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French Worker Sentenced To Six Months’ Jail Over Facebook Call For Demonstrations

January 17, 2019 Will Morrow, Wsws.org , , , , ,
On Tuesday, January 8, 28-year-old protester Hedi Martin was sentenced to six months’ jail without parole at a correctional tribunal in the southern town of Narbonne. His sole “crime” was to have published a Facebook post on January 2 that called for a “yellow vest” blockade of the petrol refinery at Port-la-Nouvelle. Police arrested him in the early hours of January 3, shortly after he published the post. The statements of the state prosecutor and judge at Martin’s hearing made clear that the jailing is aimed at intimidating calls for protests.

Revealed: FBI Kept Files On Peaceful Climate Change Protesters

December 15, 2018 Adam Federman, Theguardian.com , , ,
On 15 May 2016 three friends from Fairfield, Iowa, made the five-hour drive to an oil refinery on the shores of Lake Michigan to participate in what was part of a series of protests and acts of civil disobedience in the fight against climate change. They had every intention of getting arrested. What they didn’t expect was to end up in an FBI file for taking part in a peaceful protest. But according to documents obtained by the Guardian through a Freedom of Information Act (Foia) lawsuit, the file on the Iowa protesters was part of a larger effort by the FBI to assess the danger posed by the climate change activist group 350.org in the run-up to a series of actions that were part of the Break Free from Fossil Fuels campaign. The FBI released seven pages and withheld 25.

The DEA And ICE Are Hiding Surveillance Cameras In Streetlights

November 12, 2018 By Justin Rohrlich and Dave Gershgorn, Qz.com , , ,
The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have hidden an undisclosed number of covert surveillance cameras inside streetlights around the country, federal contracting documents reveal. According to government procurement data, the DEA has paid a Houston, Texas company called Cowboy Streetlight Concealments LLC roughly $22,000 since June 2018 for “video recording and reproducing equipment.” ICE paid out about $28,000 to Cowboy Streetlight Concealments over the same period of time. It’s unclear where the DEA and ICE streetlight cameras have been installed, or where the next deployments will take place. ICE offices in Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio have provided funding for recent acquisitions from Cowboy Streetlight Concealments...

How Fremont Police Have Quietly Accumulated Expansive Surveillance Tools

October 8, 2018 Joseph Geha, Eastbaytimes.com ,
The Fremont Police Department has been quietly expanding its surveillance programs, sometimes without the knowledge of the City Council. And although police say the goal is to reduce crime by using their growing arsenal of license plate readers and video cameras to quickly catch “prolific offenders,” they acknowledge the department doesn’t track the number and kind of crimes being solved with their high-tech tools because it would require too much work. That concerns privacy advocates who say all that surveillance needs to be justified with data about its effectiveness. “Law enforcement needs to explain to the public exactly what specific goal they are seeking to achieve with these technologies,” Matt Cagle, a technology attorney with the Northern California chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, said in an interview.

Join Our Twitter Campaign To End Corporate Surveillance Of Students

September 21, 2018 By Classroomsnotcomputers.org , ,
We have to EXPOSE THE LIES perpetrated by profit-driven industries that harness technologies to disarm our democratic agency (and our right to know the truth about what is being done to us. The goal is this campaign is to activate the public narrative that corporate-owned technology-driven policies around human services have lied to the public. While our focus is generally k12 education, the tweets can go broader than that. For example, think of how Monsanto’s GMO food lies about consumer health and environmental effects. Or, how the coal industry brags that new technology creates “clean coal.” And the main gist of each tweet will be this: Lies My Technology Told Me (a play on the book Lies my Teacher Told Me by James Loewen.)

Government Can Spy On Journalists In The U.S. Using Invasive Foreign Intelligence Process

September 19, 2018 By Cora Currier, Theintercept.com , ,
THE U.S. GOVERNMENT can monitor journalists under a foreign intelligence law that allows invasive spying and operates outside the traditional court system, according to newly released documents. Targeting members of the press under the law, known as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, requires approval from the Justice Department’s highest-ranking officials, the documents show. In two 2015 memos for the FBI, the attorney general spells out “procedures for processing Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act applications targeting known media entities or known members of the media.” The guidelines say the attorney general, the deputy attorney general, or their delegate must sign off before the bureau can bring an application to the secretive panel of judges that approves monitoring under the 1978 act...

US Schools Hiring Private Companies To Spy On Students’ Social Media

September 19, 2018 Trevon Austin, Wsws.org , , ,
More than 100 school districts and public universities have hired social media monitoring companies over the past five years to spy on students’ social media accounts under the pretext of “school safety” and preventing school shootings, according to a report in the New York Times. The private companies exploit social tragedy, recruiting more institutions after every mass shooting despite little evidence that the spying programs have any effect on violence. The customers of these companies include school districts experiencing school shootings, such as the Newton Public Schools in Connecticut, as well as some of the largest school districts in the nation, including in Los Angeles and Chicago. Large universities like Michigan State and Florida State have also contracted services from the companies.

