Surveillance

Patriot Act Should Be Repealed Say Whistleblowers

April 29, 2015 John Hanrahan, www.exposefacts.org Resist! NSA, Surveillance

Seven prominent national security whistleblowers Monday called for a number of wide-ranging reforms — including passage of the “Surveillance State Repeal Act,” which would repeal the USA Patriot Act — in an effort to restore the Constitutionally guaranteed 4th Amendment right to be free from government spying. Several of the whistleblowers also said that the recent lenient sentence of probation and a fine for General David Petraeus — for his providing of classified information to his mistress Paula Broadwell — underscores the double standard of justice at work in the area of classified information handling.

Guatemala: 1000s Protest Gov’t Corruption & Impunity

April 27, 2015 Erin Gallagher, www.revolution-news.com Resist! Corruption, Freedom of Expression, Guatemala, Protest, Surveillance

Thousands participated in a peaceful demonstration in Guatemala on Saturday April 25 at 3pm in the capital city to demand the resignation of President Otto Pérez Molina and Vice President Roxana Baldetti, and the return of millions stolen from the national treasury. The Secretaries-General Winaq Movement and URNG-Maiz, Amilcar Pop and Angel Sanchez filed a criminal complaint against President Otto Pérez Molina and Vice President Roxana Baldetti, after the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) and the Public Ministry dismantled a network of customs fraud and smuggling operating in the Superintendency of Tax Administration (SAT)

How Fast Track And The TPP Undermine The Internet

April 24, 2015 Maira Sutton, www.eff.org Educate! Internet, NSA, Surveillance, Trade, TTP

Sen. Ron Wyden took to Wired yesterday to argue that the Fast Track bill he co-sponsored to rush approval for trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement will help protect the free and open Internet. Sen. Wyden has long been a staunch defender of the Internet and users' rights, and more recently, he has renewed his efforts to reform the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and the draconian Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). The primary reason Sen. Wyden boasts that Fast Track and the TPP would protect Internet users is because both contain provisions involving the "free flow of information." Such provisions live in the TPP's E-Commerce chapter, which has never been leaked, so no one except the negotiators themselves and corporate advisors with special privileges have seen the actual language. What we do know is based on public statements and leaked texts from other secret trade deals.

‘Stop Cyber Spying’ Tells Congress: Drop Cybersecurity Bills

April 23, 2015 Rainey Reitman, www.eff.org Resist! Internet, National Security, Surveillance

EFF, Access, and a coalition of other digital rights organizations have launched a campaignopposing legislative attempts to make information sharing between companies and the government easier. The 5 bills—touted as cybersecurity bills—would provide legal avenues for Internet companies to share unprecedented amounts of data with the US government, often with few protections for private information that may be included in these data dumps. In 2012 and 2013, President Obama threatened to veto similar cybersecurity proposals. However, this year the Administration has made no such promise. The coalition site includes apetition to Obama urging him to issue a veto threat as well as a tool that lets concerned citizens tweet at their members of Congress, urging them to oppose these bills.

What You Need To Know If You Record The Cops

April 23, 2015 Nadia Kayyali, www.gizmodo.com Resist! Freedom of Expression, Media, police brutality, Surveillance

There are some very disturbing videos circulating the Internet right now, depicting the deaths of unarmed civilians at the hands of trained, armed men. Many of these videos even show individuals being shot in the back, or as they try to flee. These are videos of police officers in America killing unarmed black men like Oscar Grant andEric Garner. And, as the most recent case shows, without these recordings, much of America might not have any idea exactly how much of a problem this is. Citizen videos of law enforcement encounters are more valuable than ever. And for those who are wondering—it is legal to record the police. The police don’t always seem aware of this. There have been incidents across the country of police telling people to stop filming, and sometimes seizing their camera or smartphone, or evenarresting them, when they don’t comply.

Why Surveillance Reform Is Inevitable

April 22, 2015 Anthony D. Romero, www.latimes.com Resist! NSA, Privacy, Surveillance, Youth

In late February, the American Civil Liberties Union commissioned a global poll surveying millennials (18- to 34-year-olds) in 10 countries, including the United States, about their opinions of Snowden and what the effect of his disclosures will mean for privacy. The results confirmed that surveillance reform, like marriage equality, will come about because of generational change. The poll showed that in every country surveyed — Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Britain, Italy, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Spain and the U.S. — millennials have an overwhelmingly positive opinion of Snowden. In continental Europe, 78% to 86% has positive opinions of him. Even in the United States, where the Justice Department has charged Snowden with espionage, 56% view him favorably.

EPISODE 7 – Water Shortages, Edward Snowden Busted & Surveillance

April 16, 2015 Occupy, www.occupy.com Educate! Occupy, Snowden, Surveillance, Water

This week, we dive into the shallow waters of California’s extreme drought and what you can do about it CA (hint: it’s not just about cutting back on personal hygiene). From extreme drought to extreme measures, we take a look at Baltimore’s notice to over 25,000 people that their water will be shut-off. Is water a human right? Are low income residents all to blame? Could there be some low life scum lurking in these murky waters? From murky waters to gallery art shows, we shift to some Art with Teeth, interviewing founder Keef Ward on why he handpicks thousands of social and political artists to showcase on his page, why art in activism is so important and some artists you absolutely have to check out now.

