Search Results for ‘fusion centers’ — 116 articles
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Surveillance Cameras in the Metropolitan Boston Region
In December 2010, the ACLU of Massachusetts filed a public records request for information about the City of Boston’s surveillance camera network. The request was filed to the Metro Boston Office of Homeland Security, Office of Emergency Management, at the Mayor’s office...
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UK privacy flap: what does it really mean?
Demonstrators outside the NSA's Menwith Hill spy base in the rural UK. Credit: Phil Champion
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The Civil Liberties Update
Below are the most recent civil liberties updates. For older updates, visit the ACLUm site here and our archive here. A Post-9/11 Civil Liberties Update Civil Liberties Update | December 29, 2011 CONTENTS A. EXECUTIVE ACTIONS Building the National Security Surveillance State...
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The FBI can do what?!
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....
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Danger: Mission Creep!
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...
