“He is wanted by the US. He is in exile in Russia. But he is satisfied with the way his revelations of mass surveillance have rocked governments, intelligence agencies and major internet companies.”
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/04/edward-snowden-people-still-powerless-but-aware
“Isn’t that sad that calling the police to someone’s house is attempted murder?”
“The United States has been quietly funding and equipping elite paramilitary police units in El Salvador accused of extrajudicially murdering suspected gang members, according to a forthcoming United Nations report reviewed in advance by CNN.”
“Emergencies are when people are most likely to lose their freedom at the hands of their own government.”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/2018/06/04/the-emergency-destruction-of-american-liberty/
“The Department of Homeland Security intends to list and trackhundreds of thousands of news outlets, journalists, bloggers, and ‘influencers’ in traditional and new media alike. If you find yourself skeptical of this proposal of mass state monitoring of the press, consider yourself a bonafide member of the ‘tinfoil hat wearing, black helicopter conspiracy theorists,’ DHS representative Tyler Houlton said Friday.”
Read more: http://theweek.com/articles/766230/homeland-security-wants-monitor-journalists-time-sound-alarm
“Today, a federal appeals court reinstated a lawsuit against 24 FBI agents alleging that they had placed or kept law-abiding American Muslims on the No-Fly List in an attempt to coerce the men into spying on their communities.”
“The first leak case of the Trump era, the first head on a pike.”
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/06/03/reality-winner-nsa-paul-manafort/
“Brian Ellison walked onto the 5K race course with a GoPro, bullhorn and a message. Police say he violated two city ordinances.”
“The justices said the automobile exception does not apply when searching vehicles parked adjacent to a home.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2018/05/29/us/politics/ap-us-supreme-court-vehicle-search.html
“It’s not just happening in California. Nashville, Tenn., Seattle, Wash., and Somerville, Mass., now have ordinances requiring local government approval for surveillance technology on the books.”