Update 3/7/2014 Oakland City Council as expected, voted on 3-5-2014 to scale back the DAC spying machine to Port of Oakland property only.
The nascent (and wildly undeveloped) privacy policy was reviewed by Media Alliance and the comments we submitted to the City of Oakland are attached. Continue reading Oakland Domain Awareness Center (DAC): Scaled Back
CREDO Mobile announced it is releasing a transparency report detailing the number of governmental requests it has received to turn over customer information. Continue reading Credo Mobile: 1st Cellular Carrier To Tell Users of Surveillance Requests
Activist Jeremy Hammond was sentenced to 10-years in prison.
Here is his statement before entering prison to serve a 10 year sentence for hacking into the Stratfor database. Continue reading Jeremy Hammond Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Hacktivism
Video Highlights from DC Stop Watching Us Rally
After 30 years as the voice of progressive San Francisco, new Bay Guardian owners have sacked the editor of the publication. Continue reading Tim Redmond Sacked from Bay Guardian After 30 Years
Glenn Greenwald and Ewan Mcaskill break huge stories about NSA surveillance of American phone calls and virtually unlimited access by NSA to every major computer server in the US.
There are no words for this. Months of hints from some Democratic legislators on various intelligence committees that unprecedented levels of surveillance were being implemented cracked wide open with this week’s scoops by Greenwald and Mcaskill in the London Guardian newspaper of NSA paperwork revealing agreements with Verizon to turn over wireless meta data and every major computer company including Google, Apple, Yahoo, Facebook and Microsoft to permit National Security Agency access to their data servers. Continue reading The Constitution? Fuggedaboutit. Guardian Breaks Multiple Stories on Widespread Warrantless Surveillance
More than 60 civil liberties, digital rights, press freedom and public interest groups (including Media Alliance) sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder demanding a full, transparent account of the Justice Department’s targeting of journalists and whistleblowers. Continue reading 62 Public Interest Groups Demand Answers on AP Seizures
Urban Habitat has announced the suspension of Race Poverty and the Environment, their journal of 20+ years which chronicled movements for social justice across the Bay and across the United States.
Here is Media Alliance’s statement on the closure: Continue reading Urban Habitat Suspends Publication of Race Poverty and the Environment
