Government Surveillance

DHS Seeks To 'Accelerate' Use Of Drones By Police

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Government Surveillance, Video, Police Drones, Drone Licensing, Faa, Homeland Security, Uavs, Surveillance, Border Security, Dhs, Drones, Predator Drones, Privacy, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The Department of Homeland Security has launched a program to "facilitate and accelerate the adoption" of small, unmanned drones by poli...

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Thirteen Ways Government Tracks Us

Bill Quigley | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Civil Liberties, Department of Defense, War on Terror, Homeland Security, Surveillance, Cellphone Tracking, Government Surveillance, Counterterrorism, National Security Agency, GPS Tracking, Electronic Surveillance, Tracking, FBI Surveillance, Politics News

The advanced technology of the war on terrorism, combined with deferential courts and legislators, have endangered both the right to privacy and the right of people to be free from government snooping and tracking.

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The Politics of The Hunger Games

Bob Burnett | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Government Surveillance, 99 Percent, George Orwell 1984, The One Percent, The Hunger Games, 1984, The Hunger Games Movie, The Hunger Games Book, Politics News

Sixty-three years ago, Orwell's dystopian novel 1984 turned out to be prophetic. Will that be true of The Hunger Games? Decide for yourself and "May the odds be ever in your favor."

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Everybody's a Target in the American Surveillance State

John W. Whitehead | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Nsa, Surveillance, Utah Data Center, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, Wiretapping, Government Surveillance, National Security Agency, Cybersecurity, Online Privacy, Privacy, Technology News

Can freedom in the United States continue to flourish and grow in an age when the physical movements, individual purchases, conversations, and meetings of every citizen are constantly under surveillance by private companies and government agencies?

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Hello Drones, Goodbye Privacy

Eugene K. Chow | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Government Surveillance, Surveillance, Unmanned Drones, Unmanned-Aerial-Vehicles, Privacy, Domestic Drone Surveillance, Domestic Drone Use, Faa, Politics News

A future where unmanned surveillance drones zip through the skies keeping tabs on civilians is no longer relegated to dystopic novels.

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Artful Surveillance At Miami's Government Center

www.beachedmiami.com | Posted 02.27.2012

Read More: Government Surveillance, Government Center, Ivan Toth DepeñA, Miami News, Reflection, Miami News

There are infrared cameras at Government Center watching and recording your movement. No surprise, I know, but it’s not what you’re thinking. Comm...

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Are You Okay With Government Surveillance From The Sky? (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Miles | Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Government Surveillance, Lancaster Surveillance Plane, Aclu, American Civil Liberties Union, Video, California Spy Plane, Cessna, Lancaster City Council, Aclu Privacy Rights La County Sheriff, Lancaster Spy Plane, Los Angeles News

Lancaster City Council voted unanimously last week to begin near-constant aerial surveillance of its city on May 1. City leaders say the program will ...

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The Patriot Act Was Just the Start: 10 Years of Unrestrained Surveillance

Michelle Richardson | Posted 12.29.2011

Read More: Surveillance, Cybersecurity, Patriot Act, Spying, Privacy, Homeland Security, Government Surveillance, Patriot Act 10 Years, Obama Cyber Security, White House Cybersecurity Proposal, Politics News

As members of Congress and the administration debate a new cybersecurity proposal, for once, our privacy must be considered just as high a priority as our security.

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Not Without A Warrant

Leslie Harris | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Congress, Ecpa, Wiretap, Mobile Phone, Surveillance, Petition, Fourth Amendment, Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986, Privacy, Government Surveillance, Online Privacy, Technology News

Anytime the government wants to peek at your online photos, read your emails, or track your mobile phone it should follow the same rules as it does offline, stand before a judge and get a warrant.

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House Poised To Extend Patriot Act

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aclu, Government Surveillance, Patriot Act, Lamar Smith, House GOP, Patrick Leahy, Library Provision, Surveillance, F. James Sensenbrenner Jr., House Judiciary Committee, House Republicans, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to push through a vote on Tuesday evening to reauthorize the most contested provisions of ...

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Some New York Subway Cameras Now Transmitting In Real Time

AP | COLLEEN LONG | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — Five hundred cameras installed in three of the city's busiest transit hubs started feeding live images to the police department's hig...

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ACLU Sues Government For Info On 'Spying' Efforts

AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Government Spying, Government Surveillance, Aclu Lawsuit, Federal Spying, Aclu, ACLU Spying Lawsuit, ACLU E Psying, Technology News

NEW YORK — Civil rights groups sued the U.S. government Thursday to try to force it to reveal more about the surveillance of Americans' internat...

