ACLU wins public records battle with SWAT team, but we shouldn’t have had to sue in the first place
Kade Crockford, Author at Privacy SOS | Page 36 of 182
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Sneaky attempt to slip surveillance bill into military spending bill fails in the senate
Today the Senate defeated an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would have tacked controversial dragnet spying legislation onto the omnibus military appropriations authorization.
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Obama administration attempts to tack 20 years onto man’s sentence for possession of books
The Obama administration is trying to tack 20 years onto a Florida man's tax fraud sentence for the supposed crime of possessing books the government doesn't like. The Intercept reports:
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US Air Force bombs building after seeing social media post
Former NSA and CIA director Michael Hayden infamously said the US government kills people based on metadata. It turns out the US kills people based on metadata derived from Tweets and Facebook posts.
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34,000 people languish in immigration detention, including babies and children
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Artist and journalist Molly Crabapple has produced another fantastic, devastating animation for Fusion, this time on the nation's vast and little known immigration detention network. Watch it and share it widely.
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The Feds can put you in prison for decades for deleting your browser history
According to the DOJ, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, a federal law passed in the wake of the Enron scandal, makes it a crime to delete your browser history if the federal government might want it for a criminal investigation, even if you don't know that the investigation exists.
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License to profile: Border police routinely harass medical workers, brown people in southwest USA
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