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From: quasi on 18 Apr 2008 19:22 make a business out of this", said IS VP Curtis R. Carlson. "It * does things on a personal computer that used to require a supercomputer." # "FBI Setting Standards for Computer Picture File of Criminals", NYT, 11/5/95 # # A meeting called "Mug Shot and Facial Image Standards Conference" was held # to set facial image standards. The standards will take into account # emerging technologies like software that determines if two facial images # belong to the same person, even from composite sketches. Yep. Even using photographs. More on this later. ---- And what does a National ID Card with a Universal Biometric identifier mean? A number (that is: scanned fingerprint or iris) that cannot be faked. Unprecedented possibilities for control of the presumed guilty population. You will be forced to verify yourself for an endlessly ever-growing list of items. * Dr. Linda Thompson: * YOUR STATE IS NEXT AND DON'T THINK OTHERWISE. Sandia and other defense * contractors, without a war elsewhere, are OUT OF WORK, so they're * creating job security for themselves by helping fascists wage war in the * United States on us and our rights!! *
From: Risto Lankinen on 18 Apr 2008 20:10 from telephone calls to telegrams, : * across the United States. The presence of British personnel : * is essential for the American wiretappers to claim plausible : * deniability. : * : * Here is how the game is played. The British liaison officer at : * Fort Meade types the target list of "suspects" into the American : * computer. The NSA sorts through its wiretaps and gives the : * British officer the recording of any American citizen he wants. : * : * Since it is technically a *British* target of surveillance, no : * *American* search warrant is necessary. The British officer then : * simply hands the results over to his American liaison officer. : * : * Of course, the Americans provide the same service to the British : * in return. All international and domestic telephone calls in Great : * Britain are run through the NSA's station in the British Government : * Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) at Menwith Hill, which allows : * the American liaison officer to spy on any British citizen without : * a warrant. : * : * According to our sources, this duplicitous, reciprocal arrangement : * disguises the most massive, and illegal, domestic espionage apparatus : * in the world. Not even the Soviets could touch the U.K.-U.S. intercept : * technology. : * : * Through this charade, the intelligence services of each country can : * claim they are not targeting their own citizens. This targeting is : * done by an authorized foreign agent,
From: Phil Carmody on 18 Apr 2008 22:44 insists on keeping a file ("but we 'closed' it") on him even though they should have seen he was not a threat to national security. Fear, loathing, hysteria, and spying on our reading habits: The FBI also had their counter-intelligence unit start a "Library Awareness Program", which meant they wanted to know everyone who checked out certain books. What a bunch of peeping tommy guns! * "LIBRARY SPY HUNT IS CURBED BY FBI", By Herbert Mitgang, NYT, 11/11/1988 * * Bowing to pressure from a House subcommittee and continued resistance from * librarians, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has set limits on its * program seeking the help of librarians in "detecting Soviet spies." * * Under the Library Awareness Program. which the FBI says has been in exist- * ence for years, librarians have been asked to report suspicious-looking * people who might be Soviet spies, to be alert to which books and periodi- * cals such people read or check out and to disclose the names and informa- * tion about book borrowers suspected of using libraries for espionage * purposes or recruiting library users for espionage [what???]. * * FBI Director William S. Sessions said the bureau would continue to contact * public, university and corporate libraries in the New York City area about * "hostile intelligence service activities at libraries." [fuh-gedda-boutit] Of course, they know all the books you've ever bought
From: quasi on 18 Apr 2008 19:38 ON THE INTERCEPTION OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS" # # The Council: # # 1) calls upon the expert group to compare the requirements of the Member # States of the Union with those of the FBI; # # 2) agrees that the requirements of the Member States of the Union will be # conveyed to the third countries which attended the FBI meeting in # Quantico and were mentioned in the memorandum approved by the Ministers # at their meeting in Copenhagen (Sweden, Norway, Finland [countries # applying for accession to the European Communities], the USA and # Canada), in order to avoid a discussion based solely on the # requirements of the FBI; # # 3) approves for practical reasons the extension to Hong Kong, Australia # and New Zealand (which attended the FBI seminar) of the decision on # co-operation with third countries which was taken at the Ministerial # meeting in Copenhagen' [ The whole world, not just EU...Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong... ] # 4) hereby decides that informal talks with the above-named countries may # be envisaged: to that end the Presidency and the expert group might, # for example, organize a meeting with those third countries to exchange # information. * * * Further memorandums state: * * There is a need to introduce international interception standards * and "norms" for the telecommunications industry for carrying out * interception orders in order to fight organized crime and for
From: Phil Carmody on 18 Apr 2008 20:09
---- NYC Mayor and former federal prosecutor Rudolph Giuliani has made some emphatic statements proposing $100 dollar bills be eliminated to combat drug dealers. Perhaps all cash will be next. ] * On November 11, 1993, apparently tipped off by a friendly bank clerk who * thought Alvarez's redeposits looked like "structuring", the Internal * Revenue Service seized $88,315.76, the life savings of a hard-working * immigrant. * * The government, of course, had no evidence that Alvarez was using the * money for improper purposes, or was in any way connected with drugs or * drug-dealing, for the simple reason that he wasn't doing any such thing. * * In this case, under the astonishing provisions of our nation's asset * forfeiture laws, the mere administrative finding that Alvarez had * "structured" his transactions was enough to justify the seizure. [ We have Federal laws against terminating someone's benefits based solely (automatically by computer) on "computer matching" hits of possible ineligibility. But NOTHING to protect us from this nearly IDENTICAL use of computer data to terminate "benefits". ] * To the government, the question of whether the money had been legally * earned or was the product of a nefarious drug sale was of no concern. * * Maybe worse than the nebulous structuring provision is a feature of the * same group of laws that places the burden of proof on the victim. In * other words, rathe |