Orwellian Big Brother TVs Now A Reality: Hackers Raise Security Alert Over Samsung Smart TV Security Flaws

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2249303/Hackers-penetrate-home-Crack-Samsungs-Smart-TV-allows-attacker-seize-control-microphone-cameras.html Is your TV watching you? Security alert over Samsung’s Smart TV as hackers claim they can access its hard drive and seize control of built-in cameras Security experts reveal they have been able to gain access to the device and scour its hard drives and connected drives for information They claim to have ‘complete […]

Big Brother at your desk: The computer than can tell what you are going to do next

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2186081/Big-Brother-desk-The-tell-going-next.html Designed by German engineer to help with welding Uses webcam to monitor movements, and complex algorithms to predict what people will do next By Daniel Bates PUBLISHED: 10:08 EST, 9 August 2012 | UPDATED: 10:08 EST, 9 August 2012 A design researcher has developed a computer programme that makes predictions about what people will […]

Homeland Security buys ‘big brother’ laser scanner that can tell if you are high, what you are carrying and even what you had for breakfast… from 50 meters away

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2171676/Homeland-Security-buys-big-brother-laser-scanner-tell-high-carrying-breakfast–50-meters-away.html By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 16:35 EST, 10 July 2012 | UPDATED: 16:37 EST, 10 July 2012 The latest scanners acquired by the U.S. government will be able detect the most minute traces of molecular discrepancies in both individuals’ bloodstream and carry on luggage from 50 meters away. Using advanced laser technology, Picosecond Programmable […]

Bill Gates spends $1.1 million fitting students with mood bracelets to see if their teachers are boring

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2158142/Bill-Gates-spends-1-1-million-fitting-students-mood-bracelets-teachers-boring.html By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 07:21 EST, 12 June 2012 | UPDATED: 09:59 EST, 12 June 2012 Microsoft supremo Bill Gates wants to fit school students with mood bracelets to measure how interested they are in their lessons. The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation is spending $1.1 million (£700,000) testing galvanic skin response bracelets […]

Beware the spy in the sky: After those Street View snoopers, Google and Apple use planes that can film you sunbathing in your back garden

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2157150/Apple-reveal-3D-mapping-service-week-campaigners-say-privacy-window-thanks-high-resolution-images-spy-home.html Software giants will use military-grade cameras to take powerful satellite images By Vanessa Allen PUBLISHED: 07:04 EST, 10 June 2012 | UPDATED: 16:36 EST, 10 June 2012 Spy planes able to photograph sunbathers in their back gardens are being deployed by Google and Apple. The U.S. technology giants are racing to produce aerial maps […]

New surveillance cameras will use computer eyes to find ‘pre crimes’ by detecting suspicious behaviour and calling for guards

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2154861/U-S-surveillance-cameras-use-eyes-pre-crimes-detecting-suspicious-behaviour-alerting-guards.html Computerised detectors look for ‘abnormal’ behaviour When suspicious individuals are seen, guards called BRS machines have been trialled in numerous locations 288 cameras to be installed on subway in Sn Francisco By Rob Waugh PUBLISHED: 08:12 EST, 5 June 2012 | UPDATED: 08:12 EST, 5 June 2012 A new generation of computerised ‘Big Brother’ […]

Would you barcode your baby? U.S. companies developing implants which would make surveillance easier

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2153587/Science-fiction-writer-resurrects-controversial-idea-slapping-BARCODES-infants-birth-make-surveillance-easier.html By Snejana Farberov PUBLISHED: 22:07 EST, 1 June 2012 | UPDATED: 22:19 EST, 1 June 2012 Barcodes and microchips could be found on nearly everything these days, but could humans be next? American science fiction author Elizabeth Moon raised a few eyebrows last week when she revived the debate about whether it could be […]

Talking Surveillance Cameras Coming to U.S. Streets

http://www.infowars.com/talking-surveillance-cameras-coming-to-u-s-streets/ ‘Intellistreets’ system now being installed with DHS backing Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Monday, May 14, 2012 Talking surveillance cameras that bark orders at passers-by and can also record conversations are heading for U.S. streets, with manufacturer Illuminating Concepts announcing the progress of its ‘Intellistreets’ system. As we first reported last year, high tech street […]

Watch what you type! Surveillance cameras so strong they can zoom in to read text messages

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2140360/Watch-type-Surveillance-cameras-strong-read-text-messages.html By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 11:22 EST, 6 May 2012 | UPDATED: 11:32 EST, 6 May 2012 Surveillance cameras are now so powerful they are able to zoom in and read your text messages – leading to fears of further privacy intrusion by a ‘Big Brother’ style state. As well as being advanced enough […]

How to hide from Big Brother: Designer’s make-up tips on tricking face-recognition software (and still look good while doing it)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2137201/How-hide-Big-Brother-Designers-tips-tricking-face-recognition-software-look-good-doing-it.html By Hugo Gye PUBLISHED: 00:42 EST, 30 April 2012 | UPDATED: 06:34 EST, 30 April 2012 In a world of ever-expanding surveillance, it is becoming increasingly more difficult to escape the clutches of security cameras. But one designer has issued advice on how to keep yourself hidden from the ‘Big Brother’ organisations which now […]