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Police are using embedded code in 50,000 apps to influence public sentiment

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“ELUCD uses location (tracking) technology to ask citizens questions like “do you feel safe in your neighborhood? Do you trust the police? Are you confident in the New York Police Department? 24 hours a day 7 days a week.  One should assume that law enforcement is using ELUCD’s data to identify individual cell phone users. As Tech Crunch revealed, the NYPD is keeping all the data they collect a secret.  ELUCD hopes that police departments across the country will use ELUCD to gauge people’s sentiments.”

Read more: https://massprivatei.blogspot.com/2018/01/police-are-using-50000-apps-to.html

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Did Donald Trump Change His Mind on Domestic Spying?

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“This is a march that will be nearly impossible to stop. This is the permanent destruction of the right to privacy. This is the exaltation of safety over liberty, and it will lead to neither. This is the undoing of limited government, right before our eyes.”

Read more: https://original.antiwar.com/andrew-p-napolitano/2018/01/17/donald-trump-change-mind-domestic-spying/

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Democrats Grant ‘Treasonous’ Trump Vast Warrantless Spying Powers

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“If ‘#Resistance’ means anything, at a minimum it should entail a refusal to trust a dangerous authoritarian to wield vast power with little checks or oversight.”

Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/01/12/the-same-democrats-who-denounce-trump-as-a-lawless-treasonous-authoritarian-just-voted-to-give-him-vast-warrantless-spying-powers/

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How the Government Hides Secret Surveillance Programs

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“Parallel construction is when law enforcement originally obtains evidence through a secret surveillance program, then tries to seek it out again, via normal procedure. In essence, law enforcement creates a parallel, alternative story for how it found information. That way, it can hide surveillance techniques from public scrutiny and would-be criminals.  A new report released by Human Rights Watch Tuesday, based in part on 95 relevant cases, indicates that law enforcement is using parallel construction regularly.”

Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/stingray-secret-surveillance-programs/

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Losing Faith in the State, Some Mexican Towns Quietly Break Away

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“Tancítaro represents a quiet but telling trend in Mexico, where a handful of towns and cities are effectively seceding, partly or in whole. These are acts of desperation, revealing the degree to which Mexico’s police and politicians are seen as part of the threat.”

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/07/world/americas/mexico-state-corruption.html

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Customs And Border Protection Clarifies: You Have No Rights While Traveling

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“Their guidance claims the authority to search a traveler’s electronic devices ‘with or without suspicion.’  The guidance now claims passengers are ‘obligated’ to turn over their devices as well as passcodes for examination. If they fail to do so, agents can seize the device.  That is all considered a ‘basic search.’ Agents must have suspicion in order to conduct an ‘advanced search.’ This includes copying information from devices, or analyzing them with other equipment.  Finally, CBP agents can not ‘intentionally’ search information stored on the cloud, versus on the device’s hard drive.”

Read more: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-14/customs-and-border-protection-clarifies-you-have-no-rights-while-traveling

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The “Dark Side”: Secret Evidence, Illegal Searches, and Dubious Traffic Stops

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“The DEA’s Special Operations Division is one of several tools the government uses to hide the origins of criminal investigations nationwide, in potential violation of constitutional protections. In a report released today, ‘Dark Side: Secret Origins of Evidence in U.S. Criminal Cases,’ Human Rights Watch documents the use of parallel construction by federal and local police agencies, finding the practice is used in the United States ‘frequently and possibly even daily.'”

Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/01/09/dark-side-fbi-dea-illegal-searches-secret-evidence/

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Alaska admits recording jail conversations between lawyers and clients

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“State corrections officials say the recordings generally were not listened to or provided to law enforcement, though in one case, that did happen. And defense lawyers suspect the problem may be prevalent.”

Read more: https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/crime-courts/2018/01/15/state-admits-recording-jail-conversations-between-defense-lawyers-and-clients/

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House To Allow Trump Administration To Secretly Shift Intelligence Money

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“The House spending bill released Wednesday would allow President Donald Trump, or people under him, to secretly shift money to fund intelligence programs, a break with 70 years of governing tradition.”

Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/01/17/section-504-house-spending-bill-changes-law-to-let-trump-administration-secretly-shift-intelligence-money/

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Mexican prosecutor who led bungled investigation named as spy chief

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“He is best known for overseeing the case of Paulette Gebara, a four-year-old who was reported missing from her family’s apartment in a Mexico City suburb in 2010.  Despite extensive searches and a media coverage, investigators found no trace of the girl for nine days, when her decomposing body was found in her own bed – even though the room had supposedly been sealed by police.”

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/12/mexico-spy-chief-bungled-search-for-girl-alberto-bazbaz

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