By Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie November 11, 2013
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The Seattle Police Department purchased a network in February to be used by emergency responders, though it is also capable of tracking devices with Wi-Fi enabled, revealing past location data and more.
However, the “mesh network” purchased by Seattle police goes beyond just tracking location. It can find what applications have been downloaded, what type of device it is, the device’s IP address and both current and past locations of the device.
The network, which police point out has not been turned on yet, can capture the information about the past 1,000 times a device attempted to connect to a Wi-Fi signal, according to Raw Story.
“They now own a piece of equipment that has tracking capabilities so we think that they should be going to City Council and presenting a protocol for the whole network that says they won’t be using it for surveillance purposes,” Jamela Debelak of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said to KIRO.
Currently, a draft policy for the use of the network is being reviewed by the Seattle city attorney’s office that will eventually make its way to the city council. There is currently no timeline for the review.
While the Seattle Police Department maintains that the network is not being used, KIRO notes that “the network appears to be online,” something which the department could not explain.
The mesh network is comprised of 160 wireless access point mounted on poles around Seattle. Every time a device’s Wi-Fi antennae searches for a Wi-Fi signal and one of the access points recognizes it, the system can store that data.
The network was purchased with a $2.6 million Department of Homeland Security grant.
“Once these kinds of tools are in place, they don’t go away,” Brendan Kiley of The Stranger said to KIRO. “Even if we assume that the mesh network was installed by good people for good reasons, there’s no reason to believe that the people controlling the network in the future will use it for the public good.”
Kiley called for a serious public conversation about the network, along with clear rules about how the technology can be used.
“We believe that people should be free to move about without having the government track their movements unless there really is reason to believe they’re engaged in some criminal activity,” Debelak said.
However, city council member Bruce Harrell said that it is necessary for the police department to collect some of the information.
Harrell said that if something like the Boston bombing were to occur, the police would want to capture information about the people that were there.
He also said that the department has to go to the public before they hit the “on” button.
Yet KIRO noted that the “network shows up online in public places usually as intersections in the city such as, ‘4th&Pike,’ ‘4th&University’ and ‘3rd&Union.’”
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Motorola, now owned by Google, has applied for a patent for technology that seems like complete science fiction: an electronic tattoo to be placed on a person’s neck that acts as a “mobile microphone, lie detector and digital display.”
Australian news outlet The Age reports that the electronic tattoo would eliminate background noise that can disturb phone conversations by capturing vibrations or sound directly from the user’s throat.
The tattoo would have its own power supply built-in and would transmit the sound through Bluetooth, near-field communication (NFC) or ZigBee.
The patent, filed in 2012 but published on Thursday, states that the tattoo could also be used as a lie detector, according to the patent. The tattoo would measure the electrical conductance of the skin, known as the “galvanic skin response.”
The galvanic skin response is used to indicate psychological or physiological arousal because both are linked to skin moisture, which causes a variation in electrical conductance.
Based on online surveys with 1,000 Canadians earlier this year, the report estimates that 56 per cent of adults were using a smartphone, up from 33 per cent in early 2012.
About eight in 10 smartphone owners said they don’t leave home without their mobile device. And two-thirds of them said they had used their phone every day in the past week.
About 35 per cent said they’d become so reliant on mobile connectivity that they’d give up TV before having to part with their smartphone.
About 78 per cent of the smartphone users said they connected to social media with their device and 52 per cent said they logged on daily.
About 75 per cent said they had streamed video on their small screen and almost one in five said they did it daily.
Just over one in four smartphone users had made an online purchase with their device. Of those users, about half had made a purchase in the past month and the same number said they shopped on their phone at least once a month.
About 77 per cent said they had searched for a product or business on their phone, and 27 per cent said they changed their mind about a purchase in a store after completing a mobile search.
Although the statistics are only based on a very tiny fraction of the Canadian population and only based on ‘smart phones’ I think it’s pretty accurate. We can see a growing trend, especially amongst the young, that every human being is beginning to own a cell phone. When one walks down the street they see people staring at their cell phones. Even when two or more people go out for dinner a lot of them are not even talking to each other but instead are on their cell phones. There are more examples I’m sure that we can all think of that gives attribution to the fact that human beings are obsessed with their cell phones, and I don’t leave myself out of this picture since I myself own an android cell phone and catch myself on it a lot.
Smart Phones and the New World Order
For years now, in the community of human beings that expose conspiracies, have warned the public about RFID chip implants under human skin that will be mainly used as digital currency and citizen identification, but it can be used for many other things as well such as digitally unlocking doors by scanning the spot of skin where chip is implanted. There is so much hype about the RFID chip implantation because it is a reality and there is also a growing trend of human beings accepting this crazy idea of chip implantation that is being perpetuated all around the world. To sum it up quickly, the end goal is eliminate paper and coin currency and have all humans use RFID chip implants as currency and identification.
