Pre-Crime Technology In The Works

August 25, 2010 Prison Planet by Steve Watson Law enforcement agencies in Washington D.C. have begun to use technology that they say can predict when crimes will be committed and who will commit them, before they actually happen. The Minority Report like pre-crime software has been developed by Richard Berk, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Previous incarnations of

Unfair Rape Charges For WikiLeaks Founder Cancelled

August 23, 2010 BBC News The Swedish Prosecution Authority website said the chief prosecutor had come to the decision that Mr Assange was not suspected of rape but did not give any further explanation. The warrant was issued late on Friday. Wikileaks, which has been criticised for leaking Afghan war documents, had quoted Mr Assange as saying the charges

Apple Patents Security Invention That Recognizes Heartbeat

August 20th, 2010 AppleInsider By: Neill Hughes Relying on a user’s picture or the sound of their voice, future portable devices from Apple like an iPhone or iPad could recognize individuals who pick up and use the item. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office this week revealed a patent application from Apple entitled “Systems and Methods for Identifying Unauthorized

Next WikiLeaks Release Could Worsen Pentagon’s Rep

August 13, 2010 MYWAY By: ANNE FLAHERTY The Pentagon says it believes the next document dump by WikiLeaks will be even more damaging to national security and the war effort than the organization’s initial release of some 76,000 war files. Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell said Thursday that the military believes it has identified the additional 15,000 classified

Gore Pushing Global Warming Harder Than Ever

August 11, 2010 Business & Media by Jeff Poor You can’t always get what you want and that appears to be a bitter pill for former Vice President Al Gore to swallow. Gore, the leader of the global warming alarmism movement, told supporters during an Aug. 10 conference call that despite his best efforts to inspire fear over this

Confirmed: Bailouts Helped Foreign Firms

August 12, 2010 AP News by Marcy Gordon The $700 billion U.S. bailout program launched in response to the global economic meltdown had a far greater impact overseas than other countries’ financial rescue plans did on the U.S., according to a new report from a congressional watchdog. Billions of dollars in U.S. rescue funds wound up in big banks

Verizon, Google Make Net Neutrality Pact

August 5, 2010 The Washington Post Google and Verizon have come to an agreement on how network operators can manage Web traffic, according to two sources briefed on their negotiations. The agreement, expected to be announced within days, comes as the Federal Communications Commission tries to get major Internet content firms and network service

Churchill ‘Banned UFO Report To Avoid Mass Panic’

August 5, 2010 Telegraph By: Andrew Hough The former Prime Minister allegedly banned reporting of the “bizarre” incident, off the east coast of England, for half a century amid fears disclosures about unidentified flying objects would create public hysteria. He is said to have made the orders during a secret war

Google, CIA Invest In ‘Future’ Of Web Monitoring

July 30, 2010 Wire.com by Noah Schachtman The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information to predict the future. The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find the

FBI Defends Guidelines For Domestic Surveillance

July 28, 2010 My Way News By: Pete Yost Under fire from civil liberties groups, the FBI is defending domestic surveillance guidelines that critics fear could unfairly target innocent Muslims in terrorism and other criminal investigations. “It’s quite an invasive data collection system,” said Farhana Khera, executive director of the nonprofit group Muslim Advocates. “It’s

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