Blimps to monitor sports crowds using military technology

Apparently Raytheon is adapting military-style technology to use in blimps at sporting events to monitor the crowd. Not sure what they're trying to prevent here, other than passing up an opportunity to profit off the unending corruption of fearmongering politicians.

Yahoo censors Obama critic

Apparently Yahoo feels compelled to retaliate against those who dare to criticize politicians on its services by deleting all of their data. Rather unfortunate. I'm certainly not creating a flickr account anytime soon.

UK children taught to spot terrorists

"If you ask amateurs to act as front-line security personnel, you shouldn't be surprised when you get amateur security." via Schneier

Graham-Lieberman secrecy law (with Obama support)

Transparency is so inconvenient for today's powerful politicians who profess to be 'protecting America' that they will go to almost any end to circumvent it. Case in point: the new bill by Lieberman (with, notably, the support of Barack "Hope" Obama) that allows the white house to suppress any torture photographs taken after September 11th.

Homeland Security to Start Collecting Fingerprints at Airports

Under the guise of combating illegal immigration, the government is planning to implement yet another privacy-infringing policy and expand the surveillance state by scanning the fingerprints of non-US citizens as they exit the country. The pilot program begins in Atlanta soon.

Looks like Obama didn't end torture after all...

So says Jeremy Scahil. Apparently, a group called the Immediate Reaction Force still roams the halls of Guantanamo Bay, brutally torturing and punishing prisoners for the most trivial of reasons. Nice.

While we're on the subject, here's a nice, succinct list of the 13 people who made torture possible. Thanks, guys!

In Wisconsin, you can be GPS tracked without a warrant

A court has ruled that police do not have to require a warrant before fixing a GPS tracking device to one's car. Yet another thing the police can do to you that you have no recourse against (but only in Wisconsin). Thankfully, contrary (and therefore sensible) decisions are being made in other states.

Via Schneier