Lawyers representing MIT are filing a motion to intervene in my FOIA lawsuit over thousands of pages of Secret Service documents about the late activist and coder Aaron Swartz. (more…)
July 2013
Monthly Archive
Sun 21 Jul 2013
MIT Moves to Intervene in Release of Aaron Swartz’s Secret Service File
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Wed 17 Jul 2013
Police Documents on License Plate Scanners Reveal Mass Tracking
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Automatic license plate readers are the most widespread location tracking technology you’ve probably never heard of. Mounted on patrol cars or stationary objects like bridges, they snap photos of every passing car, recording their plate numbers, times, and locations. (more…)
Wed 17 Jul 2013
Email exchange between Edward Snowden and former GOP Senator Gordon Humphrey
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‘I believe you have done the right thing in exposing what I regard as massive violation of the United States constitution’ (more…)
Sat 13 Jul 2013
The latest effort to distract attention from the NSA revelations is more absurd than most (more…)
Fri 12 Jul 2013
Jailed Journalist Barrett Brown Faces 105 Years For Reporting on Hacked Private Intelligence Firms
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Journalist Barrett Brown spent his 300th day behind bars this week on a range of charges filed after he used information obtained by the hacker group Anonymous to report on the operations of private intelligence firms. (more…)
Fri 12 Jul 2013
Statement by Edward Snowden to human rights groups at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport
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Hello. My name is Ed Snowden. A little over one month ago, I had family, a home in paradise, and I lived in great comfort. I also had the capability without any warrant to search for, seize, and read your communications. Anyone’s communications at any time. That is the power to change people’s fates. (more…)
Fri 12 Jul 2013
A federal judge ordered the U.S. military Thursday to stop recently-instituted searches of Guantanamo prisoners’ groin areas before the inmates meet with attorneys and to reopen rooms previously used for such meetings in the camps where prisoners are housed. (more…)
Fri 12 Jul 2013
AP
How much are your private conversations worth to the U.S. government? Turns out, it can be a lot, depending on the technology. (more…)