Neither Freedom nor Safety: Politicians are Lying to You on NSA Spying
In their continuous efforts to create the impression that the government is doing something to keep Americans safe, politicians in Washington have misled and lied to the public. They have violated...
View ArticleLies the Government Is Telling You
Last week, Republicans and Democrats in Congress joined President Barack Obama in congratulating themselves for taming the National Security Agency’s voracious appetite for spying. By permitting one...
View ArticleFeds Expanding Biometric Data Collection; State Action Can Limit It
Recently, the FBI quietly announced expansions to its biometrics and information collection programs that could potentially place photos of millions of innocent Americans into federal databases...
View ArticleThe Spies Who Ruin Us
In an effort to draw attention away from the intelligence failures that permitted the attacks of 9/11 and create the impression that it was doing something — anything — to avoid a repeat, the federal...
View Article16 States Simultaneously Announce Efforts to Protect Privacy, #TakeCTRL
Today, legislators in 16 states simultaneously announced the introduction of an array of bills to protect privacy. In 1975, Sen. Frank Church warned that the U.S. surveillance state could eventually...
View Article16 States Simultaneously Announce Efforts to Protect Privacy
Today, legislators in 16 states simultaneously announced the introduction of an array of bills to protect privacy. In 1975, Sen. Frank Church warned that the U.S. surveillance state could eventually...
View ArticleRevealed: Federal Partnership with Local Agency Gives Rise to Spy Cameras
Information obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests revealed federal agencies used a partnership with a local government-run utility to install spy cameras in Seattle, circumventing a city...
View ArticleNSA Will Spy for Local Cops Under New Obama Administration Rules
New rules under development by the Obama administration will take data collected by the NSA, supposedly for “counter-terrorism” and put it into the hands of other federal agencies and even your local...
View ArticleWho, What, Where, and Why: The FBI/NSA Mass Surveillance Collaboration
Dragnet surveillance: Need to make a bust? Doesn’t matter for what. Just listen in! That pretty much sums up what could soon become the status quo for law enforcement in America. Executive action by...
View ArticleFeds Fund Local Experiment With Orwellian Computer Software
FRESNO, Calif. (April 9, 2016) – The Fresno Police Department’s attempt to purchase controversial Orwellian computer software highlights the role the federal government plays in the acquisition of spy...
View ArticleCongressional “Fix” Made Things Worse; Federal Judge Says National Security...
As the so-called USA Freedom Act was making its way through Congress, we warned that it would do nothing to substantially curtail federal surveillance and could actually make things worse. It made...
View ArticleWith Friends Like These, Who Needs Enemies?
“The evil was not in bread and circuses, per se, but in the willingness of the people to sell their rights as free men for full bellies and the excitement of the games which would serve to distract...
View ArticleLocal Cops Have Access to Mind-Boggling Array of Spy Gear
Local police departments have access to a mind-boggling array of spy-gear that would send Big Brother into convulsions of envy. Late last year, we reported on a secret U.S. government catalogue of...
View ArticleSecret Aerial Spy Program Underscores Need for Local Surveillance Oversight
BALTIMORE, Md. (Sept. 19, 2016) – The recent revelation of a privately funded aerial spy program run by the Baltimore Police Department underscores the importance of local government oversight of...
View ArticleAsset Forfeiture Money is Funding the Surveillance State
A recent report shows how police have purchased a huge arsenal of surveillance equipment with proceeds from asset forfeiture.Information gathered through public records requests by the Chicago Reader...
View ArticleLocal Surveillance Restrictions: Step One to Stop Unconstitutional Spying
A newly developed local ordinance takes the first step toward limiting the unchecked use of surveillance technologies that violate rights and feed into a broader national surveillance state. The...
View ArticleLocal, State and Federal Law Enforcement Partnering to Create Massive Facial...
State, local and federal cooperation – along with information-sharing – makes the entire system tick. As you walk down a city street, you pass by a camera inconspicuously perched on top of a utility...
View ArticleA Parting Shot at Personal Freedom
On Jan. 3, outgoing Attorney General Loretta Lynch secretly signed an order directing the National Security Agency — America’s 60,000-person-strong domestic spying apparatus — to make available raw...
View ArticleState and Local Law Enforcement Spying for the Federal Government; How to...
Federal policies that encourage and facilitate the procurement of spy technology have essentially turned state and local law enforcement into an extension of the federal government. According to a...
View ArticleBig Brother Is Still Watching You: Don’t Fall for the NSA’s Latest Ploy
“You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.” -George Orwell, 1984...
View ArticleThey’re Spying on Everyone
“The makers of our Constitution … conferred, as against the Government, the right to be let alone — the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.” -Justice Louis D....
View ArticleThe Age of No Privacy: The Surveillance State Shifts Into High Gear
The government has become an expert in finding ways to sidestep what it considers “inconvenient laws” aimed at ensuring accountability and thereby bringing about government transparency and protecting...
View ArticleFreedom Is a Myth: We Are All Prisoners of the Police State’s Panopticon Village
“We’re run by the Pentagon, we’re run by Madison Avenue, we’re run by television, and as long as we accept those things and don’t revolt we’ll have to go along with the stream to the eventual...
View ArticleFear and Mass Surveillance: Our Constitutionally Toxic Political Cocktail
by Patrick G. Eddington, CATO Institute At 12:51pm on January 18, 2018–just a day before it was set to expire–the Senate followed the House’s lead and reauthorized the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance...
View ArticleLying, Spying and Hiding
I have argued for a few weeks now that House Intelligence Committee members have committed misconduct in office by concealing evidence of spying abuses by the National Security Agency and the FBI. They...
View ArticleThe Real News: FISA Memo Reveals Surveillance State Operates With Virtually...
WASHINGTON (Feb. 3, 2018) – Yesterday, the House Intelligence Committee released a declassified memo relating to surveillance of a Trump advisor prior to the 2016 election. The true significance of the...
View ArticleWhat the FBI/FISA Memo Really Tells Us About Our Government
by Ron Paul The release of the House Intelligence Committee’s memo on the FBI’s abuse of the FISA process set off a partisan firestorm. The Democrats warned us beforehand that declassifying the memo...
View ArticleIt Can Happen Here
We remain embroiled in a debate over the nature and extent of our own government’s spying on us. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which was enacted in 1978 as a response to the unlawful...
View ArticleHow Federal Surveillance and “Parallel Construction” Undermine the Rule of Law
When we talk about NSA spying, most people’s eyes glaze over. They just don’t think it will have any impact on them. After all, the surveillance agency only spies on foreigners and terrorists, right?...
View ArticleThe NSA Continues to Abuse Americans with a 300% Increase in Data Intercepted...
by Ron Paul One of the few positive things in the ill-named USA FREEDOM Act, enacted in 2015 after the Snowden revelations on NSA domestic spying, is that it required the Director of National...
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