read more : http://voices.yahoo.com/lockdown-high-schoolhouse-becomes-jailhouse-12025352.html

Why foreign reporting on US domestic policy works for us

FROM THE EDITOR 

Here is an explanation, not an apology.

UPDATE: 2-7-2013: The Washington Post shielded the world from knowing which countries aided US in rendition and torture programs under fire during the Bush presidency. Russia Today reported Tuesday, 54 countries aided the programs.  Both drones and torture are taking center stage during  confirmation hearings of John Brennan as CIA director.

BTC -- The coverage of US public surveillance apertures keeps coming. To an embarrassment, mostly foreign reporting shows there is no exhibit of conscience from our leaders over this. Americans face a galling uphill climb as our government behaves at complete risk to the citizens and the world.  Our leaders may be besides themselves, locked away from criticism and dissent, but the effects of what is being done to world liberty at large is still being watched. What left can we have in common?

A late game for RFID advisories in 2012

Recapping RFID current events in 2012 

BTC - It has been a long year filled with ceaseless surveillance onslaughts driven by NATO, the security industrial complex and the US government.  RFID, a controversial radio frequency microchip known for its broadcast surveillance ability, had fallen unnoticed by major media in recent years.  2012 saw a resurgence of RFID in the public sphere of influence and corresponding opposition flowered later in the year.

REDUX: Biometric profiling & You

5 programs break down the elements of an identity ecosystem 

"Motor vehicle departments were not originally intended to be in the identity business and drivers’ licenses were not intended for use as identification. But drivers’ licenses have evolved into de facto government IDs, and DMVs have become the first line of government identity proofing. The American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators’ Cross-Sector Digital Identity Initiative will try to leverage that expertise with a framework to enable the secure exchange and verification of identity data. [Another North American ID database for ad hoc brokerage, this time online.]

“The whole concept of electronic IDs is a paradigm shift” for DMVs, said AAMVA’s director of ID standards, Geoff Slagle. It potentially enables DMVs to become third-party sources for verifying identity for online transactions. The organization’s program could use multiple sources of data to verify online identity."

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BTC ADVISORY - This article never mentions the word "biometrics" once during the entire account. Biometric identifiers still play a well monied role in NSTIC's cross platform credentialling systems. They also never mentioned the law or policy that graduated a State drivers license to a "de facto government ID". The writer may have self censored, a little. It's fairly omerta these days to bring up the embarassing policy failure of a national ID program after Americans excoriated it by name: REAL ID. Real ID flatlined again for buy in with States as a flyer permit Wednesday. The Cross Sector Digital Identity Initiative is adapting some Real ID regulations for port on smartphones and the Internet.

To date, there has been little press recognition that NSTIC, in it's gestational pilot pouch stage, poses as much immediate threat compared to the deadlines forced onto States '08. There has been a problem articulating the ways and means of this White House Administration's sympatico project with the US Chamber of Commerce as well as how this falls under public oversight and what it is, exactly.

Earlier this year, we called out the IDESG, a group given some oversight powers to these 5 pilot programs, for it inability to reign in an AAMVA's bid to implement an online ID program.  They feigned knowledge and responsibility for the program, while being responsible for what it produces.  The individual user is not advised to lend consent to an Identity Ecosystem port or any modernized, incremental public ID program with voluntary compulsory notes. Whether it's student institutions, health and human services, immunizations, voting, public welfare programs or licenses multi-purposed for web log ins, don't be confused into volunteering up to build a transactional dossier for yourself.  [And get off Instagram/Facebook. Yesterday.]

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Maryland school district quits out of biometric lunch program

About those TSA flyer rules and Real ID....

RE: TSA's New 'Compliant ID' Rules Already Causing Confusion

@beatthechip Discussion of what ID TSA "will accept" obscures fact that ID is not required to exercise right to common carrier air travel.
— Phil Mocek (@pmocek) December 20, 2012

@beatthechip I'm suing TSA staff, ABQ cops, US Govt, City of Albuquerque, for violating my civil rights. 1:11-cv-1009 papersplease.org/wp/mocek2/
— Phil Mocek (@pmocek) December 21, 2012

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NDAA Lawsuit Brief Filed By Children Of Japanese-Americans Interned During World War II

Infowars features historical of global genocide programs, with added commentary in: "Innocents Betrayed – Governments Disarm Populations and Genocide Follows"

RULE OF THUMB: Governments shouldn't ask the people to fund or endorse GPS location surveillance, biometric ID, or internal passports.
— BeatTheChip (@BeatTheChip) December 20, 2012

Tennessee Appeals Court says accident statistics justify suspicionless roadblocks for license checks

Congressmen Question DOJ Following Release of Surveillance Documents on National Counterterrorism Center

Obama likely to issue executive order on cybersecurity as early as January

U.S. Expands Child Online Privacy Law to Cover Apps, Social Networks

Congress Defeats E-Mail Privacy Legislation — Again

EU Officially Pronounces ACTA Dead As Commission Withdraws Court Of Justice Assessment

NIST grantmaking evades privacy, steering accountability for online ID initiative

WASHINGTON - Government and business interests amid an NIST steering committee nearly uprooted public interest group representations the week NSTIC grants were awarded to contractors to retrofit government issue ID for smartphones and other privacy troubled devices.

