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An Iphone That Gives You X-Ray Vision

Friday, May 4, 2012
What if you could use your iphone to develop the Superman-like skill of having X-ray vision? Well, now you can: A microchip enables a phone to see through walls, wood and plastics and--although the researchers deny this--through clothing as well, meaning you can...
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Huge Spy Complex Being Built in Utah

Friday, March 23, 2012
The NSA (National Security Administration) is building a huge computer complex called The Utah Data Center, where they can spy on the rest of us in Bluffdale, a small town in Utah, which (until now) has mainly been known as a major center of Mormon polygamy. Once it's built, it will be over five times the size of the US Capitol in Washington, DC...
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We're All Being Monitored by the FBI

Monday, March 5, 2012
Your cell phone is tracking you, there are spies on Facebook, streetlights are eavesdropping on us, and even the...
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Spying on Us from Space

Friday, February 17, 2012
The military's covert agency DARPA is working on a space-based spy telescope that can hover in orbit to "take real-time images or live video of any spot on Earth." They want to launch satellites that can zoom in on...
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The End of Privacy

Wednesday, February 8, 2012
The concept of privacy may have become a thing of the past. Your cell phone is tracking you, there are spies on Facebook, streetlights are...
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Spying in Space

Wednesday, January 18, 2012
America's classified X-37B satellite, which went into orbit in March, 2011, is probably spying on China's space station (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show), Tiangong-1, which was launched in...
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Detecting Crimes BEFORE They Happen

Friday, November 11, 2011
If we could do this, we would be faced with the necessity of arresting and incarcerating technically "innocent" people, which would upend our entire constitution and body of laws, in the same way that torturing suspects at Guantanamo has.

This may be a possibility...
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China is Hacking Our Satellites

Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Hackers interfered with two US satellites 4 times between 2007 and 2008. These incidents involved observation systems which targeted through a ground station in Norway which are used to observe the earth's climate and terrain (or is that just the "cover story?") 
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Spying on Your Computer

Thursday, November 3, 2011
The government is spying on us and now we're spying on each other. Here's the latest, and it's a pattern that repeats itself daily in hundreds of millions of offices and coffee shops around the world: People sit down, turn on their computers, set their mobile...
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Streetlights May be SPYING on You

Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Some cities in the US have switched, but not in a good way: The government is coming up with EVEN MORE ways to spy on us (NOTE: Subscribers...
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The Government is Spying on Your Internet Activity

Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Social scientists are tracking the things we do on the internet, including website searches, Twitter messages, Facebook and blog posts, as well as the digital...
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WEAR Your Wi-Fi

Thursday, October 13, 2011
The next generation of communications systems could be built with a sewing machine. To make communications devices more reliable, researchers are finding ways to incorporate radio antennas directly into clothing, using plastic film and metallic thread. And you'll be able to POWER your...
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Be a SPY with your Smartphone

Thursday, August 11, 2011
Spies are everywhere these days (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show) and their new tools--Smartphone cameras...
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There's a Spy in Granny's Slippers

Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Engineers who work for giant telecommunications companies or small start-ups are inventing products that can send messages--from a diaper that lets parents know their baby needs changing, to slippers that can tell when your grandmother might be about to fall down and break her hip. Finnish engineer Jari Arkko connected his house to a wireless...
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Hackers are Targeting the Rulers of the World

Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Everyone is spying on everyone else (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show): Robert Murdoch's News Corporation has gotten into trouble for hacking into the phones of politicians, royalty, and the...
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You are Being Judged on Twitter

Tuesday, July 19, 2011
When it comes to appearance, we are sometimes informally issued a number from one to ten. What if we lived in a world in which everyone is assigned a number that tells everyone ELSE how influential we are, and this number determined whether or not you got a job, a hotel room upgrade or free samples at...
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Your Movements Can be Secretly Tracked

Friday, July 8, 2011
Ever get the feeling you're being spied on? (NOTE: subscribers can still listen to this show). The Air Force is working on a camera that can...
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Now There's a Spy You Can Swallow

Friday, June 10, 2011
We've reported on tracking chips inside your clothes and inside Canadian money (not to mention cell phones!), but...
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Should We End the Patriot Act?

Monday, May 30, 2011
Congress just passed the extension of the Patriot Act with hardly a murmur and it was signed into law on May 27. Now Senator Ron Wyden (D Oregon) says that what the public has been led to believe the act allows and how the government secretly interprets it are two different things. The reason is that the government's interpretations of the act are...
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Now our TOYS are Spying on Us!

Friday, April 29, 2011
It's true--There are SPIES everywhere! (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show). Basically, your cell phone wants to...
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Your Phone Wants to Control You

Wednesday, April 27, 2011
It's true--There are SPIES everywhere! (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show).Your cell phone is...
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Your Phone Knows Where You Go

Tuesday, April 26, 2011
It's true--There are SPIES everywhere! (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show).Your cell phone is...
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There are SPIES on Facebook

Friday, April 15, 2011
The US military is developing software that will let it secretly manipulate social media sites, like Facebook, by using fake online personas to influence internet conversations and spread pro-American propaganda. So your "facebook friend" may really be a covert agent who is...
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Tracking Your Moves

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Ever get the suspicion that someone is spying on you? There have been hints that we may soon be sold clothes and personal items containing tiny GPS units that track our movements. In Brazil, boxes of laundry detergent did this!

In Brazil, the Unilever company embedded GPS trackers in some boxes of Omo laundry detergent, as an incentive...

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Spyware on Your Blackberry!

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

The ideal spy would wear invisible clothes that automatically took photographs of his surroundings and he would be able to read whatever you typed on your Blackberry. This almost happened in Dubai, and across the border in Canada. Let's hope this doesn't happen here!

BBC News reports that an update being promoted for Blackberry users...

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