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August 4, 2015 "Federal appeals court: Drug dog that's barely more accurate than a coin flip is good enough"
August 5, 2015 "Court Rules Warrantless Cell Phone Tracking Violates Fourth Amendment"
August 5, 2015 "Chicago police detained thousands of black Americans at interrogation facility"
August 7, 2015 "Despite Recent Court Rulings, Getting Behind the Wheel Is Pretty Much Kissing Your 4th Amendment Protections Goodbye"
August 11, 2015 "Texas woman accuses police of sexual assault over body-cavity strip search"
August 12, 2015 "Court ruling allows DNA to be used in future cases"
August 12, 2015 "The U.S. Government Is Putting Americans on Its No-Fly List on a Hunch"
August 13, 2015 "Boston Police Commissioner Wants Cameras Further Away From Cops, Criminal Charges for Not Assisting Officers"
August 15, 2015 "NSA Spying Relies on AT&T's 'Extreme Willingness to Help'"
August 16, 2015 "How your phone tracks your every move"
August 17, 2015 "Should Everyone Get to See Body-Camera Video?"
August 19, 2015 "Woman Catches Cop Beating Handcuffed Suspect; Police Union First in Line to Shoot the Messenger"
August 20, 2015 "Irish Airport Security Bravely Defends Plane From Toddler's Fart-Gun"
August 21, 2015 "TSA at the Movies: Theater Chain Looks to Bring Security Theater to the Movie Theater"
August 25, 2015 "US Cops Aren't Getting Warrants to Spy on People's Cellphones for Petty Crimes"
August 26, 2015 "Why government surveillance won't protect your data"
August 27, 2015 "'We Should Put a Metal Detector on the Other Side': The Laughable Waste of TSA Body Scanners"
August 28, 2015 "Can anyone escape Britain's surveillance state?"
September 3, 2015 "The Feds Need a Warrant to Spy With Stingrays From Now On"
September 7, 2015 "Tech companies may be our best hope for resisting government surveillance"
September 8, 2015 "License to Connive: Boston Still Tracks Vehicles, Lies About It, and Leaves Sensitive Resident Data Exposed Online"
September 10, 2015 "First Library to Support Anonymous Internet Browsing Effort Stops After DHS Email"
September 10, 2015 "Once again: There is no 'war on cops.' And those who claim otherwise are playing a dangerous game."
September 14, 2015 "Cops Throw Innocent Woman in Mental Hospital Because They Didn't Believe She Owned a BMW"
September 15, 2015 "Lebanon Library Resumes Support of Anonymous Web Browser Tor"
September 16, 2015 "Texas Police Arrest Kid for Building a Clock"
September 17, 2015 "TSA Doesn't Care That Its Luggage Locks Have Been Hacked"
September 22, 2015 "Cops Hold Couple at Gunpoint, Nearly Kill Them & Unborn Child for Driving to Hospital to Give Birth"
September 22, 2015 "Living in code yellow"
September 23, 2015 "TSA Defends Agents Who Detained Transgender Woman for 'Anomaly'"
September 24, 2015 "Edward Snowden Inspires Global Treaty for Online Privacy"
September 24, 2015 "Think Police Can't Use Illegally Obtained Evidence Against You? Think Again."
September 25, 2015 "Profiled: From Radio to Porn, British Spies Track Web Users' Online Identities"
September 29, 2015 "The Era of Automatic Facial Recognition and Surveillance Is Here"
September 30, 2015 "The Fourth Amendment shuffle"
September 30, 2015 "Washington Considers Ending the 'Virtual License to Kill' Given to the Police"
October 5, 2015 "China's Nightmarish Citizen Scores Are a Warning For Americans"
October 7, 2015 "Mouth Wide Shut"
October 8, 2015 "California Now Has the Nation's Best Digital Privacy Law"
October 14, 2015 "Law Enforcement and the Ongoing Inconvenience of the Fourth Amendment"
October 15, 2015 "Third Circuit to the City of New York: Being Muslim Is Not Reasonable Suspicion for Surveillance"
October 21, 2015 "UK Goes Full Orwell: Government to Take Children Away From Parents If They Might Become Radicalized"
October 22, 2015 "FBI Director Defends Baltimore Spy Flights, Says It's Helpful to Know 'Where Are People Gathering'"
October 26, 2015 "Homeland, Snowden and fictional defences of the CIA"
October 26, 2015 "IRS possessed Stingray cellphone surveillance gear, documents reveal"
October 26, 2015 "Comey Sells the 'Ferguson Effect,' Blames Spikes in Violent Crime on Citizens With Cameras"
October 26, 2015 "Why Does America Arrest So Many People--and How Can We Stop It?"
October 30, 2015 "FBI spy planes used thermal imaging tech in flights over Baltimore after Freddie Gray unrest"
October 30, 2015 "ACLU: Documents prove FBI flew surveillance planes during Baltimore riots"
November 2, 2015 "City Attorney calls off New Haven PD pilot program"
November 3, 2015 "State Law Makes It a Felony to Touch a Police Officer Even Off-Duty and Out of Uniform"
November 6, 2015 "US officials have no problem leaking classified information about surveillance--as long as it fits their narrative"
November 7, 2015 "'A turning point for Obama': How the president learned to love the national security state"
November 9, 2015 "The Digital Dog Ate Our Civil-Liberties Homework: 'It's Just the Way It Is'"
November 9, 2015 "Sonia Sotomayor Takes a Stand Against Police Brutality"
November 9, 2015 "Classified Report on the C.I.A.'s Secret Prisons Is Caught in Limbo"
November 10, 2015 "Are We Training Cops to Be Hyper-Aggressive 'Warriors'?"

