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Obama Approves Massive Increase In Terror List

July 24, 2014 Jeremy Scahill and Ryan Devereaux, www.firstlook.org Educate! NSA, spying, Terrorism, TSA

The “March 2013 Watchlisting Guidance,” a 166-page document issued last year by the National Counterterrorism Center, spells out the government’s secret rules for putting individuals on its main terrorist database, as well as the no fly list and the selectee list, which triggers enhanced screening at airports and border crossings. The new guidelines allow individuals to be designated as representatives of terror organizations without any evidence they are actually connected to such organizations, and it gives a single White House official the unilateral authority to place “entire categories” of people the government is tracking onto the no fly and selectee lists. It broadens the authority of government officials to “nominate” people to the watchlists based on what is vaguely described as “fragmentary information.” It also allows for dead people to be watchlisted.

Greenwald vs NSA’s Hayden

May 4, 2014 Staff, www.commondreams.org Educate! NSA, spying

Journalist Glenn Greenwald, who brought the Edward Snowden documents to the world, debated former CIA and NSA head Michael Hayden last night in Toronto. The debate was hosted by Munk Debates and also featured Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian and rightwing lawyer Alan Dershowitz. Before the debate, the audience voted 33% in favor of the statement, "Be it resolved state surveillance is a legitimate defense of our freedoms," while 46% voted against. After the debate, 59 percent of the audience agreed with Greenwald and Ohanian. Edward Snowden also made an appearance via video link at Toronto's Roy Thomson Hall during the semi-annual Munk debate. "It's no longer based on the traditional practice of targeted taps based on some individual suspicion of wrongdoing. It covers phone calls, emails, texts, search history, what you buy, who your friends are, where you go, who you love."

Reset The Net

April 30, 2014 Dennis Trainor Jr, www.PopularResistance.org Resistance Report CIA, Dennis Trainor Jr, FBI, fight for our future, Kevin Zeese, NSA, Reset the net, Reset the net June 5, Save the net, shahid buttar, spying, take back the net

Fight for our Future has launched a "Reset The Net Campaign" for June 5th, 2014. The problem, as outlined at Reset the Net, is: "The NSA is exploiting weak links in Internet security to spy on the entire world, twisting the Internet we love into something it was never meant to be: a panopticon." It defines a solution as "We can't stop targeted hacking, but we *can* stop mass surveillance, by building proven security into the everyday Internet."   Finally, the plan is to "First, get hundreds of sites & apps to add proven security (like SSL). Then on June 5, we'll run a splash screen *everywhere* to spread NSA-resistant privacy tools." Shahid Buttar and Kevin Zeese examine the plan is this clip from Acronym TV (full episode here).

30,000 Newly Released Photos Show History Of NYPD Spying

April 12, 2014 Sam Roberts, www.nytimes.com Educate! Police abuse, spying, Surveillance

The New York City Department of Records and Information Services announced the addition of 30,000 photographs to its on-line gallery. From the NYC Department of Records: Some of the more unusual images from this series depict political groups monitored by the New York City Police Department's "Alien Squad." These photos range from Communist Party rallies in Madison Square Garden to the Nazi summer retreat in Yaphank, Long Island run by the German American Bund. See all the Alien Squad photos. DOR staff and researchers from New York University's Tamiment Library are collaborating to identify people in the photos. If you recognize someone, please let us know by emailing commissioner@records.nyc.gov. These are among more than 2,000 photographs added from the NYPD departmental files and Emergency Services Unit (ESU), dating from 1928 to 1941.

National Day Of Action To Shut Down Spy Centers

April 8, 2014 Joan Livingston, www.popularresistance.org Resist! NSA, spying, Surveillance

This week's Thurs. action was organized by privacy groups across the country, encompassing actions not just here but also in Charlotte, NC; Chicago, IL; Dallas, TX; Los Angeles, Oakland, and San Francisco, CA, as well as possible actions in Montana, Ohio, Florida, elsewhere: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Shut-Down-Spy-Centers/1426176900963934?ref=hl All protests will occur simultaneously: e.g., starting at 11am [PST] on the West Coast, and at 2pm [EST] here. Sponsors include the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, DefendTheFourth/RestoreTheFourth, the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, the Oakland Privacy Working Group, Digital Fourth, and others.

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