CALEA - Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act
http://www.fcc.gov/calea/
requires all telephone companies, including VoIP companies to provide surveillance capabilities of its subscribers
FISA - Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Act
Allows for wireless wiretapping and electronic surveillance - INCLUDING US citizens... FISA amendment act provided RETROACTIVE IMMUNITY to telephone comapnies that assisted the government in the illegal warantless wiretapping of US citizens!
CARNIVORE -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivore_(software)
Packet sniffer installed at ISP to monitor internet traffic
ECHELON -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON
GLOBAL NSA spying network
Room 641A -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
Confirmed location at an AT&T office where the NSA has installed equiptment to sniff, and monitor all communications through the internet backbone that goes thru this office. Other similar locations are believed to exist across the country.
Policeware -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policeware
"Law enforcement" spyware to monitor your computer usage...
TIA - Total Information Awareness
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Awareness_Office
Renamed "Terrorist Information Awareness" to sound less threatening to your freedoms and civil liberties, this is a centrailzed database with various functions from monitoring electronic communications, to facial recognition software and cameras... INCLUDING DATA MINING OF SOCIAL NETWORKS, AND TELEPHONE AND BANKING RECORDS!
ADVISE - (Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight, and Semantic Enhancement)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADVISE
Another government data mining program, including many various forms of electronic records, such as telephone records, bank records, internet history, emails, etc... allegedly shut down after testing was done with actual citizens personal information..... likely still operational black-ops program...
MALINTENT -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MALINTENT
Non-invasive system designed to read body language, heart rate, and other bio-factors to tell if you are going to commit a terroristic attack... sounds like that movie Minority Report to me...
TALON -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TALON
Database consisting on anti-war demonstrators....
Intellipedia-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellipedia
The intellege communities wiki pages - including sensitive, secret and top secret information...
COINTELPRO - COunter INTELligence PROgram
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
ILLEGAL counter intellegence operations carried out by the FBI...
DCSnet - Digital Collection System Network
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCSNET
FBIs point and click interface to wiretap just about any telephone or SMS communication...
SIGINT - Signals Intellegence
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGINT
Monitoring of various methods of communications, including encrypted communications...
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