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  1. Salon.com | US government ramps up mass surveillance with help of AI tech, your apps by Anne Toomey McKenna

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    The article explains that the U.S. government is dramatically expanding mass surveillance by buying enormous quantities of personal data from commercial brokers and by forging partnerships with private tech firms to collect information directly, then using artificial‑intelligence tools to analyze it at scale. Everyday devices—smartphones, car sensors, home‑door cameras, wearables, and payment apps—gather detailed biometric, location, health, and behavioral data that is sold on the data‑broker market, and recent federal funding (e.g., $165 billion to the Department of Homeland Security and $86 billion to Immigration and Customs Enforcement) is being funneled into AI‑driven systems for predictive policing, sentiment analysis, and geospatial heat‑mapping. This rapid expansion blurs the line between legitimate national‑security work and unlawful domestic spying, sidestepping Fourth‑Amendment safeguards and the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, while oversight remains weak. The author, a privacy and tech‑law attorney, argues that restoring the original intent of the Wiretap Act, passing comprehensive data‑privacy legislation, and tightening regulation of AI‑enabled surveillance are essential to protect Americans’ privacy.

    Read more: salon.com/2026/04/23/us-govern

    #U.S.government #HomelandSecurity #FourthAmendment #ArtificialIntelligence #surveillance

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  2. Victory! #TenthCircuit Finds #FourthAmendment Doesn’t Support Broad #Search of Protesters’ Devices and Digital Data

    In a big win for protesters’ #rights , the U.S. #CourtofAppeals for the Tenth Circuit overturned a lower court’s dismissal of a challenge to sweeping #warrants to search a protester’s devices and digital data and a nonprofit’s social media data.
    #protester #privacy

    eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/vict

  3. Victory! #TenthCircuit Finds #FourthAmendment Doesn’t Support Broad #Search of Protesters’ Devices and Digital Data

    In a big win for protesters’ #rights , the U.S. #CourtofAppeals for the Tenth Circuit overturned a lower court’s dismissal of a challenge to sweeping #warrants to search a protester’s devices and digital data and a nonprofit’s social media data.
    #protester #privacy

    eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/vict

  4. What the US Founders Feared Most
    consortiumnews.com/2025/11/20/
    Trump’s constitutional breaches are enough to rouse James Madison from his grave, writes Andrew P. Napolitano. On top of all that comes “The Kavanaugh Stop.” By Andrew P. Napolitano “The means of defense against foreign danger have been always the…
    #Politics #CivilRights #Commentary #Constitution #DonaldTrump #FreeSpeech #Legal #TrumpAdministration #U.s. #U.s.Constitution #U.s.SupremeCourrt #UntilThisDayHistoricalPerspectivesOnTheNews #AndrewP.Napolitano #Article1 #BrentKavanaugh #Federalists #FoundingFathers #FourthAmendment #JamesMadison #JudgeAndrewNapolitano

  5. VIPS MEMO: The Leap Forward in Surveilling Americans
    consortiumnews.com/2025/06/02/
    The U.S. has weaponized intelligence agencies against U.S. citizens for political reasons. Today’s collection and exploitation of information on Americans goes beyond anything VIPS has seen and should stir every U.S. citizen who cares about privacy under the Constitution. June…
    #Politics #AdvancedTechnologies #Analysis #CivilRights #Commentary #Constitution #Intelligence #Legal #Surveillance #TrumpAdministration #U.s. #U.s.Congress #Vips #VipsMemos #DonaldTrump #EdwardLoomis #ForeignIntelligenceSurveillanceCourt(fisa) #FourthAmendment #J.KirkWiebe #VeteranIntelligenceProfessionalsForSanity(vips) #WilliamBinney

  6. A 21st Century Stamp Act
    consortiumnews.com/2025/05/22/
    Andrew P. Napolitano on returning to the dark days of pre-revolutionary law enforcement due to the Constitution’s failure to protect the quintessentially American right to be left alone. By Andrew P. Napolitano A recent Supreme Court oral argument about the…
    #Politics #CivilRights #Commentary #Constitution #Legal #Surveillance #U.s. #U.s.SupremeCourrt #UnitedKingdon #UntilThisDayHistoricalPerspectivesOnTheNews #AndrewP.Napolitano #F.b.i. #ForeignIntelligenceSurveillanceAct #FourthAmendment #JamesMadison #NaturalRights #ProbableCause #StampAct #WritsOfAssistanceAct

  7. Upscale #EastBay suburban hamlet must pay $120,000 to settle case brought by a persistent projectionist , "#solarpunk novelist" and Mastodon user @AEMarling arrested in 2021 for being an alleged "public nuisance" after beaming portable political imagery onto #SanRamon #CityHall.

    Marling is perhaps best known for his caustic commentary targeting petty #Twitler #CEO #MelonHusk with viral projection takes including “Space Karen,” “Lawless Oligarch” "Mediocre Manchild" and other critiques on the #American oligarch's corporate #SocialMedia HQ outpost along #MarketSt in #SanFrancisco.

    Originally after being cited, Marling's attorney assumed the small suburban city would return his projection equipment and drop charges, but angry officials retained "outside counsel and private attorney to act as prosecutor, and they prosecuted this to the bitter end” which prompted the case to continue for years as Marling counter sued the bedroom community in #federalcourt for alleged violations of his #FirstAmendment and #FourthAmendment rights, as well as false arrest, among other legal claims that personally named city officials and #police personnel who pursued the charges. Named in Marling's suit were #CityAttorney Martin Lysons, city manager Joe Gorton, ex top cop Craig Stevens, current #PoliceChief Denton Carlson, Sgt. Michael Pistello, Officer Rick Gonzalez, pvt attorney Lance Bayer and city employee Karen McHenry-Smith. The first alleged criminal conspiratorial act by the local govt occured when petty police lied in their report about the spot where Marling even had the projector, claiming it was propped up against a traffic light on a sidewalk rather than placed in a landscaping bed.

    From there, and even after an acquittal in an actual local court for the bogus citation, Marling filed a complaint alleging numerous civil violations, including of the First, Fourth and 14th amendments and the #CivilRights Act, as well as false imprisonment.

    Marling said he hopes the legal #settlement discourages crackdowns on #activism in the future.

    “For the police to try to detain in this fashion is illegal — I wasn’t violating any laws,” Marling said. “I guess you could say it was a slap on the wrist to try to encourage cities to not do this.” We only got to this point where the city finally "settled" and agreed to pay #legal costs and admit no #wrongdoing after years of #litigation.

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    danvillesanramon.com/news/2023

    eastbaytimes.com/2025/05/13/vi #CopWatch #FreeSpeech

  8. Two #Stoneham detectives ordered a real-estate broker to his knees at gunpoint at a house he was about to show a client; jury will decide whether town violated his civil rights
    universalhub.com/2024/judge-ru

    #Lawsuits #Massachusetts #CivilRights #FourthAmendment