The recent decisions by two of the most influential national newspapers of record to not publish their endorsements of Vice President Kamala Harris says a lot about how seriously they take Trump’s threats to democracy and his promises of vengeance against his enemies.
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Tech Firms Make Millions from Trump's Anti-immigrant Agenda, report finds
Corporations including Amazon, Palantir and Microsoft are raking in money from U.S. immigration enforcement by providing tools that aid surveillance, detention and deportation.
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In Trump’s America, Black Lives Matter Activists Grow Wary of Their Smartphones
The perception among political activists that they are unfairly targeted has fueled a new wave of technical training intended to blunt what they consider government overreach that threatens their constitutional rights to free expression.
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ICE Is Using Stingrays To Round Up Undocumented Immigrants
U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement has used the controversial cell phone tracking device to track, capture and deport an undocumented restaurant worker from El Salvador.
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Help Wanted: How You Can Act Locally To Stymie Trump’s Agenda
Community Control Over Police Surveillance, or CCOPS, empowers city councils to reexamine and stop local police departments from broadly sharing surveillance data with fusion centers, as well as with the federal government.
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The NYPD Has Tracked Citizens’ Cellphones 1,000 Times Since 2008 Without Warrants
According to records obtained by New York Civil Liberties Union, the country's most powerful police force tracks cellphones using "stingrays," which have no guiding legal policy.
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The Backslash Kit: Anti-Surveillance Gadgets For Protesters
Two designers have created a toolkit for tech-savvy activists – from portable routers that create improvised communication networks during Internet blackout, to a pendant that blocks cell phone surveillance.
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The Digital Dog Ate Our Civil Liberties Homework: “It’s Just the Way It Is”
Of all the excuses ladled out for the Obama administration's shredding of the 4th Amendment while assaulting press freedom and prosecuting whistleblowers, none is more pernicious than the claim that technology is responsible.
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Spying on "Terrorists Abroad," Suppressing Dissent at Home: When We Become the Hunted
If you're wondering why the ongoing revelations about the development and use of a massive public and private surveillance complex should be of concern to you, read this interview.
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Dozens of U.S. Universities Move To Deploy Drones Over Campuses
While drone usage on college campuses has not received much attention, there are at least 25 universities in the U.S. that have been approved by the Federal Aviation Administration to fly drones in U.S. airspace.
