Surveillance

Detroit Police Commissioner Arrested For Questioning City’s Use Of Facial Recognition

July 17, 2019 Staff, Fightforthefuture.org Resist! Detroit, Facial Recognition, Police, Surveillance

Last night, a police commissioner in Detroit was arrested for questioning the city’s use of facial recognition at a public hearing. Commissioner Willie Burton, who is black, was surrounded by police officers and handcuffed from his place at the head of the meeting on Thursday night, shouting “get your hands off me!” as he was taken out of the room with hands behind his back and put into a police car. He was questioning the police department’s use of facial recognition known to be biased against people of color, in a city with a high proportion of black residents.

Afro-Colombian Human Rights Defender Facing Assassination

July 2, 2019 Amnesty International. Resist! Assassination, Colombia, Human Rights, Surveillance

Danelly Estupiñan defends the rights of the afro-descendent population in Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca as part of the organization Black Community Process (Proceso Comunitario Negro). For the last seven months, Danelly has been facing surveillance from unknown men, which increased last week from once a day and only at her home to two times per day and in all locations she visits. The unknown men conduct surveillance not only on Danelly but also on her family members. They take pictures and video of what they are doing. We call upon the Public Prosecutor’s Office to launch an immediate investigation into these incidents in order to ensure that Danelly is protected.

Government Expands Social Media Surveillance With Little Evidence Of Effectiveness

June 7, 2019 Staff, Brennancenter.org Educate! Government, Homeland Security, Repression, Social Media, Surveillance

An analysis by the Brennan Center of the Department of Homeland Security’s harvesting and use of social media information shows that the agency is expanding collection and monitoring programs, despite scant evidence that such broad-scale surveillance strengthens national security. Instead, as recent media reports attest, social media monitoring has helped officials identify and target people for engaging in protests, activism, journalism, and provision of legal services. Many programs have been targeted at Muslim travelers, who as a group are often treated as a national security threat.

New Documents Reveal DHS Asserting Broad, Unconstitutional Authority To Search Travelers’ Phones And Laptops

May 2, 2019 Staff, Activistpost.com Educate! Airports, Cell Phones, Homeland Security, Surveillance

BOSTON — The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the ACLU today asked a federal court to rule without trial that the Department of Homeland Security violates the First and Fourth Amendments by searching travelers’ smartphones and laptops at airports and other U.S. ports of entry without a warrant. The request for summary judgment comes after the groups obtained documents and deposition testimony revealing that U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorize border officials to search travelers’ phones and laptops for general law enforcement purposes...

Freedom Rider: Pompeo’s Truth About Lies

April 27, 2019 Margaret Kimberley, Blackagendareport.com Educate! CIA, Intelligence, Surveillance, US Imperialism

It is rare for an enemy to give a gift the way Secretary of State Mike Pompeo did in a recent public speech. Pompeo said what anyone who has ever paid attention already knew. The intelligence agencies of the United States government are masters of deception and one should always assume that they are lying, cheating, and or stealing. When they say that a foreign leader is a “brutal dictator” the charge proves just one thing. The person in question is being targeted by the United States. The individual labeled a dictator is said to rule over people who want the U.S. to drop bombs on them or destroy their economy with sanctions.

Federal Agents Can Search Your Phone At The US Border — Here’s How To Protect Your Personal Information

March 27, 2019 Rebecca Harrington, Businessinsider.com Educate! Border, Repression, Surveillance

When you're entering the United States, federal agents have broad authority to search citizens and visitors alike — but a new lawsuit filed Wednesday is trying to change that. The lawsuit, filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union, seeks to prevent agents from flipping through your phone, computer, and any other electronic devices you have with you without getting a warrant first. As the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) outlines in a tearsheet it provides to people at the border, federal agents today can seize and search your phone, and even make a copy of it to have forensic experts analyze its contents off-site.

Media Justice Sues FBI Over Surveillance Of Black Activists

March 22, 2019 Nusrat Choudhury and Malkia Cyril, Aclu.org Resist! FBI, Lawsuit, Racism, Repression, Surveillance

At a time when violence by white supremacists is on the rise, the FBI appears to be targeting Black people in a secret intelligence program concerning so-called “Black Identity Extremists”— an inflammatory term for a group that doesn’t even exist. The bureau’s practice echoes earlier, shameful government surveillance programs that sought to discredit civil rights and Black power activists who were critical to advancing racial equality — and it echoes modern-day spying that impacts immigrants and Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian (AMEMSA) communities.

