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ICE and CBP Are Secretly Tracking Us Using Stingrays

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|Date: December 15, 2019
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ICE and CBP Are Secretly Tracking Us Using Stingrays

The public has a right to know if and how often ICE and CBP are using Stingrays. By Alexia Ramirez and Bo ...

The public has a right to know if and how often ICE and CBP are using Stingrays. By Alexia Ramirez and Bobby Hodgson Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) a ...

December 15, 2019
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California Governor Signs Landmark Bill Halting Facial Recognition on Police Body Cams

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|Date: October 12, 2019
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California Governor Signs Landmark Bill Halting Facial Recognition on Police Body Cams

AB 1215 will keep inaccurate, biased, and invasive surveillance technology from being used against the pu ...

AB 1215 will keep inaccurate, biased, and invasive surveillance technology from being used against the public with body cams, which were promised for police transparency and accountability (From Press ...

October 12, 2019
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A Federal Court Sounds the Alarm on the Privacy Harms of Face Recognition Technology

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|Date: August 10, 2019
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A Federal Court Sounds the Alarm on the Privacy Harms of Face Recognition Technology

By Nathan Freed Wessler On Thursday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit became the first app ...

By Nathan Freed Wessler On Thursday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit became the first appellate court in the nation to directly address the privacy harms posed by face recognition tech ...

August 10, 2019
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The Recent Ploy to Break Encryption Is An Old Idea Proven Wrong

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|Date: July 28, 2019
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The Recent Ploy to Break Encryption Is An Old Idea Proven Wrong

by Jon Callas This is the fourth and final in a series of essays about a proposal by officials at Britain ...

by Jon Callas This is the fourth and final in a series of essays about a proposal by officials at Britain’s GCHQ about requiring encrypted communications platforms to be designed to secretly add an ex ...

July 28, 2019
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Adding a Ghost User to Our Encrypted Communications Is No ‘Crocodile Chip’

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|Date: July 27, 2019
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Adding a Ghost User to Our Encrypted Communications Is No ‘Crocodile Chip’

By Jon Callas Note: This is part three of a four-part series where security expert Jon Callas breaks down ...

By Jon Callas Note: This is part three of a four-part series where security expert Jon Callas breaks down the fatal flaws of a recent proposal to add a secret user — the government — to our encrypted ...

July 27, 2019
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When You Have Data, They Will Come

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|Date: July 25, 2019
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When You Have Data, They Will Come

By Jon Callas Note: This is part two of a four-part series where security expert Jon Callas breaks down t ...

By Jon Callas Note: This is part two of a four-part series where security expert Jon Callas breaks down the fatal flaws of a recent proposal to add a secret user — the government — to our encrypted co ...

July 25, 2019
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The ‘Ghost User’ Ploy to Break Encryption Won’t Work

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|Date: July 24, 2019
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The ‘Ghost User’ Ploy to Break Encryption Won’t Work

By Jon Callas Note: This is part one of a four-part series where security expert Jon Callas breaks down t ...

By Jon Callas Note: This is part one of a four-part series where security expert Jon Callas breaks down the fatal flaws of a recent proposal to add a secret user — the government — to our encrypted co ...

July 24, 2019
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Axon Decides to Ban Facial Recognition on Body Cameras

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|Date: June 29, 2019
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Axon Decides to Ban Facial Recognition on Body Cameras

Axon, a maker of officer-worn body cameras used by many United States police departments, today announced ...

Axon, a maker of officer-worn body cameras used by many United States police departments, today announced that it will not add facial recognition systems to those devices. This announcement comes as t ...

June 29, 2019
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The Hypocrisy of William Barr’s Spying Claims

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|Date: June 04, 2019
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The Hypocrisy of William Barr’s Spying Claims

By Ashley Gorski Discussing the origins of the FBI’s Russia investigation, Attorney General William Barr ...

By Ashley Gorski Discussing the origins of the FBI’s Russia investigation, Attorney General William Barr recently claimed that “Government power was used to spy on American citizens.” He went on to sa ...

June 04, 2019
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SD Council Supports AB 392; SF Sups Oppose Face Surveillance

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|Date: May 15, 2019
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SD Council Supports AB 392; SF Sups Oppose Face Surveillance

SF Board of Sups Approves Historic Face Surveillance Ban and Oversight Law (From Press Release) - Today, ...

SF Board of Sups Approves Historic Face Surveillance Ban and Oversight Law (From Press Release) - Today, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed the Stop Secret Surveillance Ordinance, a histori ...

