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Police Depts & FBI Use Digital Data From Cell Phones & Internet to Spy on Citizens
The Truth Behind The News
Susanne Posel
Occupy Corporatism
February 27, 2013
The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) wants internet service providers (ISPs) to support their proposal that would require corporations like Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Yahoo and others to have backdoors installed specifically for US government surveillance purposes.
The FBI’s outline called “Going Dark” references law enforcement’s difficulty when ISPs are not required to install built in “backdoors” prior to court-authorized eavesdropping by federal and local agencies.
Valerie Caproni, FBI general counsel, wants police to be enabled to wiretap “Web-based e-mail, social networking sites, and peer-to-peer communications technology.”
Caproni maintains that their proposal will only be used to conduct wiretaps on criminal suspects and terrorist; however, the FBI, in their “Communities Against Terrorism” suspicious activity reporting flyers, has created such a broad definition of who could be a suspected terrorist that all American citizens could be surveyed legally if a law supporting this proposal were passed.
Some examples of suspicious behavior include:
• Paying with cash for goods and services
• Wearing blue jeans
• Anyone nervous or impatient
• People not appropriately dressed
• Environmental or antigovernment slogans on vehicles
Caproni argues: “We’re talking about preserving our ability to execute our existing authority in order to protect the public safety and national security.”
HR 1981 entitled “Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act of 2011” outlines how internet companies would be forced to spy on their customers. Any information they collect, would be given to DHS under penalty of law. The legislation was not enacted, however set the stage for more encompassing bills to come forth.
Many Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are required by law to track everything you do online. The US government is trying to hide their electronic wiretapping program as a state secret. The EU made theirs public by passing the Data Retention Directive, (DRD) of 2006. Article 5, under “Categories of data to be retained”, lists details of what is tracked. This is required for home phones, mobile phones, Internet telephony and e-mail. And depending on the country, this information will be kept for 6 months to 2 years.
Under the DRD here is what is being tracked in every e-mail sent:
• Customer name and address
• The name and address of everyone the customer send e-mail to
• The time and date the customer logged on and off of Internet service, along with the IP address and username
• The time and date the customer sent all e-mail
• The customer’s computer operating system, hardware, and other identifying information
Congress would force commercial Internet access providers to keep for one year a “log of the temporarily assigned network addresses the provider assigns to a subscriber to or customer of such service that enables the identification of the corresponding customer or subscriber information under subsection (c)(2) of this section.”
• A subscriber would receive a temporary assigned network address (TANA) that would further mark that individual beyond their IP address.
• IP addresses would be subject to tracking, combined with other data in creating the most comprehensive profile of the user.
• Law enforcement would be utilized to corroborate the information collected.
• Detailed banking information would be added to the data collecting.
These stores of information have very little to do with child pornography and more to do with having a profile of every American that can be stored by the U.S. government for future use.
The Department of Justice (DoJ) is asserting that they require ISPs to keep records called data retention; which is all data collected on their customers that are readily available to federal and law enforcement agencies.
Caproni stresses that solutions to the Going Dark problem need to include judicial approval of a wiretap request as long as “the government is technologically able to execute that court order in a timely fashion.”
The Obama administration, the FBI and local law enforcement agencies are moving toward the right to survey any individual at any time for any reason. Their justifications for this right are based in fear-mongering and in direct violation of American citizen’s US Constitutional rights.
The CrimePush app allows law enforcement to receive real-time updates from citizens on the goings-on within neighborhoods; turning residents into Stasi.
The West Virginia Department of Homeland Security released an app for mobile phones they have called the “Suspicious Activity Reporting” application. This application will allow for citizens to report “suspicious persons”. A picture can be taken and sent to DHS via a hotline report. The app provides a date and location tool to better locate the supposed suspicious person.
The app allows users to send in reports in the form of text, pictures or video directly to local law enforcement after police dispatch centers set up their accounts with CrimePush.
Users of Android-based devices and Apple iPhones in the vicinity are able to download the application dedicated to that location and start sending in tips, no matter how erroneous.
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Source: http://www.occupycorporatism.com/police-depts-fbi-use-digital-data-from-cell-phones-internet-to-spy-on-citizens/
