The NSA has confirmed their creepy codename for a new program called "Perfect Citizen." They deny that their technology will be used to spy on American citizens, even though we know American intelligence agencies have a long history of doing just that. The NSA was created in 1952 by secret presidential directive by President Truman and soon grew into a vast intelligence gathering machine. President Ford approved domestic surveillance in December of 1974 while trying to cope with the Cold War. President Nixon resigned over using federal resources to spy on political and activist group. In response, the pro-privacy Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 was signed into law by President Carter. President George W. Bush was found to be in violation of the FISA when he approved warrant-less wiretapping on U.S. Citizens and President Obama continued NSA programs and amendments to FISA that allow for spying on American citizens.
Let's not forget that President Obama promised to end warrant-less wiretapping but has yet to do so. He sided with the Bush Administration and approved legislation that immunizes the nation’s telecommunications companies from lawsuits associated with the Bush Administration's eavesdropping on U.S. citizens. With the increase in Global Positioning technology, GPS is being used to track and trace citizens by private corporations who then report that information to intelligence agencies and police departments. The Cyber Security act attempts to legalize the collection of your personal information on the internet and to track your web browsing and all your online communications. Both Apple and Google have admitted to working with the NSA to collect information and create databases on their costumers. Facial recognition technology has been used at Obama's campaign events, sporting events and at the recent G20 protests in Canada. This Facial Recognition technology is also using data collected from social networking sites like Facebook to identify people and who is in their social network.
We all know about the full body scan technology being used in airports right now, but there is also a new technology that can see through clothes from a mile away. Security officers invade our privacy on a daily basis. Police officers do the same, blatantly disregarding the law, with a dramatic increase in warrant-less searches. The police department in Brooklyn, NY is under scrutiny for stopping nearly 52,000 people over the past 4 years in poor neighborhoods and frisking them, under the guise of looking for guns or because they "fit the description of a suspect." This is nothing more than intimidation and harassment, a precursor to an eventual full blown police state.
They will track, trace and database everything they can. This is just the beginning, with new predictive technologies, ideas like DARPA's Total Information Awareness system, will start to be implemented, if they haven't already been. Several projects of the Information Awareness Office are still being funded and other countries are deploying the same technologies as the United States. A state of constant surveillance is on its way, it's only a matter of time.
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