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Heavily Armed SWAT Team Swarms Cal State… Because of an Umbrella
These days you never know what could be used as a deadly weapon of mass destruction requiring a militarized SWAT response. Link to article – Heavily Armed SWAT Team Swarms Cal State… Because of an...
View ArticleSnowden used off-the-shelf software to haul in PRISM files
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View ArticleIndependent watchdog says NSA program is illegal and should end
Less than a week after President Barack Obama announced plans to overhaul controversial NSA phone data collection program, an independent review board has questioned the program's legality. According...
View ArticleMass shootings prompt millions for additional police officers at schools...
Grants intended to fund more police officers in schools will go to law enforcement agencies across the country, the Justice Department (DOJ) said Friday as it unveiled the entire list of recipients....
View ArticleSenate bill would eliminate mass collection of phone records, reform FISA court
The bill, dubbed the Intelligence Oversight and Surveillance Reform Act, bundles a number of ideas proposed in roughly 12 other bills drafted in the wake of the leaks by NSA contractor-turned...
View ArticleFacebook ‘likes’ protected under First Amendment, US federal court rules
The Fourth US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday in favor of a former deputy sheriff in Hampton, Virginia who said that he was fired for “liking” the Facebook page of the candidate running for...
View ArticleNSA’s phone data collection is legal, does not violate privacy – FISA court
The court’s opinion, dated August 29 and made public Tuesday, stated that the court was aware of the disclosures made by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden but reaffirmed that the controversial data...
View Article‘Unleashed and unaccountable’– ACLU condemns FBI in new report
In thousands of words spanning a 60-plus page report titled "Unleashed and Unaccountable: The FBI’s Unchecked Abuse of Authority," the ACLU this week condemns the agency, particularly in the years...
View ArticleE-searches and seizures at US borders ‘more invasive’ than traditional...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has released documents showing how US authorities, exceeding their powers in the name of protecting the country from terrorism and other threats, are involved...
View ArticleThe big three: Sweden reacts to report of intel cooperation with NSA, GCHQ
"It's a very serious matter if Sweden is indeed involved in American surveillance programs," Green Party IT policy spokeswoman Maria Ferm told Sweden’s The Local. "I'm very concerned about the...
View ArticleLegal loophole: US offers no apologies for hacking internet encryptions
Intelligence agencies in the US and United Kingdom have spent millions to bribe technicians - perhaps even planting agents inside telecommunication companies - in a bid to penetrate the encryption...
View ArticleLow-level arrests surged under Bloomberg’s ‘zero tolerance’ policy
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has spent much of his final year in office defending the city’s stop-and-frisk policy, which a federal judge ruled was unconstitutional in August. But while he and...
View ArticleTainted evidence from Massachusetts crime lab may impact 40,000 defendants –...
Chemist Annie Dookhan, formerly of the now-closed Department of Public Health lab in Jamaica Plain, stands accused of faking some test results and neglecting department standards. Dookhan has pleaded...
View ArticleFederal court will hear constitutional challenge to ‘No Fly List’
The lawsuit, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on behalf of 13 plaintiffs (four of which are military veterans), challenges the means by which one can get off the list, calling the...
View ArticleObama’s NSA review board, proving the cynics right
Case in point, the White House’s recent problems with the NSA. At a press conference earlier this month, President Obama promised to form “a high-level group of outside experts to review our entire...
View ArticleBloomberg, NYPD commissioner using ‘complicated’ evidence to justify...
Judge Schira Scheindlin ruled on August 12 that the “stop, question and frisk” program instituted in 2002 by the New York City Police Department (NYPD) is unconstitutional, agreeing with the American...
View ArticleSnowden letter decries media for ‘false claims’ about his ‘situation’
Snowden is known to have been in contact with his father, Lon Snowden, whose own legal team consists of attorney Bruce Fein and Fein’s wife and spokeswoman, Mattie Fein. The public’s thirst for the...
View ArticleObama had secret meeting with tech executives to discuss govt surveillance
"This is one of a number of discussions the administration is having with experts and stakeholders in response to the president's directive to have a national dialogue about how to best protect...
View ArticleNSA head: Replace would-be Snowdens with computers to stop future leaks
The National Security Agency plans to drastically cut back on the number of people employed as systems administrators, Gen. Keith Alexander said during a cyber security conference in New York City on...
View ArticleTSA expands role beyond airports amid growing cases of misconduct
The report, which was released last week by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO), found 9,622 cases of misconduct among TSA workers from 2010 through the 2012 fiscal year. It concluded that...
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