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Law enforcement uses smart meter parking apps to spy on everyone

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“Cities and towns are using [smart meter parking apps] like ParkMobile, StreetLine, ParkMe, Park Smarter, ParkBud, MPay2Park and  SmartParking to collect all kinds of personal information. SMPA’s like StreetLine warn that they ‘reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information to others as we believe appropriate’.  ParkMobile’s privacy policy also reveals how SMPA’s are all too willing to, ‘provide requested information to relevant authorities upon the request of such authorities’.”

Read more: https://massprivatei.blogspot.com/2018/02/law-enforcement-uses-smart-meter.html

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Trump Administration Testing Driver/Passenger Facial Recognition Program

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“The facial recognition technology being developed for the pilot program will be capable of identifying the driver, front passengers, and the passengers riding in the back.  The CBP currently operates facial recognition exit programs at almost a dozen international airports in the United States. Colleen Manaher, the CBP’s executive director of planning, program analysis and evaluation, told the Statesman that travelers have been accepting of the technology and noted that ‘we can thank the Apples and the Googles for that.'”

Read more: http://alt-market.com/articles/3368-trump-administration-to-test-biometric-program-to-scan-faces-of-drivers

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Why Trust in Government is at All Time Lows, and Why That’s a Good Thing

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“Concerned about public confidence in the agency, the FBI didn’t want the FISA memo released. They didn’t want people to know their investigations are politically motivated.  Now it’s come out that the Department of Homeland Security pressured CNN into delaying the release of a report until after the Superbowl. DHS was concerned public confidence in Superbowl security would be lost if people found out about an exercise they ran last summer.”

Read more: http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/why-trust-in-government-is-at-all-time-lows-and-why-thats-a-good-thing/

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Will FISA secrecy doom democracy?

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“The FISA court has been a fount of outrages because it is an American Star Chamber: the court meets in secret, only hears the government’s side, and approves 99 percent+ of all the search warrants requested.”

Read more: http://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/372324-will-fisa-secrecy-doom-democracy

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The Nunes Memo Matters—But Not For the Reason You Think

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“The involvement of the intelligence community in the 2016 presidential campaign, clumsy and disorganized as it appears to have been, will be part of the next election, and the ones after that. If you’re in search of a constitutional crisis, here it is. After all, when we let George W. Bush create, and Barack Obama greatly expand, the surveillance state, didn’t we think it would eventually come to this?”

Read more: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-nunes-memo-matters-but-not-for-the-reason-you-think/

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FBI objections to Nunes memo lack credibility given bureau’s shady past

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“The FISA court has always done a dismal job of overseeing the vast surveillance regime it helped spawn. FISA provided a stamp of legitimacy for perpetual deceit  and perhaps the worst trampling of constitutional rights in American history. Regardless of the outcome of the current brawl, Washington must radically decrease secret surveillance of the American people.”

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/02/02/trump-nunes-memo-russia-investigation-fbi-congress-bovard-column/1088740001/

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Imagine Being Locked Up in Prison because of Bad Forensics

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“Out of the 351 cases in which the Innocence Project used DNA to exonerate wrongfully convicted defendants, flawed forensic evidence contributed in nearly half.  Many Americans, especially those who think shows like Forensic Files and CSI accurately represent real life, believe that forensic evidence presented in criminal trials must be valid. But we have known for years that many forensic evidence techniques are highly subjective and unreliable.”

Read more: https://fee.org/articles/imagine-being-locked-up-in-prison-because-of-bad-forensics/

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‘Halal’ internet means more control in Iran after unrest

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“The government succeeded in suffocating the flare-up in part by shutting off key social media and messaging apps, but the lesson was clear: The same oxygen that can resuscitate commerce can also give breath to potential revolt.  Authorities’ solution has been to create a so-called ‘halal net,’ Iran’s own locally controlled version of the internet aimed at restricting what the public can see.  As Iran approaches the 40th anniversary of the revolution that brought its cleric-led rule to power, how it handles the power of cyberspace will be crucial to its future, determining whether it moves to greater openness or seals itself off from the world.”

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/business/technology/article/In-Iran-a-halal-internet-means-more-control-12531520.php

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3,000 officers, 2,000 cameras are watching Super Bowl spectators

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“The Multi Agency Command Center contains support from city, county, state and federal law enforcement as well as Xcel Energy and Minneapolis Public Works all in an effort to ensure safety and security at Super Bowl LII at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis.  About 2,000 of the 3,000 officers working the Super Bowl have an app that allows them to broadcast any video they take of suspicious activity to the command center where 80 individuals will be stationed to monitor the event.”

Read more: https://www.twincities.com/2018/01/30/be-on-your-best-behavior-because-thousands-of-security-cameras-will-show-super-bowl-activity/

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What the FISA Memo Reveals about the FBI, DNC, GOP–and the sketchy timeline

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“All this shows is that power will also be abused. Secret power that much more.  But neither major party is actually fighting to strip these powers from the government. The GOP’s complaints of abuse of power ring hollow as they approve other Fourth Amendment violations authorized by the same legislation!  They are just fighting for the upper hand over their political opponents. This is not freedom versus tyranny. It is a war of factions.  That said, it is laughable that some worry the release of this memo will cause dangerous distrust in the FBI and DOJ.  The more people distrust those dangerous and secretive government agencies, the better!”

Read more: http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/what-the-fisa-memo-reveals-about-the-fbi-dnc-gop-and-the-sketchy-timeline/

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