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...
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...
Tomorrow is Election Day—finally. There’s a lot at stake in this contest, but no matter who wins, those of us who care about civil rights and civil liberties will continue to have our work cut out for us. Here are three...
In early October 2016, Reuters reported that in 2015, the US government asked Yahoo to scan all incoming email looking for particular signatures or characters, and that Yahoo complied without a fight. Since the matter became public, Yahoo has changed its tune....
Big news dropped yesterday in Reuters: In 2015, the US government asked Yahoo to scan all incoming email looking for certain, unknown characters in emails or attachments; unfortunately, Yahoo agreed to do it—without putting up a fight. The demand came in the form of a...
Preeminent NSA expert James Bamford has written multiple books on what he calls the Shadow Agency. In Foreign Policy magazine, he condenses his voluminous knowledge into a couple thousand word warning about what’s just around the corner: a Clinton or Trump presidency...
The ACLU of Massachusetts hosted a pre-release screening of the new Oliver Stone biopic SNOWDEN last night in downtown Boston. It’s an entertaining film that will inform future generations of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden’s sacrifice from the perspective of someone who views...
Tonight the non-profit advocacy organization Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) hosts a national security themed town hall featuring presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, moderated by NBC’s Matt Lauer. Here are some basic facts you probably won’t hear from...
A new Vice documentary explores the current state of surveillance with whistleblower Edward Snowden. Watch. Please note that by playing this clip YouTube and Google will place a long-term cookie on your computer.
The House and Senate intelligence oversight committees were established to provide a check against intelligence abuses run amok in the shadows. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court was set up for the same reason. But in the decades since these institutions were created, they...