No Safe Place: Criminalization of Homelessness Rises In Cities Across U.S.

In a new study released last week, the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty tracked laws in 187 cities over the past five years and found an uptick in nearly every type of anti-homeless ordinance.

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French Arabs in Paris Face Tear Gas, Tasers, Arrests As They Defy Palestine Protest Ban

Organizers of the protests, in which 35 were arrested, said the police crackdown was aimed at further disenfranchizing the nation’s politically and socially marginalized Arab and Muslim communities.

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Can SWAT Teams Claim "Corporate" Exemption From Public Scrutiny?

Taxpayer-funded police and sheriffs in Massachusetts claim they're immune to public records requests about deadly force and incident reports because they are acting as private "corporations."

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Targeting "Social Contagions," Defense Department Prepares for Mass Civil Breakdown

Twitter posts and conversations will be examined "to identify individuals mobilized in a social contagion and when they become mobilized."

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Edward Snowden Condemns Britain's Emergency surveillance bill

An NSA whistleblower says it "defies belief" that bill must be rushed through after government ignored issue for a year.

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Meet the Muslim-American Leaders the FBI and NSA Have Been Spying On

In the place where the target’s real name would go, the memo offers a fake name as a placeholder: “Mohammed Raghead.”

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U.S. Military Studied How to Influence Twitter Users – By Focusing on Occupy Protests

Papers leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden indicate that U.S. and British intelligence have been deeply engaged in planning ways to covertly use social media for propaganda and deception.

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Anonymous Threatens #OpCisa Disruption If Lawmakers Pursue Cybersecurity Bill

Like the civil liberties-thwarting CISPA bill, the new Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act would allow the federal government to share information perceived as “cyber threats” with private companies.

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Exclusive: Danish Magazine's Surveillance Scandal Creates New Uproar Over Data Privacy

A Danish weekly has been exposed for bribing one of its IT people to access personal communication and monitor credit and debit card transactions of politicians and celebrities.

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Democracy On Trial: From Boston to London, Surveillance Is Now the Status Quo

Have people become accustomed to the idea that a spy center established to monitor and catch terrorists is keeping records of the perfectly legal political activities of a wide variety of organizers and groups?

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