Posted on 05/14/2016 3:42:41 PM PDT by thecodont
OAKLAND (CBS SF) — Hidden microphones that are part of a clandestine government surveillance program that has been operating around the Bay Area has been exposed.
Imagine standing at a bus stop, talking to your friend and having your conversation recorded without you knowing. It happens all the time, and the FBI doesn’t even need a warrant to do it.
Federal agents are planting microphones to secretly record conversations.
Jeff Harp, a KPIX 5 security analyst and former FBI special agent said, “They put microphones under rocks, they put microphones in trees, they plant microphones in equipment. I mean, there’s microphones that are planted in places that people don’t think about, because that’s the intent!”
FBI agents hid microphones inside light fixtures and at a bus stop outside the Oakland Courthouse without a warrant to record conversations, between March 2010 and January 2011.
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Alex Jones has been saying this for years.
With the advent of the high technology our once-free country has invented we are now more Soviet Union than the old Soviet Union.
1984 was supposed to serve as a warning, not an instruction manual.
1984 was a warning, not an instruction manual.
The Statists will explain that it is for the “common good”, no doubt.
Better bag your own groceries...
He was saying this almost 15 years ago on his radio show. Some people think he is pretty far out there, but he has been right on so many things.
Geeezzzeee, all they have to do is ask.
I think this is another example how disruptive technology can be. Technically, you’re in public and have no expectations of privacy. That said, if you go to some place where nobody else is, to have a private conversation, you expect it to be private. This basically highlights that the only private place is your property.
Don’t talk anywhere BUT in your basement with the AC cranked up.
Oh wait the FBI got a warrant and put a bug in his lamp.
RIP James/saprano’s
At the very least you are twins separated at birth. At the most...well...something interesting that hasn't dawned on me.
This should be interesting...
The Bay Area high tech area is already worried about gov snooping.
We got our free voice activated remote from the cable company the other day.
They will be listening to litterbox scratches for at least 3 months.
I don't clean the litterbox often.
And the subterfuge is against citizens. The illegals are not monitored and get off easily for doing illegal activities. What was up is down, black is white, and your government no longer protects you as a citizen.
This basically highlights that the only private place is your property.”
That is no longer true. The “Internet of Things” will be watching and recording you 24 hours a day.
The law on surveillance needs to change.
ROFL!!!
Technology is playing heck with the Fourth Amendment.
Here technology permits access to information that was assumed to be inaccessible.
OTOH encryption prevents it from accessing data it was meant to access.
Both issues can be resolved by looking at what the Founders intended.
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