Surveillance

Date	Article Title	Publication	Author	Synopsis

7/12/2008	When the Phone Goes With You, Everyone Else Can Tag Along	Washington Post	Ellen Nakashima	Ellen Nakashima outlines the use of precise location technology combined with Internet-ready mobile devices, such as the iPhone 3G.
7/11/2008	Surveillance Bill Prompts ACLU Suit	New York Sun	Josh Gerstein	President Bush's signature on the newly revised wiretap law prompted the immediate filing of a lawsuit by the ACLU. Plaintiffs to the suit include Amnesty International, the Nation magazine and the Service Employees International Union.
7/10/2008	Senate Approves Bill to Broaden Wiretap Powers	New York Times	Eric Lichtblau	The Bush Administration won a major political victory yesterday when, by a 69 - 28 vote the Senate approved a broad expansion of federal wiretap law. The bill included a controversial provision granting immunity to telecommunications companies that provided data to U.S. government investigators following the September 11, 2001 terror attacks.
6/27/2008	Feingold fights for privacy over surveillance legislation	Milwaukee Journal Sentinel	Diana Marrero	Senators Russ Feingold (D-WI) and Chris Dodd (D-CT) filibustered to effectively postpone a final vote on the latest surveillance bill to reach the Senate last week. The delay, says Feingold, gives Americans more time to learn about the pending legislation, which would give the government wider powers to listen in on the phone conversations of citizens and read their emails, among other communications.
6/21/2008	House easily passes compromise surveillance law	Associated Press	Pamela Hess	An amendment to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) passed in the House of Representatives on Friday, 293-129. The amendment protects telecommunications providers from civil action for helping the government monitor telephone calls and emails without a warrant in the years since the September 11 attacks.
6/16/2008	Washington, D.C., puts itself under surveillance	Los Angeles Times	James Hohmann	There are now 4,775 functioning surveillance cameras in the U.S. capital that stream video feeds into a command center, where round-the-clock employees monitor activity at Washington DC's schools, busy roads, picnic areas and other public locations. The system is designed to protect against terrorist activities, but some question whether the cameras' effectiveness in preventing crime outweighs the harm to civil liberties.
6/4/2008	Study Secretly Tracks Cellphone Users	Globe and Mail	Seth Borenstein	Northeastern University researchers observed the travel patterns of 100,000 cell phone users without their consent for a physics study published yesterday, says an Associated Press report. The study tracked individuals by noting which cell phone towers picked up their signals when they made or received calls or text messages over a period of six months.
6/2/2008	Minnesota Community Bans Google Street View	CBC News	Associated Press	The private community of North Oaks, Minnesota is no longer available for viewing on Google Map's "Street View" feature.
6/1/2008	Unmarked NYPD helicopter's keen eye worries privacy groups	San Francisco Chronicle	Tom Hays	Among its multi-million dollar arsenal of surveillance equipment, perhaps nothing is more impressive than the New York City Police Department's surveillance chopper, which can read license plates, scan pedestrians' faces, monitor jet fuel lines at Kennedy International Airport, and more from the sky, all while beaming live footage to police command centers on the ground, or to wireless handheld devices.
5/31/2008	Billboards That Look Back	New York Times	Stephanie Clifford	When it comes to targeting and measuring the effectiveness of their ads, the Internet has become hallowed ground for advertisers. Now billboards have the means to get to know their viewers better, and target ads directly to them.
5/27/2008	Software to Track Persons Sending Threatening Emails	The Hindu News		It is now mandatory for Uttar Pradesh cyber café owners to verify the identity of Web surfers and a Lucknow firm has provided the software necessary to build a database of them.
5/20/2008	RIM Offers Conditional Solution to Monitor BlackBerry Content	The Economic Times		The Economic Times reports that Blackberry maker Research in Motion has agreed to pass along Blackberry users' data to the Indian government. The arrangement is conditional based on the government accepting responsibility for any loss of user data.
5/12/2008	Wiretaps up, terrorism prosecutions down	ZDNET.co.uk	Richard Koman	Although the federal government touts its growing use of wiretaps as an important weapon in the fight against terrorism, fewer suspected terror agents are being prosecuted -- in spite of a spike in the use of surveillance.
5/1/2008	D.C. Forging Surveillance Network	The Washington Post	Mary Beth Sheridan	The Washington Post reports that 4,500 video surveillance cameras in Washington, D.C. will soon feed into a central office at the city's Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency, where operators will monitor schools, public housing and traffic and government buildings around the clock.
4/28/2008	Expectation of privacy a precious right	Seattle Post-Intelligencer	Babak Pasdar	In an opinion essay published by the Seattle Pilot, security expert Babak Pasdar writes that clandestine monitoring of communications traffic by the U.S. federal government has all but abolished any expectation of privacy for Americans.
