A model ordinance for community control over surveillance equipment acquisitions, uses and practices from ACLU-NC
Category Archives: Surveillance
The many ways the government is watching us with an emphasis on digital spying
Surveillance Costs: The NSA’s Impact on the Economy, Internet Freedom and Cybersecurity
This report from the Open Technology Institute focuses on the economic costs of blanket mass surveillance.
With Liberty to Monitor All: How Large Scale US Surveillance is Harming Journalism, Law and American Democracy
A report co-authored by the ACLU and Human Rights Watch that focuses on the impact of US surveillance on journalism, law and the exercise of democracy in the United States.
White House: Big Data and Privacy Report
White House report on the era of Big Data and review of the policy challenges in managing the sea of data without replicating across new platforms the same old discriminations and divides that have been with us for way too long.
First Unitarian vs NSA
A presentation on this important First Amendment case (Media Alliance is one of the 19 plaintiffs) prepared by Joe Nicholson. First Unitarian vs NSA helped to end mass blanket telephone metadata sweeps by the NSA.
Data Due Process
Report from the NYU School of Law – “Big Data and Due Process: Toward a Framework to Redress Predictive Privacy Harms”
Unleashed and Unaccountable: The FBI’s Unchecked Abuse of Authority
A new report by the ACLU on FBI surveillance tactics with a specific emphasis on the increased use of racial profiling since September 11, 2001.
Digital Inclusion and Data Profiling
This paper from former MA board member Seeta Pena Ganghadjaran focuses on specific examples of commercial data profiling against the history of low–tech data profiling of chronically underserved communities.