Confronting The Surveillance State

April 14, 2015 Patrick G. Eddington, www.washingtonexaminer.com Resist! Law, NSA, Snowden, Surveillance

By Memorial Day weekend, Congress will likely have decided whether the federal government's mass surveillance programs — exposed first by The New York Times in December 2005 and more broadly by National Security Agency contractor-turned-whistleblower Edward Snowden in 2013 — will be partially reined in or will instead become a dominant, permanent feature of American life. The creation of what many refer to as the "American Surveillance State" began in secret, just days after the Sept. 11 attacks. As the wreckage of the Twin Towers smoldered, President Bush and his top national security and intelligence advisers were making decisions that would trigger a constitutional crisis over surveillance programs that the public was told was essential to combating terrorism.

Smart Meters Are Being Used To Spy On People

April 14, 2015 MassPrivateI, www.massprivatei.blogspot.com Educate! Police, Surveillance

According to Washingtonsblog: 'Smart Meters' are now being used by authorities to crack down on “water wasters” in California, but this is just the tip of the iceberg as far as what they can be used for. Ultimately, 'Smart Meters' are designed to be part of an entire “smart grid” that will enable government bureaucrats “to control everything from your dishwasher to thermostat“. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has even admitted that privacy and data access is a concern as far back as 2010 in a report on smart meter technology. The “Data Access and Privacy Issues Related to Smart Grid Technologies.” report states 'Smart Meters' are indeed spying on everyone.

FBI’s Secret Deal With Police Hides Phone Dragnet From Courts

April 13, 2015 Jessica Glenza and Nicky Woolf, www.theguardian.com Educate! FBI, Police, Surveillance

The FBI is taking extraordinary and potentially unconstitutional measures to keep local and state police forces from exposing the use of so-called “Stingray” surveillance technology across the United States, according to documents obtained separately by the Guardian and the American Civil Liberties Union. Multiple non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) revealed in Florida, New York and Maryland this week show federal authorities effectively binding local law enforcement from disclosing any information – even to judges – about the cellphone dragnet technology, its collection capabilities or its existence.

Corporations & Intelligence Agencies Spy On Environmentalists

April 11, 2015 Adam Federman, www.earthisland.org Educate! Environment, FBI, Surveillance

In August 2010, the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Domestic Terrorism Analysis Unit distributedan intelligence bulletin to all field offices warning that environmental extremism would likely become an increasing threat to the energy industry. The eight-page document argued that, even though the industry had encountered only low-level vandalism and trespassing, recent “criminal incidents” suggested that environmental extremism was on the rise. The FBI concluded: “Environmental extremism will become a greater threat to the energy industry owing to our historical understanding that some environmental extremists have progressed from committing low-level crimes against targets to more significant crimes over time in an effort to further the environmental extremism cause.”

UK Gov’s Spying Challenged At European Human Rights Court

April 11, 2015 Loek Essers, www.pcworld.com Resist! Surveillance, United Kingdom (UK)

The U.K. government’s mass surveillance practices will be challenged at the European Court of Human Rights. Human rights and civil liberties organizations Amnesty International, Liberty and Privacy International have filed a joint application with the court, they announced on Friday. The groups assert that U.K domestic law governing the U.K. intelligence agencies’ interception of communications and its intelligence sharing with the U.S., are in breach of fundamental human rights to privacy, freedom of expression and non-discrimination guaranteed under the European Convention on Human Rights. The challenge is based on documents disclosed by NSA leaker Edward Snowden revealing mass surveillance practices by intelligence agencies.

DEA Sued Over Mass Surveillance Programs

April 10, 2015 Human Rights Watch, www.hrw.org Resist! Human Rights, Surveillance, Torture

Human Rights Watch filed suit on April 7, 2015, against the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) for illegally collecting records of the organization’s telephone calls to foreign countries. The DEA disclosed the existence of its mass surveillance program in January 2015, after a federal judge ordered the government to disclose more information about the program. The agency made the disclosure in a criminal case against a man accused of violating export restrictions on goods to Iran. “At Human Rights Watch we work with people who are sometimes in life or death situations, where speaking out can make them a target,” said Dinah PoKempner, general counsel at Human Rights Watch.

Baltimore Police Often Surveil Cellphones Amid US Secrecy

April 10, 2015 Juliet Linderman and Jack Gillum, www.kron4.com Educate! Baltimore, Police, Surveillance

The Baltimore Police Department has used secretive cellphone surveillance equipment 4,300 times and believes it is under orders by the U.S. government to withhold evidence from criminal trials and ignore subpoenas in cases where the device is used, a police officer testified Wednesday. The unusual testimony in a criminal case marked a rare instance when details have been revealed about the surveillance devices, which the Obama administration has aggressively tried to keep secret. Citing security reasons, the government has intervened in routine state public-records cases and criminal trials, and has advised police not to disclose details. On Wednesday, Baltimore police officer Emmanuel Cabreja said his technical unit has deployed the device, called Hailstorm, about 4,300 times since 2007.

Fight215.org Launches To Amplify Opposition To The NSA

April 10, 2015 Nadia Kayyali, www.eff.org Resist! NSA, Privacy, Surveillance

A coalition of 34 organizations from across the political spectrum is launching Fight215.orgtoday to help concerned individuals contact lawmakers and demand an end to NSA’s unconstitutional mass surveillance under the Patriot Act. The launch coincides with the countdown to the expiration of Section 215 of the Patriot Act, which the NSA claims justifies bulk collection of the phone records of millions of innocent people. Whistleblower Edward Snowden shared these thoughts with the coalition: Suspicionless surveillance has no place in a democracy. The next 60 days are a historic opportunity to rein in the NSA, but the only one who can end the worst of its abuses is you. Call your representatives and tell them that the unconstitutional 'bulk collection' of Americans' private records under Section 215 of the Patriot Act must end.

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