Surveillance

Documents Uncover NYPD’s Vast License Plate Reader Database

January 28, 2016 Mariko Hirose, www.huffingtonpost.com Educate! NYPD, Surveillance

By Mariko Hirose for The Huffington Post - With these stories firmly in mind, the New York Civil Liberties Union's latest license plate reader discovery is all the more chilling. Last year, we learned that the NYPD was hoping to enter into a multi-year contract that would give it access to the nationwide database of license plate reader data owned by the company Vigilant Solutions. Now, through a Freedom of Information Law request, the NYCLU has obtained the final version of the $442,500 contract and the scope-of-work proposal that gives a peek into the ever-widening world of surveillance made possible by Vigilant.

People Demand Debate On Controversial Anti-Terror Law

January 14, 2016 Jessica Murphy, www.theguardian.com Resist! Canada, Privacy, Surveillance

By Jessica Murphy for The Guardian - Opponents of Canada’s sweeping new anti-terror law are planning a major campaign to pressure the Liberal government to launch broad public consultations before overhauling the controversial legislation. Civil society groups, legal scholars and labour unions are calling on the government to hold a public debate on reforms for the legislation – known as C-51 – which they say are necessary to protect Canadian civil liberties, freedoms and personal privacy. “We know very little about the government’s plans for C-51, so our hope is they are going to listen to the huge number of Canadians who expressed deep, deep concerns about this bill when it was passed,” British Columbia Civil Liberties Association executive director Josh Paterson says.

NSA Targeted ‘The Two Leading’ Encryption Chips

January 9, 2016 Glenn Greenwald, www.theintercept.com Resist! Encryption, Glenn Greenwald, Internet, NSA, Privacy, Surveillance

By Glenn Greenwald for The Intercept - On September 5, 2013, The Guardian, the New York Times and ProPublica jointly reported — based on documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden — that the National Security Agency had compromised some of the encryption that is most commonly used to secure internet transactions. The NYT explained that NSA “has circumvented or cracked much of the encryption, or digital scrambling, that guards global commerce and banking systems, protects sensitive data like trade secrets and medical records, and automatically secures the emails, web searches, internet chats and phone calls of Americans and others around the world.”

NY Muslims Reach Settlement With NYPD In Surveillance Lawsuit

January 8, 2016 Hina Shamsi, www.aclu.org Resist! Civil Rights, Police abuse, Surveillance

By Hina Shamsi for ACLU - A settlement in our challenge to NYPD surveillance of New York Muslims was announced today, heralding new safeguards to protect against bias-based and unjustified investigations of Muslim and other minority communities. The settlement was announced in Raza v. City of New York, a lawsuit on behalf of three New York Muslims, two mosques, and a Muslim non-profit organization, who alleged they were swept up in the NYPD’s dragnet surveillance of Muslims. The ACLU, the New York Civil Liberties Union, and the CLEAR project at CUNY School of Law filed the suit in 2013.

Police Agent-Provocateurs Exposed At Anti-Austerity Protest

January 7, 2016 Carl Bronski, www.wsws.org Resist! Agent-Provocateurs, Infiltrators, Police abuse, Surveillance

By Carl Bronski for WSWS - Further information has come to light concerning the Montreal Police Department’s use of agent-provocateurs disguised as “Black Bloc” protestors at a December 18 demonstration against police violence and the anti-austerity policies of the Quebec Liberal government. Initially the police refused to admit that they had infiltrated the protest. But now they are strongly defending the actions of an undercover cop who drew his revolver and threatened protesters who had “outed” him as a police agent provocateur.

FBI Files: Military questioned Pete Seeger’s Wartime Loyalty

December 21, 2015 Michael Hill and George M. Walsh, www.ap.org Educate! FBI, Pete Seeger, Surveillance, Wars and Militarism

By Michael Hill and George M. Walsh for Associated Press. In a security investigation triggered by a wartime letter he wrote denouncing a proposal to deport all Japanese-Americans, the Army intercepted Seeger's mail to his fiancee, scoured his school records, talked to his father, interviewed an ex-landlord and questioned his pal Woody Guthrie, according to FBI files obtained by The Associated Press. Investigators concluded that Seeger's association with known communists and his Japanese-American fiancee pointed to a risk of divided loyalty. Seeger's "Communistic sympathies, his unsatisfactory relations with landlords and his numerous Communist and otherwise undesirable friends, make him unfit for a position of trust or responsibility," according to a military intelligence report. The investigation, forwarded to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, is detailed in more than 1,700 pages from Seeger's FBI file, released by the National Archives under the Freedom of Information Act.

Secret Catalogue Of Government Gear For Spying On Your Cellphone

December 19, 2015 Jeremy Scahill and Margot Williams, www.theintercept.com Educate! Surveillance

By Jeremy Scahill and Margot Williams for The Intercept - THE INTERCEPT HAS OBTAINED a secret, internal U.S. government catalogue of dozens of cellphone surveillance devices used by the military and by intelligence agencies. The document, thick with previously undisclosed information, also offers rare insight into the spying capabilities of federal law enforcement and local police inside the United States. The catalogue includes details on the Stingray, a well-known brand of surveillance gear, as well as Boeing “dirt boxes” and dozens of more obscure devices that can be mounted on vehicles, drones, and piloted aircraft.

