Local Police Track Cellphone Data

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The National Security Agency isn’t the only government entity secretly collecting data from people’s cellphones. Local police are increasingly scooping it up, too

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FBI Pursues Real-Time Gmail Spying Powers

3 years ago External Source 0

Despite the pervasiveness of law enforcement surveillance of digital communication, the FBI still has a difficult time monitoring Gmail, Google Voice, and Dropbox in real time

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“Homeland Security” Tries to Cover Up Massive Ammo Stockpiling

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The Department of Homeland Security responded Friday to questions from Rep. Tim Huelskamp, R-Kan., about why the agency was allegedly planning to buy some 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition over the next five years

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Philly Law Enforcement Sued Over Man’s 45-day Detention for Filming Cops

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The American Civil Liberties Union is taking Philadelphia law enforcement to court over the arrest of a man for recording police on his cell phone. The rights group says recording public officials’ actions is protected by the First Amendment

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Senate Approves Warrantless Email Snooping

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Legislation sent to President Obama this week quietly removed language in a bill that would have — for the first time — forced law enforcement to obtain a warrant to read Americans’ email

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Law Enforcement Wants Logs of Americans’ Text Messages…

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AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, and other wireless providers would be required to record and store information about Americans’ private text messages for at least two years, according to a proposal that police have submitted to the U.S. Congress

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New, Unprecedented Surveillance Powers

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Proposed law scheduled for a vote next week originally increased Americans’ e-mail privacy. Then law enforcement complained. Now it increases government access to e-mail and other digital files.

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Warrantless Electronic Surveillance is Surging….

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The Obama administration has overseen a sharp increase in the number of people subjected to warrantless electronic surveillance of their telephone, email and Facebook accounts by federal law enforcement agencies

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U.S. Law Enforcement Uses ‘1984’ as Instruction Manual

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The US government has already proven its intent to see all evil, with the use of Orwellian programs like TrapWire. But it can now hear all evil too, as law enforcement agencies implement a tool able to store, analyze and identify voices in seconds

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Fed Given Police Powers, with Glock 22s and Patrol Cars

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Quietly, without fanfare or Congressional hearings, the USA Patriot Act in 2001 bestowed on the 12 privately owned Federal Reserve Banks, domestic policing powers.

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