Recommended Reading

May 1, 2015 "New ACLU Cellphone App Automatically Preserves Video of Police Encounters"
May 1, 2015 "Warwick police no longer accept Motel 6 guest list"
May 5, 2015 "One of the Biggest Privacy Wins in Recent Memory Has Been Reversed"
May 5, 2015 "The Computers Are Listening: How the NSA Converts Spoken Words Into Searchable Text"
May 7, 2015 "Federal Appeals Court Rules Key Component of NSA Surveillance Is Illegal"
May 7, 2015 "The philosophy of privacy: why surveillance reduces us to objects"
May 8, 2015 "The Substance of the Second Circuit on 215: Four Key Takeaways"
May 9, 2015 "Fastest Rights Flexed Ever? Man Shuts Down Unlawful NYPD Search in Just Seven Seconds"
May 12, 2015 "Many of the NSA's Loudest Defenders Have Financial Ties to NSA Contractors"
May 12, 2015 "Why the Surveillance State Is Everybody's Problem"
May 13, 2015 "United States v. Davis--Wrestling With the Third Party Doctrine"
May 13, 2015 "Long-Range Iris Scanning Is Here"
May 13, 2015 "Net Loss: Freedom? Edward Snowden, Scott Ludlam and Elaine Pearson on the surveillance state (Progress 2015)"
May 14, 2015 "The American Military Uncontained: Chaos Spread, Casualties Inflicted, Missions Unaccomplished"
May 16, 2015 "The Supreme Court's Fourth Amendment irrelevance"
May 18, 2015 "Is the Fourth Amendment Irrelevant to Law Enforcement? Three Ways Courts Can Make It Matter"
May 18, 2015 "Why Everyone Wants the Military Budget to Be Bigger"
May 18, 2015 "US officials leak information about the ISIS raid that's more sensitive than anything Snowden ever leaked"
May 18, 2015 "Obama: U.S. Cracking Down on 'Militarization' of Local Police"
May 20, 2015 "Pew Finds Americans Value Privacy, Distrust Government, Tech Firms"
May 20, 2015 "Chris Christie: Your NSA Fears Are Bullshit and Civil Liberties Advocates Are Extremists"
May 26, 2015 "America's descent into a world of madness: The nihilistic philosophy guiding us into the future"
May 27, 2015 "Bruce Schneier on Privacy and the Data Free-for-All"
May 27, 2015 "Mitch McConnell and Snuggly the Security Bear Beg to Spy"
May 28, 2015 "Anonymous Fearmongering About the PATRIOT Act from the White House and NYT"
May 29, 2015 "What is the Fourth Amendment in the digital age?"
June 3, 2015 "Snowden's leaks forced NSA reform on Congress. The US would still jail him"
June 5, 2015 "Why are we spending $7 billion on TSA?"
June 5, 2015 "Life after Snowden: Journalists' new moral responsibility"
June 10, 2015 "Because the 4th Amendment Only Kicks In After the Fact, 'Reasonable Suspicion' Will Always Be Anything But"
June 10, 2015 "Clearing your browser history can be deemed 'obstruction of justice' in the U.S."
June 12, 2015 "Mom arrested, strip-searched, and detained after 9/11 flight settles lawsuit"
June 23, 2015 "You're being secretly tracked with facial recognition, even in church"
June 25, 2015 "Christie's Conspiracy: The Real Story Behind the Fort Dix Five Terror Plot"
June 29, 2015 "Texas Town Is Charging Us $79,000 for Emails About Pool Party Abuse Cop"
July 1, 2015 "TSA Asks America to LOL at Traveler Who Had $75,000 Taken From Him by Federal Agents"
July 1, 2015 "FBI and Media Still Addicted to Ginning Up Terrorist Hysteria--But They Have Never Been Right"
July 1, 2015 "The ten most repressive points of Spain's gag law"
July 1, 2015 "Kuwait makes DNA tests mandatory after IS bombing"
July 3, 2015 "Republicans refuse to identify lawmaker behind measure restricting access to legislative records"
July 6, 2015 "Our media's Isis threat hype machine: government stenography at its worst"
July 9, 2015 "Two of the Most Ridiculous Statements from Senators at Yesterday's Encryption Hearings"
July 15, 2015 "Filmmaker Laura Poitras has been detained 50 times. Now she's suing to find out why."
July 18, 2015 "NCCo police keep watch for 'likely' terror attack"
July 20, 2015 "Wesley Clark Calls for Internment Camps for 'Radicalized' Americans"
July 22, 2015 "Sandra Bland's Arrest Wasn't Racism; It Was Something Even Worse"
July 24, 2105 "In Iraq, I raided insurgents. In Virginia, the police raided me."
July 24, 2015 "Exclusive: Feds Regularly Monitored Black Lives Matter Since Ferguson"
July 28, 2015 "Do you have to tell a cop you're using a dash cam?"
July 29, 2015 "The Road Rage of a Narcotics Detective"
July 31, 2015 "Court Rules Police Need a Warrant to Access Location Data From Your Cellphone"
July 31, 2015 "During Baltimore Uprising, City Officials Criminalized Hashtags & Labeled Social Media Postings as 'Threats'"
July 31, 2015 "TSA: Terror Sorority Alert"

