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Criminalizing Dissent: Civil Society Organizations Demand Inquiry into Domestic Surveillance of Political Activists

By Danielle Kerem Over the past year, documents released under the Freedom of Information Act have revealed new details about the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Homeland Security’s suspicionless surveillance of domestic advocacy groups. Significantly, the FOIA documents suggest that Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, School of the Americas Watch, and the […]

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Four Reasons to Fear Illegal Mass Surveillance, Even If You “Have Nothing to Hide”

Two and a half years after Edward Snowden provided definitive proof that the US government and its allies are illegally spying on their own populations en masse, and a week before the first presidential primary in Iowa, it is troubling to me that the issue hasn’t received more lasting concern and attention, both from the […]