Surveillance

Anti-Black Surveillance Did Not End With COINTELPRO

November 3, 2016 Stephanie Llanes, www.truth-out.org Educate! COINTELPRO, Racism, Surveillance

By Stephanie Llanes for Truthout - Fifty years from now, what will the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture's exhibit on the Movement for Black Lives look like? Will the exhibit feature videos from the hundreds of protests that erupted around the United States and the world, alongside pictures of children with signs that say "I Can't Breathe," and "Say Her Name?" Will there be displays of the canisters of tear gas thrown by police at protestors, and a copy of the Vision for Black Lives policy plan for visitors to read?

Judge Calls For Additional Safeguards In NYPD Surveillance Rules

November 1, 2016 Staff, www.aclu.org Resist! Islamophobia, Muslims, New York (NY), New York City (NYC), NYC, NYPD, Surveillance

BY Staff of ACLU - NEW YORK - In a legal challenge to the New York City Police Department’s surveillance of American Muslims, a federal judge issued a ruling calling for alterations to a landmark lawsuit settlement as a condition of approving the settlement. The alterations proposed by the judge would further strengthen the settlement’s ability to protect New York Muslims and others from discriminatory and unjustified surveillance.

The Security Firm Running Dakota Access Pipeline Intelligence

November 1, 2016 Steve Horn, www.desmogblog.com Educate! Afghanistan, Dakota Access Pipeline, Iraq, Surveillance

By Steve Horn for Desmog - TigerSwan is one of several security firms under investigation for its work guarding the Dakota Access pipeline in North Dakota while potentially without a permit. Besides this recent work on the Standing Rock Sioux protests in North Dakota, this company has offices in Iraq and Afghanistan and is run by a special forces Army veteran. According to a summary of the investigation, TigerSwan “is in charge of Dakota Access intelligence and supervises the overall security.”

Civil Rights Group Sues Federal Gov Over Surveillance Of Black Activists

October 26, 2016 Aaron Morrison, www.mic.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Civil Rights, Lawsuit, Surveillance

By Aaron Morrison for Identities Mic - It's no longer a secret that police have conducted surveillance on activists involved in the Movement for Black Lives. Increasingly, these activists say they want to know exactly what's in the files the government may be keeping on them. Color of Change, a national racial justice group, filed a lawsuit in federal court in New York on Thursday, over the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's rejection of its request for surveillance information on Black Lives Matter activists.

ACLU Demands Secret Court Hand Over Crucial Rulings On Surveillance Law

October 22, 2016 Nadia Prupis, www.commondreams.org Organize! ACLU, Courts, Surveillance

By Nadia Prupis for Common Dreams - The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a motion to reveal the secret court opinions with "novel or significant interpretations" of surveillance law, in a renewed push for government transparency. The motion, filed Wednesday by the ACLU and Yale Law School's Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic, asks the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Court, which rules on intelligence gathering activities in secret, to release 23 classified decisions it made between 9/11 and the passage of the USA Freedom Act in June 2015.

ACLU Urges Justice Department To Investigate Police Use Of Face Recognition

October 19, 2016 Staff, www.aclu.org Resist! ACLU, Investigation, Police, Surveillance

By Staff of ACLU - WASHINGTON — The American Civil Liberties Union sent a letter today to the Justice Department urging it to investigate the increasing use and impact of face recognition by police. The letter, sent in partnership with the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, comes amid mounting evidence that the technology is violating the rights of millions of Americans and having a disproportionate impact on communities of color.

One In Two US Adults In An Enforcement Facial Recognition Network

October 19, 2016 Clare Garvie, Alvaro Bedoya, and Jonathan Frankle, www.perpetuallineup.org Resist! Surveillance

By Clare Garvie, Alvaro Bedoya, and Jonathan Frankle for The Perpetual Line Up - There is a knock on your door. It’s the police. There was a robbery in your neighborhood. They have a suspect in custody and an eyewitness. But they need your help: Will you come down to the station to stand in the line-up? Most people would probably answer “no.” This summer, the Government Accountability Office revealed that close to 64 million Americans do not have a say in the matter

Exclusive: Yahoo Secretly Scanned Customer Emails For U.S. Intelligence

October 6, 2016 Joseph Menn, www.reuters.com Educate! Surveillance, Technology

By Joseph Menn for Reuters - Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers' incoming emails for specific information provided by U.S. intelligence officials, according to people familiar with the matter. The company complied with a classified U.S. government demand, scanning hundreds of millions of Yahoo Mail accounts at the behest of the National Security Agency or FBI, said three former employees and a fourth person apprised of the events.

