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.
Scott Ritter: A Farewell to Truth
The F.B.I. agents did more than seize my personal electronics when they searched my home on Aug. 7, the author writes. They stole the truth.
AI Mass Surveillance at Paris Olympics
A legal scholar's perspective on the security boon and privacy nightmare
US Prosecutors Secure Guilty Plea in First-of-Its-Kind Espionage Act Case Involving Drone Photography
The prosecution carries implications for the right to engage in photography or gather news.
Automated Apartheid: Walking Through Hebron Smart City
By Mnar Adley / MintPressNews Asilent sentinel watches over every corner in the bustling streets of Hebron, the largest city in the West Bank, where the ancient echoes of history…
Add Bluetooth to the Long List of Border Surveillance Technology
By Matthew Guariglia, Cooper Quintin and Dave Maass / Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) A new report from news outlet NOTUS shows that at least two Texas counties along the U.S.-Mexico…
US Senate and Biden Admin Usher in a Two Year Expansion of Unconstitutional Mass Surveillance
By Matthew Guariglia, Andrew Crocker, Cindy Cohn and Brendan Gilligan / Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) One week after it was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives, the Senate has…