Truthout's Jason Leopold ran a story yesterday detailing the FBI's process of "blackballing" FOIA requests. The process has benign reasons to exist, but appears to be used to inappropriately deny FOIA requesters the records they seek.
An FBI spokesman told Leopold what the term means:
Remember those creepy, listening street lights we told you about a while ago? Turns out those aren't the only Orwellian technologies that can listen to you as you walk down the street. An upcoming court case in Massachusetts highlights circumstances in which the police used the "ShotSpotter" to listen to someone shouting on a public street.
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The video above shows DHS customs agents using one of their newly acquired Predator drones monitoring the US border. The agents are operating out of a trailer that has been reconfigured as a drone command center.
Today the ACLU of Massachusetts and cooperating attorney Peter Krupp filed a motion to attempt to break down the walls of secrecy surrounding our legal challenge to a Suffolk county subpoena to Twitter. We wrote about the secrecy surrounding the case a few weeks ago; catch up here.
Back in January 2007, battery powered LED ads for the animated television series Aqua Teen Hunger Force brought Boston to a halt. Subway service was interrupted, Route 93 and Storrow Drive were closed and the Longfellow and Boston University bridges over the Charles River were both blocked.
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The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court today ruled that a 2009 law denying state funded healthcare to certain legal immigrants violated the Massachusetts state constitution's equal protection clause.
A while back we wrote about a DHS project -- Future Attribute Screening Technology (FAST) -- aimed at detecting malintent via heart-rate and other physical sensors. Public Intelligence has posted a video that shows the result of that expensive testing.