Amazon's corporate offices encourage white collar employees to use an electronic reporting tool to tell their managers how their colleagues are doing on the job. Unsurprisingly, this practice results in some bad outcomes for workers.
From a fascinating and disturbing New York Times profile of Amazon's unorthodox business practices:
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The New York Times today published a fear-mongering op-ed by Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance, warning that commercial encryption services offered by Apple and Google endanger society by protecting criminals from police and prosecutors.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation and Boston-based public records gurus MuckRock have teamed up to conduct a crowd-sourced survey of US police departments' biometric surveillance systems. You can participate by filling out your own request, seeking information about biometric monitoring in your city or town.
NYPD officers aren't allowed to take photos of the public while on the job, so a union representing 12,000 NYPD sergeants has instructed them to do so while commuting to and from work. The president of the union, the Sergeants Benevolent Association, asked officers in a recent memo to submit photos of "the homeless lying in our streets, aggressive panhandlers, people urinating in public or engaging in open-air drug activity, and quality of life offenses of every type" to its office.
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Demonstrators protest the murders of photojournalist Ruben Espinosa, activist Nadia Vera, and three others. August 2, 2015. Photo credit.
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Neither the CIA nor the Department of Homeland Security will confirm or deny whether their government agents monitor the website Public Intelligence, invoking what's called the 'Glomar response'. The website, which posts regular updates about military and police actions and sensitive government documents, is a treasure trove of information about government spying.
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