"... a thoroughly researched and naggingly disquieting chronicle ..."

In No Place to Hide, award-winning Washington Post reporter Robert O'Harrow, Jr., lays out in unnerving detail the post-9/11 marriage of private data and technology companies and government anti-terror initiatives to create something entirely new: a security-industrial complex.

To a post-cold-war generation of Americans, the prospect of living under surveillance is no longer scary but cool.

... essentially a scam: propaganda for a new business model that only pretends to give consumers more control while in fact subjecting them to increasingly sophisticated forms of monitoring and manipulation.

About a quarter of the rental cars in the United States are equipped with tracking technology, analysts estimate.

Recent efforts have quietly focused on catching renters who ... break speed laws.

Nemesysco's R&D develops technologies in various fields, all supporting our main voice analysis technology:

The FBI now has more power to compel ... with no court oversight and in nearly total secrecy.

Congress should be finding ways to curtail the use [of authority], not expand it.

Now, to issue a national security letter, the FBI merely has to certify that the information is "relevant" to a national security investigation.

This is more unchecked power than the agency ought to have ...

Privacy advocates say the lack of legal clarity about who can gain access to location information poses a serious risk. Cellphones that report your location promote the scrutiny of small decisions -- where to have lunch, when to take a break, how fast to drive -- rather than general accountability.

"Your location is going to be known at all times by some electronic device. It's inevitable."

There are few answers, but the debate is already taking shape.

We propose the use of "selective blocking" by "blocker tags" as a way of protecting consumers from unwanted scanning of RFID tags attached to items they may be carrying or wearing.

While an ordinary RFID tag is a simple, cheap (e.g. five-cent) passive device intended as an "electronic bar-code" for use in supply-chain management, a blocker tag is a cheap passive RFID device that can simulate many ordinary RFID tags simultaneously. When carried by a consumer, a blocker tag thus "blocks" RFID readers. It can do so universally by simulating all possible RFID tags. Or a blocker tag can block selectively by simulating only selected subsets of ID codes, such as those by a particular manufacturer, or those in a designated "privacy zone."

We believe that this approach, when used with appropriate care, provides a very attractive alternative for addressing privacy concerns raised by the potential (and likely) widespread use of RFID tags in consumer products.

How to ZAP a Camera:
Using Lasers to Temporarily Neutralize Camera Sensors

Cameras are ubiquitous today, and, from a technology perspective, the revolution is just beginning. To many, this is good news. But there is a dark side. ... When cameras are everywhere, is it possible to become invisible from them? Yes and no.