Government Surveillance

How America's Wars Are Systematically Destroying Our Liberties

Alfred W. McCoy | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics


Alfred W. McCoy

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.

Patriot Act: Democratic Lawmakers Defy Obama

AP | LARRY MARGASAK | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics


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

Government Technology: New Alcohol Sweat Monitor Threat To Privacy

washingtonpost.com | Posted 11.25.2009 | Technology


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...

In the Digital Iran, Censorship and Surveillance Merge

Bob Ostertag | Posted 07.26.2009 | World


Bob Ostertag

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.

City Connects Street Cameras To Central Network With Homeland Security Grant

The New York Times | KAREN ANN CULLOTTA | Posted 03.26.2009 | Chicago


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...

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

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 01.16.2009 | World


Yoani Sanchez

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.

Who Killed John Lennon?

John W. Whitehead | Posted 01.02.2009 | Entertainment


John W. Whitehead

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.

NYPD Plans To Track Every Vehicle Entering Manhattan

MyFox New York | Kathy Carvajal | Posted 09.12.2008 | Home


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FISA Fight: Attack Of The Epic Failure

Martin Bosworth | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics


Martin Bosworth

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.

White House Backtracks On Lost Intelligence Claims

LA Times | Josh Meyer | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


A day after warning that potentially critical terrorism intelligence was being lost because Congress had not finished work on a controversial espionag...

Court Rejects ACLU Challenge to Wiretaps

AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


WASHINGTON — An attempt to blast a crippled U.S. spy satellite out of the sky using a Navy heat-seeking missile _ possibly on Wednesday night _ ...

Bush Admin Plan To Broaden Wiretapping Powers Gains Victory In Senate

New York Times | ERIC LICHTBLAU | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


A White House plan to broaden the National Security Agency's wiretapping powers won a key procedural victory in the Senate on Thursday, as backers def...

Vegas Becomes The Capital Of High-Tech Surveillance

Washington Post | Ellen Nakashima | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


This city, famous for being America's playground, has also become its security lab. Like nowhere else in the United States, Las Vegas has embraced the...

Mukasey: Bush Can Ignore Surveillance Law

Washington Post | Dan Eggen and Paul Kane | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Attorney general nominee Michael B. Mukasey suggested today that the president could ignore federal surveillance law if it infringes on his constituti...

Gov't Travel Records Include Notes On Personal Items, Reading Materials

Washington Post | Ellen Nakashima | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


The U.S. government is collecting electronic records on the travel habits of millions of Americans who fly, drive or take cruises abroad, retaining da...