Category Archives: Government Surveillance

Without a warrant, a U.S. law enforcement agency can obtain the following pieces of information about your cell phone use: text messages voicemails geolocation data phone numbers you called when you called In fact, everything but a phone conversation, because … Continue reading →

The US military have operated 66 bases (in 33 states) for unmanned drone aircraft within the USA itself, and has 22 more planned across the country. This does not mean that active drones are taking off from those bases, although … Continue reading →

Seriously, the more commonplace these words become, the less useful they are to the authorities who are spying on all of us. Imagine tweeting about the power outage caused by the tsunami and hoping it didn’t affect nuclear power plants … Continue reading →

As time passes by, more and more surveillance cameras and automated license plate readers are watching the highways of the United States. Sometimes you can see what they see, like in Virginia – but it’s not as if you have license … Continue reading →

In the long term, expect government surveillance to increase, and laws put in place to restrict private surveillance. They’ll probably never stop private CCTV cameras, or people taking videos of what they see in public. But vehicles are a different … Continue reading →