Law enforcement has a new way of violating your Rights

"On 57 monitors that cover the walls of the center, operators zoomed and panned an array of roughly 200 police cameras perched across the city. They could dial up 800 more feeds from the city’s schools and traffic cameras, and they soon hope to add 400 more streams from cameras worn on officers’ bodies and from thousands from local businesses that have surveillance systems.

The cameras were only one tool at the ready. Officers could trawl a private database that has recorded more than 2 billion scans of vehicle licenses plates and locations nationwide. If gunshots were fired, a system called ShotSpotter could triangulate the location using microphones strung around the city. Another program, called Media Sonar, crawled social media looking for illicit activity. Police used it to monitor individuals, threats to schools and hashtags related to gangs."

I wonder just how many Social Media postings, Blog Posts, personal text messages and whatever else we leave that could be tracked is avilable in one of those centers. Is this the start of the Pre Cog's?

H/T Kenny aka Wirecutter

Do you use the Facebook mobile app?

You might want to rethink that.  One of the permission you give when you have to agree to, to use it, is that Facebook can "Monitor you by microphone".

Don't believe me?

Click the link below to see the screen shots of the EULA.

Creepiest thing ever

H/t Maetenloch over at Ace's

Privacy and the Surveillance State

It won't allow me to embed it here. but please click on the link below and watch the short video.  It's about 5 and half minutes long and it raise some interesting questions.

http://nyti.ms/1evngMR

Privacy Alert for Skype Users - Microsoft Warning

Peter found this one and you really really need to read this.

Microsoft as Big Brother?

Seriously click that link and go read.

Chuck Woolery on the Utah Data Center

Yup, I feel sooooo special and safe now that the government that singled out it's political opposition for heightened scrutiny by it's various branches, will now be able to rifle through all of my electronic communications.

What part of INVASION OF PRIVACY do they not understand?

SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - A public school district in Texas can require students to wear locator chips when they are on school property, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday in a case raising technology-driven privacy concerns among liberal and conservative groups alike.

U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia said the San Antonio Northside School District had the right to expel sophomore Andrea Hernandez, 15, from a magnet school at Jay High School, because she refused to wear the device, which is required of all students.

The judge refused the student's request to block the district from removing her from the school while the case works its way through the federal courts.

I posted about this before, but I'm too tired  to dig up the link.

I'm tired of "officials" who seem to think they can trample on our rights with impunity, as long as it's "For the children" or their pocketbooks.

There are some privacy implications there.

Over at Hack-a-day there is a story of a stolen laptop leading to a drug bust.I'll let you read it for yourself but the last paragraph gives me cause to be concerned.

"The entire story is interesting, especially the fact that the amateur detective work was capable of providing enough information for a search warrant. This actually makes me wonder how easily one could fabricate all of this information falsely to cause trouble to an innocent person. It looks like it would only take about 15 minutes and some photoshop. Maybe that’s a conversation best left for another time."

Click the above to read the whole post.