Recommended Reading

October 23, 2014 "The Making of the Warrior Cop"
December 4, 2014 "Party On!: The War Party Ascendant"
December 9, 2014 "When Police 'Reforms' Only Legitimize Police Abuses"
January 13, 2015 "The Cold War and the Culture of Secrecy"
February 12, 2015 "Your TV may be watching you"
February 17, 2015 "In Whose America? Machine Guns, MRAPs, Surveillance, Drones, Permanent War, and a Permanent Election Campaign"
March 10, 2015 "Wikimedia v. NSA: Wikimedia Foundation files suit against NSA to challenge upstream mass surveillance"
March 10, 2015 "Technology should be used to create social mobility--not to spy on citizens"
March 12, 2015 "Companies Are Tracking Employees to Nab Traitors"
March 13, 2015 "Are CTA Bag Checks Against Our Fourth Amendment Rights?"
March 13, 2015 "Lawsuit Over DHS First Amendment-Violating Suspicious Activity Reports Given Green Light by Judge"
March 13, 2015 "Report Says UK Citizens Must Give Up Right to Privacy Because 'Terrorism', Reveals Huge Secret Government Databases"
March 13, 2015 "Hertz puts cameras in its rental cars, says it has no plans to use them"
March 14, 2015 "Pearson Is Now Spying on Students During Standardized Testing"
March 15, 2015 "Cops are freaked out that Congress may impose license plate reader limits"
March 16, 2015 "White House office to delete its FOIA regulations"
March 16, 2015 "The Sting: How the FBI Created a Terrorist"
March 17, 2015 "The Big Dick School of American Patriotism: And What We Make of It"
March 17, 2015 "What's Scarier: Terrorism, or Governments Blocking Websites in Its Name?"
March 17, 2015 "Crowd-Sourcing, Surveillance, and the Era of the Synopticon"
March 19, 2015 "The DOJ Is Sneaking in a Policy That'd Crap All Over the 4th Amendment"
March 20, 2015 "ICE, What Part of Unconstitutional Do You Not Understand?"
March 21, 2015 "Cyber snoops track students' activity"
March 26, 2015 "FBI Quietly Removes Recommendation to Encrypt Your Phone...As FBI Director Warns How Encryption Will Lead to Tears"
March 27, 2015 "Judge Calls Out Portland Police for Bogus 'Contempt of Cop' Arrest/Beating"
March 27, 2015 "Exclusive: TSA's Secret Behavior Checklist to Spot Terrorists"
March 27, 2015 "Absurd Fourth Circuit ruling embodies everything that's wrong with drug raids"
March 30, 2015 "GPS monitoring of sex offenders for life? Supreme Court reverses N.C. case."
March 30, 2015 "Virginia Towns Using Federally-Funded License Plate Readers to Collect Local Taxes"
April 5, 2015 "'They treated us as if we were murderers': The trauma of an ICE raid"
April 6, 2015 "Video shows Vineland man who died in custody being bitten by police dog"
April 6, 2015 "Who Do You Protect, Who Do You Surveil?"
April 7, 2015 "Police Dog Savagely Attacks Unarmed Black Man"
April 8, 2015 "The US Gov Can Download the Entire Contents of Your Computer at Border Crossings"
April 8, 2015 "U.S. secretly tracked billions of calls for decades"
April 9, 2015 "Police Chief: Surveillance Cameras Don't Help Fight Crime"
April 9, 2015 "Why Don't Surveillance State Defenders Seem to Care That the Programs They Love Don't Work?"
April 9, 2015 "Abolish the Police. Instead, Let's Have Full Social, Economic, and Political Equality."
April 9, 2015 "Visiting the Torture Museum: Barbarism Then and Now"
April 10, 2015 "The Legal Right to Videotape Police Isn't Actually All That Clear"
April 10, 2015 "Rolling Back the Police State"
April 14, 2015 "Baseball's new metal detectors won't keep you safe. They'll just make you miss a few innings."
April 14, 2015 "No Fly List: Govt Offers New Redress Procedures"
April 14, 2015 "Motel 6 giving police names of guests"
April 15, 2015 "Denver TSA groping scheme UPDATE"
April 15, 2015 "The Myth of Police Reform"
April 16, 2015 "'Buy-a-Badge' Programs Are a Recipe for Disaster, and Eric Harris Paid the Price"
April 16, 2015 "Police Must Respect the Right of Citizens to Record Them"
April 19, 2015 "Controversial secret phone tracker figured in dropped St. Louis case"
April 20, 2015 "With millennials gaining influence, surveillance reform is inevitable"
April 20, 2015 "Keeping Track of the US Intelligence Community's Leakers"
April 21, 2015 "Could America Torture Again?"
April 21, 2015 "The Ferguson Effect"
April 22, 2015 "New Jersey Cop Demands Camera From Eyewitness After Police Dog Allowed to Maul Prone Suspect"
April 23, 2015 "David Petraeus receives no jail time for leaking, while whistleblowers face decades in jail"
April 24, 2015 "Newly Obtained Records Reveal Extensive Monitoring of E-ZPass Tags Throughout New York"
April 27, 2015 "Blue Shield"
April 28, 2015 "US Marshal Shuts Down Citizen Recording by Grabbing Phone and Smashing It on the Ground"
April 30, 2015 "The terrorists have won"

