New York Just Launched a Blatantly Unconstitutional Attack on Your Freedom of Speech
By Michaela Whitton New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has launched what has been described as a blatantly unconstitutional attack on freedom of speech. He has…
Civil Liberties
Federal Agents Exposed For Planting Surveillance Microphones in Public
By Kevin Samson It seems that every rock overturned reveals a new depth to government spying on its own citizens – in this case, literally….
Lawsuits Challenge Tech Giants Large-Scale Biometric Collection
By Phillip Schneider History is being made in Illinois as a lawsuit challenges Facebook’s ability to biometrically track and profile individuals using facial recognition. The…
How Rhode Island Parents Are Winning Back Their Rights to Vaccine Choice
By Missy Fluegge Families in Rhode Island are winning the war against mandatory vaccination. They have joined together with two powerful advocacy organizations whose efforts…
FBI Seeks To Keep Its Nationwide Biometric Database A Secret From Citizens
By Nicholas West The FBI’s Next Generation Identification Biometrics Database went live nationwide in 2014 without much fanfare from the general public. Naturally, establishment media…
Is There Such a Thing As Public Restroom Rights?
Op-Ed by Catherine J. Frompovich I’ve been very hesitant to become involved journalistically in the discussion about transgender bathroom protocols, but there’s something I think…
New Yale Law School Report Shows Rapid Growth of Domestic Watchlists
By Derrick Broze A new report highlights the lack of oversight and exponential growth in the number of Americans placed on domestic intelligence watchlists. A…
Fresno Police Department Denied Funding for Social Media Monitoring Tool
By Derrick Broze The Fresno Police Department has lost a controversial tool that has been used to mine social media for information and assign a…
Court Scolds Maryland Cops for Stingray Use, Issues Landmark Decision on Surveillance
By Lily Dane In what civil liberties and privacy advocates are calling a landmark decision, Maryland’s second-highest court has handed down the first appellate opinion…
Federal Asset Forfeiture Program Already Back In Business
By Mike Maharrey The federal government’s Asset Forfeiture Equitable Sharing Program is back in business, proving once again that depending on the federal government to…
Obama Admin’s New Rules Will Create Spying Partnership Between Local Police, NSA
By Derrick Broze Under new rules being developed by the Obama administration, the National Security Agency will be able to take data collected for “counter-terrorism”…
Whistleblower Thomas Tamm Agrees to Public Censure for Revealing Bush Era Spying
By Derrick Broze Thomas Tamm, a former attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice, has agreed to be publicly censured for his role in exposing…
Ever Call the Police? Have a Misdemeanor? You Could be on the Terrorist Watchlist
By John Vibes According to recent reports, people who have been charged with petty crimes have been added to the US government’s “terror watchlist” without…
iPhone Just the Beginning: Obama Just Announced He Wants a Backdoor to Everything
By Andrew Emett While visiting South By Southwest (SXSW) on Friday, President Barack Obama argued that the government should be given a backdoor to all…