By Nadia Prupis / Common DreamsMay 22, 2017
The Detroit News reports that FBI and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents used invasive surveillance equipment in their hunt for undocumented immigrants. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Thor Benson / TruthdigMar 29, 2016
With authorities using "cell site simulators" to gather ever more cellphone information, privacy and civil rights groups fear that an effort “to chill broad social movements” is underway. A federal investigation, the groups say, is necessary. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatchNov 16, 2015
Fourteen years of wars, interventions, assassinations, torture, kidnappings, black sites, the growth of the American national security state to monumental proportions and the spread of Islamic extremism across much of the greater Middle East and Africa. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )
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Thor Benson / TruthdigNov 12, 2015
The secrecy surrounding police use of these "anti-terrorism" devices in ordinary criminal investigations is a big and growing problem, ACLU experts say, one that puts some defendants at an unfair and illegal disadvantage. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigNov 4, 2015
Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, has introduced a bill aimed at controlling the use of a surveillance tool that is disguised as a cellphone tower in order to extract metadata. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigSep 5, 2015
More than 2,000 criminal cases in Baltimore could be thrown out as a result of a retrial motion accusing the state's attorney’s office and police of “deliberate and willful misrepresentation” of their methods of evidence collection -- and attorneys say there may be many more such cases. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
By Michael Gould-Wartofsky, TomDispatchMay 6, 2015
Equate dissidents with domestic terrorists; arm police with "less-lethal" weapons; replace humans with robots. Here is a step-by-step guide, based on the latest developments in the security sector, on how to police a protest movement in the new age of domestic counterinsurgency. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )
By Pratap Chatterjee, TomDispatchOct 11, 2013
Inside your mobile phone and hidden behind your web browser are little known software products marketed by contractors to the government that can follow you around anywhere. No longer the wide-eyed fantasies of conspiracy theorists, these technologies are routinely installed in all of our data devices by companies that sell them to Washington for a profit. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )
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