Saturday, January 4, 2014

Recommended Reading

November 2013 "Medical, Military, and Ethics Experts Say Health Professionals Designed and Participated in Cruel, Inhumane, and Degrading Treatment and Torture of Detainees; Seek Policies to Assure Conformance with Ethical Principles"
November 1, 2013 "UK: Snowden reporter's partner involved in 'espionage' and 'terrorism'"
November 1, 2013 "What's Bugging the Head of the NSA?"
November 4, 2013 "NSA official cites 'stop and frisk' in effort to explain searches of phone records"
November 5, 2013 "6 Months After Obama Promised to Divulge More on Drones, Here's What We Still Don't Know"
November 5, 2013 "Orwell's '1984' has nothing on the current surveillance state"
November 6, 2013 "FBI monitored anti-war website in error for six years, documents show"
November 7, 2013 "C.I.A. Is Said to Pay AT&T for Call Data"
November 7, 2013 "Forget the Back Door: the Government Now Wants the Keys to the Internet"
November 8, 2013 "Rep. Alan Grayson Asks Eric Holder If US Citizen Glenn Greenwald Will Actually Be Allowed Back Into the US Without Arrest"
November 8, 2013 "Feinstein's NSA bill shows she doesn't have a clue about intelligence reform"
November 8, 2013 "A Fraying of the Public/Private Surveillance Partnership"
November 9, 2013 "How to Protect Your Phone from the Police"
November 10, 2013 "What we all need to know about surveillance in America"
November 11, 2013 "NSA leadership shakeup would mean squat"
November 12, 2013 "The Big Question the National Security State Isn't Asking"
November 12, 2013 "Mistaking Omniscience for Omnipotence: In a World Without Privacy, There Are No Exemptions for Our Spies"
November 13, 2013 "Why Does Anyone Trust the National-Security State?"
November 13, 2013 "Today is Guantanamo's 12th anniversary, and there's no end in sight"
November 13, 2013 "Supreme Court appears to support a warrantless police search"
November 13, 2013 "Meet the Punk Rocker Who Can Liberate Your FBI File"
November 13, 2013 "Homeland and the Imagination of National Security"
November 14, 2013 "Stop-and-frisk: only 3% of 2.4m stops result in conviction, report finds"
November 14, 2013 "Police tried to spy on Cambridge students, secret footage shows"
November 18, 2013 "How an Unfalsifiable Counterterrorism Strategy Makes Us Less Safe"
November 18, 2013 "Supreme Court Rejects Case Challenging NSA Phone Spying"
November 20, 2013 "Newly Released Documents Show How Government Inflated the Definition of Metadata"
November 20, 2013 "New Snowden-Inspired Ad Campaign Shows America's Fear of Domestic Terrorism Is Unfounded"
November 20, 2013 "Next Stop on the Road to Surveillance State: License Plate Scanners"
November 22, 2013 "Twitter Just Made It Harder for the NSA to Read Your Private Tweets"
November 25, 2013 "Obama's overhaul of spy programs cloaked in more secrecy"
November 26, 2013 "Top-Secret Document Reveals NSA Spied on Porn Habits as Part of Plan to Discredit 'Radicalizers'"
November 27, 2013 "23andMe Is Terrifying, but Not for the Reasons the FDA Thinks"
November 30, 2013 "Who Is Watching the Watch Lists?"
December 1, 2013 "A New TSA Harassment Coming: Searches to Leave the Airport"
December 2, 2013 "Feinstein and Rogers Try to Scare Americans with Ooga Booga Terrorism Threats"
December 3, 2013 "EFF Amicus Brief: Video Surveillance of a Home for a Month Without a Warrant Violates Fourth Amendment"
December 3, 2013 "Welcome to the Memory Hole: Disappearing Edward Snowden"
December 3, 2013 "Science Play and Research Kit: Foil the NSA With Chemistry"
December 4, 2013 "NSA Is Tracking Mobile Phone Location on So Many People It Can't Handle the Data Storage"
December 4, 2013 "The NSA says it 'obviously' can track locations without a warrant. That's not so obvious."
