Amazon Ring’s End-to-End Encryption: What it Means
By Matthew Guariglia, Erica Portnoy, and Bill Budington Almost one year after EFF called on Amazon’s surveillance doorbell company Ring to encrypt footage end-to-end, it…
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Cop’s Chilling Suicide Note Calls for Unity Between Left & Right, Ending Drug War and Racist Policing
By Matt Agorist Lafayette, LA — For the last two decades, Deputy Clyde Kerr III has spent his life serving others in law enforcement and…
Police To Use A Network Of 1,000 “Anveshak” AI Cameras To “Spotlight” A Person’s Every Movement
By MassPrivateI The future of total police surveillance just got a whole lot bleaker, thanks to researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc). IISc…
After Cops Killed His Son, Veteran Achieves Historic Bill for Independent Investigations
By Jack Burns Retired Lt. Colonel Michael Bell Sr. (USAF) has been pulling on the ears of Wisconsin legislators since his son, Michael Bell Jr.,…
Taxpayers Shell Out $200K After Cops Mace, Beat Innocent Dad for Filming Cops Unlawfully Arrest Son
By Matt Agorist Keller, TX — In one of the most blatant abuses of authority we’ve seen in a while, a power tripping cop arrested…
Military Grade Police Boats Can Secretly Monitor Boaters From 3 Miles Away
By MassPrivateI Last year, police departments began using military-grade chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) detection patrol boats on America’s waterways. As WorkBoat revealed, the…
End Two Federal Programs that Fund Police Surveillance Tech
By Matthew Guariglia The new administration can do two things immediately that would help stop some of the more nefarious ways that police departments get…
High Level Cop Exposes Illegal Quota — Cops Told to Make Arrests Even if There’s No Crime
By Matt Agorist Chicago, IL — Most people reading this article know what it is like to have the blue and red lights pop up…
Cop Banned From All Taxpayer Jobs After Video Showed Him Mace Innocent Teen on Private Property
By Matt Agorist Woodlynne, NJ — As TFTP reported last June, several teenagers were hanging out with friends, on their own property, when officers with…
New Laws Grants “Protected Class” Status to Cops, Allows Them to Sue People for Harassment
By Matt Agorist As if blue privilege in the form of qualified immunity, special treatment under the law, ability to break laws they enforce, get…
Cops Who Killed Elijah McClain Walk As Activists Face Decades in Prison for Protesting It
By Matt Agorist Aurora, CO — Imagine for a moment that a handful of “bad apple” police officers attacked, choked, and forcibly drugged an innocent…
Innocent Man Tasered, Nearly Killed for “Dirty License Plate” — Taxpayers to Be Held Liable
By Matt Agorist New Braunfels, TX — When police aren’t kidnapping, caging, and killing people for possessing substances deemed illegal by the state, in turn…
Police Robots Are Not a Selfie Opportunity, They’re a Privacy Disaster Waiting to Happen
By Matthew Guariglia The arrival of government-operated autonomous police robots does not look like predictions in science fiction movies. An army of robots with gun…
Georgia Becomes The First State To Allow Police To Sue People For Harassment
By MassPrivateI Police across the country are so upset by public harassment that one state will allow cops to sue people who they perceive as…