Thinking Dangerously In Age Of Normalized Ignorance

October 2, 2016 Henry Giroux, www.counterpunch.org Educate! Democracy, Education, Mass Media, Solidarity, Surveillance

By Henry Giroux for CounterPunch. What happens to a society when thinking is eviscerated and is disdained in favor of raw emotion? [1] What happens when political discourse functions as a bunker rather than a bridge? What happens when the spheres of morality and spirituality give way to the naked instrumentalism of a savage market rationality? What happens when time becomes a burden for most people and surviving becomes more crucial than trying to lead a life with dignity? What happens when domestic terrorism, disposability, and social death become the new signposts and defining features of a society? What happens to a social order ruled by an “economics of contempt” that blames the poor for their condition and wallows in a culture of shaming?[2] What happens when loneliness and isolation become the preferred modes of sociality?

Big Brother Is Secretly Taking Surveillance To A New Level In Baltimore

August 25, 2016 Monte Reel, www.bloomberg.com Educate! Baltimore, Surveillance

By Monte Reel for Bloomberg Bussiness Week - The sky over the Circuit Court for Baltimore City on June 23 was the color of a dull nickel, and a broad deck of lowering clouds threatened rain. A couple dozen people with signs—“Justice 4 Freddie Gray” and “The whole damn system is guilty as hell”—lingered by the corner of the courthouse, watching the network TV crews rehearse their standups. Sheriff’s officers in bulletproof vests clustered around the building’s doors, gripping clubs with both hands.

Developed In Iraq, Deployed At DNC?: Cell-Jamming Tech Used On Journalists

August 18, 2016 Kit O'Connell, www.mintpressnews.com Educate! DNC, Surveillance

By Kit O'Connell for Mint Press News - PHILADELPHIA — Technology developed to jam cellphones during the Iraq War may be getting deployed against journalists reporting on protests against the political establishment in the United States. While police and government surveillance of protests, including monitoring of cellphone use, is well-documented, efforts to block signals at protests remains an oft-repeated, but never proven, rumor. It may be impossible to definitively prove that authorities are using cellphone “jamming” technology

Surveillance Isn’t Colorblind

August 13, 2016 Sandra Fulton, www.otherwords.org Educate! Surveillance

By Sandra Fulton for Other Worlds - During the 1960s, the FBI and NSA followed, wiretapped, and bugged Martin Luther King Jr. — all under the veil of proper legal process. Today, the FBI and Department of Homeland Security spy on Black Lives Matter activists under the guise of “counterterrorism” and “situational awareness.” “Everyone is being watched, but not equally,” Georgetown Law’s Alvaro Bedoya noted in a recent panel discussion in Washington, D.C.

FBI Dumps 18 Hours Of Spy Plane Footage On Black Lives Matter Protests

August 7, 2016 Staff, www.motherboard.vice.com Educate! Black Lives Matter (BLM), FBI, Surveillance

By Staff for Motherboard Vice. It's been just over a year since amateur aviation sleuths first revealed the FBI's secret aerial surveillance of the civil unrest in Baltimore, Maryland. Now, in response to a FOIA request from the ACLU, the Bureau has released more than 18 hours of aerial footage from the Baltimore protests captured by their once-secret spy planes, which regularly fly in circles above major cities and are commonly registered to fake companies. The cache is likely the most comprehensive collection of aerial surveillance footage ever released by a US law enforcement agency. The videos, which the FBI claims are its “complete” recordings of the Baltimore unrest, cover the period of April 29 through May 3, 2015, when protests and riots erupted following the death of Freddie Gray in police custody under suspicious circumstances. Last month, prosecutors dropped all remaining charges in the case, concluding with no convictions for any of the police officers involved in the incident. The footage shows the crowds of protesters captured in a combination of visible light and infrared spectrum video taken by the planes' wing-mounted FLIR Talon cameras.

This Company Has Built A Profile On Every American Adult

August 6, 2016 David Gauvey Herbert, www.bloomberg.com Educate! Surveillance

By David Gauvey Herbert for Bloomberg - Forget telephoto lenses and fake mustaches: The most important tools for America’s 35,000 private investigators are database subscription services. For more than a decade, professional snoops have been able to search troves of public and nonpublic records—known addresses, DMV records, photographs of a person’s car—and condense them into comprehensive reports costing as little as $10. Now they can combine that information with the kinds of things marketers know about you, such as which politicians you donate to, what you spend on groceries, and whether it’s weird that you ate in last night, to create a portrait of your life and predict your behavior.

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