Archive for October, 2007
U.S. Watchlist Size Approaches 1 Million
A report released by the US Government Accounting Office this month, Terrorist Watch List Screening (pdf), indicates that the number of people suspected of having terrorist ties and who appear on the official terrorist watch list ballooned to 755,000 names as of May, 2007. Most of the people on this list are Americans. According to [...]
Posted: October 25th, 2007 under Data Mining, ID, Main, Privacy, U.S., Watchlist.
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DARPA’s Cyborg Insect Surveillants
MIT’s Technology Review recently wrote about a new surveillance technology being developed at Harvard in which miniature robots the size of horse flys can be used to conduct remote reconnaissance. This is amazing enough, but the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which funds this research, has far more advanced technology up its sleeve, [...]
Posted: October 6th, 2007 under Main, Tech, U.S..
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