May 15, 2019
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Personal Information Treated Like Raw Material for Surveillance Technology

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|Date: May 12, 2019
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Personal Information Treated Like Raw Material for Surveillance Technology

By Jake Snow The information that you share with a company should not be repurposed or sold without your ...

By Jake Snow The information that you share with a company should not be repurposed or sold without your consent. But companies are building algorithms from massive repositories of personal informatio ...

May 12, 2019
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Electric Scooters Are Racing to Collect Your Data

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|Date: July 29, 2018
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Electric Scooters Are Racing to Collect Your Data

By Nomi Conway As scooter companies Spin, Bird, and Lime scramble to get scooters on the street, they are ...

By Nomi Conway As scooter companies Spin, Bird, and Lime scramble to get scooters on the street, they are also racing to gather data, and have failed to take the time and steps necessary to properly a ...

July 29, 2018
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Congress Just Passed a Terrible Surveillance Law. Now What?

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|Date: January 21, 2018
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Congress Just Passed a Terrible Surveillance Law. Now What?

By Neema Singh Guliani Both Democrats and Republicans deserve sharp criticism for continuing to allow the ...

By Neema Singh Guliani Both Democrats and Republicans deserve sharp criticism for continuing to allow the NSA to engage in mass, warrantless spying. Congress today missed a historic opportunity to ref ...

January 21, 2018
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Congress Votes to Give Administration Greater Spy Powers

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|Date: January 12, 2018
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Congress Votes to Give Administration Greater Spy Powers

By Neema Singh Guliani and Elizabeth Beavers House leadership today once again caved to irresponsible fea ...

By Neema Singh Guliani and Elizabeth Beavers House leadership today once again caved to irresponsible fearmongering from the intelligence agencies and succeeded in jamming through a hastily drafted su ...

January 12, 2018
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Police Tracking Prescription Drugs

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|Date: August 08, 2017
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Police Tracking Prescription Drugs

By Beth Schwartzapfel As drug overdose deaths continue their record climb, Missouri last month became the ...

By Beth Schwartzapfel As drug overdose deaths continue their record climb, Missouri last month became the 50th state to launch a prescription drug monitoring program, or PDMP. These state-run database ...

August 08, 2017
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Will Police Need a Warrant for Cell Phone Data?

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|Date: June 07, 2017
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Will Police Need a Warrant for Cell Phone Data?

By Nathan Freed Wessler The Supreme Court announced today that it will hear a landmark case that will det ...

By Nathan Freed Wessler The Supreme Court announced today that it will hear a landmark case that will determine how the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution protects cell phone data that tracks the de ...

June 07, 2017
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New Documents Shed Light on the Government’s Surveillance of Americans

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|Date: April 23, 2017
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New Documents Shed Light on the Government’s Surveillance of Americans

By Ashley Gorski The ACLU today released more than a dozen new documents concerning the government’s warr ...

By Ashley Gorski The ACLU today released more than a dozen new documents concerning the government’s warrantless surveillance of millions of Americans. They were obtained from several intelligence age ...

April 23, 2017
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Reining In President Trump’s Ability to Spy

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|Date: February 22, 2017
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Reining In President Trump’s Ability to Spy

By Ashley Gorski It’s been just over a month since Donald J. Trump assumed the enormous powers of the U.S ...

By Ashley Gorski It’s been just over a month since Donald J. Trump assumed the enormous powers of the U.S. presidency, including the power to control the government’s far-reaching surveillance of Amer ...

February 22, 2017
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Monitoring Local Police Surveillance Equipment

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|Date: February 16, 2017
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Monitoring Local Police Surveillance Equipment

Editor’s note: The city of Davis may soon be looking into whether to have an ordinance that would monitor ...

Editor’s note: The city of Davis may soon be looking into whether to have an ordinance that would monitor the city police’s surveillance equipment. by Chad Marlow Donald Trump told the American public ...

February 16, 2017
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Trump Has the Keys to the Surveillance State, but CA Has a Long History of Changing the Locks

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|Date: January 20, 2017
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Trump Has the Keys to the Surveillance State, but CA Has a Long History of Changing the Locks

By Anna Porto When Donald Trump takes the oath of office later today, he will inherit an unprecedented su ...

By Anna Porto When Donald Trump takes the oath of office later today, he will inherit an unprecedented surveillance state that includes expansive powers and databases filled with information on millio ...

January 20, 2017
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