4/30/2008	Telecoms and secret surveillance	Newsweek	Michael Isikoff & Mark Hosenball	Recently disclosed court documents highlight the Bush administration's refusal to disclose internal documents showing communication with major telecommunications companies about backing the controversial surveillance proposal, currently stalled by Congress.
4/12/2008	Administration set to use new spy program in U.S.	Washington Post	Spencer S. Hsu	The Bush Administration announced plans on Friday to initiate a domestic surveillance program utilizing the country's sophisticated spy satellites.
4/10/2008	What happens in Vegas…Stays in Computers	The Village Voice	Harkavy	One blogger with the Village Voice is concerned that RFID-based surveillance programs being rolled out in Las Vegas will soon find their way out of Sin City and into Your Town, USA.
4/4/2008	Pa. couple sues Google over house pix	Forbes.com	Associated Press	A Pennsylvania couple has sued Google over a photo of their home that appeared on the company's Street View mapping service. A lawyer representing Aaron and Christine Boring, of Franklin Park, a Pittsburgh suburb, says the photo of their home could only have been taken by trespassing on their driveway, which is clearly marked with a sign reading "private road."
4/2/2008	Centers Tap Into Personal Databases	The Washington Post	Robert O'Harrow Jr.	A number of state-run "fusion" centers operated by state law enforcement agencies are collecting vast amounts of information about citizens, including unlisted cell phone numbers, credit reports, insurance claims and driver's license photographs.
3/24/2008	Smile, Big Brother's watching	Globe and Mail	Craig Silverman	As the technologies become less expensive, more employers are taking advantage of tools to track their workers, for better or worse.
3/10/2008	NSA's Domestic Spying Grows As Agency Sweeps Up Data	Wall Street Journal	Siobahn Gorman	A Pentagon domestic surveillance program plan, scuttled as too broad and intrusive of citizen privacy, has been slowly taking shape within the National Security Agency.
2/28/2008	Bush calls surveillance bill an 'urgent priority'	New York Times	David Stout	President George W. Bush has called upon Congress to consider a version of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) preferred by the administration an "urgent priority" and warned that each day Congress delays in passing the bill puts America at risk of terrorism.
2/13/2008	Concerns Expressed Over Student Tracking	Guardian Unlimited	Polly Curtis	A controversial government plan to establish a database tracking students from age 14 through university is prompting outcry from students and others.
2/9/2008	Camera Installation Ignites Protest At Fire Station	The Advocate	Natasha Lee	A series of break-ins and vandalism at a Stamford, Conn. fire station prompted the installation of security cameras at the Springdale Fire Company, and the installation of security cameras prompted the firefighters' union to file a grievance.
2/8/2008	Telecom Immunity May Be Unconstitutional	Wired Blog Network	Ryan Singel	Ryan Singel says that, according to at least one legal expert, extending immunity to telecommunications companies for turning phone records over to federal authorities after 9/11 may be an unconstitutional undertaking.
1/17/2008	UK Employees Brace For Increased Intruding	thisisaberdeen.co.uk		Employees of UK companies may soon find themselves attached to wireless sensors that track heart rate, brain signals, facial expressions and more. The technology, already used to monitor such professionals as pilots and fire fighters, is being developed for the broader workplace by Microsoft, and while it is still years from deployment.
1/8/2008	Electric Eye In UK Businesses Fueling Stress	Silicon.com	Nick Heath	A recent survey by the Policy Studies Institute has found that the use of surveillance systems within UK employers is fueling workplace stress. More than half of all employers in the UK now use some sort of monitoring system, putting more than 12 million people under their employer's watchful eye.
11/16/2007	No Escape From Security Cameras	Washington Post.com	Lynne Duke	This Washington Post article looks at the cultural and individual impacts of constant surveillance.
11/15/2007	Dems, GOP Clash Over Retroactive Immunity For Telecoms	USA Today	Richard Willing	President Bush has promised to veto any legislation that does not include immunity for telecommunications companies that allegedly helped the government conduct warrantless surveillance.
11/15/2007	Dems, GOP Clash Over Retroactive Immunity For Telecoms	USA Today	Richard Willing	President Bush has promised to veto any legislation that does not include immunity for telecommunications companies that allegedly helped the government conduct warrantless surveillance.
11/11/2007	Opinion: Debate Over Privacy And Anonymity Should Begin With Defining Terms	Technology Liberation Front	Ken Fisher	Jim Harper reacts to comments by Donald Kerr, Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, that Americans must alter their views that privacy means anonymity.
10/30/2007	New Cameras Have Feature To Automatically Alert Authorities Of Suspicious Activity	San Francisco Chronicle	Rachel Gordon	The BART system has received a $5.4 million state grant to begin an expansion and upgrade to its security camera system.

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