Biometrics industry misrepresents Tsarnaev intelligence failures to sell airport identity screenings

Facing massive strikes, mining corporations may soon use weaponized drones to control workers

The CIA thinks it’s funny, but secrecy about the state’s power to kill is no laughing matter

_{US citizen Abdulrahman al-Aulaqi, who was killed in a US drone strike}

Today the CIA joined Twitter, making a splash with this inaugural tweet:

We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet.

Don’t wait for someone to give you the privacy you deserve: take it back

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Do you really know where the evidence against you came from? On parallel construction and stingrays in Florida

Today in location tracking: secrecy, outlandish federal obstruction, and the possibility of tracking on a mass scale

_{Photo credit: Ed Schipul}

They knew our secrets. One year later, we know theirs.

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One year ago this week, the world was shaken with the first bombshell report from the Edward Snowden disclosures. The NSA and FBI, we learned, were collecting records of every phone call made in the United States.

It’s not just drones: FBI used single engine plane to monitor Tsarnaev associate in April 2013

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Snowden leak: NSA harvests face prints from private communications

Horror: SWAT team throws flash bang grenade in child’s crib, it explodes in his face

The drug war has claimed another casualty.

19 month old baby Bou Bou Phonesavanh is in a medically induced coma in critical condition, suffering from severe burns and wounds after a Georgia SWAT team threw a flash bang grenade into his crib. The grenade exploded in the baby’s face.