Overvåkning

«- For å være kynisk er det vel et spørsmål om hendelser. Hvis noen hadde fortalt folk at de ville blitt tryggere hvis politiet hadde kunnet lese e-post, er jeg temmelig sikker på at svært mange nordmenn hadde sagt at det er greit. Folk er jo vilt begeistret over å være overvåket av kameraer.»

-- Datatilsynets direktør Georg Apenes. +

I 2006 er alle nordmenn i større eller mindre grad overvåket.

Bøker om overvåking

• Storebror ser seg! (1973): Storebror_ser_deg_1973.pdf

Nyheter om Overvåkning

• 2005-12-22: Britain will be first country to monitor every car journey
  • "Britain is to become the first country in the world where the movements of all vehicles on the roads are recorded. By next March a central database installed alongside the Police National Computer in Hendon, north London, will store the details of 35 million number-plate "reads" per day."
  • "Chief constables are also on the verge of brokering agreements with the Highways Agency, supermarkets and petrol station owners to incorporate their own CCTV cameras into the network."
• 2005-12-24: Overvåker alle bilturer +
  • "Målet er å komme opp i 100 millioner bilnumre daglig. Fartsmålerne på veiene skal bygges om, slik at de registrerer bilnumrene. I tillegg forhandler politiet med bensinstasjoner og supermarkeder om å bygge om deres overvåkingskameraer, slik at de registrerer alle bilene som kommer og går i løpet av dagen."
• 2005-12-24: Myntpassering kan forsvinne +
  • "Statens vegvesen ønsker at norske bomstasjoner skal kunne bli helautomatiske. Skjer det, vil det bli umulig å bevege seg anonymt."
  • "Vegdirektoratet er lite villig til å utvikle et anonymt alternativ, slik vi i dag har med myntene, sier Datatilsynets direktør Georg Apenes."
• 2006-01-12: Body scanner debuts at London's Paddington +
  • "The body scanner is a millimeter wave machine - aka a "see through clothes scanner" - made by Santa Clara, California-based Safeview Inc and operated by Surrey-based Airlock Aviation Ltd.
• 2006-01-13: SAS scanner fingeravtrykk +
  • "- Ambisjonen er at id-kontrollen skal gå like fort eller fortere enn den gjør i dag, sier Peter Söderlund, produktsjef i SAS, til bladet."
  • "Teknologien skal tas i bruk på innenriksruter i Norge, Sverige og Danmark denne våren, og innebærer at passasjeren bruker tommelen istedenfor et boardingkort."
  • "Passasjerenes tommefingre blir først scannet ved innsjekkingen, og deretter må de igjen la seg scanne når de forlater flyet."
• 2006-02-16: Police chief wants surveillance cameras in Houston apartments +
  • "HOUSTON Houston's police chief is suggesting putting surveillance cameras in apartment complexes, downtown streets and even private homes."
• 2006-03-07 Beijing. March 7. INTERFAX-CHINA - Beijing police have deployed a RMB 1 mln (USD 124,400) high-tech surveillance van in an effort to punish people for spitting on the street, according to local media reports. +
  • "The vehicle has three video cameras, including a central camera that can be raised four meters into the air like a periscope, rotate 355 degrees, and spot someone spitting 250 meters away. The vehicle also has an infrared camera and a high power searchlight for use at night, the Beijing News reported."
• 2006-05-13: US President George W Bush has used his weekly radio address to launch a strong defence of his administration's domestic surveillance programme.
  • "It follows claims the phone records of tens of millions of Americans are being collected by a US intelligence agency."
  • "Mr Bush stressed that all intelligence activities he authorised were "lawful" and "strictly target" al-Qaeda."
  • "A former director of the agency - Gen Michael Hayden - is now Mr Bush's nominee to become the next head of the CIA."
• CNET Networks, Inc: FBI taps cell phone mic as eavesdropping tool, av Declan McCullagh, 2006-12-01
  • "The FBI appears to have begun using a novel form of electronic surveillance in criminal investigations: remotely activating a mobile phone's microphone and using it to eavesdrop on nearby conversations."
• Big Brother is listening: Government can eavesdrop on your life by secretly listening through your cell phone: Big Brother is listening: Government can eavesdrop on your life by secretly listening through your cell phone, av Ben Kage, 2006-12-05
• Heise.de: Superintendent Trojan, av ehe, 2006-09-10
  • "Whilst listening in on normal telephone calls over landlines or mobile phone networks has become a routine procedure, Voice over IP connections frequently present a problem for investigators, especially when the persons being monitored use Skype via foreign servers or call direct from PC to PC and encrypt their data. The Swiss Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications (UVEK) is therefore examining the use of spy software to allow it to listen in on conversations on PCs.
  • "The software comes from Swiss security company ERA IT Solutions, which intends to supply it solely to investigation agencies."

