Wiretapping Amendments are finally dead (November 15, 2017)
Late last night the Massachusetts House voted down or had withdrawn the three amendments that would have expanded our wiretapping laws dramatically. Against…
Category: Surveillance
Thanks to the Boston Anarchist Bookfair 2017 (November 13, 2017)
Thanks to the folks who made the Boston Anarchist Bookfair possible this year whether the organizers, speakers, vendors or participants. We look forward to…
We killed the wiretapping expansion (October 27, 2017)
Early this morning, the Massachusetts Senate voted 22 to 14 to kill amendment 87 that would have expanded our wiretapping laws dramatically. Thankfully,…
Today: tell Mass. Senators to oppose giving prosecutors new surveillance powers (October 25, 2017)
The Massachusetts Senate is working on an omnibus criminal justice reform package. Two amendments (#24 and #87) would give prosecutors unprecedented new powers…
NSA, FOIA, and a long-running quest for Telephony Metadata (October 22, 2017)
Gathering information through FOIA or public records requests can be a long-term endeavor. I made a privacy act request to the NSA back…
Wednesday: Cambridge surveillance transparency ordinance needs your help (October 16, 2017)
This Wednesday, the 18th, starting at 6:30pm, the Cambridge Public Safety Committee will hold a hearing on a local ordinance to require a…
Thanks for the picnic and treasure hunt (August 28, 2017)
A big thanks to everyone who attended our pirate picnic and surveillance camera treasure hunt in downtown Boston, especially to Joe, Sam, Steve…
Find all of downtown Boston’s surveillance cameras this Saturday (August 21, 2017)
This Saturday, the 26th, we are going to map all of the CCTV surveillance cameras in downtown Boston. We will start at 11am and…
Surveillance Camera Mapping Picnic moved to August 26th (August 16, 2017)
In light of the horrific events in Charlottesville and the upcoming rallies on Boston Common, we are moving our surveillance camera mapping picnic…
August 19th: Surveillance Camera Mapping Picnic (July 24, 2017)
We have mapped surveillance cameras in many cities and towns, but downtown Boston remains little explored. To fix that, our surveillance camera mapping picnic…