Search Results for ‘surveillance cameras’ — 218 articles
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Background Info & Outreach Materials
“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...
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Factsheets and Outreach Handouts
Toolkit: No Police Tracking of Motorists | Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) What We Know about Spying on First Amendment Activity Expert Findings on Surveillance Cameras Surveillance Camera Handout ACLU of Massachusetts concerns about red light cameras in traffic enforcement
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Reports, Outreach Materials & Multimedia
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...
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“Is Big Brother Coming to Cambridge?”
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...
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Introduction
Over the decade, the government’s powers of surveillance have expanded dramatically. They are directed not just at people suspected of wrongdoing, but at all of us. Our phone calls, our emails and website visits, our financial records, our travel itineraries, and our...
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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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Fourth Amendment Protections
The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects the “right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.” It states that warrants, supported by probable cause, must be issued before such searches...