USA

• 2005-12-16: New York Times admits it held domestic spying story for a full year
  • "On the second page of a report which reveals the White House engaged in warrantless domestic spying, the New York Times reveals that it held the story for a full year at the request of the Bush Administration, RAW STORY can reveal."
• 2005-12-25: The Agency That Could Be Big Brother +1 +2 +
  • "What made the intercepts particularly difficult, General Hayden said, was that they were not "targeted" but intercepted randomly from Afghan pay phones.
  • "For the agency to snoop domestically on American citizens suspected of having terrorist ties, it first must to go to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, or FISA, make a showing of probable cause that the target is linked to a terrorist group, and obtain a warrant. The court rarely turns the government down. Since it was established in 1978, the court has granted about 19,000 warrants; it has only rejected five."
  • Originally created to spy on foreign adversaries, the NSA was never supposed to be turned inward. Thirty years ago, Senator Frank Church, the Idaho Democrat who was then chairman of the select committee on intelligence, investigated the agency and came away stunned.
    • "That capability at any time could be turned around on the American people," he said in 1975, "and no American would have any privacy left, such is the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn't matter. There would be no place to hide."
    • He added that if a dictator ever took over, the NSA "could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back."
• 2005-12-30: Covert CIA Program Withstands New Furor + +
  • "This month he went into more detail, defending the National Security Agency's warrantless eavesdropping within the United States. That program is separate from the GST program, but three lawyers involved said the legal rationale for the NSA program is essentially the same one used to support GST, which is an abbreviation of a classified code name for the umbrella covert action program."
• 2006-01-03: (democracynow.org) National Security Agency Whistleblower Warns Domestic Spying Program Is Sign the U.S. is Decaying Into a “Police State” +
  • "Former NSA intelligence agent Russell Tice condemns reports that the Agency has been engaged in eavesdropping on U.S. citizens without court warrants. Tice has volunteered to testify before Congress about illegal black ops programs at the NSA. Tice said, “The freedom of the American people cannot be protected when our constitutional liberties are ignored and our nation has decayed into a police state." [includes rush transcript]"
• 2006-01-04: Secret Surveillance May Have Occurred Before Authorization
  • "During your appearance before the committee," she wrote, "you indicated that you had been operating since the September 11 attacks with an expansive view of your authorities with respect to the conduct of electronic surveillance." The letter, while redacted in parts concerned with surveillance, made clear that the agency was "forwarding" intercepts and other collected information to the FBI. Two sources familiar with the NSA program said Pelosi was directly referring to information collected without a warrant on U.S. citizens or residents.
• 2006-01-10: Senator Frank Church: The NSA could enable a dictator to impose total tyranny +
  • "BushCo is trying to bury the significance of their illegal spying, why aren’t the Democrats "screaming to the rafters"?"

1984

• 2006-08-30: Has ‘1984’ Come to Life?
  • "People either ignore them or have gotten used to the numerous cameras sited all over the city. Paying a little bit of attention though enables you to realize the vast number of cameras in use . be it a subway station, an office building, a museum, a street, or a store, surveillance cameras are there. There are even cameras placed at the entrance of some ladies’ rooms. It is virtually impossible to find a public spot that is free from the constant stare from them."