DEA Plans to Expand License Plate Surveillance Program
By Michael Maharrey The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) plans to expand a surveillance program that tracks the location of millions of everyday people through pictures…
Civil Liberties
TSA Facial Recognition Experiment Receives 85% Accuracy Rate
By Aaron Kesel The TSA is using facial recognition technology with a “biometric confirmation” rate of 85% for testing purposes at airports. U.S. Customs and…
Lifting the Cloak of Secrecy From NYPD Surveillance Technology
By Nathan Sheard For too long, the New York Police Department has secretly deployed cutting-edge spy tech, without notice to the public. Many of these…
Feds Force Child Porn Suspect To Unlock Smartphone With His Face
By Aaron Kesel According to a new report by Forbes, for the first time in the U.S. and possibly the world, law enforcement have accessed…
Creating a Suspect Society: The Scary Side of the Technological Police State
By John W. Whitehead “If, as it seems, we are in the process of becoming a totalitarian society in which the state apparatus is all-powerful,…
Arizona Engineer Challenges “Constitution-Free” Border Checkpoints After Being Stopped 400 Times
By Aaron Kesel A lawsuit filed by University of Arizona engineer Terry Bressi is the latest round in an ongoing battle that border residents have been…
School District to Begin Randomly Drug Testing High School Students
By Carey Wedler Clark County, IN — A school district in Clark County, Indiana, will soon be randomly drug testing students who want to participate in extracurricular activities…
What I Don’t Like About Life in Post-9/11 America
By John W. Whitehead “A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.”―Edward Abbey, American author Life in a post-9/11 America…
Responding to the “Nothing to Hide” Argument in Support of Mass Surveillance
By Michael Maharrey Whenever I talk about government surveillance, there is always “that guy” who claims if I’m not doing anything illegal I shouldn’t be…
John Mackey (Whole Foods) Won’t Talk About Amazon’s Facial Recognition Program
By The Conscious Resistance Journalist Derrick Broze attempts to question John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods, about his controversial partnership with Amazon. Amazon’s Rekognition…
Amazon’s Facial “Rekognition” Mismatches 28 Lawmakers With Criminals
By Aaron Kesel The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California tested Amazon’s facial Rekognition software and the program erroneously and hilariously identified 28 members of…
Kavanaugh: Warrantless Data Collection “is entirely consistent with the Fourth Amendment”
By Phillip Schneider On July 9th, President Trump’s announced Brett Kavanaugh as his nominee for the Supreme Court to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy, and…
U.S. Courts Release 2017 Wiretap Report: Orders and Convictions Rise, No Requests Denied, 10 States Absent, No FISA Data
By Aaron Kesel Federal courts across the U.S. reported a 30 percent increase in authorized wiretaps in 2017, compared to 2016, that’s up 73% over…
Court Gives Clearance for TSA to Molest and Falsely Arrest Air Travelers
By MassPrivateI Yesterday a Philadelphia Appeals Court ruled that TSA agents can not be sued for molesting or falsely arresting air travelers. According to an…