December 4, 2013 "Case Over No-Fly List Takes Bizarre Turn as Gov't Puts Witness on List, Then Denies Having Done So"
December 5, 2013 "A Reasonable Expectation of Transparency: Dave Eggers's The Circle"
December 7, 2013 "The specter of global domination"
December 7, 2013 "DOJ Argues Unlawfully Obtained Evidence Still Valid"
December 8, 2013 "The Over-Policing of America: Police Overkill Has Entered the DNA of Social Policy"
December 9, 2013 "The NSA Has Been Spying on World of Warcraft"
December 9, 2013 "Intelligence contractors donate millions to intelligence watchdogs in Congress"   
December 10, 2013 "Goliath vs. Goliath: Why tech giants can't break the surveillance state"
December 11, 2013 "In Today's News: Bridling the Surveillance State"
December 11, 2013 "How Americans Were Deceived About Cell-Phone Location Data"
December 13, 2013 "The 6,000-Page Report on CIA Torture Has Now Been Suppressed for 1 Year"
December 13, 2013 "NSA review to leave spying programs largely unchanged, reports say"
December 16. 2013 "Judge: NSA's collecting of phone records is probably unconstitutional"
December 16, 2013 "Judge Finds NSA Phone Metadata Program Infringes Upon Privacy & Vindicates Edward Snowden"
December 16, 2013 "NSA goes on 60 Minutes: the definitive facts behind CBS's flawed report"
December 17, 2013 "Inside the Stunning Court Smackdown on NSA Spying"
December 17, 2013 "Awards they couldn't accept: The tragic irony of Greenwald, Poitras and Snowden"
December 18, 2013 "The NSA on Trial"
December 18, 2013 "Forty-Six Recommendations for the N.S.A."
December 19, 2013 "Government Requests to Remove Online Material Increase at Google"
December 20, 2013 "Dire Civil Liberties Predictions for 2014"
December 20, 2013 "What to Expect From Surveillance Politics in 2014 (Hint: It's Not Reform)"
December 20, 2013 "GCHQ and NSA targeted charities, Germans, Israeli PM and EU chief"
December 20, 2013 "Insight: How U.S. spying cost Boeing multibillion-dollar jet contract"
December 22, 2013 "Activists demand answers, changes to current border drug search policies"
December 23, 2013 "Landmark Decision Important Beyond NSA Phone Records Collection"
December 23, 2013 "The War on Terror's Jedi Mind Trick"
December 25, 2013 "If not the NSA, who should store the phone data?"
December 27, 2013 "Judge: NSA phone surveillance is legal and a 'vital tool'"
December 27, 2013 "Civil Rights Groups Push to Change Legality of Border Body Cavity Drug Searches"
December 31, 2013 "Judge Dismisses ACLU Lawsuit Over Suspicionless Laptop Searches at Border"
December 31, 2013 "Feds Cleared on Search of Flashcard-Carrying Man"
December 31, 2013 "Washington Post Columnist Says 'Complainers' Will Be at Fault for Next Terrorist Attack"
January 2, 2014 "Cost-Benefit Analysis on Why We Should Just Do Away With the TSA Completely"
January 3, 2014 "Judge rules against drug-testing program for welfare applicants"
January 3, 2014 "Man Stopped by Cops for Supposedly Voluntary NHTSA 'Survey' Sues City and Police Dept. for Violating His 4th Amendment Rights"

Recommended Reading

October 1, 2013 "At Guantanamo, a microcosm of the surveillance state"
October 1, 2013 "With 2.3 Million People Incarcerated in the US, Prisons Are Big Business"
October 2, 2013 "NSA had test project to collect data on Americans' cellphone locations, director says"
October 2, 2013 "EFF: The Fourth Amendment Is Not Top Secret"
October 2, 2013 "Edward Snowden's E-Mail Provider Defied FBI Demands to Turn Over Crypto Keys, Documents Show"
October 2, 2013 "Your Digital Trail: Does the Fourth Amendment Protect Us?"
October 3, 2013 "Your Digital Trail: Data Fuels Political and Legal Agendas"
October 3, 2013 "NSA admits grossly exaggerating effectiveness of mass surveillance in thwarting terrorism"
October 3, 2013 "America's Security State Is Apparently Trying to Hassle Its Critics Into Silence"
October 3, 2013 "How a Telecom Helped the Government Spy on Me"
October 3, 2013 "The Snowden files: why the British public should be worried about GCHQ"
October 5, 2013 "The NSA's struggle against Tor"
October 5, 2013 "Tell the government: stop watching us"
October 5, 2013 "Selling Secrets of Phone Users to Advertisers"
October 6, 2013 "The Scorched Earth Solution: Solitary Confinement in America"
October 7, 2013 "NSA inundated by FOIA requests after Snowden leaks"
October 7, 2013 "Why Don't Germans Object to Registering Their Home Addresses With Authorities?"
