Prosecutors Demand Limitless Warrant in Vermont Computer Search
EFF Urges Court to Respect Judge’s Ruling on Reasonable Bounds AFP File Image EFF San Francisco – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), along with the…
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CIA denies spying on US critic of Iraq war
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) logo © AFP/File Saul Loeb AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – The Central Intelligence Agency on Friday denied allegations by an ex-spy…
Ex-spy says US officials went after Iraq critic: report
Juan Cole, pictured in 2006 © AFP/Getty Images/File Alex Wong AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – Officials in the George W. Bush administration may have tried to…
You’re Going to Need a Warrant For That, Officer
FBI Tracking Device found on American citizen’s car without a warrant. (Source) Sandra Fulton ACLU Last year Yasir Afifi, a 20-year-old U.S.-born citizen, found a…
No Justice in Kafka’s America
Anthony Freda Illustration Chris Hedges TruthDig In Franz Kafka’s short story “Before the Law” a tireless supplicant spends his life praying for admittance into the…
DHS Should Focus on Criminal Activity, Not Beliefs
Nusrat J. Choudhury & Hina Shamsi ACLU Last week, The Washington Post reported that for the last two years, the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS)…
Apple to stop accepting DUI checkpoint apps
image credit Larry Copeland USA Today It’s getting harder for tech-savvy drivers to pinpoint the locations of police drunken-driving checkpoints: Apple will ban from its…
School surveillance: how big brother spies on pupils
Cameras in the toilets; CCTV in the classroom; pupils’ fingerprints kept in a database . . . Can’t happen here? Think again, because the surveillance…
The War on Drugs and the Surveillance Society
NORML image Jay Stanley ACLU June 2011 marks the 40th anniversary of President Richard Nixon’s declaration of a “war on drugs” — a war that…
Drone surveillance in the US? (Video)
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Warning: This Message Contains Democracy
Susan Lindauer, Contributing Writer Activist Post No great civilization is ever destroyed from without, or conquered by external forces, until it first destroys itself from…
Mideast Taps Western Tools to Curb Skype Rebellion
Editor’s Note: And bound to be used in the Western world … FOX News When young dissidents in Egypt were organizing an election-monitoring project last…
Terrorist ‘pre-crime’ detector field tested in United States
Screening system aims to pinpoint passengers with malicious intentions. Minority Report – 20th Century Fox/Dreamworks Sharon Weinberger Nature Planning a sojourn in the northeastern United…
US Senate moves forward on anti-terror powers
EN: VOMIT. “FBI and intelligence officials have warned that if the Patriot Act is not extended by the deadline they would be robbed of crucial…