How Many of These Secret Surveillance Programs Do You Know About?
Vladimir Platov Activist Post According to various publications in the American and foreign media, the United States has created a global system of cyber espionage…
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Army Surveillance Blimps Launching over MD as 30,000 Cameras Watch D.C. Schools
Melissa Melton Activist Post America is the “land of the free, home of the brave” in name only. The majority of us who have long…
7 Examples of Police State Technology Making Our Rights Obsolete as we Head into 2015
By Mac Slavo Things are not looking pretty for the land of the free. The year 2014 has made it very clear that privacy is…
New Toy Will Spy on Your Children for Santa
Melissa Melton & Aaron Dykes Activist Post A new Christmas “tradition” has emerged that not only has Santa making a list of who’s naughty and…
Federal Court Throws Out Six Weeks of Warrantless Video Surveillance
By Hanni Fakhoury Update: On December 15, Judge Edward Shea issued his written opinion in United States v. Vargas, which you can read here. The…
Appeals Court to Hear Arguments in NSA Spying Case
Activist Post EFF, ACLU Support Smith in Fighting Mass Surveillance Before Ninth Circuit. An appeals court will hear oral arguments in Smith v. Obama, a…
Germany’s New Pre-Crime System Directly Modeled After “Minority Report”
Nicholas West Activist Post The pace of technological advancement is quickening to the point where the gap between science fiction and reality is being greatly…
Detekt: A New Malware Detection Tool That Can Expose Illegitimate State Surveillance
image source Eva Galperin Electronic Frontier Foundation Recent years have seen a boom in the adoption of surveillance technology by governments around the world, including…
30 Years Later, America Truly Is Becoming A ‘1984’ Society
Michael Snyder Activist Post If only George Orwell could see us today. When he wrote 1984 back in 1948, he probably never imagined that the…
Quality, Not Quantity (Unless You’re a Fusion Center, Spending Taxpayer Money)
Nadia Kayyali Electronic Frontier Foundation Who pays for government surveillance? Taxpayers. And we should all heed the age-old message: buyer beware. Fusion centers are an…
Report: DOJ spy planes scooping up Americans’ cell phone data
Paul Lawrance Activist Post Since 2007 the Justice Department has been scooping up Americans’ cell phone data via devices called “dirtboxes” that are deployed on…
Americans Want More Privacy from Companies and Government: Poll
Mark Jaycox Electronic Frontier Foundation Pew released a report today detailing the extensive privacy concerns of Americans. The report, which surveyed a nationally representative sample,…
FBI’s “Suicide Letter” to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Dangers of Unchecked Surveillance
Nadia Kayyali Electronic Frontier Foundation The New York Times has published an unredacted version of the famous “suicide letter” from the FBI to Dr. Martin…
Privacy Groups to Present Oral Argument in NSA Spying Case on Nov. 4
Court Should Rule That Mass Telephone Records Collection Is Unconstitutional in Klayman v. Obama Activist Post The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will appear before a…