Privacy Matters

An @ACLU_Mass blog covering electronic surveillance, privacy, police militarization, the war on drugs, and other civil liberties issues.

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Campus cops: increasingly militarized, aggressive, and secretive https://t.co/Eqi5exYg11

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Metadata matters: Study shows GPS, communications data can reveal whether you're depressed http://t.co/tyeo74w5hN

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FBI director: "I really am not a maniac." https://t.co/GiTcWcQPLE

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Dragnet surveillance is about power and social control, not public safety https://t.co/laOjgLkgUe #PatriotAct

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New militarization recommendations a good first step, but we need action on surveillance purchases, too https://t.co/PfwajxLn3h

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NY state cops spent over half a million dollars on stingrays but don't have a privacy policy https://t.co/c69hMBHSAV

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Librarians versus the NSA https://t.co/dj3NcHxdfz

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Congress lines up three bills to require law enforcement to get warrants before seizing our emails http://t.co/tYejcXpeVo

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That chatty customs agent at the airport is taking detailed notes, and might be sharing them with the FBI. http://t.co/V18jYtAMXh

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Rapper @2chainz tells Nancy Grace about his experience with the police over small amounts of marijuana. http://t.co/Ug8i4MWNZZ

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The FBI is trying to keep secret 4,750 pages of documents on its @drones program. http://t.co/9pfQmUDFhh

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How to defeat FBI or police 'stingray' surveillance http://t.co/pjeglIUNSS

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Judge: Cops must get a warrant to install surveillance camera across the street from your house http://t.co/tWvfVYfpL4

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A Ferguson protester speaks. http://t.co/nTEj7zbWWb

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DHS IG report finds agency violates privacy, cannot track grant spending, isn't prepared for medical emergency http://t.co/nmagEdaMPv

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Report: Albuquerque police gang unit received military training at shadowy Department of Energy site in the desert http://t.co/uQP6v55Q1n

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@stoplapdspying if you click through you'll see

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Police captured a quarter million license plate records but only one helped solve a crime http://t.co/M6J2tTkdHc

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Woman shot at #Ferguson protest: Police took the bullet and now claim they don't have it. http://t.co/XK7p16aJSv

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The time disobeying a police order saved Thurgood Marshall from being lynched by police http://t.co/vzURqYLPPN