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Archives: Domestic Surveillance

Why are Authorities treating DAPL enviro Protesters like Terrorists?

TeleSur | - - The legal activist group ACLU announced it has filed a motion to quash the warrant, which it argues violates free speech laws. A local police department in the…

WikiLeaks Vault 7 reveals staggering breadth of ‘CIA hacking’

David Glance | (The Conversation) | - - WikiLeaks today released what it claims is the largest leak of intelligence documents in history. It contains 8,761 documents from the CIA detailing some…

Trump covers The Police: Sometimes it Feels like, Obama’s Watching You

Trump covers Rockwell: Sometimes it Feels like, Obama’s Watching You

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Donald Trump is angry at his predecessor, former president Barack Obama, this weekend. He says he discovered (from the digital toilet paper 'Breitbart,'…

Bruited Trump pick for Nat’l Intel shreds 4th Amendment, wants Total Surveillance

TeleSur | - - On Thursday multiple mainstream media outlets reported that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has picked former Republican Senator Dan Coats, an outspoken advocate of illegal domestic surveillance programs, to…

Feds: We can read all your email, and you’ll never know

By Clark D. Cunningham | (The Conversation) | - - Fear of hackers reading private emails in cloud-based systems like Microsoft Outlook, Gmail or Yahoo has recently sent regular people and public…

The FBI’s outrageous assault on the 1st Amendment and Apple

By Andrew Crocker | ( Electronic Frontier Foundation ) | - - Last week, EFF filed a brief in support of Apple’s fight against the FBI, in which we argued that forcing…

Trump’s call for Spying on US Muslims recalls FBI bugging of MLK, Black Churches

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - As Donald Trump supporters beat a 'Black Lives Matter' protester at his rally in Birmingham, Ala., Trump himself reminded us of the dark…

3rd Circuit to NYC: Being Muslim is not Reasonable Suspicion for Surveillance

By Nadia Kayyali | (Electronic Frontier Foundation) | - - Being Muslim can’t be the basis for law enforcement surveillance. That was the message from the Third Circuit last Tuesday when it…

Ghoul’s Glossary: “Migrants” or “Refugees” or “Anchor Babies”?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Migrants: Those who voluntarily go to another country to live and work, seeking a better life. Refugees: Those who are forced out of…

Appeals Court Falls for Government’s Shell Game in NSA Spying Case

By Cindy Cohn | (Electronic Frontier Foundation) | - - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit’s opinion today in Klayman v. Obama is highly disappointing and, worse, based on…

New Proof: AT&T and NSA’s Long Surveillance Partnership shredded 4th Amendment

By Mark Rumold | ( Electronic Frontier Foundation) | - - Reports today in the New York Times and ProPublica confirm what EFF’s Jewel v. NSA lawsuit has claimed since 2008—that the…

Snowden’s Revenge: USA “Freedom” [Surveillance] Act Fails in Senate

By Nadia Prupis, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) -- "The failure of these bills to pass shows just how dramatically the politics of surveillance changed once the extent of the government’s surveillance programs…

Just how Illegal has the NSA’s Domestic Spying Been?

By Andrew Crocker | (Electronic Frontier Foundation) | - We now have the first decision from a court of appeals on the NSA’s mass surveillance program involving bulk collection of telephone records…

‘I would have come forward sooner’ – Snowden on NSA leak regrets

RT | - Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden has frequently said that he does not regret blowing the whistle on the agency’s mass surveillance programs. However, he has now stated…

Snowden Reacts as Documentary about his Leaks wins Oscar

By Rainey Reitman | (EFF) - CITIZENFOUR, Laura Poitras' riveting documentary about Edward Snowden's efforts to shed light on gross surveillance abuses by the United States government and its partners, just won…

Not your Founding Fathers’ America: Permanent War, Permanent Election Campaigns, Guns, Drones and Surveillance

By Tom Engelhardt | (Tomdispatch.com) I never fail to be amazed -- and that’s undoubtedly my failing. I mean, if you retain a capacity for wonder you can still be awed by…

Now the DEA is Collecting our Phone Records: RIP 4th Amendment

By Hanni Fakhoury | (EFF) Think mass surveillance is just the wheelhouse of agencies like the NSA? Think again. One of the biggest concerns to come from the revelations about the NSA’s…

After the Paris Attacks: More Surveillance won’t Protect Free Speech

After Charlie Hebdo: More Surveillance won’t Protect Free Speech

By Jillian York | (Electronic Frontier Foundation) Following a terrorist attack, it is not uncommon to hear calls from politicians and government officials for increased surveillance. Fear and grief can lead to…

Online Freedom of Speech under Siege even in “Democracies”

By Jillian York | (Electronic Frontier Foundation) In the midst of the global surveillance debate, talk of online censorship has often taken a backseat. Yet, all around the world, the inalienable right…

The Beltway Beast: How two Tribes in D.C. are Destroying the Middle Class

By Munir Moon The area inside the Beltway consists of Washington, D.C., and surrounding counties, and what I call the Beast includes defense contractors, lobbyists, Wall Street, think tanks, advocacy groups, journalists,…