A secret report obtained by Newsweek lays out the diabolical plans of al Qaeda’s bomb guru: evading airport scanners by surgically implanting explosives in a terrorist’s love handles.

(Source: thedailybeast.com)

“undetectable by conventional security measures” – so how to fight it? Right: “The key is to get inside the enemy’s camp.” Thats probably the best way to protect the public from additional surveillance and search procedures.

“This technology has shown a great deal of promise as a way of detecting weapons without a physical search,” said New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly during his State of the NYPD address on Tuesday.

The gun scanning technology will help lessen the need for NYPD’s use of Stop and Frisk procedures that allowed officers to stop New Yorkers for random street interrogations or searches. In 2011, about 600,000-plus New Yorkers were stopped.

See the video to learn how it works.

That is the premise for the webcam that a top government official here [in India] has installed in his office, as an anticorruption experiment. Goings-on in his chamber are viewable to the public, 24/7.

(Source: NYT)

Western companies including Cisco Systems Inc. are poised to help build an ambitious new surveillance project in China—a citywide network of as many as 500,000 cameras that officials say will prevent crime but that human-rights advocates warn could target political dissent.

(Quelle: WSJ)

- Im Januar hat das BKA aufgrund von gemeldeten Websites mit Kinderpornografie insgesamt 143 Seiten Mitteilungen ins Ausland versandt. 81 Prozent der Seiten lagen bei Providern in drei Staaten (33 Prozent USA, 33 Prozent Russland, 15 Prozent in Kanada).
- Eine Woche nach Versand der ersten Mitteilung hatten die Provider 68 Prozent der beanstandeten Seiten gelöscht, nach zwei Wochen waren 93 Prozent der Seiten gelöscht.
- Nach vier Wochen und zwei weiteren Mahnungen waren 140 der im Januar gemeldeten 143 Seiten gelöscht.

(Quelle: SpOn; mit eigenen Hervorhebungen)

Wer sich jetzt noch gegen die Vorratsdatenspeicherung wehrt, hat die Bedrohungslage nicht verstanden.

(Hans-Peter Uhl, innenpolitischer Sprecher der CDU/CSU-Bundestagsfraktion, hier zitiert durch heise.de, ist nicht zum ersten Mal auffällig geworden)

EFF UNVEILED RESULTS FROM THE “PANOPTICLICK” BROWSER
PRIVACY PROJECT, which demonstrated that more than
8 in 10 people use browsers with unique, trackable
signatures. Having a distinct browser signature means your
individual movements on the web may be easier to track,
and several companies are already selling products that
claim to use browser fingerprinting to help websites
identify users and their online activities.

Whistleblower Mark Klein tells the story of the illegal government spying apparatus installed at an AT&T office by the National Security Agency, and his battle to bring it to light and protect Americans’ 4th Amendment rights.