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There’s a War Going On Over Kamala Harris’s Wikipedia Page, with Unflattering Elements Vanishing - 3 juillet 2020
California Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris is widely seen as a frontrunner for a spot on the ticket with presumptive nominee Joe Biden, with vetting well underway.
Presidential vetting operations have entire teams of investigators, but for the public, when the pick is announced, the most common source for (...)
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Blueleaks : Police Focused on Unfounded Threats Amid Protests - 1er juillet 2020
Newly leaked documents reveal that, in the wake of George Floyd’s killing, local and federal law enforcement agencies repeatedly told police in Minnesota that they were under attack. The fears stoked by the warnings appear to have set the stage for the police’s escalating, violent response to the protests, including (...)
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Curfew Gave NYPD Excuse to Attack Residents - 30 juin 2020
How the NYPD Weaponized a Curfew Against Protesters and Residents
Husan Blue, his family, and his neighbors were having a cookout on the patio outside their apartment in Crown Heights. It was a warm summer night in Brooklyn. Little kids were running around and playing. People were talking and celebrating. Blue’s (...)
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FBI Expands Ability to Monitor Social Media, Location Data - 28 juin 2020
The Federal Bureau of Investigation may be watching what you tweet and where people gather.
The federal law enforcement agency’s records show a growing focus on harnessing the latest private sector tools for mass surveillance, including recent contracts with companies that monitor social media posts and collect (...)
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Controversial Data-Mining Firm Palantir Vanishes From Biden Adviser’s Biography After She Joins Campaign - 27 juin 2020
In the run-up to the 2020 election, former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign is putting together a foreign policy team for a potential future administration. Among those described as being part of the team is Avril Haines, former deputy director of the CIA during the Obama administration. According to an NBC News (...)
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Pentagon War Game Included Scenario of Gen Z Protests - 21 juin 2020
In the face of protests composed largely of young people, the presence of America’s military on the streets of major cities has been a controversial development. But this isn’t the first time that Generation Z — those born after 1996 — has popped up on the Pentagon’s radar.
Documents obtained by The Intercept via the (...)
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Armed Vigilantes Receive Warm Police Reception Amid Protests - 20 juin 2020
A former Albuquerque City Council candidate who ran on a tough-on-crime platform shot a protester at an anti-police brutality demonstration on Monday and was arrested alongside members of a right-wing militia group. The shooting is an extreme example of a trend that has played out across the country as armed (...)
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New Facebook Tool Allows Employers to Suppress “Unionize” in Workplace Chat - 16 juin 2020
During an internal presentation at Facebook on Wednesday, the company debuted features for Facebook Workplace, an intranet-style chat and office collaboration product similar to Slack.
On Facebook Workplace, employees see a stream of content similar to a news feed, with automatically generated trending topics (...)
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Activists Intimidated by FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force - 14 juin 2020
“I’ve never had any run-ins with the cops before. I’ve never been to jail and have no criminal record, so when the FBI showed up to my workplace, it scared the piss out of me,” says Katy, a 22-year-old who works for a custodial services company in Cookeville, a small college town in middle Tennessee. “I really thought (...)
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ICE Plans to Spend $18 Million on Thousands of New Tasers - 12 juin 2020
As protests against police brutality sweep the U.S. and demands to defund police multiply, Immigration and Customs Enforcement is seeking thousands of new “conductive energy weapons” — what the general public commonly refers to as tasers — and training at a U.S. military base on how to use them.
According to a recent (...)
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He Tweeted He Was the Leader of Antifa. Then the FBI Called. - 11 juin 2020
It all began with a tweet. Chandler Wirostek, of Charlotte, North Carolina, was reading the news last Monday when he saw that the attorney general had declared that the leaderless anti-fascist movement known as antifa was engaged in domestic terrorism. The 24-year-old found the notion absurd, so he decided to say (...)
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A Short History of U.S. Law Enforcement Infiltrating Protests - 7 juin 2020
When Harry, George, Tom, and Joe showed up at a warehouse outside Philadelphia rented by protesters, organizers were immediately suspicious. The men claimed to be “union carpenters” from the Scranton, Pennsylvania, area who built stages — just the kind of help the protesters needed. They were preparing for the (...)
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Left-Right Alliance Takes Aim At Surveillance Bill - 28 mai 2020
President Donald Trump on Wednesday issued a rare veto threat, promising to reject a renewal of his surveillance authorities if approved by the House of Representatives.
If the FISA Bill is passed tonight on the House floor, I will quickly VETO it. Our Country has just suffered through the greatest political (...)
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NYC and LA Slash Budgets — but Not for Police - 25 mai 2020
As the coronavirus pandemic devastates the economy and tax revenues drop massively across the U.S., cities have begun to prepare for the hard times ahead by proposing slashed budgets and reduced public services at a time when so many of their residents need them more than ever.
But the austerity measures won’t be (...)
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Coronavirus Monitoring Bracelets Flood the Market, Ready to Snitch on People Who Don’t Distance - 25 mai 2020
Surveillance firms around the world are licking their lips at a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to cash in on the coronavirus by repositioning one of their most invasive products : the tracking bracelet.
Body monitors are associated with criminality and guilt in the popular imagination, the accessories of Wall (...)
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Facebook Says Very Little on Privacy of Messenger Rooms - 23 mai 2020
Earlier this month, Facebook debuted its group video chat offering, Messenger Rooms, to a world under widespread pandemic lockdown, one that’s in large part replaced face-to-face meetings with streamed conversations. The chief beneficiary of this shift, Zoom, has spent months as a punching bag for privacy (...)
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Federal Government Buys Riot Gear, Increases Security Funding, Citing Pandemic - 17 mai 2020
The federal government has ramped up security and police-related spending in response to the coronavirus pandemic, including issuing contracts for riot gear, disclosures show. The orders were expedited under a special authorization “in response to Covid-19 outbreak.”
The purchase orders include requests for (...)
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Traduction française de l’article "Screen New Deal" de Naomi Klein dans The Intercept - 11 mai 2020
Sous le prétexte de la pandémie, Andrew Cuomo fait appel aux milliardaires pour construire une dystopie de haute technologie
Mercredi, lors du briefing quotidien d’Andrew Cuomo, le gouverneur de New-York, consacré au coronavirus, la sombre grimace présente sur nos écrans depuis des semaines a été brièvement remplacée (...)
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A High-Tech Coronavirus Dystopia - 8 mai 2020
For a few fleeting moments during New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s daily coronavirus briefing on Wednesday, the somber grimace that has filled our screens for weeks was briefly replaced by something resembling a smile.
“We are ready, we’re all-in,” the governor gushed. “We are New Yorkers, so we’re aggressive about it, (...)
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Mass Incarceration Poses Uniquely American Coronavirus Risk - 7 mai 2020
There is a fundamental flaw in the models that Trump administration officials have used to project the curve of the coronavirus outbreak as it rips across the United States. Those models were based on other countries’ experiences with the virus — from China to Italy — and do not account for a uniquely American risk (...)
