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Apocalypse Soon => Conspiracies => Topic started by: Devious Viper on September 09, 2006, 11:02:29 AM
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Government & Industry To Use Computer Microphones To Spy On 150 Million Americans
Invasive surveillance and advertising obliterates even Minority Report style technology
Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones September 6 2006
Private industry and eventually government is planning to use microphones in the computers of an estimated 150 million-plus Internet active Americans to spy on their lifestyle choices and build psychological profiles which will be used for surveillance and minority report style invasive advertising and data mining.
Digital cable TV boxes, such as Scientific Atlanta, have had secret in-built microphones inside them since their inception in the late 1990's and these originally dormant devices were planned to be activated when the invasive advertising revolution arrived - 2006 marks that date.
The advent of digital video recording devices such as TiVo (Sky Plus in the UK) introduced the creation of psychological algorithm profiles - databases on what programs you watched, how long you watched them for, which adverts you liked or didn't like. This information was retained by TiVo and sold to the highest bidders - an example being Janet Jackson’s wardrobe malfunction during the 2003 Super Bowl half-time show - TiVo were able to compile lists of how many people had rewound the clip and how many times they had replayed it.
Two way communications systems like OnStar also have the ability to tap into private conversations as Americans become increasingly conditioned, by means of the private sector, to having their every movement, web session and conversation tracked and catalogued by big brother.
Each time a new flash application requests permission to run on newer computers, you will notice that a privacy setting box pops up asking if the particular website you are surfing can access your microphone and webcam. Though the webcam is external, the microphone is internal and is a standard feature of all new models.
Now Google have gone a step further by announcing that they will use in-built microphones to listen in on user's background noise, be it television, music or radio - and then direct advertising at them based on their preferences.
"The idea is to use the existing PC microphone to listen to whatever is heard in the background, be it music, your phone going off or the TV turned down. The PC then identifies it, using fingerprinting, and then shows you relevant content, whether that's adverts or search results, or a chat room on the subject," reports the Register.
Since at least 150 million Americans are Internet-active they will all be potential targets for secret surveillance and the subsequent sell-off of all their information to unscrupulous data mining corporations and government agencies.
The report cites the inevitability that the use and abuse of this technology will eventually be taken over by the state.
"Pretty soon the security industry is going to find a way to hijack the Google feed and use it for full on espionage."
The American public has already been brainwashed into thinking that having snooping software record their private phone conversations on behalf of the government is to protect them from terrorists and the Google program is just an entree to the expansion of these 1984 style technologies.
The Bush administration has sold its warrantless NSA spying agenda as the "terrorist surveillance program," and has used its Neo-Con mouthpiece media organs to argue the insanity of "not listening in to Osama bin Laden when he calls the US," despite the fact that Al-Qaeda stopped using phones years before 9/11 when it was publicized that all bin Laden's calls were routinely intercepted anyway.
NSA spying on Americans was spun as a necessary reaction to 9/11 and yet it had been taking place for at least a decade before.
Firstly, the Echelon program has collected information in violation of the 4th Amendment from American citizen's phone calls since the early 90's at least. In addition, a 2001 European Parliament report stated that "within Europe all e-mail, telephone and fax communications are routinely intercepted" by the NSA.
{Viper note: All this electronic traffic is routed via and intercepted by the NSA at a communications base ta Menwith hill in England}
The fact that Echelon barely even merited a mention during the recent furore created by the original USA Today NSA spying piece goes to show how utterly useless our media are in recalling what has already been admitted and proven.
In 1999 the Australian government admitted that they were part of an NSA led global intercept and surveillance grid in alliance with the US and Britain that could listen to "every international telephone call, fax, e-mail, or radio transmission."
"As you would expect there are a large amount of radio communications floating around in the atmosphere, and agencies such as DSD collect those communications in the interests of their national security," said Bill Blick, Inspector General of Intelligence and Security and the man who oversaw the Australian government's intelligence apparatus.
A large sector of Echelon is dedicated to industrial espionage. For example, in November 1999 the BBC reported that the NSA snooped on phone calls from a French firm bidding for a contract in Brazil. They passed the information on to an American competitor, which won the contract.
Google's ceaseless drive to dominate Microsoft and reap untold profits has come at the expense of privacy as the company jettison's its "don't be evil" mandate and merges itself into a proxy NSA outfit, creating all the tools necessary for the state to suffocate its subjects under an inescapable high-tech panopticon control grid.
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My mother is not a fan of President Bush. In fact, I have watched her hit the 'mute' button on the TV remote when he's making a speech while she's swearing at him. *<:)
She made a comment about him on the telephone that you wouldn't expect a little old lady to make. She was just 'venting'. However, after she made her remark she got several phone calls that showed up as a row of '9s' on her caller ID.
We don't know what those calls were, or where they came from but it scared her half to death - now she's a little more careful about expressing her opinion on the telephone. She just 'mutes' and swears at him in the privacy of her own living room.
~Morticia
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Well I'm sure they do track plenty of people, but there's no way they'd be able to track 150 million Americans through computer microphones. For one thing, only half of America has Internet access, if that, and probably only half of them have computer microphones. I don't have one..
They've been tracking and recording phone conversations for years anyway...
I'm just saying, we can't let news like this stifle our voices and opinions. If they want to hear what I have to say, let them!! Maybe if we raise our voices a little it would do some good. We can't live in fear that Bush is going to personally torture us in the dungeon of the White House if we speak out against propaganda, and bullcrap within government and political policies. What's next, we fear that people are reading our thoughts from a UFO mothership floating in orbit?!
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Yeah i say speak your mind no matter what. We need to speak out. Not hide under our beds. I've been into this stuff for many years and have done plenty of research and i have spoke my mind online and offline. And i have had some creepy things happen to me as a result of it. I do believe at one time for a while my phone calls were being listened in on. Could still be for all i know. Plus some other things thats happened. I just ended up laying low for a while. But then i always go back to it. I shouldnt let it scare me off, but i do have a family to think about.
Also, remember when the Dixie Chicks spoke their minds? They havent been the same since and neither has their careers.