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Commentary: It Comes Back to Vulnerability and Housing Insecurity

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 04, 2023
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Commentary: It Comes Back to Vulnerability and Housing Insecurity

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – On Tuesday night, I held my breath during public comme ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – On Tuesday night, I held my breath during public comment, bracing for the notion that community members would demand cameras, surveillance and a heav ...

May 04, 2023
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Guest Commentary: Warrantless Pole-Camera Surveillance by Police Is Dangerous

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|Date: November 29, 2022
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Guest Commentary: Warrantless Pole-Camera Surveillance by Police Is Dangerous

We’re calling on the court to clarify that long-term police use of a surveillance camera targeted at a pe ...

We’re calling on the court to clarify that long-term police use of a surveillance camera targeted at a person’s home is a Fourth Amendment violation. By Nathan Freed Wessler Every fan of old crime nov ...

November 29, 2022
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Advocacy Groups Blast Surveillance Proposal as Jenkins Holds a Talk in the Tenderloin

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 13, 2022
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Advocacy Groups Blast Surveillance Proposal as Jenkins Holds a Talk in the Tenderloin

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor San Francisco, CA – This week newly appointed DA Brooke Jenkins ju ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor San Francisco, CA – This week newly appointed DA Brooke Jenkins jumped onboard a brewing fight over surveillance cameras. Already, a coalition of community and ...

July 13, 2022
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Supreme Court Allows Suit to Move Forward against FBI for Spying on Muslims

Posted by Delilah Hammons
|Date: March 09, 2022
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Supreme Court Allows Suit to Move Forward against FBI for Spying on Muslims

By Delilah Hammons WASHINGTON, DC - The ACLU released a statement this week confirming the U.S. Supreme ...

By Delilah Hammons WASHINGTON, DC - The ACLU released a statement this week confirming the U.S. Supreme Court ruling about the discriminatory surveillance that the FBI conducted of three Muslim Ameri ...

March 09, 2022
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ACLU Releases Footage to Prove Suspected CHP Aerial Spying on Police Brutality Protestors Wasn’t Paranoia

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|Date: November 18, 2021
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ACLU Releases Footage to Prove Suspected CHP Aerial Spying on Police Brutality Protestors Wasn’t Paranoia

By The Vanguard Staff SAN FRANCISCO, CA - The ACLU of Northern California Wednesday confirmed what many w ...

By The Vanguard Staff SAN FRANCISCO, CA - The ACLU of Northern California Wednesday confirmed what many who participated in, or covered as reporters and acted as observers in 2020 already reported – t ...

November 18, 2021
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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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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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Legislation Moves Forward Requiring Community Oversight of Law Enforcement Surveillance Technology

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 27, 2018
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Legislation Moves Forward Requiring Community Oversight of Law Enforcement Surveillance Technology

Earlier this year, the city of Davis became a leader in the move to oversee law enforcement surveillance ...

Earlier this year, the city of Davis became a leader in the move to oversee law enforcement surveillance technology, becoming among the first in the state to require council and community oversight be ...

June 27, 2018
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Activists Should Fear the Surveillance State

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|Date: October 28, 2017
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Activists Should Fear the Surveillance State

By Noa Yachot An invasive spying law is set to expire at the end of this year, and Congress is gearing up ...

By Noa Yachot An invasive spying law is set to expire at the end of this year, and Congress is gearing up for a fight over what will replace it. As lawmakers weigh various proposals to reform that law ...

October 28, 2017
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FBI Increasing Surveillance of Black Activists?

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|Date: October 20, 2017
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FBI Increasing Surveillance of Black Activists?

By Thaddeus Talbot and Hugh Handeyside A recently leaked FBI “Intelligence Assessment” contains troubling ...

By Thaddeus Talbot and Hugh Handeyside A recently leaked FBI “Intelligence Assessment” contains troubling signs that the FBI is scrutinizing and possibly surveilling Black activists in its search for ...

October 20, 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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Trump Has the Keys to the Surveillance State, but CA Has a Long History of Changing the Locks

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|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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7 Reasons a Government Backdoor to the iPhone Would Be Catastrophic

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: February 29, 2016
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7 Reasons a Government Backdoor to the iPhone Would Be Catastrophic

By Noa Yachot You’ve likely caught wind of the fact that the government and Apple are in the midst of an ...

By Noa Yachot You’ve likely caught wind of the fact that the government and Apple are in the midst of an intense legal showdown in what Edward Snowden has called “the most important tech case in a dec ...

February 29, 2016
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Sunday Commentary II: Why Drones Are Potentially a Threat to Privacy and Worse

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 23, 2014
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Sunday Commentary II: Why Drones Are Potentially a Threat to Privacy and Worse

In 2011 the ACLU in a report wrote, “Unmanned aircraft carrying cameras raise the prospect of a significa ...

In 2011 the ACLU in a report wrote, “Unmanned aircraft carrying cameras raise the prospect of a significant new avenue for the surveillance of American life.” As the report noted, “Aerial surveillanc ...

November 23, 2014
| by David Greenwald

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Is Local Government Spying on You? ACLU Offers Sobering Report

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 19, 2014
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Is Local Government Spying on You? ACLU Offers Sobering Report

In the wake of the MRAP controversy in Davis, a report from the ACLU has found that California local gove ...

In the wake of the MRAP controversy in Davis, a report from the ACLU has found that California local governments have spent more than $60 million on spying technology. In the wake of that report, the ...

November 19, 2014
| by David Greenwald

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