Tag: surveillance programs
Red Rocks rejects biometrics for event entry
The event venue located in Colorado announced it will abandon palm scanning for event entry and will ban all biometric surveillance at its events.
High-tech workplace surveillance: New report warns of dystopian mass surveillance amid...
“The speed at which these new privacy-shredding technologies have been unleashed is alarming, especially given that none of them have been proven to be effective at mitigating the spread of COVID-19.”
An ‘unethical experimentation on children’: Digital rights groups oppose facial recognition...
"The research shows that prematurely deploying the technology without understanding its implications would be unethical and dangerous."
Thank You, Edward Snowden: An End to General Warrants as So-Called...
We've taken a few baby steps back toward democracy after the expiration of the misnamed “PATRIOT Act” gives restoration to Americans’ privacy. But if it wasn't for the revelations of Edward Snowden, we would have never known.
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Cosmic irony, cosmic con job: MAGA Trump, hatched in savage distrust of government, now...
The biggest, worst Trump Lie: that good governance that serves the majority is impossible and that burning all down is superior to reforming structures.
300,000 flood Sydney Harbor Bridge in historic march to demand end to Gaza genocide
Defying torrential rain, hundreds of thousands in Australia’s largest city joined a growing global movement calling for a Gaza cease-fire, humanitarian aid access, and political accountability for Israel’s military campaign.
Texas Democrats flee to block GOP gerrymandering as Trump pushes national redistricting blitz
Fleeing the state to break quorum, Texas Democrats are fighting what they call a racist, Trump-backed effort to rig congressional maps ahead of 2026—sparking a broader national confrontation over voting rights.
Trump administration halted lawsuits targeting civil rights abuses of prisoners and mentally ill people
The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division had brought lawsuits accusing Louisiana of confining prisoners longer than they should and South Carolina of keeping mentally ill people in unreasonably restrictive group homes. Both cases are now on hold.
Senate vote on Sanders resolutions marks historic shift in US support for Israel’s war...
Though blocked, Bernie Sanders’s efforts to halt weapons transfers to Israel gained unprecedented Democratic support amid Gaza’s worsening famine and civilian death toll.