According to reports, pilot programs would use national identity articles, like passports, and US drivers licenses online and in smartphones. Grants were awarded to companies like AAMVA, Microsoft, ATT and Daon. The Daon project would port an electronic version of passports, using biometrics, for use on smartphones to cross international borders around the world. While Privacy and Civil Liberty councils remained intact after the struggle, it became apparent privacy and most public interest considerations were marginalised.

 “The IDESG [had] nothing to do with the appropriations. That comes 100% from the NSTIC NPO. I, nor anybody else involved in the IDESG had any say in who got money. We haven’t seen anything other than what’s online. They’re government grants, and they report exclusively to the NSTIC NPO,” said Aaron Titus, Privacy Management Council on NSTIC’s Identity Ecosystem Steering Group [IDESG].

While privacy interests remained intact, the steering group appeared to be uninformed and ineffectual towards grant initiatives to port national identity articles online and onto mobile devices.

“NIST failing to inform a public interest steering committee of plans to fund and implement pilots using bonafide identity articles live online is a complete breakdown in an accountability process considering privacy impacts. This steering committee was almost eviscerated come time to award grants to a national ID program online. This is a heavy indicator that NSTIC is going to run counter to the public interest of privacy and civil liberty and should not be ignored,” says Sheila Dean, spokesperson for the 5-11 Campaign, a national identity watchdog group.

Titus was later asked about grantmaking for privacy and public awareness campaigning of the NSTIC initiative. He cited privacy standards tend to be an “ivory tower” as businesses and governments fail to measure up.

“Because [NSTIC] is voluntary, nobody would implement it. Instead, they’d all run away and do their own thing,” said Titus who indicated a “waste of time” on the part of the government to better inform the public of the program and its impacts to privacy for its intent.

The NSTIC program is a voluntary White House online initiative for online technology users and the private sector modeled closely to FICAM, a standardized identity credentialling program using Smart Cards and biometric credentials for access to federal facilities. It is administered by NIST, DHS and The US Department of Commerce.

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REDUX: Evolved terms of "democratized surveillance" state aired at DEFCON

"Notwithstanding Americans' resistance to a Real ID infrastructure, as consumers of social networks we have consented to a de facto Real ID that markets and information technology, rather than government and regulation, have created,"- Alessandro Acquisti

BTC--"Friendly fascism" and "democratized surveillance" are terms being used to address issues of Big Web’s collusion with the government surveillance state by way of hackers, software applications and social networks at this years DEFCON convention.

Here's how it works: Developed applications are voluntarily adopted by users who create highly personal profiles.  Some profiles are then funnelled through a federal data surveillance apperture by big technology companies and private contractors to advance a fine grasp of social control of everyone who poses any resistance to the State.  A familiar scenario was illustrated in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World.   

One this is sure:  you and your data are not safe from prying eyes.

SEE:An Open Letter to Defcon Hackers: Don’t Sell Out to the NSA

If the American government has indeed lost their undertsanding and fellowship with basic Constitutional freedoms, one can only conclude this Summer's escalated levels of surveillance is an effort to control the only people in the world with any real power to reign in a rogue government on an imperial rampage.

The resistance of American people may be invisible to the rest of the world due to a media circus which is allowed to tamper with the American justice system.  Something is drastically wrong when Court TV evolved. Nancy Grace based her entire broadcast career on a legal reality show known as "The Casey Anthony trial".  Many believe this trend was initiated with OJ Simpson's acquittal in the beating death of his wife.

One morning, I observed Headline News Anchor, Carlos Diaz say," It's good that Big Brother is watching out for Octomom." I would never gather that Carlos Diaz's audience could raise Octomom's children better than she could, mainly because they are uninvested strangers. America's televised media believes itself to be government and has been since corrupted.  American media's conflict of interest in government role-play leads to it being ineffectual in exposing government corruption. Women and children are still the losers when televised media becomes the social justice handlers.

The media blowback has manifested in new media empire empowerment of Wikileaks and robin hood hacker vigilantes Anonymous who now pilfer the data mines of crooked police bureaus in a retaliatory fashion.

One out of 4 hackers still work for the federal government. If companies hand over users information through coersion or through commerce,  there is only a small patch of legal real estate left to leverage the tipping point for user privacy and basic civil liberty.

Now that the "genie is out of the bottle" it is anyone's guess whether the User will reclaim authority over the management of their digital identity or allow the liquidation blow-out sale of their information to continue.

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Why ‘Privacy By Design’ Is The New Corporate Hotness  +  Design 4 Privacy Awards coverage.

Hints Facebook Is Becoming a Full-On Identification Service

Security, Hacker Conferences Have Technology Industry Buzzing

California Adopts First Standards for Cyber Security of Smart Meters

US seeks to counter extremism on Facebook, Twitter

Line Noise: Electronic Device Search and Seizure

Big Brother Wants a Longer Memory

American Spies Have Their Very Own Phone Hacking Scandal

FBI Director’s Term Extension Ensures Neo-COINTELPRO Operations Will Prevail

Bill Would Force Intel Chief to Renounce ‘Secret Patriot Act’