Recommended Reading

January 15, 2014 "Want to Predict the Future of Surveillance? Ask Poor Communities."
July 19, 2014 "I, spy: Edward Snowden in exile"
October 2014 "Glenn Greenwald: Why privacy matters"
October 13, 2014 "Private Donors Supply Spy Gear to Cops"
October 18, 2014 "'I'm not going away': James Risen unloads to Salon about his government foes"
October 19, 2014 "Culture of the National Security State: Deepa Kumar on Reality Asserts Itself"
October 20, 2014 "Virginia Police Have Been Secretly Stockpiling Private Phone Records"
October 23, 2014 "Special report: America's perpetual state of emergency"
October 24, 2014 "Everyone is a suspect"
October 26, 2014 "Peekaboo, I See You: Government Authority Intended for Terrorism Is Used for Other Purposes"
October 27, 2014 "Verizon's 'Perma-Cookie' Is a Privacy-Killing Machine"
October 28, 2014 "The U.S. Government Is Suddenly Way, Way More Interested in Tracking Snail Mail"
October 28, 2014 "The NRA Comes Out in Support of Warrior Cops"
October 28, 2014 "Wisconsin police send armoured vehicle to collect fine from 75-year-old"
October 29, 2014 "Search Party"
October 30, 2014 "A Hotel's Right to Protect the Privacy of Its Guests"
November 3, 2014 "In Klayman v. Obama, EFF Explains Why Metadata Matters and the Third Party Doctrine Doesn't"
November 3, 2014 "Police in Ferguson Set Up No-Fly Zone Solely to Keep Journalists Out, According to FAA Audio Recordings"
November 3, 2014 "A Dystopian Future of Ads That Won't Stop Until You Say 'McDonald's' Could Be Avoided With More Transparency"
November 7, 2014 "All Cameras Are Police Cameras"
November 9, 2014 "25 Years After the Wall Fell, Berlin Is a Haven for Cyber Rebellion"
November 12, 2014 "Cop Slaps Man Exercising Rights"
November 13, 2014 "Boston Is Already Saying 'Hell No' to the 2024 Olympics"
November 14, 2014 "Feds Put Fake Cell Towers on Planes, Spied on Tons of Innocent Americans"
November 14, 2014 "Selling Fear: The First US School Installs a Shooting Detection System"
November 18, 2014 "Prosecutors drop key evidence at trial to avoid explaining 'stingray' use"
November 19, 2014 "'Cops Decide Running Surprise School Shooter Drill During Class at a Middle School Is a Great Idea"
November 19, 2014 "How the USA Freedom Act failed on all fronts"
November 19, 2014 "Congress Is Irrelevant on Mass Surveillance. Here's What Matters Instead."
November 20, 2014 "We Have Sacrificed Our Liberty to the Surveillance State"
November 20, 2014 "Sheriff suspends warrant checks at Social Services"
November 20, 2014 "The War on Terror Has Totally Backfired"
November 25, 2014 "Ohio Could Pass the Country's Most Extreme 'Secret Executions' Bill"
November 26, 2014 "Facebook surveillance: Lee Rigby murder should not be used as excuse for an increase in state power"
November 26, 2014 "After a Temporary Show of Enthusiasm, Government Lapses Back Into Not Caring About the Militarization of the Nation's Police"
November 28, 2014 "The bigger the haystack, the harder the terrorist is to find"
December 1, 2014 "NYPD Admits Its Counterterrorism Cops Are Incompetent"
December 2, 2014 "Los Angeles and New York Pin Down School Kids and Then Say It Never Happened"
December 3, 2014 "American Cops Kill With Startling Frequency Compared to Other Nations"
December 4, 2014 "Rick Scott Won't Get to Drug Test Poor People After All: Federal Court Rejects Welfare Testing"
December 4, 2014 "The Homicide No One Committed: Eric Garner's Death at the Hands of an NYPD Officer No-Billed by Grand Jury"
December 5, 2014 "Why Police Body Cameras Won't Work"
December 8, 2014 "What Bad, Shameful, Dirty Behavior Is U.S. Judge Richard Posner Hiding? Demand to Know."
December 8, 2014 "DOJ Releases Report on Cleveland Police Department Investigation and It's Bad News All the Way Down"
December 9, 2014 "Senate Report: CIA Torture Was Brutal and Ineffective"
December 10, 2014 "Profiting Massively From Torture: Designers of CIA Torture Program Raked in $81 Million (and Are Still Getting Money)"
December 11, 2014 "Torture Is Who We Are"
December 11, 2014 "Congress Quietly Bolsters NSA Spying in Intelligence Bill"
December 12, 2014 "Federal Court Agrees with EFF, Throws Out Six Weeks of Warrantless Video Surveillance"
December 14, 2014 "American Torture--Past, Present, and... Future?: Beyond the Senate Torture Report"
December 15, 2014 "Over 700 Million People Taking Steps to Avoid NSA Surveillance"
December 15, 2014 "Ignorance of the law isn't an acceptable defense, even for police"
December 16, 2014 "The CIA Didn't Just Torture, It Experimented on Human Beings"
December 16, 2014 "The Implications of the Torture Report"
December 17, 2014 "Reaction to the Sony Hack Is 'Beyond the Realm of Stupid'"
December 19, 2014 "Slip of an Officer's Tongue Suggests Police Are Monitoring #BlackLivesMatter Protesters' Cell Phones"
December 24, 2014 "U.S. Spy Agency Reports Improper Surveillance of Americans"
December 30, 2014 "When the FISA Court Rejects a Surveillance Request, the FBI Just Issues a National Security Letter Instead"
December 31, 2014 "Police Radar Carries Risk of Abuse, Court Says"