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COINTELPRO 2.0

Shahid Buttar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Transparency, Government Surveillance, Senate, FBI Director Robert Mueller, Senate Judiciary Committee, Warrantless Surveillance, Congressional Oversight, Oversight, Surveillance, Fbi, Fourth Amendment, Racial Profiling, FBI Surveillance, Politics News

Revelations of the FBI's "COINTELPRO" prompted a national outrage that forced the Department of Justice to enact limits in 1976 curtailing the Bureau's various abuses. Today, these problems are back.

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FBI Access To Email And Web Records Raises Privacy Fears

AP | PETE YOST | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fbi, FBI Email, Internet Privacy, Government Surveillance, Surveillance Law, Technology News

WASHINGTON — Invasion of privacy in the Internet age. Expanding the reach of law enforcement to snoop on e-mail traffic or on Web surfing. Those...

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Restoring the Fourth Amendment: How We the People Can Win Over Washington

Shahid Buttar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Civil Liberties, First Amendment, Congress, War on Terror, Ethnic Profiling, Warrantless Surveillance, Progressives, George W. Bush, President Obama, Fbi, Surveillance, Obama Administration, Obama, U.S. Constitution, Cointelpro, Civil Rights, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Arizona Immigration Law, Constitution, Dhs, Fourth Amendment, Bill of Rights Defense Committee, Profiling, Libertarian, Transpartisan, Barack Obama, Racial Profiling, Government Surveillance, Patriot Act, Bush Administration, Counterterrorism, Customs and Border Protection, Libertarians, Politics News

With 2010 finding our government institutions tone deaf and disengaged on addressing our mounting constitutional crises, there have been few riper times for a transpartisan political offensive.

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The Next Wave Of Government Spying Programs

McClatchy | Robert S. Boyd | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Government Spying, Government Surveillance, Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, Dennis Blair, IARPA, Lisa Porter, Intelligence Agencies, Technology News

Three recent events -- the foiled Christmas Day bombing of a Detroit-bound airliner, the Dec. 30 assassination of seven CIA officers and contractors b...

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How America's Wars Are Systematically Destroying Our Liberties

Alfred W. McCoy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Government Surveillance, Surveillance, War on Terror, Counterterrorism, Civil Rights, Politics News

Think of our counterinsurgency wars abroad as so many living laboratories for the undermining of a democratic society at home, a process historians of such American wars can tell you has been going on for a long, long time.

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Patriot Act: Democratic Lawmakers Defy Obama

AP | LARRY MARGASAK | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Defying the Obama administration, the House Judiciary Committee voted Thursday to remove from the USA Patriot Act a tool for tracki...

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Government Technology: New Alcohol Sweat Monitor Threatens Privacy

washingtonpost.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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The idea that governments could monitor its citizens' every move with technology has been the stuff of fiction for decades, and the technology that al...

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In the Digital Iran, Censorship and Surveillance Merge

Bob Ostertag | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Government Surveillance, Iran Blog, Iran Video, Internet Censorship, Iran Updates, Iran Live Blog, Iran Election, Iran News, Surveillance, Iran Videos, Censorship, Iran Violence, Iran Liveblogging, World News, World News

For nearly two weeks, they have managed to keep one step ahead of the Iranian censors. But censoring these communications and surveilling them are very different matters.

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City Connects Street Cameras To Central Network With Homeland Security Grant

The New York Times | KAREN ANN CULLOTTA | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Government Surveillance, Chicago Surveillance Cameras, Chicago Blue Light Cameras, Chicago Street Cameras, Chicago 911 Center, Chicago News

The technology, a computer-aided dispatch system, was paid for with a $6 million grant from the Department of Homeland Security. It has been in use si...

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Cuba: Maintaining the Revolution Block by Block, with a File on Every Citizen

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cuban Revolution, World, Cuba, Government Surveillance, Politics, Spying, Cdr, Committee for the Defense of the Revolution, World News

In one of those confusions so common in children, I thought for years that the logo of the Committee for the Defense of the Revolution was an enormous eye carrying a machete.

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Who Killed John Lennon?

John W. Whitehead | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Government Surveillance, Mark David Chapman, John Lennon, Strawberry Fields, Death of John Lennon, Assasination, Anniversary, Entertainment News

John Lennon had learned early on that rock music could serve a political end by proclaiming a radical message. More importantly, he saw that his music could mobilize the public.

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NYPD Plans To Track Every Vehicle Entering Manhattan

MyFox New York | Kathy Carvajal | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nypd, Manhattan, New York City, Terrorism, Government Surveillance, Paranoia, Home News

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FISA Fight: Attack Of The Epic Failure

Martin Bosworth | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mike McConnell, Government Surveillance, Politics, FISA Bill, Obama, Warrantless Surveillance, Barack Obama, Wiretapping, Fisa, Politics News

This was a battle the Democrats absolutely could have won. Instead, they knuckled under and granted a corrupt and authoritarian president one of his greatest victories.

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