Your Local Police Gets Federal Money To Work With Shadowy Surveillance Companies
Jake Anderson Activist Post Before the events of 9/11, surveillance practices were fairly limited in scope for local police departments. Warrants would be obtained for…
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Cell Phone FLASHLIGHT APPS Are Malware
Source (PDF) Catherine J. Frompovich Activist Post Readers, if you have the Flashlight App installed on your smart phone, your phone is infected with malware…
8 Things You Wouldn’t Think Are Spying On You, But Are
Jake Anderson Activist Post The next time you take a trip to the mall, make sure you give those mannequins a big smile. The surveillance…
The Cybersecurity Bill CISA: Big Brother Just Got Bigger
Ted Baumann Activist Post Yesterday I fell for an April Fools’ joke for the first time (that I can remember, at least). A blog post,…
White House Confirms: If Section 215 Expires, So Does Bulk Phone Records Collection
Nadia Kayyali Activist Post There’s some good news coming from the White House today that deserves repeating. Reuters is reporting that Ned Price, a spokesman…
Streets So Filled With Surveillance, No One Even Knows What All That Tech Junk Is…
Dees Illustration Aaron Dykes and Melissa Melton Activist Post This video is just a drive through an average, moderately sized American city. Things are way…
Senate Intelligence Committee Advances Terrible “̶C̶y̶b̶e̶r̶s̶e̶c̶u̶r̶i̶t̶y̶”̶ ̶B̶i̶l̶l̶ Surveillance Bill in Secret Session
Mark Jaycox Activist Post The Senate Intelligence Committee advanced a terrible cybersecurity bill called the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 (CISA) to the Senate…
The Wolf Is Guarding the Hen House: The Government’s War on Cyberterrorism
John W. Whitehead Activist Post “The game is rigged, the network is bugged, the government talks double-speak, the courts are complicit and there’s nothing you…
Testers Monitor Student Social Media: First Rule of Common Core, Don’t Talk About Common Core
Aaron Dykes Activist Post NJ parents furious after publisher caught spying on students’ social media for ‘any discussion of Common Core tests’; Publisher Pearson has…
It’s Official: Government Terrorists Hate Us For Our Free Speech
1984: France Will Counter Terrorist Attacks on Free Speech by… Attacking Free Speech? Melissa Melton Activist Post George Orwell wasn’t psychic; he was a time…
Bill to Pull Plug On NSA Introduced in Texas
Activist Post Legislation would Turn Off Water and Electric to San Antonio Facility A Texas legislator introduced a bill that would stop the independent Texas…
UK Spy Agencies Seek Single Law to OK Data Collection of ‘Privileged’ Conversations
Melissa Melton Activist Post Is it OK to listen in on private conversations between a lawyer and a defendant on trial for a serious crime?…
Scotland Yard Chief Wants CCTV Cameras in EVERY Home
SM Gibson Activist Post The citizens of the United Kingdom are possibly the most surveilled group of people in the history of the world. Forget the NSA’s…
New Snowden Archive Offers Public Access to Surveillance Documents
Activist Post Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) has announced the launch of the Snowden Archive, a comprehensive database of all of the documents published…