Category Surveillance
Senators: CIA has secret program that collects American data, by Nomaan Merchant
“The CIA conducts these sweeping surveillance activities without any court approval, and with few, if any, safeguards imposed by Congress.”
Edward Snowden and Julian Assange’s warning about the Security and Surveillance Industrial Complex
This video was released today (August 3, 2021) to show that journalists and whistleblowers warned us years ago about the recent revelation of the Pegasus spy software developed by the Israeli cyberweapons company NSO Group, which was found on the phones of journalists around the world, and that this is just the tip of the iceberg.
EFF: Digital Security Tips for Protesters (on and off the streets)
Organizers: Consider alternatives to Facebook and Twitter
I Am Guilty of Violating the Espionage Act by Laura Poitras
“It is impossible to overstate the dangerous precedent Mr. Assange’s indictment under the Espionage Act and possible extradition sets: Every national security journalist who reports on classified information now faces possible Espionage Act charges” nationally and internationally.
Chris Hedges: Chris Hedges on Fascism, Civil Unrest, and the Police State
“I expect serious problems in terms of civil unrest and I expect pretty draconian responses from our internal security systems, and you can look at Ferguson to get a sense of what that looks like: that’s militarized police in armored personnel carriers with 50 caliber machine guns pointed at nonviolent protesters.”
Beyond the Economic Chaos of Coronavirus Is a Global War Economy,
“The level of global social polarization and inequality is unprecedented. In 2018, the richest one percent of humanity controlled more than half of the world’s wealth while the bottom 80 percent had to make do with just 4.5 percent of this wealth.”
Chris Hedges: Democrats Have No Moral Authority on Impeachment
“Democrats are…living in an alternative reality.”
DN!: “Financial Censorship Is Still Censorship”: Edward Snowden Slams Justice Dept. Lawsuit Against Him
“The White House is trying “to make the conversation not about the allegations,” …“They want to talk about the whistleblower rather than the government’s own wrongdoing.”
The Pentagon Wants More Control Over the News. What Could Go Wrong? by Matt Taibbi
The most enormous issue posed by the modern media landscape is the industry’s incredible concentration, which allows a handful of private platforms – Facebook, Twitter, Google – to dominate media distribution.
The Systems That Silence, The Intercept, by Ali Gharib
The U.S. borderlands have become laboratories for new systems of enforcement and control.
How to Shift Power From the Police to the People, ACLU
A Community Control Over Police Surveillance (CCOPS) law in St. Louis would shift control over the use of surveillance technologies from law enforcement to the people and their elected representatives.
Amazon’s Face Recognition Falsely Matched 28 Members of Congress With Mugshots
An identification — whether accurate or not — could cost people their freedom or even their lives.
ICE Is a State-Sponsored Terrorist Organization: Abolish ICE, by William Boardman
Congress voted in 2002 to make ICE a national police force with Gestapolike powers. Corrupt law and corrupt politics have produced corrupt results.
Facebook codifies its censorship regime
The technology giants, unbeknownst to their users, are blocking “alternative” news sources and promoting “trusted” news outlets…
Facebook is a tyranny – and our government isn’t built to stop it
The greatest tyranny yet would be the merging of corporate monopoly and governmental power to create the most invasive surveillance state in history.
HOMELAND SECURITY COMPILING DATABASE OF JOURNALISTS AND ‘MEDIA INFLUENCERS’
Why “Media Monitoring” and Why Now?
Snowden Explains How the Deep State Influences Presidents
And this gets to the central crux of your question, which is: can any president oppose this? The answer is certainly.
Facebook’s ‘Secret’ File on You Is Bigger Than You Think — Here’s How to View It
Whigham urges people to download their file so they can see the extent to which their privacy is being violated by what he calls “surveillance capitalism.”
The “Steele Dossier” on … Me: Why I won’t praise the FBI lie and spy machine by Greg Palast
Singer has slipped secret, poisoned dossiers to media outlets to destroy the reputations of elected officials from Argentina to the Congo — all to make another billion.
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