Targeted for Tyranny: We’re All Suspects Under the Government’s Precrime Program
We’re all being targeted now, guilty until proven innocent, just waiting to be monitored, manipulated, investigated, interrogated, and harassed by agents of the...
Surveillance
Intel Agencies Are Buying Loads of Personal Data on Americans
A recently declassified report from the nation’s top spy agency confirms that the government buys commercially available information on Americans, and lots of it....
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Artificial Intelligence and the Surveillance Society
Surveillance has become ubiquitous — or so it seems. But, since the Covid pandemic, AI-empowered surveillance is on the rise, changing the nature...
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IRS Looking to Buy Internet-traffic Monitoring Technology
The technology provider reportedly obtains "netflow data from third parties in exchange for threat intelligence,” then offers that data to its other...
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360-degree Surveillance: How Police Use Public-private Partnerships
In this age of ubiquitous surveillance, there are no private lives: everything is public. ...
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You’d Better Watch Out: The Surveillance State Is Making a List, and You’re on It
Geofencing dragnets. Fusion centers. Smart devices. Behavioral threat assessments. Terror watch lists. Facial recognition. Snitch tip lines. Biometric scanners. Pre-crime. DNA databases. Data...
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The Atlas of Surveillance: Revealing the Shocking Scope of Gov’t Spying
The rights guaranteed by the Fourth Amendment are under constant assault by the government — from NSA surveillance to IRS use of...
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The American Kleptocracy: A Government of Liars, Thieves and Lawbreakers
The American kleptocracy (a government ruled by thieves) continues to suck the American people down a rabbit hole into a parallel universe in...
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Canada Admits it Tracked 33 Million Phones Amid Lockdown
The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) has now admitted that it accessed 33 million mobile devices (in a country of 38 million...
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Report: DHS Considering Hiring Contractors to Spy on “Domestic Terrorists” Online
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is considering working with outside firms to surveil “extremist” language by Americans online, according to a report....
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Military “Stand Down” Offers Biden the Opportunity to Spy on Americans
The surveillance of Americans is not only coming from Big Tech. The military now faces scrutiny. ...
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Smartphone Privacy Gets a Major Boost From Purism
Mobile phones — especially smart phones — are difficult to protect from surveillance. They are designed and built to be surveillance devices. But...
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Senators Call for Investigation of CBP for Illegally Tracking Americans
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents conduct warrantless tracking of people inside the U.S. by using commercially available location data from cell phones...
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Privacy at Stake in New Crypto Wars
The Crypto Wars are heating back up. As Ed Snowden’s revelations about mass digital surveillance caused citizens in America and around the world...
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Anger and Courage: Protecting Privacy
With lawmakers pushing for more and more surveillance of more and more people, it is easy to lose hope. But there is hope....
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