A 600,000 Cubic Foot Blimp May Be Spying on You
Ted Baumann Activist Post In the summer of 1849, Austrian Field Marshall Joseph Radetzky did something no one had done before: He bombed a city…
Surveillance
Four and Counting: States Consider Bill to Turn Off Resources to the NSA
Activist Post State efforts to stop warrantless NSA spying are off to a fast start in the 2015 legislative session. Just two weeks into this…
Spying in the German Banana Republic
Vladimir Platov Activist Post A German spy employed by Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) was arrested in Berlin in early July 2014. He was charged with handing out…
Think It All Started with Phones and Email? The NSA Used to Copy Our Telegrams
Aaron Dykes and Melissa Melton Activist Post “What if we could build a national data warehouse containing information about every person in the United States?…
NSA Cyber War Will Use Internet of Things as Weapons Platform; Your Home is the Battlefield
Daniel Taylor Activist Post “World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.” – Marshall McLuhan, Culture is…
Asset Forfeiture and the Cycle of Electronic Surveillance Funding
Image: ACLU.org Dave Maass Activist Post Note: The bulk of the research in this post was compiled prior to Attorney General Eric Holder’s surprise announcement…
Security is Not a Crime—Unless You’re an Anarchist
Anthony Freda Art Nadia Kayyali and Katitza Rodriguez Activist Post Riseup, a tech collective that provides security-minded communications to activists worldwide, sounded the alarm last…
Indiana Bill Would Ban Material Support or Resources to the NSA
Activist Post With Congress not only failing to rein in National Security Agency (NSA) spying, but actually expanding its power in a recent funding bill,…
Manufactured ‘Cascades’ on Social Media Can Direct Behavior and Decisions
Heather Callaghan Activist Post And how the ‘cascade’ can be directed… Was the Internet or Social Media created for your benefit? The current set-up allows…
Government Surveillance: A Greater Threat Than Terrorism
Ted Baumann Activist Post The man sat on the floor, awkwardly wedged into the far corner of his apartment, his knees drawn up under his…
UK Moves One Step Closer to Orwell’s 1984 Nightmare
Carey Wedler Activist Post In the United States, government officials responded to Apple and Droid’s new encryption services by throwing temper tantrums in speeches and making…
PEN America: ”The Harm Caused by Surveillance…is Unmistakable”
Jillian York Activist Post PEN America published a report this week summarizing the findings from a recent survey of 772 writers around the world on…
US Politicians Take Advantage of France Terror Attack to Call for More NSA Spying
Carey Wedler Activist Post Following the abominable shooting of Parisian journalists at Charlie Hebdo, United States politicians and officials are predictably claiming that mass surveillance of…
Welcome to the Matrix: Enslaved by Technology and the Internet of Things
John W. Whitehead Activist Post “There will come a time when it isn’t ‘They’re spying on me through my phone’ anymore. Eventually, it will be…