DOCUMENT: ACLU of Massachusetts Testimony to the Joint Committee on Transportation, MA state legislature, June 2011 The ACLU of Massachusetts has three main concerns about the use of red light cameras in traffic enforcement, focusing on public safety, due process, and privacy....
After the FBI was caught spying on and disrupting non-violent political movements in the United States in the 1960s and '70s, Attorney General Edward Levi wrote the first Attorney General Guidelines for domestic operations. Those rules protected free speech from government spying....
When it comes to the new surveillance network, mission gallop may be a more apt term than mission creep. Surveillance “fusion” centers, created as terrorism-fighting tools, very soon adopted an “all crimes” and “all hazards” mission that is substantially broader than the...