Surveillance in Washington DC And At Bookstores

dioscaido writes: "From reuters: 'Washington police are building what will be the nation's biggest network of surveillance cameras to monitor shopping areas, streets, monuments and other public places in the U.S. capital, a move that worries civil liberties groups, The Wall Street Journal said on Wednesday.'" Aragorn_2002 writes "I found this new article on Salon.com about how feds are subpoenaing book-purchasing records. Just imaging if they start to use DMCA and the new Anti-terrorist bill to subpoena someone buying books on breaking encryption." If you've ever ordered from Amazon, this might concern you. Update: 02/13 21:30 GMT by M : The full WSJ article is available on MSNBC.

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Hello

[Anonymous Coward]

Since you are reading from this subversive news site, please turn yourself in to the nearest police station.

J. Ashcroft
United States Attorney General and Executioner at Large

Jack B. Nimble is better than Uncle Fester

[mangu]

According to amazon.com readers, at least. "The Construction and Operation of Clandestine Drug Laboratories" by Jack B. Nimble got 4 1/2 stars, while "Advanced Techniques of Clandestine Psychedelic & Amphetamine Manufacture" by Uncle Fester got 3 stars.

Now that you have read this post, the highly sensitive combination of those two book names has gone into your computer. This fact has been duly recorded by Carnivore.

Re:1984..

[mrroot]

Of course if you buy the book, you will instantly set off a red flag in the FBI's new book purchase surveilance system.

Re:Bradbury not so far off?

[GMontag]

Soon, the government will have a record of all the books we've bought, and when the time comes, their firemen will come and torch our houses for owning them.

And this is wrong why? ;-)

Warmest regards,
Guy Montag

Time to mess with the federal government

[defile]

Still got Amazon.com gift certificates you haven't taken advantage of yet? Why, here's an opportunity to protest this invasion of your privacy and even acquire some interesting midnight reading to boot. Choose from among these exciting titles:

• The Anarchist's Cookbook (also try the Anarchist Handbook series)
• The Art of Survival
• U.S. Army Survival Manual
• Boeing 747: Design and Development
• Explosives, Propellants, and Pyrotechnics
• The Chemistry of Explosives
• Explosives
• An Illustrated Guide to Rifles and Automatic Weapons
• The Los Alamos Primer: The First Lectures on How to Build an Atomic Bomb
• Bioterrorism of Anthrax Bacillus Anthracis: Index of New Information and Guide-Book for Consumers, Reference, and Research.
• Scourge: The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox

Remember to support your local bookstores.

Disclaimer: US government lackeys tend to be humorless, so I'll make it clear now that I've not read any of these books. I love America more than sliced bread itself. Yeah! Nuke their ass! Take their gas! GOD BLESS AMERICA! Wooo!

george orwell plaza under surveillance

[remou]

ohh, the irony...:-)

what the heck where they thinking???

photo of orwell plaza surveillance