Cohn: Heyns warned the U.N. General Assembly that the use of armed drones by law enforcement could threaten human rights. “An armed drone, controlled by a human from a distance, can hardly do what police officers are supposed to do—use the minimum force required by the circumstances,” he said.
It’s no secret that we wanted more. In the wake of the damning evidence of surveillance abuses disclosed by Edward Snowden, Congress had an opportunity to champion comprehensive surveillance reform and undertake a thorough investigation, like it did with the Church Committee. BY CINDY COHN AND MARK JAYCOX EFF.org June 2, 2015 The Senate passed More
From the article: “We believe that the NSA’s upstream surveillance has a chilling effect not only on Wikimedia’s writers and editors but on all of our plaintiffs,” Gorski said. “As a general matter, the private communications of innocent Americans don’t belong in the government’s hands, and if people know the NSA is watching, they’re going to hesitate before visiting controversial websites, before discussing controversial issues or investigating online politically sensitive questions.”
Pair from Electronic Frontier Foundation and Greenpeace drift massive dirigible over NSA data center in Bluffdale, Utah Spencer Ackerman in New York theguardian.com 27 June 2014 It was the airship's maiden voyage. Photograph: Greenpeace Protests against mass surveillance have now taken to the skies above a major National Security Agency installation. At about 6am local time on More
Pair from Electronic Frontier Foundation and Greenpeace drift massive dirigible over NSA data center in Bluffdale, Utah Spencer Ackerman in New York theguardian.com 27 June 2014 It was the airship's maiden voyage. Photograph: Greenpeace Protests against mass surveillance have now taken to the skies above a major National Security Agency installation. At about 6am local time on More
ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION DEFENDING YOUR RIGHTS IN THE DIGITAL WORLD BY MAIRA SUTTON OCTOBER 4, 2013 | EFF.org President Obama was scheduled to meet with the leaders of the other eleven countries negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement ahead of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in Bali, supposedly to plan the “end-game” for this massive trade deal. However, he has made More
ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION DEFENDING YOUR RIGHTS IN THE DIGITAL WORLD BY MAIRA SUTTON OCTOBER 4, 2013 | EFF.org President Obama was scheduled to meet with the leaders of the other eleven countries negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement ahead of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in Bali, supposedly to plan the “end-game” for this massive trade deal. However, he has made More
Birgitta Jónsdóttir has also been the center of a closely watched legal case. Earlier this year, a federal appeals court ruled the government can continue to keep secret its efforts to obtain information from Twitter about her and two others connected to WikiLeaks. April 8, 2013 DemocracyNow.org [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GBN5SiNxlA] Icelandic Parliamentarian Birgitta Jónsdóttir played a critical More
Birgitta Jónsdóttir has also been the center of a closely watched legal case. Earlier this year, a federal appeals court ruled the government can continue to keep secret its efforts to obtain information from Twitter about her and two others connected to WikiLeaks. April 8, 2013 DemocracyNow.org [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GBN5SiNxlA] Icelandic Parliamentarian Birgitta Jónsdóttir played a critical More
NCMR 2013: Rainey Reitman from Electronic Frontier Foundation at the NCMR - Freedom of the Press Foundation [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRyvyNSyTMY#.UWIIv3wvdJk] Subscribe or “Follow” us on WAMMToday.org. For the TC EVENTS calendar and the ACTIONS AND ACTION ALERTS click on the tab at the top of the page and click on the item of interest to view. WAMMToday is also on FACEBOOK! More
Fears Confirmed: Domestic Drones 'Fly Regularly' in US Airspace Watchdog publishes new flight map, 'takes surveillance to a whole new level' Lauren McCauley, staff writer Published on Wednesday, December 5, 2012 by Common Dreams The EFF released a new map that tracks the location of drone flights across the US. (Image: EFF)Digital watchdog the Electronic Frontier More
Fears Confirmed: Domestic Drones 'Fly Regularly' in US Airspace Watchdog publishes new flight map, 'takes surveillance to a whole new level' Lauren McCauley, staff writer Published on Wednesday, December 5, 2012 by Common Dreams The EFF released a new map that tracks the location of drone flights across the US. (Image: EFF)Digital watchdog the Electronic Frontier More
