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23.
02.
2018
On Monday, February 26th, we will join Digital Fourth volunteers in advocating for Senate President Harriette Chandler's "Fundamental Freedoms Act", which prohibits police registries on the basis of religion, and also would implement transparency and accountability reforms for Massachusetts' three f... Read more
12.
02.
2018
The Somerville Cryptoparty is the last Wednesday of every month and will take place in February and March at The Sprouts, 339 Summer St., Somerville. The February cryptoparty will focus on digital security 101.
We are also looking at holding two additional cryptoparties in March. One will be in W... Read more →
11.
01.
2018
Section 702 is a surveillance authority passed in 2008 as part of the FISA Amendments Act. It is used to justify the NSA's warrantless collection of our emails and other on-line communications. Section 702 has to be renewed every few years, but it wasn't renewed at the end of 2017 and expired. Win ... Read more →
20.
12.
2017
Section 702 is a surveillance authority passed in 2008 as part of the FISA Amendments Act. It is used to justify the NSA's warrantless collection of our emails and other on-line communications. Section 702 has to be renewed every few years.
Thankfully, Section 702 expires at the end of this year.... Read more →
2.
12.
2017
In a late night session with a hand scribbled bill, Congress gave a big wet kiss to the 1% while shafting the rest of us. Congress continues its work to expand Section 702 to give the NSA (and the FBI via parallel construction) more power to spy on us. The FCC is trying to take away net neutrality t... Read more →
Further articles
Older articles
- Wiretapping Amendments are finally dead 15.11.2017
- Thanks to the Boston Anarchist Bookfair 2017 13.11.2017
- We killed the wiretapping expansion 27.10.2017
- Today: tell Mass. Senators to oppose giving prosecutors new surveillance powers 25.10.2017
- NSA, FOIA, and a long-running quest for Telephony Metadata 22.10.2017
- Wednesday: Cambridge surveillance transparency ordinance needs your help 16.10.2017
- Thanks for the picnic and treasure hunt 28.08.2017
- Find all of downtown Boston’s surveillance cameras this Saturday 21.08.2017
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