Surveillance, 2017-2020
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4. Surveillance, 2017-2020
2021-2024 / 2009-2016 / 2001-2008 / 1993-2000 / 1989-1992 / 1981-1988 / 1977-1980 / 1969-1976 / 1965-1968
1961-1964 / 1953-1960 / 1945-1952 / 1933-1944 / 1929-1932 / 1925-1928 / 1921-1924 / 1913-1920
1947-2021, FAS: Presidential Directives
1940-2021, FAS: Selected Executive Orders on National Security
2013-2020, IC Off the Record: Public Access to Unauthorized Leaks
2013-2020, Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts: U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court: Public Filings
2000-2020, FAS: The State Secrets Privilege: Selected Case Files
23 December 2020, Intercept: Powerful Mobile Phone Surveillance Tool Operates in Obscurity Across the Country
21 December 2020, NYT: Laura Poitras: I Am Guilty of Violating the Espionage Act
31 July 2020, Intercept: How Cops Can Secretly Track Your Phone
23 June 2020, Electrospaces: NSA documents and cover names from the book Dark Mirror
19 June 2020, NYT: U.S. Watched George Floyd Protests in 15 Cities Using Aerial Surveillance
16 June 2020, WP: Elite CIA unit that developed hacking tools failed to secure its own systems, allowing massive leak, an internal report found
11 June 2020, WP: Microsoft won't sell police its facial-recognition technology, following similar moves by Amazon and IBM
10 June 2020, WP: Amazon bans police use of its facial-recognition technology for a year
9 June 2020, WP: AP: IBM quits facial recognition, joins call for police reforms
5 June 2020, Electrospaces: Bulk interception by Germany's BND and what the Constitutional Court said about it
4 June 2020, FAS: CRS: Report for Congress: Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Design for Great Power Competition (PDF)
27 May 2020, WP: Arizona sues Google over allegations it illegally tracked Android smartphone users' locations
20 April 2020, NYT: Zoom's Security Woes Were No Secret to Business Partners Like Dropbox
April 2020, ODNI: Statistical Transparency Report Regarding the Use of National Security Authorities: Calendar Year 2019 (PDF)
26 March 2020, Electrospaces: Edward Snowden and the STELLARWIND report
24 March 2020, NYT: As Coronavirus Surveillance Escalates, Personal Privacy Plummets
9 March 2020, WP: Jury in CIA leaks case fails to reach a verdict on most serious charges
7 March 2020, NYT: Erik Prince Recruits Ex-Spies to Help Infiltrate Liberal Groups
27 February 2020, WP: ICE has run facial-recognition searches on millions of Maryland drivers
18 February 2020, Frontline: Amazon Empire: The Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos
17 February 2020, WP: Compromised encryption machines gave CIA window into major human rights abuses in South America
15 February 2020, Electrospaces: The serial numbers of NSA reports
11 February 2020, Guardian: CIA controlled global encryption company for decades, says report
11 February 2020, WP: 'The intelligence coup of the century': For decades, the CIA read the encrypted communications of allies and adversaries
4 February 2020, WP: Trial begins for former CIA employee accused of leaking agency hacking tools
4 February 2020, NYT: Ex-C.I.A. Analyst Faces Trial in Biggest Leak of Agency's History
19 December 2019, WP: Federal study confirms racial bias of many facial-recognition systems, casts doubt on their expanding use
