Cops Are Asking Ancestry.com And 23andMe For Customers’ DNA
When companies like Ancestry.com and 23andMe first invited people to send in their DNA for genealogy tracing and medical diagnostic...
Surveillance
Here’s How Police Could End Up Making Body Cameras Mostly Useless
LOS ANGELES, CA – SEPTEMBER 04: Los Angeles Police Officer Jim Stover, with Information Technology Bureau demonstrates how an officer...
CIA Employees First Victims of The U.S. OPM Hack
Irony came back to the shores of the United States in the month of September as the CIA was forced...
How a Corrupt FBI Agent Threatened to Kidnap and Torture my Friend
The Ulbricht Family by Virgil Vaduva “We are all at the mercy of tyrants but sometimes beauty shines through all...
New Hampshire Library to Reactivate TOR Node!
New Hampshire’s Kilton Public Library has been in the tech headlines in the last week after the Department of Homeland...
California Will Start Collecting All Data From Traffic Stops
With a growing chorus of voices demanding systemic police reform, California is poised to pass AB 953: The Racial and...
Chicago, LAPD Bought “Stingrays on Steroids” With Asset-Forfeiture Money
The military surveillance devices known as “Dirtboxes” have been in secret operation for more than a decade, tracking citizens’ locations...
FBI Denies Racial Profiling, Mass Surveillance With Spy Planes In Michigan
An FBI surveillance aircraft flying near Manassas Regional Airport in Virginia According to flight data, over the weekend an FBI...
Court Rules Cops Need Warrants For Cellphone Location Data
A federal court ruled on Wednesday that the government cannot obtain information about a cellphone’s location without a warrant. The...
VIDEO: ‘Good Cop’ Subjected To Injustice After Exposing NYPD Mass Surveillance Abuse
Video available below. A short documentary recently released by FiveThirtyEight as part of their Signals series highlights some of the injustices...
The Shadowy World of Cybersecurity Mercenaries
While the dangerous breadth of modern state surveillance has been rightfully exposed by whistleblowers like Edward Snowden, many of the...
Feds Can Read Every Email You Opened Last Year Without A Warrant
It’s no longer a surprise that the government is reading your emails. What you might not know is that it...
Minneapolis Cop Watchers Think Body Cameras Are Overrated
As Minneapolis marches toward outfitting its cops with body cameras, the city is hosting a series of listening sessions so...
Hacking Team Scrambling to Limit Damage Brought on by Explosive Data Leak
Who hacked Hacking Team, the Milan-based company selling intrusion and surveillance software to governments, law enforcement agencies and (as it...
NSA Was Collecting Much More Than They Claimed
Former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden appears live via video during a student organized world affairs conference at...
ACLU Responds to Growing Concerns Over Police and Government Accessing Private Medical Data
The American Civil Liberties Union has published a list of answers to frequently asked questions regarding the government’s ability to...
Five Reasons Why Police Body-Cams Are a Terrible Idea
by Virgil Vaduva Police accountability advocates often discuss the importance of body cameras being used and worn by police officers....
British spies ‘moved after Snowden files read’
UK intelligence agents have been moved because Russia and China can read files stolen by a US whistleblower, a senior...
New Ohio Bill Penalizes Cops for Deleting Recordings
COLUMBUS, Ohio – A new Ohio senate bill is being introduced this week that would prohibit police officers from interfering with...
US Government Demands More Power After Latest Hack
Congressional leaders are warning the latest major government data hack proves the Senate should hand the US government greater cybersecurity...
