Federal Study Acknowledges Failures in Police Surveillance Oversight For years researchers have called out the Wiretap Report for being outdated and incomplete By: Alfred Ng There are major flaws in how the federal government monitors police surveillance of Americans, a new government report found, representing the first time the federal court system has acknowledged its…
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Asylum seekers, families allegedly threatened after Australian immigration data breach
Ben Doherty reports: The personal details of nearly 10,000 people seeking asylum in Australia – unlawfully posted online by the Australian government – were accessed by people in foreign countries, including China, Russia, Egypt, and Pakistan, and from masked anonymous locations. New documents show the information was allegedly used to threaten asylum seekers, and to…
The Worrying Expansion of the Social Media Surveillance-Industrial Complex
Sinclair Cook and Michael DelRossi are doing a deeper dive into the proliferation of social media surveillance tools, with a special focus on their use by government agencies. They write, in part: That’s why we are submitting FOIA requests to CID and the FBI today. CID has contracted for Clearview AI and acknowledged its use publicly, but how and…
Au: Where does the anti-trolling Bill take us, if anywhere at all? Bye-bye Voller?
Alex Tharby and Tracy Cole write: On September 8, 2021, the High Court delivered the landmark Voller decision, dismissing appeals by media outlets against the decision of the New South Wales Supreme Court which held that the news media and users of social media and other internet platforms may be held liable for content posted by others to their…