January 5, 2015 "FBI says search warrants not needed to use 'stingrays' in public places"
January 6, 2015 "Court Asked Why There's No Expectation of Privacy in Cell Location Data, But an Expectation of Privacy in the Cellphone Itself"
January 7, 2015 "Why Is Immigration & Customs Enforcement Still Fighting For Its Runaway Detainer Regime?"
January 8, 2015 "Terrorism Works"
January 9, 2015 "Judge Orders NYPD to Release Records on X-ray Vans"
January 9, 2015 "Q&A: On the Untouchable 'Lords of Secrecy'"
January 12, 2015 "Evidence Strongly Suggests CPD Illegally Uses Stingray Technology on Protestors"
January 12, 2015 "Hotter Than Lava"
January 13, 2015 "For Political Leaders, More Surveillance Is Always the Answer"
January 14, 2015 "Zombie Cookie: The Tracking Cookie That You Can't Kill"
January 15, 2015 "Mass surveillance not effective for finding terrorists"
January 15, 2015 "How the Camera Doomed Google Glass"
January 16, 2015 "U.S. Discloses New Trove of Phone Call Records"
January 16, 2015 "Zombie Cookies Slated to be Killed"
January 16, 2015 "Christie Use of Tollbooth Data and Why Location Privacy Must Be Protected"
January 18, 2015 "Your Home Is Your Prison: How to Lock Down Your Neighborhood, Your Country, and You"
January 20, 2015 "New police radars can 'see' inside homes"
January 20, 2015 "FBI Defuses Another of Its Own Terrorist Plots; John Boehner Pretends It's Evidence That We Need to Renew the PATRIOT Act"
January 22, 2015 "More and War: The Tao of Washington"
January 24, 2015 "Don't turn Europe into a militarized surveillance state"
January 25, 2015 "The war on leaks has gone way too far when journalists' emails are under surveillance"
January 26, 2015 "Justice Sotomayor: Stop Bending the Constitution to Favor Cops"
January 26, 2015 "The TSA Wants to Read Your Facebook Posts and Check Out Your Purchases Before It Will Approve You for PreCheck"
January 26, 2015 "Government Pays Up to Settle With Traveler Who Was Detained by TSA for Trying to Learn Arabic"
January 27, 2015 "European counter-terror plan involves blanket collection of passengers' data"
January 27, 2015 "Police Department Refuses to Release Use of Force Policies Because 'Criminals Might Gain an Advantage'"
January 28, 2015 "No, Department of Justice, 80 Percent of Tor Traffic Is Not Child Porn"
January 29, 2015 "Cops Arrest Public Defender for Attempting to Do Her Job"
January 30, 2015 "If they can imprison Barrett Brown, they can do it to anyone"
January 30, 2015 "Michael Hayden's Hollow Constitution"
January 30, 2015 "NYPD Clarifies That New Counterterror Unit Won't Carry Machine Guns at Protests"
February 1, 2015 "War Is the New Normal: Seven Deadly Reasons Why America's Wars Persist"
February 2, 2015 "FBI put Anonymous 'hacktivist' Jeremy Hammond on terrorism watchlist"
February 2, 2015 "Homeland Insecurity: Checkpoints, Warrantless Searches and Security Theater"
February 3, 2015 "'Keep Fear Alive': A Misguided Call to Double Down on Localized Secret Policing"
February 3, 2015 "'Innocent people' on police photos database"
February 4, 2015 "NYPD Bosses Call for Harsher Penalties for Protestors, Less Oversight for Cops"
February 5, 2015 "The federal government could be taking pictures of you in your car"
February 5, 2015 "Innocent frequent flier detained after run-in with TSA"
February 5, 2015 "The Lone-Wolf Terror Trap: Why the Cure Will Be Worse Than the Disease"
February 9, 2015 "Be Careful What You Say Around Your Samsung Smart TV"
February 10, 2015 "Saying No to Torture: A Gallery of American Heroes"
February 10, 2015 "Et Tu, Detroit?"
February 11, 2015 "The Chief Justice Has Never Been Pulled Over in His Life"
February 12, 2015 "Hundreds of South Carolina Inmates Sent to Solitary Confinement Over Facebook"
February 17, 2015 "'Anti-petroleum' movement a growing security threat to Canada, RCMP says"
February 18, 2015 "EFF to Supreme Court: The Fourth Amendment Covers DNA Collection"
February 18, 2015 "Why Collection of Arrestee DNA Violates the Fourth Amendment"
February 18, 2015 "Bad lieutenant: American police brutality, exported from Chicago to Guantanamo"
February 19, 2015 "Proposed Florida Body Camera Law Riddled with Exceptions at Behest of Police Union"
February 19, 2015 "The Great SIM Heist: How Spies Stole the Keys to the Encryption Castle"
February 23, 2015 "'The Shadow State Is Not Really a Shadow State': How Surveillance Anxiety Is Shaping Pop Culture"
February 24, 2015 "The disappeared: Chicago police detain Americans at abuse-laden 'black site'"
February 26, 2015 "Heard about the FBI tracking of Keystone XL activists? It's worse than you thought."
February 27, 2015 "But for the video..."
February 27, 2015 "'I sat in that place for three days, man': Chicagoans detail abusive confinement inside police 'black site'"
March 2, 2015 "James Clapper: Kill the Patriot Act, but Don't Blame Me If Another 9/11 Happens"
March 4, 2015 "Student Arrested While Photographing Cop Takes Suit to Trial"
March 4, 2015 "Quebec resident Alain Philippon to fight charge for not giving up phone password at airport"
March 5, 2015 "Trying to make sense of the world of ubiquitous surveillance"
March 5, 2015 "The Islamic State's Atrocities--and Ours"

