“A company that developed a massive database for police body cameras has joined forces with the world’s biggest manufacturer of consumer unmanned aerial vehicles to sell surveillance drones to police departments.”
“The Constitution must take account of vast technological changes, Chief Justice Roberts wrote, noting that digital data can provide a comprehensive, detailed — and intrusive — overview of private affairs that would have been impossible to imagine not long ago.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/22/us/politics/supreme-court-warrants-cell-phone-privacy.html
“The FBI trained Geek Squad employees to go snooping around customers’ computers looking for a crime.”
Read more: https://www.thedailybell.com/all-articles/news-analysis/fbi-uses-geek-squad-for-illegal-spying/
“Even in the Trump era — when the press is openly clashing with a president — bombing still provides push-button presidential redemption.”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/the-pro-war-media-deserve-criticism-not-sainthood/
“Children as young as 18 months who arrive with their parents have been forced into government custody while the adults serve brief sentences for the misdemeanor crime of illegal entry before going to immigrant detention centers. In some cases, they are deported without their children.”
“In 2015, I asked President Obama to reverse course & close the for-profit baby jails (‘family detention centers’) he opened in Dilley & Karnes City, Texas. What he said shook me to my core.”
Read more: https://twitter.com/ImmCivilRights/status/1008902662828511232?s=19
“There’s little room for indiscretions, imperfections, or acts of independence—especially not when the government can listen in on your phone calls, monitor your driving habits, track your movements, scrutinize your purchases and peer through the walls of your home.”
“Subsequent reporters pushed back against the false claims the press secretary was making—namely that their family separation policy was ‘the law’ and not a specific policy choice pushed by President Trump and promoted at the DOJ by Sessions on multiple occasions.”
Read more: https://www.mintpressnews.com/biblical-enforce-law/244044/
“From the federal Department of Homeland Security down to local police departments, governmental use of biometric facial recognition software has gained a startling amount of traction in recent years. And these agencies are getting help from big business, to boot.”
Read more: https://theweek.com/articles/779196/governments-creepy-obsession-face
“The administration argued that it was just enforcing the law.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/17/us/politics/melania-trump-family-separation.html