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03/15/2017 / By Robert Jonathan

Best Buy’s “Geek Squad” used by FBI to spy on people

Like junior G-men, are geeks peeking inside your computer in violation of the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution? The Fourth Amendment prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures by the government and requires a probable cause standard for search warrants. Even the president of the United States claims his predecessor secretly bugged Trump Tower during the […]

01/18/2017 / By Don Wrightman

FBI sought secret FISA warrant to spy on Trump campaign officials

According to recent reports, the FBI was trying to launch a surveillance operation against several officials from Donald Trump’s campaign team over the summer. The FBI sought broad surveillance powers over four highly ranked members of the President-elect’s campaign team during the election, based on claims they had suspicious contact with Russian officials. It is […]

03/29/2016 / By Kevin Sanders

Congress sneaks Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (the ‘new Patriot Act’) through in the new budget deal

Congress just passed the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) recently, sneaking it through in a budget bill to prevent a government shutdown before the holidays. As reported in Wired, “CISA had alarmed the privacy community by giving companies the ability to share cybersecurity information with federal agencies, including the NSA. … That means CISA’s information-sharing […]

03/04/2016 / By JD Heyes

Police state in your face: Secret cell towers track all your mobile activities; Congress demands answers

Democratic and Republican lawmakers are demanding answers from the Obama Administration regarding the proliferation of cell phone tower “simulators,” which reports say are used by federal and state law enforcement to track suspects but also have the capability of capturing the information stored on all cell phones in their vicinity. In particular, the chairman and […]

11/19/2015 / By Julie Wilson

U.S. identified Paris attackers six months ago and predicted terror plot, so why didn’t they stop it?

The U.S. government predicted ISIS-led terror plots against Western cities six months ago, as well as knew the identity of the man believed to be the mastermind behind the recent attacks in Paris, France. In May of this year, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security published an intelligence assessment[PDF] warning of coming terror attacks in […]

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