Surveillance

A researcher who was asked to write guidelines for the security scanners in 2002 said he would not have signed the report had he known the devices were going to be used so widely

Senator Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat is pushing to implement a program that looks uncannily like the ‘mark of the beast’. Brother Nathanael Kapner explains

Pupils at a school in one of Philadelphia’s wealthiest suburbs were issued laptops to access school material at home. However, they weren’t told that the laptop’s webcam could be “remotely activated” to “view and capture” images in its line of sight

Police have made their first arrest using a remote-controlled hover drone complete with thermal-imaging equipment. See related story below

For our own good, of course: another step toward the total surveillance state

In the near decade since September 11, the tectonic plates beneath the American intelligence community have undergone a seismic shift. As a result a new temple of intelligence is rising in Utah’s dry and arid desert

The turn-around comes, we suspect, as it was realised that compulsory ID cards would have provoked a strong backlash against the emergent surveillance state

Police told they can’t keep pictures of arms trade activist