This page concerns such "standard" surveillance techniques as pinhole cameras, audio bugs, and through-the-wall radar. While such technologies are known by most people to exist at least from spy stories and such (with a few exceptions such as through-the-wall radar), many do not realize how available the devices are or how miniaturized they have become. Such devices can play an important role in mind control operations by providing feedback about a targeted person (for example in the operant conditioning of a person inside his or her home using remotely operated aversive stimuli). That is, it is important to consider how such feedback can be used in combination with the technologies described on other pages of this site to "close the control loop."
The Granite Island Group Technical Surveillance Counter Measures (TSCM) site has a great deal of information on eavesdropping devices, detection (sweeping) techniques, TEMPEST technology, etc. The Spy Tech Agency has a similar site.
The Security Magazine site provides Lexis-Nexus searches on some security-related matters.
This article from Covert Action Quarterly, Spring 1996, concerns the increasing ability of technology to track and "profile" the actions of citizens. It is by David Banisar and is titled, "Big Brother Goes High Tech." [*]
This report, "An Appraisal of the Technology of Political Control," is a working document (though not an official document) of the European Parliament Scientific and Technological Options Assessment Programme (STOA). This copy is online at the Cryptome site. It is quite readable, and discusses recent technological developments applicable to political control. It also discusses the potential impact of the technologies on political systems, their legitimacy, and their level of authoritarianism.
APBnews reported this story on Sept. 21, 2000, titled "Mysterious TV Messages 'Terrorize' Black Family." [*]
The Electronic Privacy Information Center and Privacy International have released their Privacy and Human Rights 2000 report (by David Banisar).
Here is the Center for Democracy and Technology's Government Surveillance page, which has many items related to wiretapping laws, etc.
These two links describe through-the-wall radar systems. The first is an APBnews article by Hans H. Chen, titled "Cops Have Eyes on X-Ray Vision: New Technology Would Let Police See Through Walls." [*] It is from June 4, 1999, and is online at the Ultrasonics Soundweapon site. Another article on that page, by Eugene F. Greneker, discusses a "radar flashlight" for through-the-wall detection of humans. The second link is to The Justice Technology Information Network site, and describes a Radar-Based Through-the-Wall Surveillance System project.
Home telecare (or tele-homecare) involves monitoring patients in their homes so they can be treated or helped remotely by medical professionals. It can be a positive application of many of the technologies described on these pages. It also has enormous potential for abuse, for example to "medicalize dissent" -- as has happened with psychiatry in many cases. Call a victim or dissident sick; claim you were helping them. For information on home telecare, this is the Report of the Workshop on Home Care Technologies for the 21st Century. The workshop dealt with many issues, including ethics. An adequate on-going informed consent process for patients and their families will be necessary.2 If families and patients are technically, medically, and emotionally naïve about HCT, it is highly unlikely that they will be able to make informed decisions about HCT.