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December 22, 2008

Your MetroCard is Watching You

The more technology seems to advance, the harder it is to get away from its watchful eye. We cannot escape. We cannot hide. Every time you make a transaction at an ATM, the machine records that your account was accessed, at the exact time, at the exact place, with uncanny precision. At a bank 100 years ago, do you imagine for a moment that the tellers were keeping track of every single transaction down to the second? The New York City subway advertisements remind us that by buying a 30-day MetroCard, we are effectively paying less for using the subway now than we did in 1986.

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December 18, 2008

Will Obama Watch the NSA?

SuperGenius author Nat Hentoff asks in The Village Voice if Obama is prepared to deal with the National Security Agency’s surveillance of us all — or if he will merely go along with the rules established by the Bush Administration.

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December 7, 2008September 4, 2013

GIS in Public Health

This article represents a quick presentation of what is possible with GIS (Geographic Information Systems) software. We were pleased to provide some GIS content for Glencoe/McGraw-Hill publishing for three textbooks in 2008: World Geography and Cultures, Glencoe World History and The American Vision — all with a combined expected worldwide sales of 750,000 copies.

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December 3, 2008June 7, 2013

Microsoft and the NSA and the Texas Cryptology Center

Total Information Awareness is now possible thanks to Microsoft and the NSA’s new Texas Cryptology Center in San Antonio, Texas:

“No longer able to store all the intercepted phone calls and e-mail in its secret city, the agency has now built a new data warehouse in San Antonio, Texas,” writes author James Bamford in the Shadow Factory, his third book about the NSA. “Costing, with renovations, upwards of $130 million, the 470,000-square-foot facility will be almost the size of the Alamodome. Considering how much data can now be squeezed onto a small flash drive, the new NSA building may eventually be able to hold all the information in the world.” …

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November 28, 2008

The Invisible New York City Spy Chopper

As you walk the streets of New York, someone is watching you from above — and it isn’t the FDNY Firefighter Spies. You can’t see them, but they can see you. You don’t know where they are — but they are always… there. Right there:

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