Big Brother is Watching - Everything you do!

[monkeybird]

http://mensnewsdaily.com/2010/09/27/...ng-in-oceania/

Most of you probably read this as it was on the SB. For those who didn't, it's a must. The advance of technology has happened so quickly it's amazing what the Government and police can monitor.

If you're bugging out due to martial law or similar event, you need to throw that cell phone away!

[Matt In Oklahoma]

"Big Brother is Watching - Everything you do!" Then he is being bored

[eeyore]

Also i thought this one goes along with it

'Feds radiating Americans'? Mobile X-ray vans hit US streets
Atlanta – For many living in a terror-spooked country, it might seem like a great government innovation: Use vans equipped with mobile X-ray units to scan vehicles at major sporting events, or even randomly, for bombs or contraband.

But news that the US is buying custom-made vans packed with something called backscatter X-ray capacity has riled privacy advocates and sparked internet worries about "feds radiating Americans."

"This really trips up the creep factor because it's one of those things that you sort of intrinsically think the government shouldn't be doing," says Vermont-based privacy expert Frederick Lane, author of "American Privacy." "But, legally, the issue is the boundary between the government's legitimate security interest and privacy expectations we enjoy in our cars."

[Related: Airlines want air marshals in coach]

American Science & Engineering, a Billerica, Mass.-company, tells Forbes it's sold more than 500 ZBVs, or Z Backscatter Vans, to US and foreign governments. The Department of Defense has bought the most for war zone use, but US law enforcement has also deployed the vans to search for bombs inside the US, according to Joe Reiss, a company spokesman, as quoted by Forbes.

On Tuesday, a counterterror operation snarled truck traffic on I-20 near Atlanta, where Department of Homeland Security teams used mobile X-ray technology to check the contents of truck trailers. Authorities said the inspections weren't prompted by any specific threat.

The mobile X-ray technology works by bouncing narrow X-ray streams off an object like a car and then analyzing the scatter rate of the returning rays. Operators can then locate less-dense objects that could be bodies or bombs.

Backscatter X-ray is already part of an ongoing national debate about its use in so-called full body scanners being deployed in many US airports. In that case, US officials have said they will not store or share the images and will use masking technology to avoid revealing details of the human body. Nevertheless, information security advocates have filed suit to stop their deployment, citing concerns about privacy.

Security experts say expanding the X-ray technology for use on American streets is a powerful counterterror strategy. They also point out the images do not not offer the kind of detail that would be embarrasing to anyone. Moreover, law enforcement already has broad search-and-seizure powers on public highways, where a search warrant is often not needed for officers to instigate a physical search.

But others worry that radiating Americans without their knowledge is evidence of gradually eroding constitutional protections in the post-9/11 age.

"Regardless of where you fall on the spectrum of national security … you have to be realistic that this is another way in which the government is capturing information they may lose control over," says Mr. Lane. "I just have some real problems with the idea of even beginning a campaign of rolling surveillance of American citizens, which is what this essentially is."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20100929/ts_csm/329052

[Power]

The problem occurs when you go to the wrong place at the wrong time or say something that is misunderstood. $50,000 in legal fees later you might prove your innocence. Or you might be doing 5 to 10 in a federal pen.

[Gordon]

The county I live in has 6000 residents, 3000 in the "city" and 3000 in the county. An article in our weekly fish wrapper was telling how we got some new traffic lights and it did not cost us anything because it was a grant from the federal government. (I know, they got the money from us) Keep in mind, they replaced traffic lights at two of the three intersections in town that have traffic lights. Here is my point- the new traffic lights have cameras on them. These are not red light cameras, they are in the wrong position. These are cameras just to monitor the intersections. Remember, we have a weekly newspaper and we are the 6th poorest county in the state, what is there to look at here? Nothing, really. Just another chance for the government to intrude- they furnish the traffic lights but they come with their camaras.

[Matt In Oklahoma]

True, there are always stipulations with homeland security funding like anything but you do have right to ask who monitors them and where at your city hall and as a citezen who watches their local government you should.