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01/31/2017 / By Don Wrightman

New NYC bills would finally limit warrant-less use of surveillance drones

Bills have been introduced in the New York legislature that would limit the warrant-less use of surveillance drones. This legislation would help thwart the federal surveillance state, and establish much needed privacy protections at the state level. The bill was introduced by a bipartisan coalition of six representatives on Jan 9, and the companion bill […]

07/15/2016 / By JD Heyes

Warning: Even CIA agents are now being targeted by militarized SWAT raids for gardening and drinking tea

If you are a tea-tottling gardener in America these days, you can be mischaracterized as a criminal, even if you just happen to be with the Central Intelligence Agency. As noted at HealthNutNews, back in 2012 a husband and wife, both of whom worked for the CIA as analysts, had their home and their privacy […]

03/11/2016 / By Greg White

State court reaches historic decision to stop police from engaging in illegal spying on citizen cellphones without a warrant

The second-highest court in Maryland upheld a historic decision by a state trial court that the warrantless use of cellphone tracking devices, known as Stingrays, violates the Fourth Amendment. Stingrays simulate cellphone towers in order to fool nearby mobile phones into connecting with them, thereby revealing the phones’ locations. The surveillance technology can gather data […]

03/03/2016 / By Greg White

The NYPD has been using fake cellphone towers to pull private information from innocent citizens since 2008

The New York Police Department (NYPD) admitted to using cell-site simulators, otherwise known as Stingrays, more than 1,000 times between 2008 and May 2015, according to a new report provided by the New York Civil Liberties Union. The documents are the first response to the Freedom of Information Law request filed last year. Stingrays function […]

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