Every two years, the Massachusetts legislature starts a fresh session. Here, we review bills on the top ten topics relating to surveillance, privacy and the Fourth Amendment, that have been intro...
If you're a Cambridge public school student, using a school-issued Chromebook, the school is monitoring whatever you browse, whether you're at school or not.
https://warrantless.org/2022/03/cambridge-spies-on-cps-students/
Our local fusion center, BRIC, has been at the core of police efforts to surveil and suppress social movements for over a decade. And, since 2012, we’ve been calling them out on their abusive a...
https://warrantless.org/2021/10/understanding-fusion-centers/
After the appalling deaths of 49 people, and injuries to another 53, at a gay nightclub in Orlando this week, the presidential candidates leapt to push their own agendas. For Trump, it was about ...
https://warrantless.org/2016/07/state-surveillance-cannot-save-us-from-mass-violence/
Buzzfeed’s Mitch Prothero reported on the day of the Brussels attacks that “Belgian Authorities Overwhelmed By Terror Investigations“. He quotes a “Belgian counterterrorism official”, ...
https://warrantless.org/2016/03/belgian-police-overwhelmed-by-mass-surveillance/
Last year, across the country, over 1,100 people were shot by police. In Massachusetts, we pride ourselves as being somehow different and more sophisticated than the rest of the country, but our ...
Tomorrow (Thursday, February 4), at 10am, the Massachusetts legislature’s Joint Committee on Public Safety will be holding a public hearing on all of the bills for the 2015-16 session that deal...
A former Middle East advisor to President Obama, Steven Simon, suggested in Saturday’s New York Times that the administration’s response to the Paris attacks was likely to include “Tighter ...
Back in the days of DEC and Wang Computer, there was serious doubt whether California’s Route 101 or Massachusetts’ Route 128 would be at the forefront of the digital economy. My aunt immigra...
In its October 7 hearing on “Protected Classes. Privacy, and Data Collection Legislation”, the Massachusetts legislature heard impassioned testimony on the fusion centers from Senate Majority...