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01/31/2017 / By Don Wrightman

New NYC bills would finally limit warrant-less use of surveillance drones

Bills have been introduced in the New York legislature that would limit the warrant-less use of surveillance drones. This legislation would help thwart the federal surveillance state, and establish much needed privacy protections at the state level. The bill was introduced by a bipartisan coalition of six representatives on Jan 9, and the companion bill […]

07/15/2016 / By JD Heyes

Warning: Even CIA agents are now being targeted by militarized SWAT raids for gardening and drinking tea

If you are a tea-tottling gardener in America these days, you can be mischaracterized as a criminal, even if you just happen to be with the Central Intelligence Agency. As noted at HealthNutNews, back in 2012 a husband and wife, both of whom worked for the CIA as analysts, had their home and their privacy […]

03/11/2016 / By JD Heyes

Pentagon discloses to the public that domestic spying drones fly across the U.S.

The Defense Department made a shocking admission on Wednesday, though judging by the news cycle few in the media business riffed on it for very long. As initially reported by USA Today, the Pentagon said it has deployed drones in skies above the United States to spy for non-military missions, but attempted to justify the […]

03/03/2016 / By Greg White

The NYPD has been using fake cellphone towers to pull private information from innocent citizens since 2008

The New York Police Department (NYPD) admitted to using cell-site simulators, otherwise known as Stingrays, more than 1,000 times between 2008 and May 2015, according to a new report provided by the New York Civil Liberties Union. The documents are the first response to the Freedom of Information Law request filed last year. Stingrays function […]

01/29/2016 / By Kevin Sanders

TSA agent excessively “pat down” 10-year-old girl for 2 minutes and detained family for an hour over banned juice box

A 10-year-old girl named Vendela Payne was recently patted down by TSA agents at a North Carolina airport, because her backpack contained a juice box that was larger than the allowable 3 ounces. The pat-down lasted about 2 minutes. “Well I know it’s to keep everyone on the plane safe but she kept patting me […]

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