An anonymised mobile phone usage data package came with a nice bit of info: your location down to ~100 metres.
The data was all anonymised, aggregated- just dont think too much about the 100m part.
May 142013
Dec 162012
Via: www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/tweeters-could-be-military-targets-20121213-2bcjq.html
Could using social media or blog comments about any military operation make you a legal military target?
The Geneva Convention protecting civilians could be removed if a power feels uploading, downloading or sharing is part of the fight. How long before “knowingly providing material support or resources to an entity that has been designated as Foreign Terrorist Organizations under section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act.” becomes just “providing material support or resources to an entity that has been designated”"
May 302012
North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) working with U.S. Northern Command’s (Northcom) Operations Division will form the Northern Command Joint Cyber Center (JCC). They will work with the Homeland Security Department….
www.blacklistednews.com/NORAD%2C_Northcom_launch_joint_cyber_division/19656/0/0/0/Y/M.html
Also see news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57439734-83/fbi-quietly-forms-secretive-net-surveillance-unit/
The new Domestic Communications Assistance Center will work on electronic surveillance technologies, including intercepting Internet, wireless, and VoIP communications for the FBI. CALEA is getting a web 2.0 update 
Apr 272012
Via: www.lawgazette.co.uk/in-practice/practice-points/all-power-gchq
New options to collect websites visited and communications data sent in real time. No more warrants.
A legal setting for what was once hidden.
Pentagon contractors take on US press using reporters names to create fake websites
Additional measures, Blacklist, Bloggers, Chilling effect, Cognitive Infiltration, Cyber-industrial complex, Deep state, Middle East, Military Projects, MISO, Push coverage of good stories, Shadow Wars, Social, Surveillance State, Telco, US Politics, USA, Very serious reporting, War on terror, Web 2.0, Your rights
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Apr 232012
Via: www.usatoday.com/news/washington/story/2012-04-19/vanden-brook-locker-propaganda/54419654/1
and www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/04/usa-today-pentagon/
If a reporter questions the cost and role of US propaganda campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan – they faced a strange set of new webpages, Wikipedia edits, Twitter accounts and forum posts. Information operations are not just for tame international press pools its seems
Apr 202012
Hand over the data or no visa-free travel for you….
The data will be kept for 6 months, then get depersonalised. After 5 years it will be moved to a dormant database.
15 years later it will be anonymised.
Apr 172012
Rethink what you post or face the legal reality of ”grossly offensive and menacing”.
i.e. no swearing on twitter in the UK.
Apr 142012
Via: www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/13/pakistan-demands-end-cia-drone-strikes_n_1423043.html
www.activistpost.com/2012/04/us-attempting-to-trigger-color.html
www.salon.com/2012/04/13/drone_activist_denied_visa/singleton/
No US visa for a legal advocacy organisation wanting to talk about the drone warfare program.
Note the other kind of Free Baluchistan ”grassroots” operations going in the other direction…..
Mar 222012
Via: www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/20/fbi-informant
How FBI informants are created… at $11,000 a month .. a free holiday … a car
Welcome to the world of US Romeo spies.
Mar 212012
Via: www.geekwire.com/2012/google-patents-background-noise-phone-calls-target-ads/
All the fancy sensors on your new phone will work together to ensure the correct ad get to you every time.
Don’t worry “disabling” some the sensors might help with your privacy.