by Kevin Johnson and Elizabeth Weise. Apple Inc. charged Tuesday that a court order forcing the tech giant to assist the federal government in unlocking the iPhone of San Bernardino terrorist Syed Farook was based on non-existent authority asserted by the Justice Department. "According to the government, short of kidnapping ... MORE
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Apple Says U.S Founders Would Be Appalled By DOJ Order
by Kevin Johnson and Elizabeth Weise. Apple Inc. charged Tuesday that a court order forcing the tech giant to assist the federal government in unlocking the iPhone of San Bernardino terrorist Syed Farook was based on non-existent authority asserted by the Justice Department. "According to the government, short of kidnapping ... MORESurprise! NSA Data Will Soon Routinely Be Used For Domestic Policing That Has Nothing To Do With Terrorism
by Radley Balko. Everyone is presumed guilty. A while back, we noted a report showing
that the “sneak-and-peek” provision of the Patriot Act that was alleged
to be used only in national security and terrorism investigations has
overwhelmingly been used in narcotics cases. Now the New York Times reports
that National Security Agency data will ... MOREFBI Demands High Schools Rat Out “Anti-Gov't” Students
by Kurt Nimmo. Constitutionalists figure prominently on the target list. A new FBI initiative based on Britain’s “anti-terror” mass surveillance program instructs high schools across America to inform on students who express “anti-government” and “anarchist” political beliefs. “High school students are ideal targets for recruitment by violent extremists ... MORESamuel Gibbs: If FBI Wins Case Against Apple, Feds Could Force Apple To Turn iPhones Into Surveillance Devices
Turning our property against us. If the FBI wins in its case against Apple to help it unlock the San Bernardino killer’s iPhone 5C,
it won’t be long before the government forces Apple to turn on users’
iPhone cameras and microphones to spy on them, according to the
company’s head of services Eddy Cue. The FBI has demanded that Apple creates ... MOREObama To Trash Reagan’s Restrictions On Domestic Spying
by Chriss W. Street. A tyrant's sneaky misdirection play. With the pubic distracted by the FBI battling Apple for an iPhone backdoor, President Obama is secretly working to trash President Ronald Reagan’s restrictions on the number of federal agencies that can spy on Americans and others. At a secret meeting of the United States National ... MOREUS Bill Aims To Stop State Bans Of Encrypted Phones
by Lance Whitney. Imagine not being able to buy an iPhone in your state because the device's data is protected by encryption. A couple of Congressmen are trying to make sure that can't happen. The Encrypt Act of 2016, short for Ensuring National Constitutional Rights of Your Private Telecommunications Act, would deny states the power to block ... MOREU.S. Intel Chief James Clapper: We Could Use Your Fridge To Spy On You - Do Digital Searches Require A Warrant?
Our ubiquitous government. United States Intelligence Chief James Clapper has come out and said the government can now use your refrigerator to spy on you, according to a report presented to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. “In the future, intelligence services might use the [Internet of Things] for identification, surveillance, ... MOREJohn W. Whitehead: Television, Football & Politics: Gaming Spectacles Designed To Keep The Police State In Power
Freedom is an action word. When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; ... MOREU.S. Will Track Secret Buyers Of Luxury Real Estate
by Louise Story. Mission creep at Homeland Security. Concerned about illicit money flowing into luxury real estate, the Treasury Department said Wednesday that it would begin identifying and tracking secret buyers of high-end properties. The initiative will start in two of the nation’s major destinations for global wealth: Manhattan
and Miami-Dade ... MOREElizabeth Nolan Brown: Homeland Security Asking Hotel Staff To Report Lodgers That Use Too Many Condoms
Frequent minibar-restock is a no-no. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) continues to pour time and taxpayer money into convincing the American people that there's an epidemic of sex trafficking here. So bad is this alleged epidemic that ordinary crime-control measures won't work, hence the department is recruiting truck drivers ... MORENew Way For Cops To Surveil You: Your Threat ‘Score’
by Justin Jouvenal. While officers raced to a recent 911 call about a man threatening his ex-girlfriend, a police operator in headquarters consulted software that scored the suspect’s potential for violence the way a bank might run a credit report. The program scoured billions of data points, including arrest reports, property records, commercial ... MOREJohn W. Whitehead: What’s In Store For Freedom In 2016?
You might want to sit down for this. As I illustrate in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People,
we in the emerging American police state find ourselves reliving the
same set of circumstances over and over again: egregious surveillance,
strip searches, police shootings of unarmed citizens, government spying, ... MOREReclaiming The Christmas Spirit: Ten Great Christmas Movies To Help You Shake The Police State Blues
by John W. Whitehead. What a turbulent year it’s been. For those of us who have managed to survive 2015 with our lives intact and our freedoms hanging by a thread, it has been a year of crackdowns, clampdowns, shutdowns, showdowns, shootdowns, standdowns, knockdowns, putdowns, breakdowns, lockdowns, takedowns, ... MOREJohn W. Whitehead: Does Fear Lead To Fascism?
How free people enslave themselves. America is in the midst of an epidemic of historic proportions. The contagion being spread like wildfire is turning communities into battlegrounds and setting Americans one against the other. Normally mild-mannered individuals caught up in the throes of this disease have been transformed into belligerent ... MORE
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