October 8, 2013 "The NSA Review Panel Shut Down"
October 8, 2013 "Fact: the NSA gets negligible intel from Americans' metadata. So end collection"
October 8, 2013 "The Data Hackers: Mining Your Information for Big Brother"
October 9, 2013 "Anti-NSA group adopts highway to get close to Utah Data Center"
October 9, 2013 "Could a New 'Privacy Generation' Change Our Surveillance Politics?"
October 9, 2013 "NSA reforms threatened by 'business-as-usual brigade', Ron Wyden warns"
October 10, 2013 "Undercover Police, Just About Everywhere"
October 10, 2013 "Beware of Poison Pill Spying Reform"
October 10, 2013 "A Grim Report on Press Freedoms Under Obama"
October 11, 2013 "The Core Internet Institutions Abandon the US Government"
October 11, 2013 "Skype under investigation in Luxembourg over link to NSA"
October 11, 2013 "The State of Assange"
October 12, 2013 "Malala Yousafzai Meets President Obama, Asks Him to Stop Drone Attacks"
October 12, 2013 "DoJ: If we can track one American, we can track all Americans"
October 13, 2013 "This Is What It's Like to Be in a Stop and Frisk"
October 13, 2013 "Who should judge whether Snowden's leaked secrets are too sensitive to report?"
October 14, 2013 "New program sees big data used for local policing"
October 14, 2013 "Gov't moves to keep NSA surveillance lawsuit away from Supreme Court"
October 15, 2013 "The NSA Is Being Overwhelmed by Spam"
October 16, 2013 "How the NSA and FBI foil weak oversight"
October 16, 2013 "No NSA Poster Child: The Real Story of 9/11 Hijacker Khalid al-Mihdhar"
October 17, 2013 "Milford teens talk about ACLU suit over school drug test policy"
October 17, 2013 "Top C.I.A. Lawyer Sides with Senate Torture Report"
October 17, 2013 "The US government's secrecy problem just got worse"
October 17, 2013 "Return to Nixonland"
October 18, 2013 "N.S.A. Plan to Log Calls Is Renewed by Court"
October 18, 2013 "Documents reveal role of NSA's targeted surveillance in drone warfare"
October 18, 2013 "Drone strikes by US may violate international law, says UN"
October 19, 2013 "Hope for the Surveillance State Repeal Act? HR 2818 Gains Support Among House Democrats"
October 20, 2013 "Fresh Leak on US Spying: NSA Accessed Mexican President's Email"
October 20, 2013 "The Business of America Is War: Disaster Capitalism on the Battlefield and in the Boardroom"
October 21, 2013 "Security Check Now Starts Long Before You Fly"
October 21, 2013 "Why the NSA's Defense of Mass Data Collection Makes No Sense"
October 21, 2013 "Engineering, Security & Privacy"
October 21, 2013 "CISPA Zombie Bill Is Back, With Fewer Privacy Concerns...Maybe?"
October 22, 2013 "VICTORY! Federal Appeals Court Rules Warrant Required for GPS Tracking"
October 22, 2013 "Defense of Airport Body Scanners Undermined"
October 22, 2013 "Rights groups say drone strikes kill more civilians than U.S. admits"
October 22, 2013 "Amnesty, HRW Document Civilian Deaths in Drone Attacks"
October 22, 2013 "No more foreign wars? Yet America is fighting in Yemen's civil war"
October 23, 2013 "Claim on 'Attacks Thwarted' by NSA Spreads Despite Lack of Evidence"
October 23, 2013 "Tales from the Crypto Community"
October 24, 2013 "NSA monitored calls of 35 world leaders after US official handed over contacts"
October 24, 2013 "Why the Snowden Leaks Will Have a Bigger Impact Than WikiLeaks"
October 24, 2013 "Raking the Coals: Islamophobia, Surveillance-Targeting and the NYPD's Secret Spying Unit"
October 25, 2013 "NSA scrambles to defend itself"
October 25, 2013 "The Banal Justification for Directing the US Surveillance State at World Leaders"
October 25, 2013 "Ten Steps You Can Take Right Now Against Internet Surveillance"
October 25, 2013 "Keith Alexander Says the US Gov't Needs to Figure Out a Way to Stop Journalists From Reporting on Snowden Leaks"
October 25, 2013 "Please tell me, Mr President, why a US drone assassinated my mother"
October 25, 2013 "How fear of al Qaeda hurts U.S. more than al Qaeda"
October 26, 2013 "The American pathology"
October 28, 2013 "Is the Security State Mainly Looking Out for Us, or for Itself? Two Paradigms Compared"
October 29, 2013 "At Long Last, Congress Hears From a Drone Strike Victim"
October 30, 2013 "Too many Americans believe all means are justifiable in the fight against terrorism"
October 30, 2013 “Whatever happened to the Fourth Amendment?”
