This plan to allow the security services and police to get greater access to communications traffic - but not content - has already been attacked as a snoopers' charter.
He stated in his Declaration that he was told by various NSA colleagues on the PSP team that Thin Thread was being used without the privacy protections to collect domestic electronic communications traffic.
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The government is also facing bandwidth gridlock as it attempts to switch wireless traffic communications to the world standard 5.9 GHz.
The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) strictly prohibits the interception of content and traffic data and limits access to stored communications (such as emails).
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The flaws he found weren't instantly catastrophic, he said, but could be used to track private airplanes, intercept messages and jam communications between planes and air-traffic control.
Even Massachusetts-based Raytheon, a one-time conglomerate that has gradually divested commercial lines over the last two decades, has non-defense franchises in areas like air-traffic management and civil communications.
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But people who listen to pirate radio tend not to be concerned about the problem - which can also affect radio communications by emergency services and air traffic control.
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"There's not a way to legislate against sleepiness, " said Bruce Hamilton, manager of research and communications at the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, which instead focuses on public education campaigns and issuing brochures advising on the dangers.
It recently sold its Metro Traffic operations to Clear Channel Communications (CCMO), a unit of CC Media Holdings.
Recent studies forecast that worldwide consumer Internet traffic related to online gaming, IP communications, online video and audio will grow 500% by 2014 . 47.5 million people already play online games in the United States , and online video viewing is up 45% over last year .
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That move sparked an angry debate over users' Internet rights and spurred the Federal Communications Commission last month to declare the practice of filtering traffic illegal.
Steady advances in automation and robotics are now invisibly encapsulated in navigation, weather avoidance, traffic management, flight controls, safety and communications aids that materially benefit the two-pilot front cabin.
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Air traffic controllers say the illegal radio broadcasts often block out vital communications with pilots.
When I left New York for two weeks to visit bureaus in Pakistan and Afghanistan, where we assume that communications may be monitored, I was not to be copied on message traffic about the project.
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On today's Internet, traffic flows in millions of small streams, consisting mostly of simple communications like e-mail, text-based Web pages and instant messages.
This information can be fed back to the editorial or social media teams and new content can be created, or traffic to and from these trending topics can be managed and incorporated into communications via their social media channels.
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The new law will widen the agency's monitoring to include all crossborder cable traffic (from the current limitations on the FRA to monitor only military radio communications).
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