Recommended Reading

January 13, 2014 "Do NSA's Bulk Surveillance Programs Stop Terrorism?"
February 7, 2014 "State prodded on ID security"
April 14, 2014 "FBI Plans to Have 52 Million Photos in Its NGI Face Recognition Database by Next Year"
May 1, 2014 "My Experiment Opting Out of Big Data Made Me Look Like a Criminal"
May 5, 2014 "Debate on state surveillance: Greenwald and Ohanian vs. Hayden and Dershowitz"
May 7, 2014 "How Cell Phone Search and Seizure Could Radically Affect Privacy"
May 12, 2014 "'Frontline' Doc Explores How Sept. 11 Created Today's NSA"
June 10, 2014 "Can We Beat the Surveillance State?"
July 4, 2014 "CIA employee's quest to release information 'destroyed my entire career'"
July 5, 2014 "In NSA-intercepted data, those not targeted far outnumber the foreigners who are"
July 9, 2014 "Under Surveillance: Meet the Muslim-American Leaders the FBI and NSA Have Been Spying On"
July 9, 2014 "What a Muslim American Said to Defend His Patriotism"
July 10, 2014 "The 25th Hour: Still Living With Jack Bauer in a Terrified New American World"
July 11, 2014 "NSA chief knew of Snowden file destruction by Guardian in UK"
July 14, 2014 "Obama administration says the world's servers are ours"
July 15, 2014 "Government Continues to Pretend People Use Cell Phones Simply to Create a Wealth of Data for Law Enforcement to Access Without a Warrant"
July 16, 2014 "DOJ Claims Judge Who Trashed 'Made Up Plot' Should Be Removed for Being 'Hostile' to the Gov't"
July 17, 2014 "The Inevitable: Drunk Man Arrested for Impersonating Groping TSA Agent at Airport"
July 17, 2014 "Snowden: NSA employees routinely pass around intercepted nude photos"
July 18, 2014 "Lawsuit Filed to Force NYPD to Respect Citizens' First Amendment Right to Record Police Officers"
July 18, 2014 "Meet Executive Order 12333: The Reagan rule that lets the NSA spy on Americans"
July 19, 2014 "Ars editor learns feds have his old IP addresses, full credit card numbers"
July 20, 2014 "Arizona's Checkpoint Rebellion"
July 21, 2014 "Parallel Construction: Unconstitutional NSA Searches Deny Due Process"
July 21, 2014 "Protecting your privacy: Our stand against 'mandatory data retention'"
July 22, 2014 "Prosecutors Are Reading Emails From Inmates to Lawyers"
July 23, 2014 "Report: All But Four of the High-Profile Domestic Terrorism Plots in the Last Decade Were Crafted From the Ground Up by the FBI"
July 23, 2014 "Blacklisted: The Secret Government Rulebook For Labeling You a Terrorist"
July 24, 2014 "Texas Dept. of Public Safety Quietly Starts Demanding Full Set of Prints From Drivers License Applicants"
July 25, 2014 "9/11 Commission's '10 Years Later' Report: The Only Problem With US Counterterrorism Is the General Public"
July 29, 2014 "The Snowden Effect: This Is Still Not America"
July 30, 2014 "How Your Innocent Smartphone Passes On Almost Your Entire Life to the Secret Service"
July 31, 2014 "CIA admits it broke into Senate computers; senators call for spy chief's ouster"
July 31, 2014 "Guilt by association and retconning reality"
August 3, 2014 "The Fourth Branch: The Rise to Power of the National Security State"
August 5, 2014 "UNSEALED: The US Sought Permission to Change the Historical Record of a Public Court Proceeding"
August 5, 2014 "Watch Commander: Barack Obama's Secret Terrorist-Tracking System, by the Numbers"
August 6, 2014 "New leaker disclosing U.S. secrets, government concludes"
August 6, 2014 "The CIA Must Tell the Truth About My Rendition at 12 Years Old"
August 7, 2014 "Boston Trolling (Part I): You Partied Hard at Boston Calling and There's Facial Recognition Data to Prove It"
August 10, 2014 "The Crackdown Before the Crackdown"
August 11, 2014 "NYPD Puts Terrorism on the Run by Ordering Twitter to Turn Over Parody Account User Data 'Linked' to Brooklyn Bridge Flag-Switching"
August 12, 2014 "NYPD Officer Chokes Man to Death; Cops Blame Cellphone Recordings and People 'Feeling They Have More Rights'"
August 14, 2014 "The problem with the police's plea to 'Tweet Smart'"
August 14, 2014 "To Terrify and Occupy: How the Excessive Militarization of the Police Is Turning Cops Into Counterinsurgents"
August 14, 2014 "Ferguson Law Enforcement: An 'Occupying Force' With 'Special Rights'"
August 14, 2014 "Tear gas is a chemical weapon banned in war. But Ferguson police shoot it at protestors."
August 14, 2014 "The Militarization of U.S. Police: Finally Dragged Into the Light by the Horrors of Ferguson"
August 14, 2014 "The fiasco in Ferguson shows why you don't give military equipment to cops"
August 15, 2014 "A Militarized Police, a Less Violent Public"
August 19, 2014 "Binney: 'The NSA's main motives: power and money'"
August 20, 2014 "LAPD Officer Says Tragedies Could Be Prevented If Citizens Would Just Shut Up and Do What Cops Tell Them To"
August 20, 2014 "A Former Marine Explains All the Weapons of War Being Used by Police in Ferguson"
August 21, 2014 "Petition to Require All Police to Have Body Cameras Breaks 100,000 Signatures"
August 22, 2014 "The FBI's Criminal Database Is Filling Up With Non-Criminals and No One in Law Enforcement Seems to Care"
August 26, 2014 "Documents: Tacoma police using surveillance device to sweep up cellphone data"
August 27, 2014 "Here's More Evidence That NSA Fears Are Chilling Online Discussions"
August 30, 2014 "Jail won't hold immigrants without probable cause"
September 4, 2014 "The Miraculous Works of the Criminal Justice System"
September 15, 2014 "Sheriff Accused of Keeping Secret Database"
September 15, 2014 "TSA Not Sure If It Groped Man Before Flight, Demands to Grope Him After Flight Is Over"
September 16, 2014 "L.A. schools police will return grenade launchers but keep rifles, armored vehicle"
September 16, 2014 "Israel's N.S.A. Scandal"
September 17, 2014 "Irate NSA Staffer Doesn't Like Being Filmed in Public, for Some Reason"
September 19, 2014 "Two Top Intelligence Officials, Both of Whom Admitted to Lying in the Past, Now Try to Rewrite History and Deny the Lies"
September 20, 2014 "Man claims police seized car illegally"
September 20, 2014 "Orin Kerr's Dangerous Thinking"
September 22, 2014 "Australia's Prime Minister Gives a Master Class in Exploiting Terrorism Fears to Seize New Powers"
September 23, 2014 "FBI Plans Rapid DNA Dragnets"
September 24, 2014 "Court Throws Out Case Against TSA Nude Body Scanners"
September 24, 2014 "Is Obama misleading the world to war? Depends how you define 'misleading'"
September 29, 2014 "Tor executive director hints at Firefox integration"
September 30, 2014 "Police Want to Get Rid of Their Pentagon-Issued Combat Gear. Here's Why They Can't."
October 7, 2014 "How Australia just became a 'national security state'"
October 7, 2014 "Dutch IT Contractor Suggest Letting Police Have Direct Real-Time Access to All of Your Devices...For Your Safety"
October 7, 2014 "ISIS in Washington: America's Soundtrack of Hysteria"
October 14, 2014 "On Leak Prosecutions, Obama Takes It to 11. (Or Should We Say 526?)"
October 16, 2014 "Supreme Court Rejects Cell-Phone Tracking by Police"
October 17, 2014 "Police in Washington, DC Are Using the Secretive 'Stingray' Cell Phone Tracking Tool"
October 20, 2014 "Police Officer Blames Everyone Else But Police Officers for the Public's General Distrust of Law Enforcement"
October 22, 2014 "Seattle Cops Bring Lawsuit Claiming They Have a Constitutional Right to Use Excessive Force"
October 22, 2014 "Frequent Flyer 'Terrorist' Who Blogs About TSA Troubles Was Watchlisted for Animal Activism"

