Everyone’s got a hunger for data. Constitutional rights sometimes prevent those with a hunger from serving themselves. But when they’ve got third parties on top of third parties, all Fourth Amendment bets are off. Data brokers are getting rich selling government agencies the data they want at low, low prices, repackaging information gathered from other third parties into tasty packages that give US government agencies the data they want with the plausible deniability they need.
Defense Department Latest To Be Caught Hoovering Up Internet Data Via Private Contractors
Tag: Civil Liberties
Is Saudi Arabia Coming Out of Exile?
By Doug Bandow
World leaders seem to be welcoming Mohammed bin Salman back into the fold.
Is Saudi Arabia Coming Out of Exile?
Mail fraud? Biden’s postal inspectors tracked pro-gun activists
The U.S. Postal Service monitored protesters across the country, snooping on Americans focused on issues involving guns and President Biden’s election, according to records obtained by The Washington Times.
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“We determined that certain proactive searches iCOP conducted using an open-source intelligence tool from February to April 2021 exceeded the Postal Inspection Service’s law enforcement authority,” the Postal Service watchdog said in a March audit. “Furthermore, we could not corroborate whether other work analysts completed from October 2018 through June 2021 was legally authorized.”
Mail fraud? Biden’s postal inspectors tracked pro-gun activists
H/T: John Crump News
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Head Start COVID-19 vaccine mandate permanently blocked by judge
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) – A COVID-19 vaccine and mask requirement for Head Start programs has been permanently blocked by a U.S. judge.
Head Start COVID-19 vaccine mandate permanently blocked by judge
No, The Solution For Criminal Defendants Is Not More Clearview AI
from the two-wrongs-don’t-make-a-constitutional-right dept
Wed, Sep 21st 2022 10:43am – Cathy Gellis
The problems with Clearview AI’s facial recognition system, particularly in the hands of police, are myriad and serious. That the technology exists as it does at all raises significant ethical concerns, and how it has been used to feed people into the criminal justice system raises significant due process ones as well. But an article in the New York Times the other day might seem to suggest that it perhaps also has a cuddly side, one that might actually help criminal defendants, instead of just hurting them.
No, The Solution For Criminal Defendants Is Not More Clearview AI
ACERE Statement Condemning Senator Rubio’s Attempt to Intimidate and Harass Puentes de Amor
As Cuban-Americans and others came out on the streets of Miami on July 31 to oppose the over 60-year United States embargo against Cuba, Senator Marco Rubio decided to revive one of the ugliest and most condemned moments of U.S. history when he chose to engage in McCarthyist tactics and launch a campaign against U.S. citizens demanding diplomacy and engagement with Cuba, instead of continuing a failed policy of isolation and punishment.
ACERE Statement Condemning Senator Rubio’s Attempt to Intimidate and Harass Puentes de Amor
Related:
Bridges of Love ‘spreads Cuba’s communist propaganda.’ FBI must investigate this group | Opinion
Senators use hearing to criticize Big Tech for not censoring enough “disinformation”
By Christina Maas | Reclaim The Net | September 16, 2022
The Senate Homeland Security Committee questioned executives from social media companies about allowing “disinformation” to go viral.
Senators use hearing to criticize Big Tech for not censoring enough “disinformation”
The FBI Closely Tracked Aretha Franklin’s Appearances at Civil Rights Events
The FBI used a network of snitches to spy on entertainers and activists, and the Queen of Soul was no exception.
The FBI Closely Tracked Aretha Franklin’s Appearances at Civil Rights Events
The FBI’s Gestapo Tactics: Hallmarks of an Authoritarian Regime
August 22, 2022 – By John & Nisha Whitehead
“We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. FBI is tending in that direction.”—Harry Truman
With every passing day, the United States government borrows yet another leaf from Nazi Germany’s playbook: Secret police. Secret courts. Secret government agencies. Surveillance. Censorship. Intimidation. Harassment. Torture. Brutality. Widespread corruption. Entrapment. Indoctrination. Indefinite detention.
The FBI’s Gestapo Tactics: Hallmarks of an Authoritarian Regime
Biden Launches Divisive Attack On MAGA
Yesterday U.S. president Joe Biden held a speech in Pennsylvania in which he incited the public against those who want to Make America Great Again.
The optics were a bit scary, …
Biden Launches Divisive Attack On MAGA
Related:
New York Times: A Rematch of Biden v. Trump, Two Years Early
The immediate strategy is self-evident. Rather than a referendum on his own presidency, which has been hurt by high inflation and low public morale, Mr. Biden wants to make the election a choice between “normal” and an “extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic,” as he put it on Thursday.
Note that the ‘clear and present danger’ test was applied to Antiwar activists and Communists. The new McCarthyism is anyone against the status quo of war and neoliberalism, as seen by the recent smear campaigns, and blacklists of anyone challenging the Russia-Ukraine conflict narrative and the FBI raids on the Uhuru Movement/African Peoples’ Socialist Party.
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