I don’t have anything to hide. Why should I care? Not concerned about your privacy? Great! Please email me all of your passwords, especially your banking and email passwords, and drop a copy of your home and car keys in the mail...
Cops in Watertown ride on the back of a BearCat in April 2013. Photo: Gabe Camacho.
I just had the privilege of attending a small conversation session with Edward Snowden and a number of technology and policy leaders at SXSW. He spoke for about an hour on a range of subjects related to his disclosures, possible federal legislation—good and bad—coming down the pike, and specific issues at the intersection of technology and privacy.
Photo: Gabe Camacho Cops in the Commonwealth The pitfalls of militarized, federalized policing by Nancy Murray Table of Contents I. Introduction Twenty-first century ‘homeland security’ policing took over Watertown’s streets during the hunt for those responsible for the heinous attack on the...
Former FBI agent Mike German, now at the Brennan Center for Justice, explains how the US government's domestic surveillance and intelligence gathering operations are increasingly militarized. This is happening in three ways, German writes:
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Photo: Gabe Camacho The United States is not a battlefield, and our homes and communities should not be targets for military raids. But throughout Massachusetts today, forces composed of members of our public police departments increasingly resemble military units, backed up by...
The ACLU of Massachusetts obtained the following documents from public agencies in preparation for our 2014 report, “Our Homes Are Not Battlefields.” National Guard The following documents describe the state Guard's counterdrug operations, including the training of state and local police in...
Flooding in Massachusetts during Hurricane Sandy. Image: The Birkes.
