NYPD Sued Over Stop and Frisk Marijuana Arrests
NORML image Phillip Smith Stop The Drug War The Legal Aid Society in New York City announced Friday that it had filed a lawsuit against…
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Data Mining: Big Corporations Are Gathering and Selling Every Shred Of Information About You That They Can
Michael Snyder, Contributor Activist Post When most people think of “Big Brother”, they think of the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, the Department of Homeland…
Watch TSA Nude Body Scanners Get Defeated by Activist, AGAIN
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NSA refuses to release spy stats to Congress, citing ‘privacy’
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FOIA Documents Show TOR Undernet Beyond the Reach of the Federal Investigators
FOIA Request: silk road anonymous marketplace (DOJ) Michael Morisy Activist Post Recently released documents detail the federal government’s inability to pursue cybercriminals shrouded by the…
Obama administration pushes to renew FISA
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Google’s New Search Tool to Use CIA and World Bank as Sources for ‘Facts’
Eric Blair Activist Post Google is making a big change to how it displays results in its dominant search engine. It is rolling out a…
DHS Considers Collecting DNA From Kids; DEA and US Marshals Already Do
Jennifer Lynch EFF Documents just released by US Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) in response to one of EFF’s Freedom of Information Act requests show…
And the privacy invasion award goes to …
Rebecca Bowe EFF Who’s playing fast and loose with your data? The Big Brother Awards, billed as the “Oscars for data leeches” by the hackers…
Colorado Sheriff Secretly Attached GPS to Critic’s Car
Coloradoan Sheriff’s deputies secretly attached a GPS tracker to the truck of a vocal local government critic who they feared was planning to kidnap her…
DOJ Deputy Wants Warrantless Surveillance of Cellular Phone Signals
Susanne Posel, Contributor Activist Post The Obama administration is attempting to force Congressional law to rewrite cellular phone privacy rights. In 2012, the US Supreme…
DOJ Official: Any Privacy Protection is Too Much Privacy Protection for Cell Phone Tracking
credit: Chuck Crow, Plain Dealer EFF Jason Weinstein, a deputy assistant attorney general in the Department of Justice’s criminal division, told a panel at the…
PG&E Lacks Authority to Force Smart Meters or Charge Fees to Keep Analog Meters
Image Source San Francisco, CA- Though PG&E’s arbitrary “deadline” of May 1st for signing up for their smart meter opt out program is fast approaching,…
University of Texas researchers design chip allowing mobile devices to see through walls
Madison Ruppert, Contributor Activist Post As unbelievable as it sounds, researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas have created an imager chip for mobile…