October 30, 2013 "EFF Asks Court to Review California's Warrantless DNA Collection Anew"
October 30, 2013 "NSA secretly accessed main Google, Yahoo data center links"
October 30, 2013 "NSA Issues Non-Denial Denial of Infiltrating Google & Yahoo's Networks"
October 30, 2013 "NSA's 'MUSCULAR' Secretly Breaks Into the Cloud of US Tech Companies, Siphons Off Data, Fouls Up Revenues Overseas"
October 30, 2013 "No U.S. Action, So States Move on Privacy Law"
October 30, 2013 "Revealed: NSA pushed 9/11 as key 'sound bite' to justify surveillance"
October 31, 2013 "Drone warfare as a form of terrorism"
October 31, 2013 "How the NSA Halted My Rise as a Vermont Drug Lord"
October 31, 2013 "The Best Evidence Yet That Government Surveillance Is Nowhere Near Adequate"
October 31, 2013 "Why Did the NSA Tap Angela Merkel's Cellphone?"
October 31, 2013 "Michael Hayden, the Voice of Terror"

Recommended Reading

May 7, 2013 "Naked Citizens"
May 22, 2013 "Military Quietly Grants Itself the Power to Police the Streets Without Local or State Consent"
June 11, 2013 "Worried About the Mass Surveillance? How to Practice Safer Communication"
June 13, 2013 "New ID rules would threaten citizens' rights"
July 23, 2013 "NSA Says It Can't Search Its Own Emails"
July 31, 2013 "NSA secrets kill our trust"
ca. August 2013 "It Don't Gitmo Better Than This"
August 11, 2013 "Zimmermann's Law: PGP inventor and Silent Circle co-founder Phil Zimmermann on the surveillance society"
August 13, 2013 "How Laura Poitras Helped Snowden Spill His Secrets"
August 21, 2013 "Bradley Manning and the Two Americas"
August 22, 2013 "Lavabit founder: 'My own tax dollars are being used to spy on me'"
August 22, 2013 "Who Got Shorter Sentences Than Bradley Manning?"
August 23, 2013 "The Trickle of NSA Revelations Now Includes Intentional Privacy Violations"
August 24, 2013 "At NCSU, a betrayal of values with NSA deal"
August 26, 2013 "Codename 'Apalachee': How America Spies on Europe and the UN"
August 27, 2013 "Ten things we've learnt about the surveillance state"
August 27, 2013 "NSA intimidation expanding surveillance state"
August 27, 2013 "Federal Appeals Court: Police Can't Paralyze You to Search Your Body for Drugs"
August 27, 2013 "The real threat to our way of life? Not terrorists or faraway dictators, but our own politicians and securocrats"
August 28, 2013 "Lapdogs of the national security state"
August 28, 2013 "NYPD Designates Mosques as Terrorism Organizations"
September 1, 2013 "NYPD secrets: How the cops launched a spy shop to rival CIA"
September 2, 2013 "Drug agents access vast phone database, larger than the NSA's"
September 2, 2013 "NSA 'spied on communications' of Brazil and Mexico presidents"
September 3, 2013 "Let's Repeal the Fourth Amendment!"