San Diego Has Been Turned Into A Massive Chinese-Style Public Surveillance Network

March 16, 2019 Staff, Massprivatei.blogspot.com Educate! San Diego, Surveillance

Can you imagine a city in the United States secretly creating a Chinese-style public surveillance network that can identify everyone? Can you imagine that same city secretly creating a Chinese-style public watchlisting network? Well imagine no more because it has already happened. When I wrote about "covert facial recognition streetlights coming to a city near you" last year, I never would have dreamt that my article would become a reality so quickly.

Leaked Documents Show The U.S. Government Tracking Journalists And Immigration Advocates Through A Secret Database

March 9, 2019 Tom Jones, Mari Payton and Bill Feather, Nbcsandiego.com Educate! Immigration, Repression, Surveillance

Documents obtained by NBC 7 Investigates show the U.S. government created a secret database of activists, journalists, and social media influencers tied to the migrant caravan and in some cases, placed alerts on their passports. At the end of 2018, roughly 5,000 immigrants from Central America made their way north through Mexico to the United States southern border. The story made international headlines. As the migrant caravan reached the San Ysidro Port of Entry in south San Diego County, so did journalists, attorneys, and advocates who were there to work and witness the events unfolding.

The Prisoner Says No To Big Brother

March 5, 2019 John Pilger, Informationclearinghouse.info Resist! Julian Assange, Prisons, Surveillance

March 04, 2019 "Information Clearing House" - Whenever I visit Julian Assange, we meet in a room he knows too well. There is a bare table and pictures of Ecuador on the walls. There is a bookcase where the books never change. The curtains are always drawn and there is no natural light. The air is still and fetid. This is Room 101. Before I enter Room 101, I must surrender my passport and phone. My pockets and possessions are examined. The food I bring is inspected. The man who guards Room 101 sits in what looks like an old-fashioned telephone box. He watches a screen, watching Julian. There are others unseen, agents of the state, watching and listening.

National Emergencies: Constitutional And Statutory Restrictions On Presidential Powers

February 17, 2019 Cindy Cohn and Shahid Buttar, Electronic Frontier Foundation. Educate! Constitution, National Emergency, Surveillance, Trump

When a president threatens to exercise the power to declare a national emergency, our system of checks and balances faces a crucial test. With President Trump threatening such a declaration in order to build his proposed physical border wall, that test could be an important one that could quickly implicate your right to privacy and a transparent government. Like the Constitution, statutory powers do not justify a presidential declaration of emergency powers to build a proposed border wall. EFF has long tangled with governmental actions rooted in presidential power.

NYPD Surveilled Of Black Lives Matter Protesters And Keeps Their Records

January 22, 2019 George Joseph, Theappeal.org Educate! Activists, NYPD, Surveillance

It was Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 2015. Black Lives Matter protests were still erupting across the country, and M.J. Williams, a lawyer and activist, was excited to get more involved. The month before, Williams had started to attend weekly protests at New York City’s Grand Central Station. That day, she was at Foley Square, and activists from the group organizing the weekly demonstrations had invited her to join them in a small, nonpermitted march up to Grand Central. The march hadn’t been publicized on social media, and organizers intended to take authorities by surprise.

NYPD Must Release Records On Cell Phone Monitoring Of Protesters

January 19, 2019 By Jason Grant, Law.com Resist! NYPD, Protests, Surveillance

In a strongly worded opinion addressing New York’s Freedom of Information Law, a Manhattan Supreme Court justice has ruled that the New York City Police Department must release information to a police protest group about whether the department used technology to monitor or interrupt their cellphones during protests. The decision from Justice Arlene Bluth could have wider implications for the NYPD’s use of devices such as Stingrays, which mimic cell towers and intercept communications, and it comes after the NYPD had given a so-called “Glomar response”—essentially a nonresponse—to the group’s FOIL request for information about surveillance of their social media activity and cellphones.

The US Government Has Amassed Terabytes Of Internal WikiLeaks Data

January 17, 2019 By Emma Best, Gizmodo.com.au Educate! Government, Surveillance, United States, Wikileaks

Late last year, the US government accidentally revealed that a sealed complaint had been filed against Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks. Shortly before this was made public, the FBI reconfirmed its investigation of WikiLeaks was ongoing, and The Wall Street Journalreported that the US Department of Justice was optimistic that it would be able to extradite Assange. Soon after, portions of sealed transcripts leaked that implicate WikiLeaks and Assange in directing hackers to target governments and corporations. The charges against Assange have not been officially revealed, though it’s plausible that the offences are related to Russian hacking and the DNC emails.

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