Shortly before the government went on extended shutdown/vacation, the Department of Homeland Security signaled that, despite criticism from members of congress and the public, it has no intention of slowing down the nationwide surveillance state trickle-down.
Image: The ISIS camera configuration set-up at Logan airport in Boston, MA. Image courtesy the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Note: This post has been updated with images of the ISIS system taken from the patent application posted here.
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Above: a news report from September 12, 2011, the day after three men were slain in a Waltham, Massachusetts apartment.
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This briefing paper was written by ACLU of Massachusetts intern Max Bauer “[O]ur country has taken singular pride in the democratic ideals enshrined in its Constitution… It would indeed be ironic if, in the name of national defense, we would sanction the...
Does the IRS get warrants when it searches through our emails? The ACLU wanted a simple answer to this simple question, and so filed a FOIA request to the agency to find out. My colleague Nate Wessler explains what they learned:
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