Tomorrow, the Cambridge government will hold a public meeting to discuss the future of video surveillance in the city. The stakes are high, and the meeting could be a turning point for privacy rights in Massachusetts.
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Yesterday someone snapped a Vine video of a drone hovering around Downtown Crossing, near the Filene's building construction site.
Whose drone is that?
Something very fishy happened this week. The Justice Department tried to get a USA Today reporter to drop a story that would embarrass the government, and when he wouldn’t, gave the reporter a quote implying that the story is a non-story. The tl;dr is: There’s nothing to see here, but we’d really prefer it if you didn’t publish it!
What happened, exactly?
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Surveillance corporation BrightPlanet, which sells deep packet inspection technology to spy and law enforcement agencies and private businesses, is marketing a new product aimed at helping its customers make sense of the torrential data flow that courses through Twitter every day.
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Join the ACLU of Massachusetts, Digital Fourth, the Mass Pirates, and other Fourth Amendment activists in Boston on Constitution Day, Tuesday, September 17, at the Boston Public Library. Together we will call for privacy legislation and educate the public about the surveillance state.
Where: Boston Public Library, Copley steps
When: 5-7 PM, Tuesday, September 17
