People who are closely watched by authorities tend to avoid anything that might create attention, even if they are doing nothing wrong. They tend to watch what they say. It’s quite nervewracking, actually, to be watched by someone with the authority to arrest or roust you.

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“Inverted totalitarianism,” as he calls it in his recent Democracy Incorporated, “lies in wielding total power without appearing to, without establishing concentration camps, or enforcing ideological uniformity, or forcibly suppressing dissident elements so long as they remain ineffectual.” To Wolin, such a form of political power makes the United States “the showcase of how democracy can be managed without appearing to be suppressed.”

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American authorities will be able to obtain greater access to private information such as credit card transactions, internet browsing habits and travel histories of people in Britain under a deal being finalised by European Union officials

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US and European Union grant unlimited powers to police and secret services

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U.S. and Europe Near Accord on Privacy - NYTimes.com

Washington - The United States and the European Union are nearing completion of an agreement allowing law enforcement and security agencies to obtain private information - like credit card transactions, travel histories and Internet browsing habits - about people on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. The potential agreement, as outlined in an internal report obtained by The New York Times, would represent a diplomatic breakthrough for American counterterrorism officials, who have clashed with the European Union over demands for personal data. Europe generally has more stringent laws restricting how governments and businesses can collect and transfer such information. Negotiators, who have been meeting since February 2007, have largely agreed on draft language for 12 major issues central to a "binding international agreement," the report said. The pact would make clear that it is lawful for European governments and companies to transfer personal information to the United States, and vice versa.

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Stunning New Report on Domestic NSA Dragnet Spying Confirms ACLU Surveillance Warnings

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The American Civil Liberties
Union responded today to a stunning new report that the NSA has effectively
revived the Orwellian "Total Information
Awareness" domestic-spying program that was
banned by Congress in 2003. In response, the ACLU said that it was filing a
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for more information about the spying.
And, the group announced that it was moving its "Surveillance Clock" one minute closer to midnight.
The ACLU said the new report confirmed its past warnings that the NSA was
engaging in extremely broad-based data mining that was violating the privacy of
vast numbers of Americans.
personal information about Americans
"Year after year, we have warned that our great nation is turning into
a surveillance society where our every move is tracked and monitored,"
mass surveillance of Americans.
"Congress needs to investigate immediately whether its will has been
thwarted, and the media needs to give this program the attention it deserves as
a radical departure from the privacy that Americans have always expected,"

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New Instruments of Surveillance and Social Control: Wireless Technologies which Target the Neuronal Functioning of the Brain

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The historical developments of information communication systems can be said to have traced a similar path to how nation states have organised their global power base and dominance.
The aim of this paper is to examine some of the examples and instances where the use of wireless technologies have been developed to target an individual’s biological body, with specific focus upon the neuronal functioning of the brain. I also show how some of these uses have had detrimental effects, and what this implies for both present and upcoming developments in particular wireless/sensor technologies. This paper shows that an upcoming area of importance is neurotechnology, a discipline that places brain functioning and knowledge of the human brain as primary. Technologies are now being researched and trialled that seek to penetrate and, to a degree, intervene in neural functioning.
Soviet studies in the area of electromagnetic microwave radiation reported psychological symptoms in human subjects that included lethargy, lack of concentration, headaches, depression, and impotence [3].
Lethal and non–lethal aspects have been shown to exist. In certain non–lethal exposures, definite behavioural changes have occurred.
Delgado’s research during this time was supported not only by academic grants but also by the U.S. Office of Naval Research. This research is now over forty years old, and much has happened in the intervening four decades.
This data can then be used for experimenting upon affecting brain–body modification at–a–distance.
The words are indistinguishable to your conscious; however, your unconscious can hear them clearly. If we were to play this music over and over again on the radio for instance, people will soon start developing paranoia. This is the simplest weapon.
In this new systemic approach the human communicates with, and can be communicated by, the environment through information flows and communications media.
it was financed and mentored by governmental psychological warfare programs:
We are potentially the biggest victims of information warfare, because we have neglected to protect ourselves’
Emotiv has created the first brain computer interface technology that can detect and process both human conscious thoughts and non–conscious emotions.
Sony’s patent describes the device as firing “pulses of ultrasound at the head to modify firing patterns in targeted parts of the brain, creating ‘sensory experiences’ ranging from moving images to tastes and sounds”
In this patent Microsoft is granted exclusive rights to a technology that uses the electrical capacity of the human body to act as a computer network
This supports what Bill Gates himself has said about the computer finally disappearing into the environment and the world around us
Waveform energy emitted from the subject is detected and automatically analyzed to derive information relating to the individual’s emotional state.
there are no current ethical or moral debates on this issue and the implications for its civil use are worrying.
On passing through to the passenger lounge all travellers will be scanned not only for potentially dangerous physical objects but also for dangerous intentions. Yet who has not had a ‘dangerous intention’
This uncertain and somewhat dystopian scenario is one that could shift technologised states into psycho–civilised societies where thoughts and intentions become part of terrorist discourse.
Yet upon deeper scrutiny this manifests as an asymmetrical arrangement: order/authority vs. guerrilla non–compliance. A terror suspect can therefore no longer be easily identified as ‘the enemy’ which requires that all civilians be categorised in a state of ‘potential terrorist’. This is especially so since the notion of ‘home–grown terrorist’ is playing out the role of insurgency and resistance from within.
This in turn is likely to trigger the ‘always–on’ surveillance of people in both public life and in private affairs. This inevitably blurs the boundaries between what is external and what is internal, and leads to forms of surveillance that turn inwards and emanates from the ‘self’ — an idea somewhat akin to that of sousveillance.
Already much of our atmosphere is saturated with informational flows in various spectrum bandwidths — we are constantly walking through TV programs, mobile phone conversations, and even military broadcasts.
By psycho–civilised I mean a society that manages and controls social behaviour predominantly through non–obvious methods of psychological manipulations, yet at a level far beyond that of the ‘normalised’ social manipulations of propaganda and social institutions. What I refer to are the technologised methods of psychological interference and privacy intrusions in the manner of creating a docile and constrained society.
What are the moral and ethical implications of using wireless scanning surveillance technologies for evaluating pre–emptive behaviour based on thoughts and intentions alone? Is this not a dangerous path towards psycho–terrorising the social public? As Thomas (1998) reminds us, the mind has no firewall, and is thus vulnerable to viruses, Trojan horses, and spam. It is also vulnerable to hackers, cyber–terrorists, and state surveillance.

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