Thomas Jefferson told us "the ground of liberty is to be gained by inches." And each step needs to be followed by another. We see this happening against mass, warrantless surveillance in Utah - and this should be copied everywhere.
@michaelboldin
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Whether it's facial recognition, automated license plate readers, drones, cell site simulators - or anything else - the tools that local law enforcement uses to conduct mass, warrantless surveillance are often paid for - in full or part - with stolen money.
Federal "taxes"
Americans will continue to be surveillance targets unless the people stop waiting, hoping, begging for government to stop doing things it shouldn't have been doing in the first place.
Like warrantless surveillance.
The restraints imposed on the government in the Fourth Amendment have been so routinely and consistently disregarded that the public has come to expect them — and their revelations no longer outrage the conscience. @Judgenap
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Whether in federal court or state by state, we’ll continue this fight until all Americans regain their right to be secure against warrantless searches of their private land.
#4thAmendment
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This bipartisan attack on your liberty is one of the most egregious attacks on the constitution in history.
A few years ago at a Restore the 4th panel in Glendale, CA - we warned that nullification would be the only way to stop this. And after all the elections and lawsuits failed, we'd hope the people calling us "neoconfederates" would see the light and get some shit done.
5 Senators object to new #facialrecognition methods at US airports.
The government is beginning to “harvest”data for the digital ID program that is expected to roll out in 2025.
Video: https://t.co/OQQjbcmOcD via @YouTube#privacy#surveillance
The breadth of this warrantless surveillance program continues to grow, and the FBI continues to break the rules put in place to protect Americans. This must end.
Tell Congress it’s time to reform Section 702 or let it expire. https://t.co/U7yZZCd3Z2
ALPR databases now contain billions of license plate scans and they’re growing fast. This empowers governments to not just track and profile you, but also to use AI as a dystopian pre-crime tool to target people based on driving patterns. @michaelboldin
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4 Republicans & 4 Democrats are teaming up to prevent federal law enforcement & intelligence agencies from using a loophole to warrantlessly collect citizens’ personal data.
Personal data, as in, where you are at any given moment. @WarrenDavidson https://t.co/PPY05pO7go
Law enforcement does not have the right to force people to disclose the passcode to their cell phone or computer — yet they do this anyway.
We're fighting back. https://t.co/JHSOzHefUu
“In a densely populated city, these warrants can pull in information about hundreds or thousands of people, people who aren’t suspects. There is no probable cause to justify that kind of search,” EFF’s @HTsuka told @Gizmodo. https://t.co/EUsrCjtvgv
Location data gleaned from smartphone apps and resold by the unregulated mobile ad industry provides nearly anyone, including the Army, with effortless means of tracking the phone-owning public’s movements with pinpoint accuracy. https://t.co/cZ7rrTbvol
The secret court charged with ensuring FISA #surveillance is lawful has essentially given the FBI unlimited mulligans for all of its unconstitutional acts.
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@WIRED further explains how current surveillance and policing initiatives can and will be used to investigate pregnant people and reproductive healthcare workers using our American Dragnet: Data-Driven Deportation in the 21st Century report findings. https://t.co/GTl2GNoVtG