20 Years After Patriot Act, Surveillance of Arabs and Muslims Is Relentless: https://truthout.org/articles/20-years-after-patriot-act-surveillance-of-arabs-and-muslims-is-relentless/ Can The Feds Hide Its Misdeeds On Muslim Surveillance As ‘State Secrets’? https://reason.com/2021/11/17/can-the-government-hide-its-misdeeds-as-state-secrets/ OnlyFans improperly scanned faces of content creators to verify ID, age: https://cookcountyrecord.com/stories/612133315-il-biometrics-class-action-onlyfans-improperly-scanned-faces-of-content-creators-to-verify-id-age Coalition Tells Supreme Court to Hear Warrantless Pole Camera Surveillance Case: https://epic.org/epic-coalition-tell-supreme-court-to-hear-warrantless-pole-camera-surveillance-case/ Artists, Rights Groups Denounce ‘Invasive’…
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Killed in a 1961 Crash, ‘Unknown Boy’ Is Finally Identified
Vimal Patel reports on how DNA has finally solved a 60-year-old mystery: the identity of a boy killed in a car crash. They called him “Unknown Boy.” The blue-eyed hitchhiker with olive skin drowned when the car he was riding in crashed through the rail of a bridge and plunged into the Cahaba River in…
Weekly Privacy/Civil Rights News Stories from MassPrivateI
Military-intelligence outfit Mitre at center of US digital vaccine passport push: https://thegrayzone.com/2021/10/26/cloak-dagger-military-intelligence-digital-vaccine-passport/ https://thegrayzone.com/2021/10/19/health-wealth-digital-passports-surveillance-capitalism/ Other news about vaccination and surveillance: California Shuts Down 2nd. In-N-Out Burger For Refusing To Be “Vaccination Police For Government” https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/oct/26/contra-costa-county-california-shuts-down-in-n-out/ Parents Reported to Child Services for Keeping Unvaccinated Kids Home: https://theintercept.com/2021/10/25/covid-unvaccinated-kids-child-services/ If Courts Won’t Protect People’s Phones At The Border, Congress…
Montana Tribes Want to Stop Jailing People for Suicide Attempts but Lack a Safer Alternative
By Sara Reardon October 22, 2021 POPLAR, Mont. — When Maria Vega was a senior in high school in 2015, she found the body of one of her closest friends, who had died by suicide. A few days later, devastated by the loss, Vega tried to take her own life. After the attempt failed, she…