Listen to Minnesota Public Radio on Suspicious Activity Reporting: There are two kinds of post 9/11 “Suspicious Activity Reports.” First, the term was applied to the flagging of “questionable” financial transactions that could indicate terrorist funding. Nearly a million “SARs” are issued...
I. Technologies of Control II. Long-form Investigations on Spying III. The National Security Agency (NSA) IV. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) V. Fusion Centers & State and Local Intelligence Operations EXCLUSIVE PrivacySOS videos: Please note that by playing these clips You Tube and Google...
“Mass Impact: The Domestic War on Terrorism in Massachusetts” A report describing how the “War on Terror” has impacted ordinary Massachusetts residents. “When We Are All Suspects: a Backgrounder on Government Surveillance in Massachusetts” A whitepaper exploring the origin and development of...
Read our report: Other resources: “Mass Impact: The Domestic War on Terrorism in Massachusetts” A report describing how the “War on Terror” has impacted ordinary Massachusetts residents. “When We Are All Suspects: a Backgrounder on Government Surveillance in Massachusetts” A whitepaper exploring...
Nearly a decade after 9/11, there has been no national discussion about whether we are on the right track in the war against terrorism. There has been little attempt to probe root causes and the proclaimed motives of terrorist plotters have been...
Op-Eds written by ACLUm Staff Nancy Murray, Director of Public Education On MBTA searches: “Our Tax Dollars at Work at the MBTA” On surveillance cameras in Cambridge, MA: “Is Big Brother Coming to Cambridge?” On TSA searches: “Airport Searches: Getting our Priorities...
by Nancy Murray | ACLU of Massachusetts Statewide Conference, February 6, 2010 The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts was founded 90 years ago to challenge government violations of civil rights and civil liberties and to defend the Bill of Rights. We...
by Nancy Murray | December 17, 2010 I want to thank the organizers of this event for recognizing the urgency of the moment, and the need to build a powerful solidarity movement against the recent FBI raids that have to date resulted...
by Nancy Murray If you were around last summer, you may know that plans are afoot to install eight new surveillance cameras in Cambridge so police can monitor public areas (Cambridge Chronicle, August 13, 2008). Eight cameras might not seem...
The emerging surveillance state relies on more than the 16 federal agencies that make up the “intelligence community” to feed its databases. It has erased old public-private barriers, federal-state-local jurisdictional boundaries and key distinctions between crime fighting and intelligence-gathering to enlist state...