The 9/11 terrorist attacks were such an atrocity that the United States government took immediate action to keep Americans “safe at all costs” with the Patriot Act. But the costs to our civil liberties have been significant.
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FISA 702 allows the U.S. government to collect communications of innocent Americans, which can be searched without a warrant and used in criminal prosecutions.
Dan King from Young Voices gives the low down on the U.S. government using Amazon's facial recognition technology.
Susan Herman, President of the ACLU, and Matt Kibbe discuss the Fourth Amendment.
It's been five years since Edward Snowden revealed that our government was engaging in widespread mass surveillance on U.S. citizens. What have we learned?
Trump's Cabinet picks give those of us who worry about protecting the 4th Amendment against the overreach of mass surveillance reason to fear a bumpy ride.
Tuesday’s report that internet giant Yahoo had collaborated with the NSA to scan every email coming in to its millions of users roiled the online community.
The notoriously crime-ridden Baltimore is now under constant, city-wide surveillance using a military-style system of aerial photographs.
Chicago police are using Minority Report-style tactics to try to predict who is going to commit a crime based on statistics. Pre-crime is here.
Surveillance hawks attempted to use fear to ram through an unconstitutional expansion of the government’s surveillance powers.