24 stories tagged civil-liberties, newest first.
443 points by bhrlady | 231 comments
American Prospect article reporting that ICE plans a $100 million ERO ONE program hiring 142 cleared intelligence contractors deployed in US cities.
334 points by rbanffy | 304 comments
Ars Technica article on the border exemption letting US Customs and Border Protection search travelers' phones without a warrant, tied to an immigration advocate's lawsuit.
23 points by xeonmc | 5 comments
Wikipedia article on sousveillance, the recording of an activity by a member of the public using wearable or portable personal technologies.
118 points by latexr | 60 comments
404 Media article reporting on a woman arrested and removed from a city council meeting after speaking about Flock surveillance cameras.
805 points by iamnothere | 288 comments
Essay by Bruce Schneier and Cindy Cohn, originally in Lawfare, arguing that post-9/11 mass surveillance has outgrown its justification and should end.
1014 points by floathub | 1231 comments
New York Times article about Samuel Tunick, a US citizen facing felony charges for deleting data from his phone at the US border; the capture shows a bot-block page.
412 points by forks | 333 comments
TechCrunch article reporting that the LAPD let its contract with surveillance company Flock expire, citing serious concerns over civil liberties and privacy.
346 points by I_am_tiberius | 305 comments
A thread by Danish privacy activist and former police officer Lars Andersen describing his arrest after masked police broke down his door over publishing the PM's personal numbers.
872 points by cdrnsf | 234 comments
Advocacy site opposing Flock Safety license plate reader cameras, explaining their spread and the privacy and civil liberties concerns of mass surveillance.
459 points by detaro | 144 comments
EFF Deeplinks post arguing the FAA's temporary flight restriction on drones is an attempt to criminalize filming ICE operations.
379 points by ourmandave | 163 comments
CNN news article about a Tennessee woman, Angela Lipps, wrongly arrested via AI facial recognition for crimes in North Dakota, a state she says she never visited.
408 points by pseudolus | 122 comments
EFF Deeplinks article by Matthew Guariglia arguing tech companies should not be pressured by government into conducting surveillance.
330 points by nobody9999 | 93 comments
Texas Observer investigation into Texas police agencies spending millions on phone-tracking software and refusing to disclose how they use it.
466 points by tonyg | 202 comments
A personal essay on aphyr.com by Kyle Kingsbury describing conditions in Chicago, likely concerning federal immigration enforcement operations there.
540 points by walterbell | 309 comments
National Post opinion piece on a Canadian bill allowing internet access to be cut off for 'specified persons' without a warrant; page loaded as a 403 CSRF error.
378 points by amarcheschi | 524 comments
Sky News article reporting that ten live facial recognition vans will be deployed across police forces in England, with human rights groups criticising the technology.
323 points by xoa | 151 comments
EFF Deeplinks article criticizing Amazon Ring for adding features that give police access, including live-streamed footage, to users' cameras.
843 points by todsacerdoti | 541 comments
A Krebs on Security article examining how each of the First Amendment's protections—speech, press, religion, assembly, petition—is facing threats.
451 points by kogir | 358 comments
Computers Are Bad newsletter post by J. B. Crawford examining ShotSpotter's acoustic gunfire sensors after a leaked sensor-location spreadsheet, and the secrecy surrounding them.
652 points by Bright_Machine | 413 comments
La Quadrature du Net article on the French "8 December" case, where use of encrypted communications and privacy tools was cited as evidence of terrorist behavior.
446 points by nabla9 | 134 comments
The Register article on a declassified FISA court opinion showing the FBI misused Section 702 warrantless search powers over 278,000 times in 2020–2021.
341 points by impish9208 | 181 comments
Wall Street Journal article reporting the FBI improperly searched a foreign-intelligence database for information on Jan. 6 rioters and George Floyd protesters, per the FISA court.
333 points by BerislavLopac | 437 comments
OHCHR press release from 27 April 2023 in which the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights urges the UK to reverse its Public Order Bill.
419 points by danso | 108 comments
New York Times article about police relying on Clearview AI facial recognition that led to the wrongful jailing of an innocent person.