Nation’s first Black woman Attorney General on the drug war, dragnet spying, and FBI-driven terror plots

Loretta Lynch has been confirmed as the next Attorney General of the United States. She is the nation's first Black woman AG.

Congress looks to give spies way more warrantless access to our digital lives, and call it (cyber) security

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St. Louis appears to have dropped prosecutions to protect stingray surveillance from legal challenge

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Bill before congress would authorize secrecy and surveillance, not “cyber security”

Brookline police union raises privacy concerns about license plate tracking technology

US Military working to build sensors that never die, enabling persistent surveillance in remote places

Privacy battle heats up as Governor of Virginia sides with cops over legislature, Tea Party, ACLU, former attorney general

Five disturbing things about the FBI and local police stingray surveillance programs

Thanks to the ACLU, independent privacy researchers, and journalists, the iron wall of state secrecy surrounding local police deployments of stingray cell phone surveillance is slowly melting away. Here are five things you need to know about stingray spying.

Lawyer representing police whistleblowers says department tried to install malware on his computer during discovery process

An Arkansas lawyer representing police whistleblowers has filed a motion for sanctions after discovering spyware on a hard drive government officials mailed to him. The hard drive supposedly contained discovery information related to police whisltblower litigation.

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