Recent reporting from Los Angeles highlights the urgent need for city councils across the United States to take control of local government surveillance operations, subjecting police spying to democratic control, oversight, transparency, and public accountability. On November 10, Boston residents have an...
Please note that by playing this clip YouTube and Google will place a long term cookie on your computer. Terry Turchie, former Deputy Assistant Director of the Counterterrorism Division of the FBI, went on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News program and said this: “When...
After spending years attacking cell phone privacy and encryption in the courts and in Congress, the FBI has used an Ohio man’s face to unlock his phone after obtaining a warrant to search his home. Since Apple announced its face recognition unlocking...
In recent months the ACLU, Amazon shareholders, Microsoft, activists, scholars, and legislators have raised concerns about the use of facial recognition technologies in the United States. Today, despite a total lack of regulation, law enforcement uses face surveillance to identify and track...
In a hearing last week at the Boston City Council, police leaders signaled that they would support a measure to require community control over police surveillance, and community advocates highlighted extreme racial disparities in policing in Boston as a primary driver of...
SENATE VOTES TO REINSTATE NEUTRALITY // From The Hill: Senate votes to save net neutrality rules Thanks to Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey’s leadership, last week the US Senate voted 52-47 to overturn the FCC’s decision to end net neutrality. The bill now moves...
Unfortunately, Congress has begun scratching an old, FBI-inspired itch again. Staffers on the Senate Judiciary Committee, with the support of chair Senator Chuck Grassley and ranking democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein, are reportedly in talks with technology companies about legislation that would most...
CFPB SCALES BACK EQUIFAX INVESTIGATION AND WARREN SLAMS BACK From Vox: Elizabeth Warren warns Equifax could “wiggle off the hook” for users’ credit data getting hacked On Wednesday, Senator Elizabeth Warren released a report condemning Equifax for a lackluster response to its...
After receiving President Trump’s formal approval, Congress today released the Nunes Memo. Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Devin Nunes claims his findings “raise concerns with the legitimacy and legality of certain DOJ and FBI interactions with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court...
Last week, President Trump tweeted that President Obama wiretapped him during the 2016 presidential campaign. That’s probably not true. Since the intelligence reforms of the 1970s, it’s been unlawful for presidents to order targeted wiretapping of Americans. Only prosecutors can do that, and...