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The New York Times reports that the Biden administration is asking a secret court to reapprove its mass surveillance powers for a full year, rather than accepting key statutory reforms that would meaningfully limit its ability to spy on Americans...
by smartalex
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on Thu Feb 29, 2024 at 11:01 AM PST
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Yes, it was little short of pathetic. Remember the “big, fat, beautiful wall” that, from the first moment of his 2015-2016...
by TomDispatch
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on Thu Nov 09, 2023 at 08:45 AM PST
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The ability of modern home appliances such as “smart” refrigerators and “Ring” doorbells to collect�and store data about those who own them isn’t particularly shocking; it seems that any ...
by Dartagnan
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on Sat Sep 09, 2023 at 05:30 PM PDT
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When Yekaterina Maksimova can't afford to be late, the journalist and activist avoids taking the Moscow subway, even though it's probably the most efficient route. That's because she's been detained five times in the past year, thanks to the system's...
by Associated Press
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on Tue May 23, 2023 at 06:11 AM PDT
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In Australia., at least 913 cameras and surveillance equipment from two companies linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) are being removed from defense and diplomatic facilities. Hikvision and Dahua are the two manufacturers in question. An...
by C0RI0LANUS
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on Thu Feb 09, 2023 at 10:40 PM PST
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by Mark Fiore
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on Fri Feb 10, 2023 at 05:00 AM PST
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Last year this time, I posted a story about the two most recent Reaper drone crashes. One came within a quarter mile of destroying a residential/commercial zone in Syracuse, NY. Not long after I posted that story, another Reaper went down, at an...
by theOtherBarry
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on Tue Jul 12, 2022 at 09:38 AM PDT
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by María Inés Taracena
This article was originally published at Prism
D.F. and his family fled Honduras in 2018 after receiving death threats from a local organized crime group. D.F. and his ...
by Prism Guest Writer
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on Sat Jun 04, 2022 at 08:15 AM PDT
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(Originally published at CovertActionMagazine.) April 1st was a good news/bad news kind of day for U.S. military drone-maker General Atomics. First, it was reported that the government of Australia had revealed that they were canceling the planned...
by theOtherBarry
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on Wed Jun 01, 2022 at 10:45 AM PDT
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In a move that sets the U.S. back in terms of religious freedom, the Supreme Court on Friday unanimously rejected an argument that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) wrongfully applied federal law governing how surveillance-related evidence can...
by Aysha Qamar
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on Tue Mar 08, 2022 at 02:15 PM PST
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Newly declassified documents reveal that the CIA has been secretly conducting massive surveillance programs that capture Americans’ private information. This news release exposing the documents is just in from U.S. Senators Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, and...
by Dan Bacher
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on Thu Feb 10, 2022 at 07:34 PM PST
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The Iowa GOP is actually pushing proposed legislation filed on Tuesday in the state House to livestream from public school classrooms, allowing parents to watch children in class—a virtual cybersecurity nightmare. The bill would require school...
by Lauren Sue
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on Thu Feb 03, 2022 at 08:54 AM PST
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I’ve shared some of this information before — but this time the focus is on proliferation. (Reprinted with permission by CovertAction Magazine.) Military Spy Drones: How Domestic U.S. Drone Integration is Propelling Next Wave of Killer Drone...
by theOtherBarry
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on Sat Jan 29, 2022 at 09:39 AM PST
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www.apple.com/… So today I went to the farmers market and bought some sweet peppers, red, yellow and green, pretty in my planned dish of roasted vegetables of carrots and other things. So I emptied my large produce bags and couldn’t find the peppers....
by radicalink
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on Mon Nov 22, 2021 at 06:52 PM PST
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If 9/11 can be said to have changed the landscape for domestic surveillance, I think it’s safe to say the technological explosion of the Internet, “smart” phones and cheap consumer electronics has made the entire field of surveillance a lot easier, and...
by kc7gr
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on Tue Sep 28, 2021 at 02:01 PM PDT
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When it comes to police and law enforcement in the United States, we tend to cover a lot of brutality and violence, especially against people of color, sex workers, and incarcerated folks. It’s imperative to continue covering these incidents and...
by Marissa Higgins
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on Wed Sep 08, 2021 at 02:43 PM PDT
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The Dept. of Defense is eager to have the ability to routinely deploy large military surveillance drones over US cities. Peruse my earlier entries on the topic here. The attempt to have General Atomics newest, biggest drone, the SkyGuardian, fly freely...
by theOtherBarry
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on Wed Sep 01, 2021 at 03:57 PM PDT
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Here's what happens when the FBI was running an encrypted communications platform used by criminals. Australian Intelligence and the FBI have been in control of an encrypted comms platform used by mobsters, drug dealers and other global criminal enterprises. The platform, called “An0m”, was uncovered by a confidential informant who turned it over to...
by Overwatched
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on Tue Jun 08, 2021 at 11:57 AM PDT
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Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is still intent on messing with our U.S. Postal Service (USPS), permanently slowing down delivery of the mail, and undermining the one thing the agency is supposed to do: that whole "neither snow nor rain nor heat nor...
by Joan McCarter
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on Fri May 21, 2021 at 12:08 PM PDT
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Back in the day, when various people were writing a new Constitution for the United States of America, they included a key bit of infrastructure that has been sadly neglected in modern times. Not ...
by Liberal Thinking
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on Mon May 17, 2021 at 04:00 PM PDT
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- Conservatives, by definition, are slow to change, if at all. Changes with time and circumstances mark a progressive society. History is its own proof. We once burned so-called witches at the stake, ostracized left-handed people, disallowed a single...31 comments 93 Recs
- Today, the state of Louisiana managed to do something I didn’t think possible — they found a new low. Once Jeff Landry, a far-right acolyte, was elected governor I knew the place was going to be in rough shape. The state legislature is hopeless, with...155 comments 548 Recs
- With righteous outrage and humor, Rep. Jared Moskowitz calls out MTG as Putin's envoy to US CongressBack in 1954, when Republican Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s anticommunist campaign was at its peak, the Wisconsin senator picked a fight with the U.S. Army, claiming there was lax security at a top-secret army facility. The U.S. Army hired Boston lawyer...167 comments 633 Recs
- The BIGGEST NEWS of the DAY: Ukraine aid will finally get a vote and it took Democrats to get it done….. Mind you not enough Democrats but it is done. The country should have showed unity and voted as one. Bipartisan House coalition advances Ukraine aid A rare coalition of Democrats and Republicans — 316 — voted overwhelmingly to pass the procedural...86 comments 135 Recs
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