BREAKING: A suspected Chinese surveillance balloon has been hovering over the northern U.S. for the past few days, and the U.S. government has discussed shooting it out of the sky, officials tell @NBCNews. https://t.co/L9A3NMbIVz
— NBC News World (@NBCNewsWorld) February 2, 2023
Category: Surveillance State
Freedom
SCOOPLET: Dallas Police Dept has a contract for training to use Cellebrite, a mobile-phone data extraction technology that helps police break into confiscated phones and has been criticized for being sold to repressive regimes. Uncovered in a public document by @FrancescaDnunz. pic.twitter.com/UzyQH6wJRN
— steven monacelli (@stevanzetti) January 17, 2023
Sometimes it’s hard to be a woman
Especially when extremist men have decided it’s open season on women.
https://twitter.com/TrillionB/status/1523083230777425920
Fantastic
This is big: The IRS has notified my office it plans to transition away from using facial recognition verification, as I requested earlier today. While this transition may take time, the administration recognizes that privacy and security are not mutually exclusive. https://t.co/jw7OR7dNo0
— Ron Wyden (@RonWyden) February 7, 2022
Uh oh
The old “ask for forgiveness instead of permission” philosophy?
NEW: The FBI, without any court order, sifted through the NSA’s massive troves of foreign communications for information during domestic terrorism investigations, newly declassified documents show.
The violations are described as “widespread”.https://t.co/2wvCLQQZ0x
— Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D (@RVAwonk) April 26, 2021
Prevention
This is the kind of story that won’t get much attention because the attack was foiled, but it shows that the counterterrorism fight is ongoing, and those waging it have (thankfully) gotten very good at their jobs. Imagine if this plot had succeeded. https://t.co/lNFkoNJfDg
— Ken Dilanian (@KenDilanianNBC) December 16, 2020
Yep
Cannot get over how much easier police work is today than like 40 years ago. You get video of a crime and then google "keep the immigrants deport the racists tshirt" and then find your suspect's Etsy review. https://t.co/9wWrNXqJfc
— Kashmir Hill (@kashhill) June 18, 2020
’60s flashback
EXCLUSIVE: The DEA has been granted sweeping authority to “conduct covert surveillance” on people protesting over George Floyd’s death, a secret memo reveals https://t.co/QYv8Lp8YWO
— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) June 2, 2020
Uh huh
Obama’s big FAIL
Imagine if we’d known.