17 December 2019, FISC: In re Accuracy Concerns Regarding FBI Matters Submitted to the FISC (Order) (PDF)
17 December 2019, NYT: Court Orders F.B.I. to Fix National Security Wiretaps After Damning Report
12 December 2019, Electrospaces: Review of Snowden's book Permanent Record - Part II: At the NSA
11 December 2019, Intercept: The Trump Campaign Is Deploying Phone Location-Tracking Technology
11 December 2019, NYT: We Just Got a Rare Look at National Security Surveillance. It Was Ugly.
9 December 2019, NYT: Report on F.B.I. Russia Inquiry Finds Serious Errors but Debunks Anti-Trump Plot
8 December 2019, DOJ: OIG: Review of Four FISA Applications and Other Aspects of the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane Investigation (PDF)
11 November 2019, Electrospaces: Review of Snowden's book Permanent Record - Part I: At the CIA
6 November 2019, NYT: California Sues Facebook for Documents in Privacy Investigation
5 November 2019, Frontline: In the Age of AI
31 October 2019, US District Court, District of MA: ACLU v. DOJ, FBI, DEA (Complaint) (PDF)
31 October 2019, WP: ACLU sues FBI, DOJ over facial-recognition technology, criticizing 'unprecedented' surveillance and secrecy
11 October 2019, NYT: How Photos of Your Kids Are Powering Surveillance Technology
8 October 2019, ODNI: Release of Documents Related to the 2018 FISA Section 702 Certifications
8 October 2019, WP: FBI's search for information on Americans was in violation of the law, judge says
1 October 2019, Frontline: The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia
30 September 2019, Democracy Now: Snowden Reveals How He Secretly Exposed NSA Criminal Wrongdoing Without Getting Arrested
30 September 2019, Democracy Now: Whistleblower Edward Snowden on Trump, Obama & How He Ended Up in Russia to Avoid U.S. Extradition
26 September 2019, Democracy Now: Permanent Record: Why NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden Risked His Life to Expose Surveillance State
26 September 2019, Democracy Now: Edward Snowden Condemns Trump's Mistreatment of Whistleblower Who Exposed Ukraine Scandal
26 September 2019, Democracy Now: "Financial Censorship Is Still Censorship": Edward Snowden Slams Justice Dept. Lawsuit Against Him
22 September 2019, Electrospaces: From 9-Eyes to 14-Eyes: the Afghanistan SIGINT Coalition (AFSC)
20 September 2019, NYT: Facebook's Suspension of 'Tens of Thousands' of Apps Reveals Wider Privacy Issues
26 August 2019, WSJ: Google Warns Against Blocking 'Cookies' Entirely, Triggering Criticism
23 August 2019, NYT: I Visited 47 Sites. Hundreds of Trackers Followed Me.
15 August 2019, NYT: Trump Administration Asks Congress to Reauthorize N.S.A.'s Deactivated Call Records Program
12 August 2019, NYT: Give the F.T.C. Some Teeth to Guard Our Privacy
12 August 2019, WSJ: EU Nears Decisions in Facebook Privacy Cases
9 August 2019, Democracy Now: Documents Reveal Monsanto Surveilled Journalists, Activists & Even Musician Neil Young
8 August 2019, WSJ: FBI Surveillance Proposal Sets Up Clash With Facebook
July 2019, Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board: Active Oversight Projects and Other Engagements (PDF)
24 July 2019, US District Court, DC: USA v. Facebook (Complaint for Civil Penalties, Injunction, and Other Relief) (PDF)
19 July 2019, WP: FTC approves settlement with Google over YouTube kids privacy violations
12 July 2019, WP: FTC votes to approve $5 billion settlement with Facebook in privacy probe
12 July 2019, WSJ: FTC Approves Roughly $5 Billion Facebook Settlement
7 July 2019, WP: FBI, ICE find state driver's license photos are a gold mine for facial-recognition searches
26 June 2019, NYT: N.S.A. Gathered Domestic Calling Records It Had No Authority to Collect
4 June 2019, GAO: Face Recognition Technology: DOJ and FBI Have Taken Some Actions in Response to GAO Recommendations to Ensure Privacy and Accuracy, But Additional Work Remains (PDF)
25 May 2019, NYT: In Baltimore and Beyond, a Stolen N.S.A. Tool Wreaks Havoc
14 May 2019, FAS: CRS: Report for Congress: U.S. Airborne Electronic Attack Programs: Background and Issues for Congress (PDF)
14 May 2019, WP: San Francisco becomes first city in U.S. to ban facial-recognition software
28 March 2019, NYT: N.S.A. Contractor Arrested in Biggest Breach of U.S. Secrets Pleads Guilty
24 March 2019, 60 Minutes: CEO of Israeli spyware-maker NSO on fighting terror, Khashoggi murder, and Saudi Arabia
22 March 2019, NSA/CSS: OIG: Report on the Review of the National Security Agency/Central Security Service's Deletion of Certain USA FREEDOM Act Data (ST-18-0008) -- Special Study (PDF)
13 March 2019, WP: ICE is tapping into a huge license-plate database, ACLU says, raising new privacy concerns about surveillance
4 March 2019, NYT: Disputed N.S.A. Phone Program Is Shut Down, Aide Says
19 February 2019, Why Is This Happening?: Blocking Big Tech with Kashmir Hill (MP3)
February 2019, Army: FM 3-13.4: Army Support to Military Deception (PDF)
