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.
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…
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.
FBI Sued For Withholding Files on Assange and WikiLeaks
“With the legal persecution of Julian Assange finally over, the FBI must come clean to the American people," Chip Gibbons, policy director for Defending Rights & Dissent.
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.
John Kiriakou: The Slide Into Authoritarianism
The loss of civil liberties is almost always incremental. On a flight home from Greece, the author recently ran into an increasingly familiar and menacing problem.
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.
Whitney Webb: Trump, JD Vance bankrolled by CIA and Mossad backed Peter Thiel
By Mnar Adley / MintPressNews It is election season once again, and that means that the world’s eyes are drawn to our corrupt two-party duopoly. With a rapidly aging Biden…
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.
Patrick Lawrence: Scott Ritter Silenced by Liberal Authoritarians
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost It is not difficult to be astonished these days, given how many things going on around us warrant astonishment. To pull something out…
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…