Dear FBI,
Everyone who pays attention to surveillance news knows that you've been working with police departments to help them use cell site simulators to spy on people's phones. Anyone who has access to the internet can easily learn this fact. It is not a secret, and nor are the capabilities of IMSI catchers secrets.
Did you hear about that ISIS plot to kidnap and behead random people in Australia? Did you hear about how it might not actually be true?
The federal government's multi-billion dollar plan to create a super fast internet for police departments has hit its first major public snag: allegations of corruption. McClatchy reports:
You might have heard that the spy bureaucracy's terror watch lists are bloated and full of non-terrorists. That's because the government has extremely low standards for designating people terror suspects, and putting them on counterproductive and discriminatory lists. Former Senator Ted Kennedy once found himself on a no-fly list.
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Privacy SOS is getting a major makeover. Please help us understand how to make the site better and more effective so that we may defeat our opponents in the Great 21st Century War for Civil Liberties.
Thank you for reading, and thank you in advance for helping.
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My colleague Hina Shamsi has posted an excellent blog laying out why it's critical that congress vote on President Obama's ever expansive plans for war in Iraq and Syria. It's not just an academic issue, Shamsi contends:
