London Begins Testing Facial Recognition In Public Despite Being “Staggeringly Inaccurate”
By Nicholas West It appears that London is ready to roll out the gift of surveillance to its citizens this holiday season. The Met has…
Civil Liberties
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Searching Travelers’ Devices At An Alarming Rate According To Gov’t Watchdog
By Aaron Kesel U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers are searching the electronic devices of travelers at an alarmingly increasing rate a new watchdog report has…
Sacramento County Welfare Division Terminates Automated License Plate Reader Program
By Dave Maass The Sacramento County’s Department of Human Assistance (DHA) is terminating its invasive automated license plate reader (ALPR) program, following an EFF investigation…
Chicago Throws Out 23,000 Duplicate Tickets Issued Since 1992 to Motorists Who Didn’t Have Vehicle Stickers
By Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica, and Elliott Ramos, WBEZ The city of Chicago said Thursday it has dismissed some 23,000 outstanding duplicate vehicle sticker tickets and…
Data Released from 200 Law Enforcement Agencies’ Automated License Plate Reader Programs
EFF and MuckRock have filed hundreds of public records requests with law enforcement agencies around the country to reveal how data collected from automated license…
New Documents Reveal CIA Considered Reviving MK Ultra-like Programs
By Derrick Broze Documents released to the American Civil Liberties Union detail how the CIA considered using a controversial psychotropic drug as a ‘truth serum’….
A Judge Just Reminded CBP That the Border Isn’t a Rights-Free Zone
By Hugh Handeyside, Senior Staff Attorney, ACLU National Security Project An American family that underwent a harrowing detention at the hands of U.S. Customs and…
Secret Government Report Shows Gaping Holes in Privacy Protections From U.S. Surveillance
By Ashley Gorski, Staff Attorney, ACLU National Security Project On Tuesday, in response to Freedom of Information Act requests, a federal privacy watchdog released an…
These International Borders Have Become “No Rights Zones”
By Simon Black, Sovereign Man On June 15, 1215, King John sat in a field in Runnymede, England, surrounded by angry nobles. His Barons—the big…
TSA Announces “biometrics vision for all commercial aviation travelers”
Activist Post Editor’s Note: As we’ve been covering for some time, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has a mandate that’s been 15 years…
You Want to Make America Great Again? Start by Making America Free Again
By John W. Whitehead “If the freedom of speech be taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”—George Washington…
American “Zersetzung”
By Karen Melton Stewart So, suddenly someone you are related to, someone you know pretty well, or your spouse, begins to have some bad luck,…
Chicago Should Reject a Proposal for Private-Sector Face Surveillance
By Shahid Buttar A proposed amendment to the Chicago municipal code would allow businesses to use face surveillance systems that could invade biometric and location…
The Government Is Blacklisting People Based on Predictions of Future Crimes
By Hina Shamsi, Director, ACLU National Security Project Imagine: You’ve never been charged with any crime, yet the government blacklists you as a terrorism threat…