By Derrick Broze Baltimore police recently held a press conference announcing new details regarding secret surveillance flights taking place over the city for eight months. Baltimore Police…
By Monique Mann, Queensland University of Technology We live in a post-Edward Snowden world, in which US tech companies have been accused of complicity in…
By Alice Salles Across the United States, police departments receive data pertaining to possible local shootings from a company known as ShotSpotter. The technology, which…
By Kurt Nimmo Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has introduced legislation that would keep prisoners convicted of terrorism offenses locked up indefinitely. Terrified of #terrorism…
By Josie Wales In stark contrast to Tuesday’s revelations regarding vast and blatant violations of privacy rights by Yahoo on behalf of the United States government,…
By Alek Hidell A new bill hopes to put the Transportation Security Administration to work, policing passengers who are hoping to escape the hectic scene at…
By Mike Maharrey A sweeping new law that establishes robust privacy protections in Vermont went into effect today. It not only limits warrantless surveillance and…
By Jake Anderson Last week, the California ACLU released an alarming report about California law enforcement agencies’ covert use of social media surveillance software. The report…
By Mike Maharrey During the first presidential debate, the issue of domestic terrorism. Lester Holt asked Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump what they would do…
By Derrick Broze The release of thousands of pages of documents has revealed that California law enforcement have secretly acquired social media monitoring tools that…
By MassPrivateI Police and the Border Patrol are using ‘general crime control checkpoints’ to harass and detain motorists across the country. Below, is a list of nine different…
By Mike Maharrey A small-town Tennessee police department recently deployed an automatic license plate reader (ALPR) system that allows officers to collect and store data…
By Clark D. Cunningham, Georgia State University Fear of hackers reading private emails in cloud-based systems like Microsoft Outlook, Gmail or Yahoo has recently sent…
By Derrick Broze A coalition of seventeen organizations has launched an effort to combat the growing Surveillance State by supporting accountability measures in eleven cities…