Trump Is Trying to Dismantle Public Health — and Replace It With a Police State
It’s time to return to the kind of bottom-up struggle that helped establish modern public health in the first place.
VIPS: Data Collection Can Be Effective AND Legal
Surveillance with AI, robotics and drones threatens privacy and democracy. An independent technical group is needed to monitor U.S. government agencies, enforcing compliance with the Constitution and ending hidden, illegal…
How Will Your Data Be Deployed
In an Age of Dark Enlightenment?
Trump Is Rapidly Expanding the Surveillance State as Protests Grow
Immigrants are only the first target of a rapidly expanding digital dragnet that can track our individual movements.
Rights Groups Raise Alarm Over First US City’s Broad Use of Facial Recognition Tracking
"This is the facial recognition technology nightmare scenario that we have been worried about," said one civil liberties campaigner.
DHS Announces It’s Surveilling Immigrants’ Social Media for ‘Antisemitism’
“You are not welcome here,” read a chilling statement from a top DHS official.
Campus Police Are Using Israeli Spy Tech to Crack Down on Student Protest
Israeli-made surveillance technologies are accelerating the militarization of campus police departments across the US.
The CIA Illegally Spied on Puerto Rican and Mexican American Activists for Decades
And is probably still at it. As newly released classified documents confirm activists’ long-held suspicions, the disclosures should also alert us to current dangers.
Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism (w/ Yanis Varoufakis) | The Chris Hedges Report
By Chris Hedges / The Chris Hedges Report The year 2008 signaled to many the weak foundations of modern capitalism in the hands of the greedy, untethered financial sector—the “vampire…
The Evolution of the Militarized Data Broker
While often mythologized as having been created to champion human freedom, the internet and many of its most popular companies were directly birthed out of the national security apparatus of…
Patrick Lawrence: The Predictable Capitulation of Tulsi Gabbard
By professing support for Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act after opposing it for years, Trump’s nominee for director of national intelligence has just told America it’s the…
Glenn Greenwald: Tulsi’s Flip On Warrantless Surveillance
By Glenn Greenwald / System Update
John Kiriakou: Cellphone Seizures & the Courts
We cannot trust that federal agents will just be looking for child pornographers or international drug traffickers when they demand access to our electronics at the border.
Surveillance Education (w/ Nolan Higdon and Allison Butler) | The Chris Hedges Report
By Chris Hedges / Original to ScheerPost Any technology created by the US military industrial complex and adopted by the general public was always bound to come with a caveat.…
You Really Do Have Some Expectation of Privacy in Public
The courts may still be catching up with the law and technology, but that doesn’t mean it’s a surveillance free-for-all just because you’re in the public.