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Article • March 15, 2024 • from CLN March, 2024
LexisNexis Aids Customs and Border Patrol to Flaunt Fourth Amendment by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso LexisNexis is known by many of Generation X as the provider of education software, but it is actually a data company that has applied its expertise in the controversial realm of human intelligence, …
Article • March 15, 2024 • from CLN March, 2024
Understanding Fusion Centers by Michael Thompson by Michael Dean Thompson Introduction After 9/11, authorities determined the event was possible due to a failure of the various intelligence agencies to communicate with each other and share their information, data, insights, and discoveries. In 2007, Eben Kaplan wrote for the Council on …
Article • March 15, 2024 • from CLN March, 2024
Watchlisted: You’re Probably Already on a Government Extremism List by John W. Whitehead, Nisha Whitehead by John & Nisha Whitehead, The Rutherford Institute—Commentary “In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught.”—Hunter S. Thompson  According to the FBI, you may be an anti-government extremist if you’ve: …
Article • February 15, 2024 • from CLN February, 2024
NYPD Has Spent Millions of Dollars on Social Media Analysis Tools by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott The New York City Police Department (“NYPD”) has spent millions of dollars of taxpayers’ money buying products from tech company Voyager Labs that claims it can analyze social media to track …
Article • February 15, 2024 • from CLN February, 2024
The Potential Privacy Threat of Generative AI by Michael Thompson by Michael Dean Thompson Police are increasingly looking to corporations for help solving crimes. Google is accustomed to providing lists of users who happened to be physically near a crime. In addition, it has provided the identities of people who …
Article • February 15, 2024 • from CLN February, 2024
DEA’s Domestic Surveillance Mission Creep: Beyond Drugs, Beyond Protests by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott An ongoing investigation reveals that the Drug Enforcement Agency’s (“DEA”) involvement in domestic surveillance operations far exceeds its drug enforcement mandate. Documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by the Cato …
Vendors Late to Recognize the Serious Threat of Cell-Site Simulators by Michael Thompson by Michael Dean Thompson Cell-site simulators (“CSS”), also known by the brand name Stingray and more generically as IMSI Catchers, have permitted governments to spy on each other, hackers to install zero-click malware, and stalkers to track …
Article • February 15, 2024 • from CLN February, 2024
New Night-Vision Capable Drone Marketed to Police by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso Skydio, a popular drone manufacturer, released the new X10, whose main selling point is an infrared camera, which allows it to track people and fly autonomously in the dark. The company began making hobby drones about …
FBI Works to Expand Court Authority for Its Offensive Cyber Operations by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso The FBI’s effort to disable an army of zombie computers being used for cyber-crime is pretty mediagenic, but it is the latest step in the DOJ’s plan to render jurisdictional limits on …
Article • February 15, 2024 • from CLN February, 2024
Who Let the Dogs Out? Robotic Dogs Are the Newest (and Scariest) Surveillance Tech in U.S. Police Departments by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott After months of debate, the Los Angeles City Council approved the donation of a $280,000 robotic police dog in late May of 2023 in …
Article • February 15, 2024 • from CLN February, 2024
DHS Allows CBP and ICE Officers to Create Fake Social Media Profiles to Track Subjects of Interest and Conduct Investigations by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott The Brennan Center for Justice, a civil rights non-profit law and public policy group, has learned that authorities in several Department of …
Article • February 15, 2024 • from CLN February, 2024
Data Mining: Law Enforcement Pays Cash for Your Private Data and Saves on the Hassle of Complying With the Fourth Amendment by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney According to an investigation by The Wall Street Journal, a company known as Near Intelligence purchases individuals’ private data from brokers who usually …
The White House Goes Rogue: Secret Surveillance Program Breaks all the Rules by John W. Whitehead, Nisha Whitehead by John & Nisha Whitehead This essay originally appeared in Rutherford on November 29, 2023. “We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all …
FBI Buys Software to Enslave Your Phone by Michael Thompson by Michael Dean Thompson NSO Group is an Israeli firm started by former Israeli intelligence officers that produced some remarkably infamous software. The company’s software has become notorious for its use by governments with little regard for human rights violations …
Article • January 15, 2024 • from CLN January, 2024
House Judiciary Committee Investigates Major Banks for Unauthorized Sharing of Private Financial Information With the FBI by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott The House Judiciary Committee and Weaponization Select Subcommittee headed by Ohio Republican Jim Jordan is actively investigating major banks for allegedly sharing Americans’ private financial information …
Article • December 15, 2023 • from CLN December, 2023
Texas Using Highly Sophisticated Israeli Phone Tracking Software by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) launched Operation Lone Star in March 2021 after declaring a state of emergency in response to a rise in border crossings and fentanyl trafficking in southern Texas. As part …
Article • December 15, 2023 • from CLN December, 2023
We the Targeted: How the Government Weaponizes Surveillance to Silence its Critics 2372 by John W. Whitehead, Nisha Whitehead by John & Nisha Whitehead “Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the …
Article • November 1, 2023 • from CLN November, 2023
Your Car Is Spying on You by Michael Thompson by Michael Dean Thompson While it is true that Americans tend to carry their cellphones as grafted appendages, it may be that their cars know even more about them than their cellphones. Consider the following scenario: Jane sees that her car …
People of Maine at Forefront of Battle to Keep Government Security Apparatus in Check by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The people of Maine have made a bold step in corralling the “unaccountable power of fusion centers” with the passage of HP 947, An Act to Increase the Transparency and …
Article • November 1, 2023 • from CLN November, 2023
A Nation of Snitches: DHS Is Grooming Americans to Report on Each Other by John W. Whitehead, Nisha Whitehead By John & Nisha Whitehead September 19, 2023 “There were relatively few secret police, and most were just processing the information coming in. I had found a shocking fact. It wasn’t the …
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