Surveillance and the Limits of Law

Section 215 of the Patriot Act is set to sunset. New legislation would kill it entirely. But how much do intelligence agencies follow the law anyway?

By Alex Marthews | March 4, 2020 | Defense, Government, Human Rights, Law, Privacy, Security | Amazon, AT&T, Black Lives Matter, Civil Liberties, Congress, Constitutional Law, Dissent, Donald Trump, Edward Snowden, Electronic Frontier Foundation, FBI, FISA, Foreign Intelligence, Fourth Amendment, Gang of Eight, ICE, Intelligence Agencies, Internet, Jewel v. NSA, Law Enforcement, Legal Precedent, Mass Surveillance, Michael Hayden, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, NSA, Orwell, Palantir, Patriot Act, Privacy, Restore the Fourth, Revolution, Russell Tice, Section 215, Sensors, Spying, Standing Rock, Supreme Court, surveillance, Surveillance Oversight Ordinances, Violence

Podcast #33: Clare Garvie on Facial Recognition

Facial recognition expert Clare Garvie explains how police are using (and abusing) this dangerous technology.

By Art Keller | July 3, 2019 | Artificial Intelligence, Human Rights, Law, Podcasts, Policing, Privacy, Security | 14th Amendment, Abuse, Biometric Surveillance, Carpenter v. US, Civil Liberties, Congress, Cross-Examination, Driver's Licenses, Due Process, Equal Protection, Exculpatory Evidence, Facial Recognition, Fair Trial, False Identification, False Imprisonment, FBI, First Amendment, Fourth Amendment, Free Speech, Justice, Law Enforcement, Photo Databases, Police, Privacy

He Started #DeleteFacebook… Nine Years Ago

Nine years ago, three artists created a controversial site to make a statement about Facebook’s practices. The company sued and accused them of scraping data. Oh, the irony.

By Art Keller | April 11, 2018 | Culture, Ethics, Law, Media, Privacy | Advertising, Apps, Art, Bits of Freedom, Cambridge Analytica, Chris Wylie, Congress, Danja Vasiliev, Dark Patterns, Data Scraping, Data-Mining, Deleting Accounts, Developers, Digital Art, Edward Snowden, EFF, Facebook, Fraud, Gordan Savicic, Manipulation, Mark Zuckerberg, Moddr, Privacy, Privacy Zuckering, Social Commentary, Social Media, Tobias Leingruber, Twitter, Walter Langelaar, Web Suicide Machine

Should the National Parks Break Up With Cars?

America’s national parks are overcrowded and underfunded. Would banning cars improve everyone’s experience?

By Monica Heger | April 26, 2017 | Environment, Health | Acadia National Park, Bears, Bicycles, Camping, Cars, Congress, Cycling, Denali National Park, Driving, Grand Canyon, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Hiking, National Parks, Outdoors, Traffic, Wilderness, Wildlife, Yosemite National Park, Zion National Park

Speak No Evil: Victims Gagged as FBI Violates Rights

The FBIs use of National Security Letters is an end-run around the Constitution. Too bad no one can talk about it.

By Warren Christopher Freiberg | October 5, 2016 | Defense, Human Rights, Law, Privacy | Congress, Constitution, DOJ, EFF, FBI, First Amendment, Fourth Amendment, Gag Orders, Microsoft, National Security Letters, NSLs, Privacy, surveillance

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