Monday, November 16, 2015

Recommended Reading

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"