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All Posts For - surveillance

Baseless Calls to Expand Surveillance Fit Familiar, Cynical Pattern

November 19, 2015 PPJC Picks surveillance Comments are off for this post

Forget trading essential liberty for a little temporary safety: when it comes to identifying terrorists, mass surveillance leaves the public with neither.

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Despite Widespread Opposition, ‘Surveillance Bill in Disguise’ Takes New Step Towards Passage

October 23, 2015 PPJC Picks surveillance Comments are off for this post

When librarians oppose a bill with 'information sharing' in its name you can be sure that the bill is decidedly more than advertised. CISA could function as a new warrantless surveillance tool.

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Success in California: Four New Laws, One Veto—All Victories for Privacy and Transparency

October 14, 2015 PPJC Picks Privacy Comments are off for this post

California now has what Wired has called the “nation’s best digital privacy law,” which we hope will carry over to federal reforms.

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One Day Soon, That Drone Overhead May Be Pointing a Taser at You

September 2, 2015 Current News Domestic Issues Comments are off for this post

Given the significant invasion of privacy occasioned by the use of drones by law enforcement, warrants should be mandatory before using them for surveillance. And weaponized drones of any sort should be outlawed.

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How Your Local Police Department Could Be Spying on You

August 27, 2015 Current News civil liberties Comments are off for this post

Many police departments are using secret technology to allow them to spy into people’s private lives.

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Critics Say Bill Would Turn Muslim Communities into “Mini-Surveillance States”

July 15, 2015 PPJC Picks civil liberties Comments are off for this post

Civil rights groups have characterized the government’s proposal as nothing less than an attempt to legislate the concept of pre-crime.

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Cybersecurity, Encryption and the Golden Age of Surveillance

July 9, 2015 PPJC Picks Cybersecurity Comments are off for this post

What FBI Director Comey wants is encryption that he can break with a court order. But if we make a system that can be broken, it can be broken by anybody, not just the FBI.

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A Misleading Moment of Celebration for a New Surveillance Program

June 4, 2015 Current News Domestic Issues Comments are off for this post

The morning after final passage of the USA Freedom Act, while some foes of mass surveillance were celebrating, Thomas Drake sounded decidedly glum. The new law, he told me, is “a new spy program.” It restarts some of the worst aspects of the Patriot Act and further codifies systematic violations...

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What’s Spooky About the FBI’s Fleet of Spy Planes?

June 3, 2015 PPJC Picks FBI Comments are off for this post

What this story tells us is that the use of manned surveillance aircraft is now more widespread than we thought—and we know their surveillance capabilities are growing by leaps and bounds.

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DoJ Report: Expiring Parts of Patriot Act Not Critical but Often Abused

May 28, 2015 PPJC Picks FBI Comments are off for this post

The only public information we have suggests the government has either not used, or has misused, the expiring provisions.

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