In December 2016, the Boston City Council held a hearing to discuss the Boston Police Department’s plan to spend $1.4 million on a social media surveillance system. Police Superintendent Paul Fitzgerald and Boston Regional Intelligence Center (BRIC) director David Carabin spoke of...
PRIVATE/PUBLIC SURVEILLANCE PARTNERSHIP TO FUEL TRUMP’S DEPORTATION MACHINE From Verge: ICE is about to start tracking license plates across the US Verge reports that Immigration Customs Enforcement is expanding its agents’ access to the country’s largest location tracking database, maintained by a private corporation...
Reporter Zach Whittaker noticed that on December 29, Amazon quietly posted its year-end transparency report, providing the public with basic information about government demands for its users information during the first six months of 2017. The report confirms that law enforcement continues...
At around 1:10pm eastern time this afternoon, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai cast the deciding vote to eliminate net neutrality rules established in 2015 under Obama’s FCC chairman, Tom Wheeler. Pai, a former Verizon lobbyist who recently joked (ha-ha) that he is a...
You know how your electric bill works, right? Your power company supplies and delivers electricity to your home and you get charged for what you use, not how you use it. Your power company doesn’t care if you run three vacuums, cool...
The Massachusetts House is set to vote on a criminal justice reform bill today. Advocates of new surveillance powers are pushing hard to pass wiretap amendments on the House side, despite their defeat in the Senate late last month. Please take action...
On September 11, the 16th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, thousands of spies, police officers, prosecutors, and surveillance profiteers will gather in Washington D.C. for a spying technology extravaganza known as ISS World Americas. On its website, the event organizers describe ISS...
Two German researchers bought “anonymous” web browsing data on millions of Germans. It didn’t take long for them to identify those people by looking through their web browsing history. The Guardian reports: “What would you think,” asked Svea Eckert, “if somebody showed...
Here are some websites you or someone in your family may have visited: pornhub.com addictionandrecovery.org plannedparenthood.org suicidepreventionlifeline.org stdcheck.com lgbtcenters.org preventchildabuse.org domesticviolence.org Do you think internet service providers (ISPs) like Comcast and AT&T should be able to sell your personal information, including information...
Your phone records, showing whom you’ve called and texted, when, and how long the calls lasted. Your IP logs, showing where you access websites from—whether it’s home, work, a friend’s house, or on the go via your mobile phone. Your banking and credit...