All though I do recognize the threat of the RFID agenda, especially since the American government recently made legislation that makes it mandatory for American citizens to have chips implanted in them, I think people fail to realize that we’ve already been chipped! Our debit & credit cards, our drivers licences, our cell phones, our GPS devices and a lot more all contain RFID chips in them. Whether the population accepts the RFID chip implanations or not is irrelevant because it looks like the globalists have a plan B which is following through perfectly.
As seen in the statistics above almost everyone owns a cell phone and more and more people want to own one. Under the Royal Canadian MINT chip idea, smart phones will be the future debit cards (electronic currency). So all the attributes of the RFID chip implanation are literally attributes of Smart Phone cashless society agenda. Both involve being tracked and using it as digital currency. Please click play below to hear Terry Wilson break it down for you:
The elitists made it really cool and attractive, don’t get me wrong, to have a smart phone is very convenient way to stay connected to people and to be always informed of things you wish to stay informed about, but I feel like most of those attributes were implemented to the cell phone technology so that it would make it more appealing for humans to buy government spy devices.
In conclusion people have to recognize the threat of RFID chip implantation but at the same time they have to be not so naive and realize that the plan B is to get everyone to want and own a smart phone.
Mozilla has released a free add on called Lightbeam. The add on allows users to view a real time chart of any tracking information being added to your computer in the form of cookies.
The chart gives users a clear view of all third party tracking cookies that are used for targeted advertising, among many other uses.
Mark Surman, Mozilla’s executive director, shas stated: “It’s a stake in the ground in terms of letting people know the ways they are being tracked. At Mozilla, we believe everyone should be in control of their user data and privacy and we want people to make informed decisions about their Web experience.”
Here is the about section from the Lightbeam webpage:
About this Add-on
Using interactive visualizations, Lightbeam enables you to see the first and third party sites you interact with on the Web. As you browse, Lightbeam reveals the full depth of the Web today, including parts that are not transparent to the average user. Using three distinct interactive graphic representations — Graph, Clock and List — Lightbeam enables you to examine individual third parties over time and space, identify where they connect to your online activity and provides ways for you to engage with this unique view of the Web.
How Lightbeam Works
When you activate Lightbeam and visit a website, sometimes called the first party, the add-on creates a real time visualization of all the third parties that are active on that page. The default visualization is called the Graph view. As you then browse to a second site, the add-on highlights the third parties that are also active there and shows which third parties have seen you at both sites. The visualization grows with every site you visit and every request made from your browser. In addition to the Graph view, you can also see your data in a Clock view to examine connections over a 24-hour period or in a List view to drill down into individual sites.
How You Can Use Lightbeam to Help Us Illuminate the Inner Workings of the Web
As a part of Lightbeam, we’re creating a big-picture view of how tracking works on the Internet, and how third-party sites are connected to multiple other sites. You may contribute your data to our crowdsourced directory by simply turning on the share switch within the add-on. To disable crowdsourcing, you can turn it off at any time. You can view your local data stored within Lightbeam at any time, or save your data by clicking the “Save” button under the data section on the left side of the add-on. addons.mozilla.org
Lightbeam as it stands if only for desktop browsers and Apple has rejected from its apps store, by developers which incorporate “cookie tracking” technology.
After the Snowden revelations this looks to be a good first step towards online privacy!
Thousands of activists joined forces on Saturday to protest the NSA surveillance of both domestic and international targets by marching on Washington, D.C.
This comes shortly after it was revealed that the NSA spied on the phones of 35 world leaders. Furthermore, both France and Mexico have recently responded quite critically to U.S. surveillance in their countries, though Director of National Intelligence James Clapper issued a cleverly worded denial of the reports.
On Saturday, it was also reported that 21 countries are in the process of creating a UN resolution to condemn NSA surveillance.
The march was organized by Stop Watching Us, a coalition of over 100 groups ranging from the ACLU to the Electronic Frontier Foundation to FreedomWorks to Demand Progress to the Council on American-Islamic Relations to Occupy Wall Street and many more.
“Our representatives in Congress tell us this is not surveillance. They’re wrong. Now it’s time for the government to learn from us,” Snowden wrote in the statement read by Jesselyn Radack, national security director for the Government Accountability Project.
Radack gestured in the direction of the Capitol building and said, “We are watching you,” according to USA Today.
“Today, no telephone in America makes a call without leaving a record with the NSA. Today, no Internet transaction enters or leaves America without passing through the NSA’s hands,” Snowden’s statement read, according to the Christian Science Monitor.
Participants carried a wide variety of signs, but all promoted the same goal of an end to mass surveillance.
Multiple NSA whistleblowers also showed up at the rally, including Russell Tice:
And Thomas Drake:
There were even rallies in Germany to protest the NSA surveillance in their country:
It remains to be seen if the government will react to the rise of negative popular sentiment in response to NSA spying.
Up until this point, it hasn’t seemed to sway the Obama administration, many legislators and government agencies all that much, since, as the Chicago Tribune put it, they “have defended the NSA programs as crucial in protecting U.S. national security and helping thwart past militant plot[s].”
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