During Gas Emergency, Mass. State Police Monitor Activist Groups

September 16, 2018 Max Larkin, WBUR ,
On Thursday evening, the Massachusetts State Police took to social media to share the extent of the gas emergency spreading across the Merrimack Valley. But in so doing, they also shared the bookmarks bar at the top of the browser window — with some surprising entries. The bookmarks raised more than a few eyebrows on Twitter, since they included the virtual meeting-places of several activist groups. Some activists felt it offered proof the police conduct unwarranted surveillance, particularly of organizations on the political left.

Webinar: Stop Corporate Surveillance In Schools

September 15, 2018 Staff, Classroomsnotcomputers.org , ,
Our goal in this webinar is twofold. First, we will provide an overview of the campaign webpage resources and actions, as well as invite you all to share actions you are taking against corporate surveillance in your school/community. We hope by the end of the discussion, each of you will have an idea for an action you can take, or a connection with others you have made that can help you organize in your area. Second, following this discussion we have saved time to invite Alison McDowell to hold a 15 min Q and A about her latest powerful video called “Life on the Ledger.”

ACLU Fears Protest Crackdowns, Surveillance Already Being Planned For Keystone XL

September 8, 2018 Nicholas Kusnetz, Insideclimatenews.org , , ,
The Keystone XL pipeline is expected to draw protests from indigenous and environmental activists when construction begins, and many activists are worried law enforcement agencies may be planning surveillance and a militarized response. Now, the American Civil Liberties Union is accusing federal agencies of trying to hide the extent of these preparations, which the group says are clearly underway. The ACLU and its Montana affiliate sued several federal agencies this week, including the Departments of Justice, Defense and Homeland Security, saying the agencies are withholding documents that discuss planning for the expected protests and any coordination among state and local authorities and private security contractors. Fears about the law enforcement response follow the 2016 armed crackdown on people protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline, where authorities used tear gas and turned water cannons on protesters in freezing temperatures.

Webinar: Stop Corporate Surveillance In Schools

August 30, 2018 Stop Corporate School Surveillance. , ,
Classrooms, Not Computers has found a new title for its campaign -- Stop Corporate Surveillance in Schools: A Movement Supporting People-Powered Classrooms Without Corporate Data Mined Students. Our mission is the same—to build a community-based movement to dismantle the corporate-driven policies and practices in schools that lead to violations of student privacy, surveillance of children and teachers, and corporate profiteering (we call this Education Reform 2.0).  SCSS will be holding its second webinar on Sept 11 from 8:00-9:00 pm Eastern/5:00-6:00 pm Pacific.

Walmart Hopes To Track Employees’ Every Move With New Checkstand Surveillance Tech

July 17, 2018 By Elliott Gabriel, Mintpressnews.com , , ,
Walmart’s move is just the latest in the rolling-out of surveillance technology across workplaces in the United States, which merges the use of technology for generating metrics with spying technology that further creeps into the lives of already hard-pressed, cash-strapped workers. Big-box retailing behemoth Walmart, which employs one of the United States’ largest workforces, has never been known for being a friendly corporation to employees. With its anti-worker environment, hard-nosed opposition to unions, and reputation for destroying small business in markets it grows to dominate, the company has become synonymous with the heartless, calculating reputation of corporate culture and its total disregard for people’s dignity.

Trump’s Supreme Court Nominee Decided Against Net Neutrality And For NSA Surveillance

July 10, 2018 By Colin Lecher, Theverge.com , , , , ,
After intense speculation, President Trump said today that he has selected Judge Brett Kavanaugh as his nominee to succeed retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy. In his announcement, the president introduced his nominee as a jurist with “impeccable credentials” and as “a judge’s judge.” Kavanaugh, who was nominated to the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit by George W. Bush, where he currently serves, certainly has a notable, if likely controversial, record on tech policy issues. While it’s difficult to anticipate exactly which issues might come before the court, his past rulings suggest a reliably conservative voice on tech. His addition to the highest court in the country could vastly reshape the digital landscape.

The Most Important Surveillance Story You’ll See For Years

June 28, 2018 By Jake Johnson, Mintpressnews.com , , ,
“The most important surveillance story you will see for years just went online, revealing how AT&T became the internet’s biggest enemy, secretly collaborating against its customers and partners to destroy your privacy.” That was how whistleblower and privacy advocate Edward Snowden reacted to the publication of an explosive story by The Intercept on Monday, which reveals for the first time how “fortress-like” AT&T buildings located in eight major American cities have played a central role in a massive National Security Agency (NSA) spying program “that has for years monitored billions of emails, phone calls, and online chats passing across U.S. territory.” “It’s eye-opening and ominous the extent to which this is happening right here on American soil,” Elizabeth Goitein, co-director of the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, told The Intercept in an interview.

The Administration Of Mayor Rahm Emanuel Keeps Monitoring Protesters

June 18, 2018 By Mick Dumke, Propublica.org , , , ,
Even before thousands of demonstrators gathered in downtown Chicago to speak out against President Donald Trump’s inauguration last year, city police were watching. Recently released police and city records show that officers combed through social media posts and opened a formal information-gathering investigation into the protesters. Then, throughout that day — Jan. 20, 2017 — police and top aides to Mayor Rahm Emanuel closely tracked the movements of protesters, from when they boarded trains and buses in their neighborhoods and continuing through hours of rallies and marches in the Loop. It was another example of how the Emanuel administration routinely tracks protesters and activist groups, according to records I’ve acquired over the last several years through the Freedom of Information Act.
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