Tag Archives: surveillance

Every cop with a gun should also be outfitted with a video camera

By Mark | January 10, 2014

Earlier this week, after an inquest jury essentially vindicated London police officers in the 2011 killing of 29 year old Mark Duggan, authorities announced that, henceforth, some number of London’s 2,300 firearms-carrying officers would begin wearing vest-mounted video cameras. And, as much as I consider myself a privacy advocate, and despise our ever expanding surveillance […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Uncategorized | Also tagged Bernard Hogan-Howe, big brother, California, David Ware, excessive force, Gary Schiff, London, Mark Duggan, Minneapolis, police, police brutality, Police Foundation, privacy, recording the police, Rialto, surveillance culture, Surveillance State, the militarization of the police, Tony Farrar, video, video surveillance | 17 Comments

Will self-interested corporations succeed where privacy advocates have failed, and force a roll back of online government spying?

By Mark | December 10, 2013

On Monday morning, the world’s leading online technology companies – Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Twitter and AOL – launched a coordinated campaign against online government spying. Saying that it’s, “time for the world’s governments to address the practices and laws regulating government surveillance of individuals and access to their information,” the CEOs of […]

Posted in Civil Liberties | Also tagged AOL, Apple, big data, Edward Snowden, Facebook, Google, internet, internet business, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Mozilla, NSA, privacy, ReformGovernmentSurveillance.com, surveillance culture, Surveillance State, Twitter, Yahoo | 8 Comments

Restore the Fourth… Let’s start by holding Levin and Stabenow accountable

By Mark | June 30, 2013

On the Fourth of July, people around the country will be joining together to protest the illegal domestic spying activities of the American government at what are being called “Restore the Fourth” rallies… The reference, of course, is to Amendment IV of the Bill of Rights, which guarantees “the right of the people to be […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged big brother, Bill of Rights, Carl Levin, Christopher Jon Sprigman, Debbie Stabenow, domestic spying, Fourth Amendment, Fourth of July, James Clapper, Jennifer Stisa Granick, NSA, Obama, Patriot Act, privacy, Ron Wyden, Stanford Center for Internet and Society, Surveillance State, warrantless searches | 10 Comments

Should we pursue perjury charges against the intelligence officials who swore to us that our calls and emails were not being monitored?

By Mark | June 16, 2013

As you may recall, last March, months before the recent bombshell allegations of domestic spying were made by 29-year old NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, in sworn testimony before a Senate subcommittee, stated that the NSA does not “wittingly” collect any data at all on American citizens. Here’s video of […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Uncategorized | Also tagged big data, blowjobs, domestic spying, eavesdropping, Edward Snowden, impeachment, intelligence, James Clapper, Jerrold Nadler, Keith Alexander, Kevvin A, NSA, perjury, privacy, security state, Susan Collins, terrorism | 19 Comments

StopWatching.us, powered by Mozilla, seeks to catalyze a Big Data resistance movement

By Mark | June 12, 2013

Mozilla, the non-profit organization responsible for the popular Firefox web browser, has apparently stepped into the fray to lead the protest against our government’s recently uncovered campaign to aggressively monitor, record and mine the private communications of law-abiding American citizens. Saying, “We don’t want an Internet where everything we do is secretly tracked or logged […]