The Dept. of Labor released weekly unemployment data showing an additional 2.1 million workers filed new unemployment compensation claims last week; bringing the total claims to over 40 million since the Wuhan virus mitigation effort shut down the U.S. economy. However, there is some good news within the data. The “continuing claims”, meaning those who […]
Weekly Jobless Claims Add Another 2.1 Million, Revised First Quarter GDP -5%…
Inside the NSA’s Secret Tool for Mapping Your Social Network…
In the summer of 2013, I spent my days sifting through the most extensive archive of top-secret files that had ever reached the hands of an American journalist. In a spectacular act of transgression against the National Security Agency, where he worked as a contractor, Edward Snowden had transmitted tens of thousands of classified documents […]
Coronavirus Monitoring Bracelets Flood the Market, Ready to Snitch on People Who Don’t Distance…
Surveillance firms around the world are licking their lips at a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to cash in on the coronavirus by repositioning one of their most invasive products: the tracking bracelet. Body monitors are associated with criminality and guilt in the popular imagination, the accessories of Wall Street crooks under house arrest and menace-to-society parolees. Unlike […]
Senate Passes Bill Reauthorizing FISA Surveillance…
The Senate on Thursday passed an act that reauthorizes the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). The act lets government investigators apply to a secretive court to spy on Americans. The program has widespread problems, the Department of Justice’s inspector general found earlier this year. The House passed the bill in March. Attorney General William Barr […]
‘Increasingly concerned’: Spy Chief Orders Review of Surveillance Unmasking Policies for All Intelligence Agencies…
The acting director of national intelligence ordered every spy agency to review its policies on the handling and dissemination of sensitive and private identifying information on U.S. persons immediately, saying he has become “increasingly concerned” about unmasking. Richard Grenell, who took over as acting spy chief in late February as he concurrently serves as the […]
In “Decision He’ll Come to Regret,” Judge Allows Warrantless Aerial Surveillance of Baltimore…
For many years we’ve been documenting the developments surrounding spy planes over the skies of the Baltimore metro area, monitoring residents as the region has become the testing ground for the surveillance state. In early April, under cover of the coronavirus pandemic, Baltimore City’s Board of Estimates approved the contract to resurrect the spy plane […]
Kansas Dept of Health Using Cell Phone GPS Tracking to Monitor Coronavirus Compliance…
Comrades, again we note – our voluntary transponder devices (cell phone, FitBit etc) are being used by government officials to monitor our ‘stay-at-home’ coronavirus compliance. It only takes one slight flip of the government switch, or a carefully worded executive order, to turn that innocuous data into a personal penalty (civil fine). If you choose […]
Why Metadata Matters…
Metadata is often described as everything except the content of your communications. You can think of metadata as the digital equivalent of an envelope. Just like an envelope contains information about the sender, receiver, and destination of a message, so does metadata. Metadata is information about the digital communications you send and receive. Some examples […]
William Barr Helped Build America’s Surveillance State…
William Barr, President Trump’s nominee for attorney general, has a history of getting it wrong. From designing warrantless surveillance programs to justifying the president’s power to disregard acts of Congress, Barr has advanced dubious legal theories that have been rejected by the courts, Congress, and the public. As Barr begins the confirmation process, senators must […]
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