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Running Time: 50:05
Description: This week we explore the myriad ways that governments and corporations are tracking, databasing, monitoring, logging, recording and generally spying on your every movement. Is there any hope for personal freedom in the technological surveillance society?
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Documentation – Prologue: Surveillance Society and Tyranny Go Hand in Hand
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05:00
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An excerpt from Cloud Ten Pictures’ “Shadow Government” DVD.
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Documentation – ICX SkyWatch Tower
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05:42
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Mobile watch-tower in Wal-Mart parking lot.
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Documentation – Ron Paul on Stopping the Police State
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07:14
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Recipe for a Successful 2011 – Ron Paul “Texas Straight Talk” message for January 3, 2011.
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Documentation – Wal-Mart Announcement from DHS
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08:12
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Janet Napolitano announces the Stasi snitch state in America.
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Documentation – Mobile X-ray vans
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08:45
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The right side of the homeland security media complex debating…the right side of the homeland security media complex.
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Documentation – Blue Devil Spy Blimp
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09:25
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Introduced as something for overseas, but…
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Documentation – Unmanned Blimps to Spy on Utah Citizens
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10:25
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…the blimps are actually for use by US law enforcement.
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Documentation – Electronic insects
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11:30
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The United States government has gone surveillance crazy.
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Documentation – IBM “Intelligent” CCTV
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12:55
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To monitor crowds for “terrorists.”
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Documentation – School cyber-spying on students’ laptops
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14:25
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The school district gave the students laptops and then monitored them through the webcam while they were at home in their bedroom.
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Documentation – Teacher explains how to spy on student
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15:08
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There is no sense of there being anything wrong with this activity, by the teacher or the journalist.
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Documentation – Flexispy Cellphone Software
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15:54
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Anyone can listen in on your calls.
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Documentation – Universities tracking mobile phones in UK
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16:46
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From the June 6, 2008 edition of “Cutting Through the Matrix” with Alan Watt on RBN.
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Documentation – Tracking iPhones
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19:01
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Introducing you to the notion that your cellphone is completely trackable in a way that sounds good.
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Documentation – Google Latitude
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20:26
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Getting people to volunteer to give even more of their personal information to Google.
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Documentation – Google Wi-Spying
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21:38
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Google “accidentally” harvested people’s user names and passwords while scooping up data with their roving Google vans.
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Documentation – Govt Spying via Facebook
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23:30
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Beware who you are “befriending” online.
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Documentation – Govt using Microsoft to spy on you
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24:41
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Microsoft fronting for US law enforcement in collection of data…and takedown of Cryptome.
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Documentation – Companies spying on employee emails
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25:41
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…with a little help from the Australian government.
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Documentation – Australian govt to spy on all internet users
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26:49
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Everyone in Australia to be spied on regardless of whether or not they are suspected of any criminal wrongdoing.
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Documentation – NSA spying on all internet traffic
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28:57
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Mark Klein blows the whistle on AT&T and the NSA.
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Documentation – The NSA program is bigger than admitted
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30:48
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No surprise there.
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Documentation – Top Secret America
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32:26
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DemocracyNOW! covers the Washington Post “expose” of the intelligence-industrial complex.
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Documentation – Tim Shorrock Asks Why It Took the Washington Post So Long to Investigate the US Intelligence System
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35:20
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Good question.
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Documentation – CIA spying on reporters
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36:55
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As told to Keith Olbermann by NSA whistleblower Russell Tice.
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Documentation – Camera Eggs and Spy Planes
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37:57
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Police spy gadgets.
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Documentation – Houston Police unveil new UAV
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39:11
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Another police spying gadget.
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Documentation – Spy satellites to be used on Americans
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40:43
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For your safety, of course. And of course they can’t pick out any identifying details…
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Documentation – New cybersecurity laws in the UK
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41:51
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Companies to be mandated to keep internet tracks of all internet users for a year.
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Documentation – RFID
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42:48
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Mainstream news report on RFID and the Verichip.
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Documentation – Katherine Albrecht on RFID
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44:05
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More info on RFID from the author of SpyChips.
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Documentation – UK Gov Spied on 500000 Citizens Last Year
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45:46
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The government keeps track of how many times it gives permission for agencies to spy on citizens.
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Documentation – “Little Brother” and What Orwell Got Wrong
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46:23
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Can these technologies liberate us as easily as they enslave us? Did Orwell get it wrong?
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Disabling Tap To Pay Debit Cards
https://hackaday.com/2014/08/23/disabling-tap-to-pay-debit-cards/
Your child’s doll could be spying on them, privacy group warns
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/my-friend-cayla-i-que-intelligent-robot-genesis-smart-toys-spying-on-children-a7469741.html
The FBI Is Apparently Paying Geek Squad Members To Dig Around In Computers For Evidence Of Criminal Activity
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170106/10163236419/fbi-is-apparently-paying-geek-squad-members-to-dig-around-computers-evidence-criminal-activity.shtml
Whistleblower uncovers London police hacking of journalists and protestors
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/04/15/hack-a15.html