September 3, 2013 "And Then There Was One: Delusional Thinking in the Age of the Single Superpower"
September 4, 2013 "US stops jailed activist Barrett Brown from discussing leaks prosecution"
September 4, 2013 "Facebook under fire from privacy watchdogs over 'Sponsored Stories' ads"
September 4, 2013 "The Horror Every Day: Police Brutality in Houston Goes Unpunished"
September 5, 2013 "How to Think About the National Security State"
September 5, 2013 "Latest Snowden Leak Reveals NSA War on Encryption, but It's Not Yet Dead"
September 5, 2013 "Revealed: how US and UK spy agencies defeat internet privacy and security"
September 5, 2013 "Revealed: The NSA's Secret Campaign to Crack, Undermine Internet Security"
September 5, 2013 "Anonymity, Privacy, and Security Online"
September 6, 2013 "Google encrypts data amid backlash against NSA spying"
September 6, 2013 "NSA surveillance: A guide to staying secure"
September 6, 2013 "Explaining the latest NSA revelations - Q&A with internet security experts"
September 6, 2013 "The feds pay for 60 percent of Tor's development. Can users trust it?"
September 7, 2013 "Obama administration had restrictions on NSA reversed in 2011"
September 7, 2013 "Privacy Scandal: NSA Can Spy on Smart Phone Data"
September 9, 2013 "Former FBI Lawyer Who Oversaw Years of Fourth Amendment Violations by the Agency Nominated for Federal Judge Seat"
September 9, 2013 "New Details in How the Feds Take Laptops at Border"
September 10, 2013 "NSA Illegally Gorged on U.S. Phone Records for Three Years"
September 10, 2013 "The NSA's next move: silencing university professors?"
September 11, 2013 "NSA shares raw intelligence including Americans' data with Israel"
September 11, 2013 "How We Got From 9/11 to Massive NSA Spying on Americans: A Timeline"
September 11, 2013 "A Surveillance State Born in Ground Zero's Rubble"
September 12, 2013 "Report: NSA Mimics Google to Monitor 'Target' Web Users"
September 12, 2013 "Obama's NSA surveillance review panel did not discuss changes, attendees say"
September 13, 2013 "Time to tame the NSA behemoth trampling our rights"
September 15, 2013 "'Follow the Money': NSA Spies on International Payments"
September 16, 2013 "Just Say No"
September 17, 2013 "Fisa court: no telecoms company has ever challenged phone records orders"
September 17, 2013 "A Citizen's Guide to Why Your Phone Company Gives Data to the Feds"
September 20, 2013 "Police Can Search Your Phone Without a Warrant"
September 22, 2013 "In secret, Fisa court contradicted US supreme court on constitutional rights"
September 22, 2013 "Destroying the Right to Be Left Alone: The NSA Isn't the Only Government Agency Exploiting Technology to Make Privacy Obsolete"
September 23, 2013 "Bruce Schneier: NSA Spying Is Making Us Less Safe"
September 24, 2013 "'Not surprising India has become an important surveillance target'"
September 24, 2013 "Pakistani drone victims' lawyer accuses US of blocking his visit to Congress"
September 24, 2013 "Europe Really, Really Doesn't Trust the NSA"
September 24, 2013 "The DEA Thinks You Have 'No Constitutionally Protected Privacy Interest' in Your Confidential Prescription Records"
September 24, 2013 "Why Scandinavian Prisons Are Superior"
September 25, 2013 "'See Something, Say Something' Campaign Creates Massive Database of Useless Info from Citizens Spying on Each Other"
September 25, 2013 "Like David Miranda, I was interrogated at a British airport"
September 25, 2013 "To reform the NSA, fire officials who lie"
September 26, 2013 "Senators Push to Preserve N.S.A. Phone Surveillance"
September 26, 2013 "FBI has been using drones since 2006, watchdog agency says"
September 27, 2013 "Sen. Ron Wyden: NSA 'repeatedly deceived the American people'"
September 27, 2013 "Gmail Wiretapping Case Will Continue, Judge Rules"
September 27, 2013 "An Empire in a Galaxy Not So Far Away"
September 27, 2013 "The No-Fly List: Where the FBI Goes Fishing for Informants"
September 28, 2013 "U.S. spy agency used some Americans' data to map their behavior: NYT"
September 28, 2013 "Newly Declassified Documents Show How the Surveillance State Was Born"
September 29, 2013 "Mining Your Life for Their Profit"
September 30, 2013 "Helping Build the Surveillance State Is Good Business: Palantir Gets $196 Million More in Funding"
September 30, 2013 "Map: Is Your State a No-Drone Zone?"
September 30, 2013 "NSA stores metadata of millions of web users for up to a year, secret files show"
September 30, 2013 "National Security Whistleblowers Testify Before European Parliamentary Committee on US, UK Surveillance"