The Court Jester

John Oliver has been doing a great job on his HBO show Last Week Tonight. He's not only very funny, but he's talking about some of the most important issues of our time with the honesty and passion they deserve. You won't get this kind of coverage from most other media outlets. Net neutrality, the death penalty, predatory lending, sponsored advertising, false balance in climate change reporting—so many of his segments have me cheering, "Finally, someone is saying this!" And not for the first time, the most incisive analysis of current events comes from a comedian. The court jester is often described as the only person who could speak truth to the king.

He recently did an excellent segment on police militarization.



He's also talked about our broken prison system.



More of this, please!

Recommended Reading

February 10, 2014 "Totalitarian Paranoia in the Post-Orwellian Surveillance State"
April 20, 2014 "Too Big to Jail?: Why Kidnapping, Torture, Assassination, and Perjury Are No Longer Crimes in Washington"
April 22, 2014 "They Are Watching You: The National Security State and the U.S.-Mexican Border"
April 23, 2014 "Due to license plate reader error, cop approaches innocent man, weapon in hand"
April 25, 2014 "Post-Occupy, #myNYPD Makes New York's Blood Boil"
April 26, 2014 "Protections for e-data clear Senate committee"
April 28, 2014 "US senators remove requirement for disclosure over drone strike victims"
May 1, 2014 "Glenn Greenwald: The NSA's 'collect it all' mission"
May 1, 2014 "Glenn Greenwald on politeness, privacy and the surveillance state"
May 2, 2014 "State surveillance under microscope"
May 6, 2014 "7 mass surveillance tools your local police might be using"
May 7, 2014 "ACLU raises red flag over traffic cameras"
May 8, 2014 "ODNI Requires Pre-Publication Review of All Public Information"
May 8, 2014 "Keith Alexander Unplugged: on Bush/Obama, 1.7 million stolen documents and other matters"
May 8, 2014 "Portland police arrest, handcuff a nine-year-old girl"
May 12, 2014 "The Government's Antipathy Towards Transparency Has Made FOIA Lawsuits the Default Process"
May 12, 2014 "Michael Hayden Gleefully Admits: We Kill People Based on Metadata"
May 12, 2014 "Internet Subversion"
May 12, 2014 "Glenn Greenwald: how the NSA tampers with US-made internet routers"
May 12, 2014 "Glenn Greenwald: from Martin Luther King to Anonymous, the state targets dissenters not just 'bad guys'"
May 13, 2014 "No Place to Hide: Monumentally important book shines a spotlight on the surveillance state"
May 14, 2014 "Who watches the watchers? Big Data goes unchecked"
May 14, 2014 "The official US position on the NSA is still unlimited eavesdropping power"
May 14, 2014 "No Place to Hide: A Conservative Critique of a Radical NSA"
May 15, 2014 "Who Has Your Back?: A Report From the Electronic Frontier Foundation"
May 15, 2014 "Bill to curb NSA spying looks like change, but isn't really"
May 16, 2014 "Maximum Orwell: Ending the War Without End, by Enabling a New War Without End...and Less Oversight"
May 16, 2014 "Keith Alexander Declares Failure in War on Terror, as He Earlier Declared Failure in Cyberdefense"
May 17, 2014 "Everyone should know just how much the government lied to defend the NSA"
May 19, 2014 "What's the Point of a Source Protection Law That Wouldn't Protect Chelsea Manning or Edward Snowden?"
May 19, 2014 "Data Pirates of the Caribbean: The NSA Is Recording Every Phone Call in the Bahamas"
May 20, 2014 "Secrets, lies and Snowden's email: why I was forced to shut down Lavabit"
May 21, 2014 "DOJ reverses no-recording policy for interrogations"
May 22, 2014 "Expensive TSA Nudie Scanners Find a New Home: Prisons"
May 22, 2014 "'Journalist' Argues in NY Times That Publishing Decisions Should Ultimately Be Made by Government"
May 22, 2014 "Edward Snowden: Pentagon report on 'grave' threat is gravely overblown"
May 23, 2014 "Another Bogus Hit From a License Plate Reader Results in Another Citizen Surrounded by Cops With Guns Out"
