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Senate passes FISA renewal bill, sends it back to the House
The Senate approved legislation Thursday to renew a handful of key domestic surveillance powers, but only after civil libertarians attached language that the Justice Department…
Senate votes down anti-surveillance amendment, as both parties back warrantless spying on Americans’ browser history
The US Senate has voted down an amendment that would limit surveillance of Americans’ internet records. Apparently, the true divide in Washington is not between…
Senate expected to approve House-passed surveillance powers bill next week
Senators are expected to vote next week on House-passed legislation to extend the FBI’s surveillance powers, setting up a battle between civil libertarians who want…
Spy Plane Resumes Flights Over Baltimore Amid COVID-19
The expensive aerial surveillance program won’t help heavily disinvested Baltimore, say Ceasefire co-founder Erricka Bridgeford and author Brandon Soderberg. The post Spy Plane Resumes Flights…
Banjo suspends state surveillance contracts after report details founder’s white supremacist past
Following an explosive report about the dark past of its founder and CEO Damien Patton, Utah-based company Banjo is facing a backlash in its own…
Under coronavirus lockdown, Russia expands surveillance state
In Russia, two human rights groups say Vladimir Putin’s government has vastly expanded surveillance to enforce the nation’s coronavirus lockdown, using facial recognition technology and…
The FBI Is Still Hunting For Ways To Call US Activists Terrorists
The FBI wants you to believe they stopped spying on anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist activists. They haven’t. The post The FBI Is Still Hunting For Ways To…
Unconstitutional Power Grab? Baltimore Police Sued Over Spy Plane
The police department may be using the COVID-19 shutdown as cover to launch what an ACLU attorney says would be “the most wide-reaching surveillance dragnet…
Authoritarianism Vs. Democracy: How Will We Fight COVID-19?
Historian Yuval Noah Harari’s work shows how to interpret the COVID-19 crisis as part of the global struggle between liberal elites and the rising populist…
Amazon’s latest Blink camera costs just $35
Amazon’s Blink is known for making affordable, easy-to-install cameras like the XT2. Its latest camera continues the trend. At $35, the Blink Mini is Blink’s most affordable…
COVID-19 Pandemic Illuminates Anti-Chinese Racism And Xenophobia
Eddie Conway talks with professor Dylan Rodriguez about how COVID-19 has exposed anti-Chinese sentiment, how it’s inseparable from anti-immigrant, anti-Black, and colonial violence, and how…
Israel will use anti-terrorist tracking tech to fight coronavirus outbreak
Israel’s attempt to curb the coronavirus outbreak might be the next to jeopardize privacy. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has outlined plans to use anti-terrorism tracking…
ACLU Sues For Government Facial Recognition Records
(via geralt/Pixabay) The American Civil Liberties Union and New York Civil Liberties Union are challenging federal law enforcement’s use of facial recognition surveillance tech. A…
Muslim group denounces Bloomberg's 'lies' over NYC surveillance programme police were forced to stop
Operation terminated after landmark settlement and journalistic exposé Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election/mike-bloomberg-911-attack-muslim-surveillance-programme-nyc-police-a9365936.html Droolin’ Dog sniffed out this story and shared it with you. The Article Was Written/Published…
Clearview AI, controversial facial-recognition company focused on cybersecurity, gets hacked
Clearview AI, the creepy facial-recognition company that scrapes your photos from social media, has been hacked. According to a report by The Daily Beast, hackers…
The NSA’s $100 million call surveillance program was a big flop
A new report shows the National Security Agency’s $100 million domestic phone surveillance program was mostly a waste. According to the study by the Privacy…
China Using Drones in Increasingly Dystopian Ways to Combat Coronavirus Outbreak
Authorities in China have deployed drones to combat the spread of coronavirus in a variety of ways since the outbreak began, including disinfectant drones and…
Facial recognition doesn't work – but that won't stop it from coming after you
There have been enough warnings about the technology and its effectiveness that the government should be holding back on any roll out Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/facial-recognition-technology-problems-racism-police-arrests-a9332516.html Proactive…
Trump administration uses private data for immigration and border enforcement
The Trump administration is using private data to monitor immigration and the border, thanks to a massive database of cellphone records it purchased from private…
Report claims U.S. government is using cellphone location data to track undocumented immigrants
The Department of Homeland Security has bought a commercial database that tracks movements of “millions” of cellphones in America, and is using it to curb…
How to (Hypothetically) Hack Your School’s Surveillance System
This week, hacktivist and security engineer Lance R. Vick tweeted an enticing proposition along with a gut-punch headline: “Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance…
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