surveillance
If you'd like to help
Comcast eavesdrop on its own subscribers, you're in luck: Comcast has posted a
job listing for an "intercept engineer" on a headhunter site, according to
Wired. Want ad for position of The Man, inside.
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the war on privacy
Qwest, Verizon, and AT&T
have until October 12th to provide information on how the government went about asking for private customer records, and how the three companies provided the information. The Committee on Energy and Commerce opened an official investigation Tuesday. "If reports about the government surveillance program are accurate, Congress has a duty to inquire about whether such a program violates the Constitution, as well as consumer protection and privacy laws," said committee chairman Rep. John Dingell.
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spying
Watch out, kids. Don't try to be funny on the internet or you'll be fired by Walmart.
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surveillance
Wired has an informative, deeply terrifying, interview with Mark Klein the whistleblower who outed AT&T for spying for the NSA.
WN: How many people worked in or on that room?
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privacy
Verizon is currently being sued over allegedly disclosing customer records to the NSA, but are defending themselves by claiming that the disclosure is free speech protected under the first amendment, according to Ars Technica.
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surveillance
A group of Benedictine nuns in Texas are shocked that Walmart considers them a threat and ordered a "threat assessment" from their crack security team. The nuns had filed a shareholder resolution that was critical to Walmart. "The Benedictine Sisters of Boerne, Texas have written a letter to Lee Scott, Wal-Mart's chief executive, to say they were "deeply disappointed, appalled and shocked."
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surveillance
The director of the Arkansas State Police, Colonel Steve Dozier, has resigned from his position, (with provides a salary of $98,400 a year), to join Walmart's security force. According to WMC TV, Walmart spokesperson Sarah Clark says that Dozier will "oversee several elements of the company's security program" and will report to Ken Senser, Wal-Mart's senior vice president for global security, aviation and travel."
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walmart
Former CIA or FBI intelligence expert? Want to train your eye on more... "innocent" suspects than you did during your days in law enforcement? Look no further than Walmart's Global Security division, which is headed by former senior CIA and FBI senior officer Kenneth Senser and Army Special Operations veteran David Harrison.
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walmart
Upset by a Wall Street Journal article exposing Walmart for spying on its shareholders, New York CIty Comptroller William C. Thompson Jr., has formally requested that the US Attorney General and the Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate Walmart for "ill-considered and possibly illegal
surveillance operations." New York City's Pension Fund holds about 8 million shares of Walmart. From the Wall Street Journal:
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walmart
The WSJ goes in depth today about Walmarts intense
surveillance operation. According to the recently fired employee who intercepted calls and text messages from a New York Times reporter (and a few other Walmart employees) Walmart's surveillance tactics include:
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security
Chicago mayor Richard Daley has proposed a city ordinance that would require all bars open until 4 a.m. to install closed-circuit security cameras to monitor the comings and goings of patrons. The proposal includes measures that would eventually require
all businesses open longer than 12 hours a day to do the same—all this, we should note, at their own expense. Never mind that the businesses already pay taxes to support a police force that, if these cameras are necessary, aren't effective enough.
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Consumerist
Verizon may have admitted it gives out customer info without warrants, but AT&T and Qwest both refused to give Congress any information on their participation in the government's wire-tapping activities, saying they needed permission from Bush administration first. [Reuters]
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