May 23, 2014 "Another Former NSA Lawyer Says He Wouldn't Have Listened to Concerns About the Agency's Surveillance Programs"
May 24, 2014 "Final Word on U.S. Law Isn't: Supreme Court Keeps Editing"
May 27, 2014 "A Small Right With a Huge Loophole"
May 28, 2014 "Information Highway Robbery"
May 30, 2014 "How Many Terrorists Are There: Not As Many As You Might Think"
May 30, 2014 "Google's car would give it even more remote control over us"
May 30, 2014 "Daniel Ellsberg: Snowden would not get a fair trail--and Kerry is wrong"
May 31, 2014 "N.S.A. Collecting Millions of Faces From Web Images"
May 31, 2014 "Quantifying Privacy: A Week of Location Data May Be an 'Unreasonable Search'"
June 2, 2014 "The Top 5 Claims That Defenders of the NSA Have to Stop Making to Remain Credible"
June 3, 2014 "U.S. Marshals Seize Local Cops' Cell Phone Tracking Files in Extraordinary Attempt to Keep Information From Public"
June 3, 2014 "Dow Jones asks court to unseal long-completed digital surveillance cases"
June 4, 2014 "Appeals court in Chicago holds highly unusual 'secret' session"
June 4, 2014 "Major terrorism trial could be held in secret for first time in UK legal history"
June 5, 2014 "Vodafone reveals existence of secret wires that allow state surveillance"
June 5, 2014 "On 6/5, 65 Things We Know About NSA Surveillance That We Didn't Know a Year Ago"
June 10, 2014 "Don't Walk Away From War: It's Not the American Way"
June 11, 2014 "Six Officers Charged in Police Pursuit That Ended With 137 Shots Being Fired at Suspects in a Little Over 20 Seconds"
June 11, 2014 "Federal Appeals Court: Warrant for Cell Phone Location Data Is Required Under Fourth Amendment"
June 12, 2014 "Law Enforcement Agencies Continue to Obtain Military Equipment, Claiming the United States Is a 'War Zone'"
June 12, 2014 "New Pennsylvania law allows school districts to record student conversations on buses"
June 12, 2014 "The Price of Soccer Safety"
June 12, 2014 "U.S. pushing local cops to stay mum on surveillance"
June 12, 2014 "Uncle Sam Doesn't Want You--He Already Has You: The Militarized Realities of Fortress America"
June 14, 2014 "The Fog Machine of War"
June 15, 2014 "What We've Lost Since 9/11: Taking Down the First Amendment in Post-Constitutional America"
June 16, 2014 "State Legislators Discussing Laws That Will Put Law Enforcement Surveillance Cameras Inside Private Businesses"
June 16, 2014 "The Limits of Signals Intelligence"
June 18, 2014 "How the NSA may be using games to encourage digital snooping"
June 19, 2014 "Important Victories for the Fourth Amendment May Pose Big Threat to Dragnet"
June 20, 2014 "Stingray Documents Show Law Enforcement Using 'Terrorism' to Obtain Equipment to Fight Regular Crime"
June 23, 2014 "Consume, Conform, Obey: What Homeland Security's Targeting of Anti-Consumerist Activities Says About the Government's Desires"
June 23, 2014 "DOJ Drone Memo: AUMF Trumps All and Rights Are Subject to Arbitrary Revocation in Times of 'War'"
June 24, 2014 "Obama's 'drone memo' is finally public. Now show us the library of secret law"
June 24, 2014 "Court Rules No Fly List Is Unconstitutional and Must Be Reformed"
June 24, 2014 "US police departments are increasingly militarised, finds report"
June 24, 2014 "A SWAT team blew a hole in my 2-year-old son"
June 25, 2014 "Supreme Court Says Law Enforcement Can't Search Mobile Phones Without a Warrant"
June 25, 2014 "EFF and 31 Other Organizations Call for Privacy Assessment of FBI's Biometric Database"
June 26, 2014 "Massachusetts SWAT teams claim they're private corporations, immune from open records laws"
June 26, 2014 "Shredding the Fourth Amendment in Post-Constitutional America: Four Ways It No Longer Applies"
June 27, 2014 "EFF, Greenpeace Fly Blimp Over NSA's Utah Datacenter; Launch Campaign to Stop Illegal Internet Spying"
June 30, 2014 "FBI, CIA Use Backdoor Searches to Warrantlessly Spy on Americans' Communications"
July 2, 2014 "Report Finds NSA Programs Legal, but Legal Doesn't Equal Right"
July 3, 2014 "NSA Targets the Privacy-Conscious for Surveillance"