Surveillance

UPDATE: Video Surfaces Of Missing Louisiana Student

AP | Posted 05.27.2012

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LAFAYETTE, La. — Louisiana authorities are searching for a college student who has been missing for nearly a week after she was last seen on a b...

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Andrea Stone

DHS Seeks To 'Accelerate' Use Of Drones By Police

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 05.22.2012

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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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NYPD Surveillance Revisited

James Zogby | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Bill of Rights, Arabs, Central Intelligence Agency, Nypd, Ethnic Profiling, Surveillance, Muslims, Nypd Spying, Civil Rights, New York, Politics News
James Zogby

Where do we draw the line that separates the rights of persons from the over-reach of law enforcement. When do we conclude that the NYPD crossed the line and violated constitutionally protected freedoms and civil rights?

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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
Bill Quigley

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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Who Is Watching Who and Why?

Azeem Ibrahim | Posted 04.12.2012

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Azeem Ibrahim

There is a huge presence of apathy and complacency in the land, with people ignoring abuses of civil liberties as long as it is happening to the "other."

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Privacy: Ditch the Cell Phone or Prepare to Disrobe

Gary Johnson | Posted 04.05.2012

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Gary Johnson

Expecting the government to willingly constrain itself when it comes to violating our privacy is not just foolhardy; it defies everything we know about the very nature of government.

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Warrant Requirement Past Due for Cell Phone Tracking

Leslie Harris | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Surveillance, Electronic Communications Privacy Act, Cell Phone Tracking, Cell Phones, Fourth Amendment, Ecpa Reform, Ecpa, Police Surveillance, Technology, Technology News
Leslie Harris

The ACLU notes that nearly all of the more than 200 police departments in their report said that they track cell phones; however, only a fraction of those departments get a warrant from a judge.

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Reading the Pictures: Surveilling the Death of Anna Brown

Michael Shaw | Posted 04.02.2012

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Michael Shaw

Anna Brown is dying. Last September, Anna Brown, a 29-year-old homeless black woman, went to three hospital emergency rooms complaining of pain in he...

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Everybody's a Target in the American Surveillance State

John W. Whitehead | Posted 05.27.2012

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John W. Whitehead

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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Repress U, Class of 2012: 7 Steps to a Homeland Security Campus

Michael Gould-Wartofsky | Posted 05.23.2012

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Michael Gould-Wartofsky

Since 9/11, the homeland security state has come to campus just as it has come to America's towns and cities, its places of work and its houses of worship, its public space and its cyberspace.

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Romney's Firm Tied To Surveillance Push In China

nytimes.com | ANDREW JACOBS and PENN BULLOCK | Posted 03.16.2012

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BEIJING — As the Chinese government forges ahead on a multibillion-dollar effort to blanket the country with surveillance cameras, one American comp...

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Blacklisted as "Troublemakers," U.K. Construction Workers Struggle for Justice

Michelle Chen | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Civil Liberties, Britain, Labor, United Kingdom, Labor Rights, Surveillance, Construction, Unions, Workers Rights, Video, World News
Michelle Chen

An investigation by the UK government's Information Commissioners Office revealed that some of the country's most prominent construction firms had worked with a company to create a blacklist of workers with a history of being suspected "troublemakers" or labor advocates.

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SHOCKING JAILHOUSE BEATING VIDEO: Inmate Attacked By Top Cop

Posted 03.14.2012

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Surveillance footage was released Tuesday showing a New York jail official savagely beating an inmate, which resulted in a $62,500 settlement and the ...

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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
Eugene K. Chow

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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NYPD Surveillance Shows No Good Deed Goes Unpunished For American Muslims

Sahar Aziz | Posted 05.06.2012

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Sahar Aziz

So long as the police engage in systemic racial profiling and attendant criminal punishments, community outreach is futile, as well as disingenuous.

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The Heroes Who Uncovered The NYPD's Muslim Surveillance

Munira Syeda | Posted 05.05.2012

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Munira Syeda

The AP team has done an amazing job in its months-long investigation of the NYPD. The revelations come at a critical time when we cannot afford to waste resources or implement ineffective measures in counter-terrorism.

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America as Constitutional Republic: When Can the President Kill?

Doug Bandow | Posted 04.29.2012

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Doug Bandow

What should be done if there are no obvious battlefields and no certain combatants? Should propagandists be treated as fighters? Are any procedural protections required before a U.S. citizen can be killed?

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Florida Woman Murdered In Thailand; Boyfriend Eyed By Cops

Posted 02.17.2012

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Police are looking for an Indian man who may have stabbed and strangled an American businesswoman to death in Bangkok, Thailand. The body of Wendy ...

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The Undercover Drone

Christopher Brauchli | Posted 04.04.2012

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Christopher Brauchli

Permitting the United States to fly drones wherever it wants is the price a country may have to pay for friendship with the United States. Some countries may think that price too high.

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U.S. v. Jones: The Battle for the Fourth Amendment Continues

John W. Whitehead | Posted 03.25.2012

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John W. Whitehead

As Justice Samuel Alito recognizes in his concurring judgment, physical intrusion is now unnecessary to many forms of invasive surveillance.

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A Biometric Tower of Babel

Shelly Yachimovich | Posted 03.11.2012

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Shelly Yachimovich

The unrestricted flow of information over the Internet and social networks provides an opportunity to one of mankind's most glorious times. If we don't protect the public, this could easily become a mean of chaos, repression and dominance.

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The Contradictions Of Obama's Outreach To American Muslims

Sahar Aziz | Posted 02.18.2012

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Sahar Aziz

If the government is serious about partnering with Muslim communities, it must stop behaving like an adversary. For starters, community outreach programs should not be exploited.

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

Michelle Richardson | Posted 12.29.2011

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Michelle Richardson

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

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Leslie Harris

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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Review of Jay Feldman's 'Manufacturing Hysteria'

Michael Roth | Posted 11.13.2011

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Michael Roth

Manufacturing Hysteria is a political book, aimed at reminding those dedicated to civil liberties (especially the right to dissent) how fragile our freedoms are and how "close to a police state" we have come over the last century.

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