Tag: Surveillance
“Your data should belong to the NSA,” reads a new billboard on West Broadway near Canal Street. There’s no indication of who put it up–just that phrase, all-caps, against a plain white background. It’s the kind of sly commentary one might expect from Banksy, if he wasn’t busy painting dogs peeing on things. A similar […]
The National Security Agency has recently posted a new full-time job opening for “Civil Liberties and Privacy Officer.” This position is the first of its kind, likely created in response to the NSA’s recent — not so recent — blatant spying on US citizens. The NSA Civil Liberties & Privacy Officer (CLPO) is conceived as a completely new role, combining the […]
Flagger is a Chrome extension that adds potential NSA keywords to every URL you visit, just to give a little trolly “fuck you” to the any feds that may be watching. As I write this, for example, the URL for ANIMAL’s back end has “?lulz=regime+warfare+MSP” tacked to the end of it. I just refreshed, and […]
“We have something for you. You’re going to like it.” “What is it?… Oh? Oh!!! Uh oh.” When new media artist James George and tech-savvy photographer Alexander Porter popped the tiny appendage on my iPhone a few months ago for a test drive, I knew I was going to have too much fun with it. The #slyPhone is a single-mirror laser […]
Whether it’s the prying eyes of the NSA or government surveillance drones, many of us want nothing more than to just go on with our lives without the constant feeling of being watched. The Lower East Side’s New Museum proves to be on point once again and has started their own “Privacy Gift Shop,” selling only the finest wares for your modern privacy […]
It turns out the NYPD’s unwarranted surveillance of New York muslims was worse than anyone initially thought. After 9/11, the department began using a police tool known as a “terrorism enterprise investigation” (TEI) to target entire mosques as potential terrorist groups, allowing the surveillance of any person who attends. According to the AP, TEIs were often […]
Edward Snowden: traitor to his country, true American hero, or video game protagonist? Pick two out of three. The man who blew the whistle on the NSA is no longer holed up in a Russian airport terminal, washing his hair in the sinks of public restrooms with travel-sized bottles of shampoo. Now he’s the star […]
Have you heard about PRSM? It’s “a brand new way to share everything” featuring seamless integration with Skype, Google, Facebook, Yahoo, and Apple Products. PRSM makes it easy to communicate with others, streaming things like status updates, emails, purchases, searches, and locations. Sound familiar? Maybe it’s because you’re already signed up. GetPRSM.com expertly skewers both […]
The NSA leaks of the past few months have united a pretty amazing cross-section of people, on all shades of the political spectrum, against federal government surveillance. Case in point: Chaplain Gordon James Klingenschmitt, the host of a Christian YouTube show called Pray in Jesus Name, recently devoted a segmented to praying away the “satanic, evil spirit” […]
King Krule is offering a preview of his new album 6 Feet Beneath the Moon in a distinctly London, distinctly 2013 manner: streaming it on an endless loop online, accompanied by a livestream from a few of the many, many surveillance cameras throughout the UK capital city. It’s a little creepy, but perfectly of a piece […]