Backslash: Anti-Surveillance Gadgets For Protesters

December 15, 2015 Joshua Kopstein, www.arstechnica.com Strategize! Protesters, Surveillance

By Joshua Kopstein for ARS Technica - When riot police descended on protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, last year sporting assault rifles and armored vehicles, the images sparked an awareness of the military technologies and tactics authorities have adopted over the past decade. Many of these tools have quietly become regular components of day-to-day policing. And just as with social networks and cell phone cameras during the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street, they've dramatically—and often invisibly—altered the dynamics of contemporary protest. Examples are everywhere, from the controversial Long-Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) sound weapons used to disperse crowds to secretive mass surveillance devices, commonly known as stingrays originally developed for the US Navy...

Civil Liberties Groups Oppose Final Version Of Dangerous Cyber Bill

December 11, 2015 Evan Greer, www.FightForTheFuture.org Resist! Cyber Security, Surveillance

By Evan Greer for Fighting For Our Future - WASHINGTON - A group of 19 civil liberties organizations from across the political spectrum this morning issued a letter to the White House and Congress urging lawmakers to oppose the final “conferenced” version of a dangerous cyber bill that experts say will dramatically expand government surveillance while failing to make us safer from cyber attacks. “The final version of this bill is an insult to the public and puts all of us in greater danger of cyber attacks and government surveillance,” said Evan Greer...

The US Postal Service’s Secret Cover Program

December 1, 2015 John Kiriakou, www.readersupportednews.org Educate! Postal Service, Surveillance

By John Kiriakou for Reader Supported News - The U.S. Postal Service is spying on us. And they’re not doing a very good job at it. I’m not talking about peeking into letters or looking at how many mutual fund statements you receive. I’m talking about the systematic collection of information on every single piece of mail you send or receive, including the names and addresses of the sender and recipient, without a warrant or oversight and without any explanation to the person being targeted. Indeed, the USPS Inspector General has even issued a report saying that the Postal Service “failed to properly safeguard documents...

How Walmart Keeps An Eye On Its Massive Workforce

November 30, 2015 Susan Berfield, www.bloomberg.com Educate! Surveillance, Walmart, Workers Rights and Jobs

By Susan Berfield for Bloomberg Businessweek - In the autumn of 2012, when Walmart first heard about the possibility of a strike on Black Friday, executives mobilized with the efficiency that had built a retail empire. Walmart has a system for almost everything: When there’s an emergency or a big event, it creates a Delta team. The one formed that September included representatives from global security, labor relations, and media relations. For Walmart, the stakes were enormous. The billions in sales typical of a Walmart Black Friday were threatened. The company’s public image, especially in big cities where its power and size were controversial, could be harmed.

Things That Can And Cannot Be Said

November 18, 2015 John Cusack, www.portside.org Educate! Freedom of Press, Surveillance

By John Cusack for Portside - One morning as I scanned the news—horror in the Middle East, Russia and America facing off in the Ukraine, I thought of Edward Snowden and wondered how he was holding up in Moscow. I began to imagine a conversation between him and Daniel Ellsberg (who leaked the Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam war). And then, interestingly, in my imagination a third person made her way into the room—the writer Arundhati Roy. It occurred to me that trying to get the three of them together would be a fine thing to do. I had heard Roy speak in Chicago, and had met her several times. One gets the feeling very quickly with her and comes to the rapid conclusion that there are no pre-formatted assumptions or givens.

DHS/Police Are Paying School Kids To Spy On Classmates

November 10, 2015 Staff, www.massprivatei.blogspot.com Educate! Police, Surveillance

By Staff of Mass Private I - Apparently DHS's "If You See Something Say Something" spying program isn't enough. Now DHS/Police want to turn school kids into spies. The "Project Safe Campus" (PSC) program is an anonymous CASH rewards program that pays students $100.00 to spy on fellow classmates! According to a statement from Detroit public schools... "The goal of PSC is to increase the number of anonymous tips coming from the schools. Students who give tips that result in disciplinary action can earn $100 cash rewards." This program incentivizes schools and universities to spy on students.

NSA Ordered To Stop Collecting, Querying Plaintiffs’ Phone Records

November 10, 2015 David Greene, www.eff.org Resist! NSA, Surveillance

By David Greene for EFF - Affirming his previous ruling that the NSA’s telephone records collection program is unconstitutional, a federal judge ordered the NSA to cease collecting the telephone records of an individual and his business. The judge further ordered the NSA to segregate any records that have already been collected so that they are not reviewed when the NSA’s telephone records database is queried. The order comes 20 days before the NSA program is set to expire pursuant to the USA FREEDOM Act. United States District Judge Richard Leon issued the order in Klayman v. Obama, a case in which EFF appeared as amicus curiae.

Manning Calls For Abolition Of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court

November 4, 2015 Chelsea Manning, www.medium.com Resist! Chelsea Manning, Political Prisoner, Surveillance

By Chelsea Manning for Medium - Taking on the Most Difficult Undertaking in Prison (So Far), Not shooting from the hip — writing opinions and a bill in prison is hard work. I recently published an op-ed in The Guardian and a bill to abolish the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and to transfer the controversial surveillance authority from the secretive court to a good ol’ fashioned U.S. District Court. I’m way ahead of your question — What the hell did I get myself into? The answer is: the most difficult undertaking since arriving here after mycourt-martial in 2013.

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