Does Silvestre Reyes support the fourth amendment?
Body: Influential Democrat asks Obama to keep spy chiefsThe comments in Wednesday's Congress Daily by U.S. Rep. Silvestre Reyes, a Texas Democrat, run counter to the views of his likely Senate...
View ArticleBig brother video surveillance, coming to a town near you!
Body: Law Enforcement Looks to Video Surveillance Networks2008 may have been The Year of the Large-Scale Wireless Video Surveillance System, as several cities and their police departments joined the...
View ArticleObama: Americans enjoy no "reasonable expectation of privacy"
Body: Feds push for tracking cell phonesIn that case, the Obama administration has argued that warrantless tracking is permitted because Americans enjoy no "reasonable expectation of privacy" in...
View ArticleJustice Dept.: All your data belongs to us
Body: CNET: Justicce Department seeks mandatory data retentionCompare and contrast this with its attitude to mers and mortgages.
View Article"The entire point of the Fourth Amendment was to ban this kind of general...
Body: From KPFK Friday, Scott Horton interviews Marcy Wheeler. (You know I'm a fan of both.)The program notes:Blogger Marcy Wheeler discusses The Guardian‘s NSA files and Glenn Greenwald’s thousands of...
View ArticleRestore the Fourth DC
Body: I went to the DC Restore the Fouth Rally. There were approximately 400 people there, which is amazing in a rally put together in less than a month.There was a bank of video cameras and...
View ArticleMarcy Wheeler on journalism as terrorism, FISA court as duped rubber stamp,...
Body: As always, I can't keep up with Marcy's postings on emptywheel, so I'm grateful for a new interview.From The Scott Horton Show program notes for August 19:Blogger Marcy Wheeler discusses the...
View ArticleMarcy Wheeler on NSA theft from Google and Yahoo
Body: Marcy Wheeler was interviewed on The Scott Horton Show on Wednesday. From the program notes:Blogger Marcy Wheeler discusses the NSA’s legal justifications for its spying programs; the intercepted...
View ArticleMore on the NSA data theft story: EFF's Trevor Timm interviewed
Body: Following up his interview with Marcy Wheeler on the Washington Poststory about NSA stealing data from Google and Yahoo, Scott Horton interviews EFF's Trevor Timm. From the program notes:Trevor...
View ArticleJudge Leon to NSA: "No. It's not legal." And Obama doesn't care about us....
Body: Marcy Wheeler was interviewed on The Scott Horton Show on Tuesday. From the program notes:Blogger Marcy Wheeler discusses Judge Richard Leon’s pushback against the NSA’s mass collection of phone...
View ArticleAnyone want to help with Jacob Appelbaum 30c3 transcript? Updated: draft 3.2
Body: I did a first draft of Jacob Appelbaum's keynote presentation at the 30c3 conference. I'd like to do a good job and have it out there asap because I think it's important, but this first draft is...
View ArticleJacob Appelbaum 30c3: To Protect And Infect, The Militarization of the...
Body: A few days ago, Yves posted “When You Bareback With the Internet, You Ride With the NSA” and said:You must watch this talk, even if some parts are a bit technical for mere mortals. No matter how...
View ArticleObama Re-Frames Paul Revere as 'NSA Poster Boy'
Body: I’m thinking whistleblower Edward Snowden far better fits the profile of a latter day Paul Revere than Obama’s nomination of the fourth-amendment-eliminating NSA.
View ArticleDiFi said WHAT?
Tags: DiFiCFAACIAeo12333Fourth AmendmentomfgI missed this! CIA Search of Congressional Computer Sparks Constitutional CrisisBy Dan Froomkin 11 Mar 2014, 12:07 PM EDT 332 The InterceptIntelligence...
View ArticleTeam Glenzilla vs. Creepy Unamerican Goblins - Munk Debate on State...
Body: Munk Debate on State Surveillance, last Friday, May 2nd, in Toronto. Glenn Greenwald and Alexis Ohanian versus Michael Hayden and Alan Dershowitz.Tossing bouquets to Glenn and Alexis, thank you...
View ArticleEdward Snowden statement at Munk Debate on State Surveillance (transcript)
Body: Edward Snowden speaks via video at the Munk Debate on State Surveillance, May 2, 2014, in Toronto. A clip from this video was shown during the debate. This is the full video, with transcript...
View ArticleQ Munk Debate Preview - Jian Ghomeshi talks with Michael Hayden and Glenn...
Body: Still on the Munk Debate, laying down a record. Stepping backward in time now to the morning of the debate, when both Michael Hayden and Glenn Greenwald were interviewed by Jian Ghomeshi on Q....
View ArticleBeyond Orwell: Ellsberg, Greenwald, Drake, Rowley, Radack and McGovern panel...
Body: April 22, 2014 | Beyond Orwell: Surveillance, Secrets, and Whistleblowers in the Security State | Matters of Urgency 2014 from Lannan Center on Vimeo.
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