by PPJC Admin2 | January 29, 2015 | PPJC Picks
By Bennett Stein and Jay Stanley ACLU The Drug Enforcement Administration has initiated a massive national license plate reader program with major civil liberties concerns but disclosed very few details, according to new DEA documents obtained by the ACLU through the...
by PPJC Admin2 | January 12, 2015 | PPJC Picks
By Trevor Timm The Guardian As politicians drape themselves in the flag of free speech and freedom of the press in response to the tragic murder of Charlie Hebdo cartoonists, they’ve also quickly moved to stifle the same rights they claim to love. Government officials...
by TD Daniell | November 14, 2014 | Current News
Jon Queally, staff writer Common Dreams http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/11/14/revealed-us-agency-using-spy-planes-fool-cell-phones-capture-data According to new reporting by the Wall Street Journal, the U.S. Marshals Service—an arm of the Department of...
by PPJC Admin2 | October 8, 2014 | PPJC Picks
By Trevor Timm The Guardian The most consequential civil liberties case in years is being argued before three judges in California on Wednesday, and it has little to do with the NSA but everything to do with taking away your privacy in the name of vague and...
by TD Daniell | October 7, 2014 | Current News
Tom Engelhardt TomDispatch http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175904/tomgram%3A_engelhardt%2C_inside_the_american_terrordome/#more It happened so fast that, at first, I didn’t even take it in. Two Saturdays ago, a friend and I were heading into the Phillips Museum in...