5 February 2019, Majority Report: Sarah Igo (The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America) (MP3)
27 January 2019, 60 Minutes: Private company launches "largest fleet of satellites in human history" to photograph Earth
1993-2018, ACLU: The NSA Archive
20 December 2018, Brennan Center for Justice: Cellphones, Law Enforcement, and the Right to Privacy (PDF)
11 November 2018, 60 Minutes: The law that lets Europeans take back their data from big tech companies
30 October 2018, Frontline: The Facebook Dilemma: Part Two
29 October 2018, Frontline: The Facebook Dilemma: Part One
18 October 2018, FISC: (redacted) (Opinion and Order) (PDF)
October 2018, Good Times, ed.: Freemasonry to QAnon: 57 Wikipedia Articles on Conspiracy Theories (838 pp.) (PDF)
21 July 2018, YouTube: The Circle of HOPE: Steven Rambam: How Your Personal Information is Obtained and Exploited to Manipulate Your Emotions, Your Actions, and Your Vote
14 July 2018, Electrospaces: Collection of domestic phone records under the USA FREEDOM Act
3 July 2018, PBS NewsHour: If you have Gmail, here's who's scanning your inbox
29 June 2018, NYT: N.S.A. Purges Hundreds of Millions of Call and Text Records
27 June 2018, Norwegian Consumer Council: Deceived by Design: How tech companies use dark patterns to discourage us from exercising our rights to privacy (PDF)
22 June 2018, NYT: In Ruling on Cellphone Location Data, Supreme Court Makes Statement on Digital Privacy
18 June 2018, NYT: New Charges in Huge C.I.A. Breach Known as Vault 7
10 June 2018, 60 Minutes: Facebook "embeds," Russia and the Trump campaign's secret weapon
7 June 2018, US District Court, DC: US v. Wolfe (Indictment) (PDF)
15 May 2018, WP: U.S. identifies suspect in major leak of CIA hacking tools
15 May 2018, NYT: Justice Department and F.B.I. Are Investigating Cambridge Analytica
4 May 2018, NYT: N.S.A. Triples Collection of Data From U.S. Phone Companies
May 2018, 2018 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy: Chatterjee, Cornell Tech, et al: The Spyware Used in Intimate Partner Violence (PDF)
April 2018, ODNI: Statistical Transparency Report Regarding Use of National Security Authorities: Calendar Year 2017 (PDF)
22 April 2018, 60 Minutes: Aleksandr Kogan: The link between Cambridge Analytica and Facebook
15 April 2018, PBS NewsHour Weekend: Can you really delete Facebook data?
April 2018, Turow et al, Annenberg School for Communication, Univ. of Pennsylvania: Divided We Feel: Partisan Politics Drive Americans' Emotions Regarding Surveillance of Low-Income Populations (PDF)
20 March 2018, PBS NewsHour: Investor says he tried to warn Facebook about 'bad actors' harming innocent people
19 March 2018, All In: Interview with Kylie Morris re. Facebook, Cambridge Analytica
18 March 2018, NYT: Facebook's Role in Data Misuse Sets Off Storms on Two Continents
17 March 2018, NYT: How Trump Consultants Exploited the Facebook Data of Millions
18 January 2018, NYT: Congress Approves Six-Year Extension of Surveillance Law
16 January 2018, NYT: Senate, Rebuffing Privacy Concerns, Clears Path to Extend Surveillance Law
11 January 2018, House Extends Surveillance Law, Rejecting New Privacy Safeguards
3 January 2018, Intercepted: All The News Unfit to Print: James Risen on His Battles with Bush, Obama, and the New York Times (MP3)
12 November 2017, NYT: Security Breach and Spilled Secrets Have Shaken the N.S.A. to Its Core
9 November 2017, WikiLeaks: Vault 8
10 October 2017, NYT: How Israel Caught Russian Hackers Scouring the World for U.S. Secrets
2 May 2017, NYT: Reined-In N.S.A. Still Collected 151 Million Phone Records in '16
12 April 2017, NYT: Court Approved Wiretap on Trump Campaign Aide Over Russia Ties
11 April 2017, WP: FBI obtained FISA warrant to monitor former Trump adviser Carter Page
9 April 2017, 60 Minutes: What is "brain hacking"? Tech insiders on why you should care
31 March 2017, WP: WikiLeaks' latest release of CIA cyber-tools could blow the cover on agency hacking operations
26 March 2017, 60 Minutes: 60 Minutes investigates first ISIS-claimed attack in U.S. and what the FBI knew
7 March 2017, WikiLeaks: Vault 7: CIA Hacking Tools Revealed
7 March 2017, WP: WikiLeaks: The CIA is using popular TVs, smartphones and cars to spy on their owners
7 March 2017, WP: WikiLeaks says it has obtained trove of CIA hacking tools
7 March 2017, NYT: WikiLeaks Releases Trove of Alleged C.I.A. Hacking Documents
22 February 2017, Intercepted: Sam Biddle: Peter Thiel's Palantir Helped the NSA Spy on the Whole World (MP3)
1 February 2017, Intercepted: Interview with Mike German (fmr. FBI Special Agent), Betsy Reed (editor-in-chief, Intercept) re. FBI documents (MP3)
25 January 2017, Intercepted: Interview with Seymour Hersh re. Trump administration (MP3)
19 January 2017, US District Court, DC: Eddington v. DOD OIG (Complaint) (PDF)
17 January 2017, CIA: Central Intelligence Agency Intelligence Activities: Procedures Approved by the Attorney General Pursuant to Executive Order 12333 (PDF)