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Surveillance

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Your Local Police Department May Be Tracking Your Every Move, and More
A new report from the ACLU shows that automatic license plate readers are snapping photos of our cars.

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Telecom Companies Implicated in NSA Spying Unite to Lobby Congress on Digital Privacy
The telecom industry launches a lobbying group to advocate for privacy policies.

Privacy Coalition Sues NSA to Halt Dragnet Surveillance
A coalition of advocacy groups has filed suit against the NSA for collecting their call records.

Surveillance Blowback: The Making of the US Surveillance State, 1898-2020
The War on Terror has proved effective for the creation of our current domestic surveillance state.

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Whatever Happened to MoveOn.Org? Progressives and NSA Spying
In the wake of the NSA scandal, have progressive organizations have all but disappeared from the conversation?

Indignation Across Europe At Revelations of US Spying on Its Citizens
Former British intelligence whistleblower Annie Machon: Europeans angry at spying revelations, but laws protect spy agencies from accountability.

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Obama’s Plan to Crack Down on Whistleblowers Leaked
President Obama has ordered federal employees to report suspicious actions by their colleagues.

AT&T Tech Blew the Whistle on NSA Spying – in 2006
Jenny Brown interviews Mark Klein, an AT&T technician who blew the whistle on the NSA in 2006.

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Hints That NSA Is Building Massive, Pervasive Surveillance Capability
Evidence shows the NSA can and may already be preserving billions of communications in powerful digital databases.

Obama Admin Faces Diplomatic Uproar as Massive Surveillance of EU Governments, Citizens Exposed
While National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden has been holed up at a Moscow airport, news outlets are continuing to report on his leaks of classified U.S. documents.