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Police Drones To Hit The Skies In Southern California

April 24, 2016April 24, 2016 Asa J 1375 Views ACLU of California, ACLU of Southern California, augmented reality, big brother, California, cellphone tracking, Chief David Brown, copblock, copblock.org, department of homeland security, DHS, DJI Phantom 2 quadcopter, drones, FAA, FAA approval, FBI, federal bureau of investigation, Fontana police, Fontana police department, Hemet police, Hemet police department, infrared camera, Inland Empire, Inland Empire region, Lt. Billy Green, Mission creep, NMotion drone, north dakota, Peter Bibring, police drones, Police State, Privacy, privacy rights, riverside county sheriff's department, Riverside police department, Southern California, Surveillance

Multiple police departments in southern California have been granted, or are seeking FAA approval to deploy drones in response to crime

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Feds Making Thousands Of Augmented Reality Surveillance Flights Across US

April 9, 2016 Asa J 1550 Views Adam Bates, agumented reality surveillance, aircraft, Associated Press, augmented reality, BuzzFeed News, Cato Institute, cellphone tracking, Cessna, Cessna Skylane 182, Cessnas, civil liberties, copblock, copblock.org, department of homeland security, DHS, FBI, FBI front companies, federal bureau of investigation, FlightRadar24, front companies, helicopters, Pilatus PC-2, planes, Police State, Privacy, privacy rights, Surveillance, surveillance aircraft, surveillance flights, surveillance state, Technology

The Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Homeland Security have been running thousands of surveillance missions employing cellphone tracking

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DHS To Urge Public To Become Online Spies For The Government

February 24, 2016March 4, 2016 Asa J 1065 Views ALCU, anti-government groups, BATF, Central California Intelligence Center, chilling effect, Citizen spy networks, communities against terrorism program, constitutional rights, copblock, copblock.org, cyber PSA, Cyber Security, DEA, department of homeland security, Department of Justice, DHS, DHS intelligence assessment, Domestic Terrorism Counsel, facebook, federal bureau of investigation, fusion centers, government spies, homeland security, Hot Spots of Terrorism and Other Crimes in the United States, ICE, if you see something say something, Janet Napolitano, John Carlin, joint terrorism task force, Joint Terrorism Task Forces, Los Angeles Joint Regional Intelligence Center, MIAC report, National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, national security, Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting Initiative, New York City, NSI, Office of Partnership and Engagement, online spies, Privacy, privacy rights, Profiles of Perpetrators of Terrorism, Propaganda, propaganda campaign, PSA, rights, see something say something, sovereign citizen, Sovereign Citizen Movement, START, Surveillance, surveillance state, suspicious activity, suspicious internet activity, Twitter, Wal-Mart

In the wake of 9/11, the “If You See Something, Say Something” campaign debuted in New York City in 2002 and then expanded

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Cops Using Social Media Surveillance To Calculate Your “Threat Score”

January 12, 2016 Asa J 1543 Views ACLU, american civil liberties union, Beware, Beware software, big brother, Bureau of Justice Statistics, California, Chief Jerry Dyer, Civil rights, copblock, copblock.org, Fresno, Fresno Police Department, gunshot detector, houston, Matt Cagle, New York City, orwellian, Orwells hell, Police State, Privacy, privacy rights, Real Time Crime Center, rights, San Joaquin Valley, seattle, social media, social media posts, Surveillance, surveillance algorithms, surveillance cameras, surveillance center, surveillance software, surveillance state, threat level, threat score, washington post, worrisome messages

Police in California are using state of the art surveillance tools to determine an individual’s “threat score” based on social

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Unredacted Postal Service Audit Reveals Extent Of Mail Surveillance

August 14, 2015February 29, 2016 Asa J 1652 Views ACLU, Civil rights, copblock, copblock.org, Corruption, DEA, DHS, Dishonesty, FBI, first amendment, fourth amendment, freedom, Inspector General Tammy Whitcomb, irs, lawyer Frank Askin, mail covers, mail covers program, New York Times, Police State, Postal Inspection Service, Postal Inspection Service’s Office of Counsel, postal inspectors, Postal Service audit, Privacy, privacy rights, rights, Rutgers Constitutional Rights Clinic, SFGate, Surveillance, United States Postal Service, unredacted audit, USPS, warrantless searches, washington post

The United States Postal Service has been compiling a database of every Americans’ mail records into a dragnet being made

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Military Facial Recognition Tech Now In The Hands Of Local Police

August 13, 2015November 28, 2015 Asa J 1578 Views ACLU, american civil liberties union, biometric program, biometrics, boston, chicago, civil liberties, copblock, copblock.org, department of defense, DNA profiles, facial recognition, facial recognition software, FBI, fingerprints, fourth amendment, intelligence agencies, iris scans, Lt. Scott Wahl, military, New York, New York Times, Next Generation Identification, Next Generation Identification biometric program, oakland, photographs, Privacy, privacy rights, san diego, San Diego police, software, Stasi, Surveillance, surveillance cameras, surveillance state, Technology, voice identification records

According to a new New York Times report, facial recognition software utilized by intelligence agencies and the military is currently