COVID-19 and Uprisings for Black Liberation Used as a Pretext for Advancing Mass Surveillance

Kris Hermes, July 15, 2020 On the night of June 1, amidst mass uprisings against police violence and structural racism, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) deployed it’s most advanced spy plane, equipped with sophisticated long-range video cameras that can capture footage day or night, see through haze, and provide infrared thermal imaging, in order […]

The Huffington Post, “Antiwar Activists Challenge Army’s Domestic Spying Apparatus in Ninth Circuit”

“I thought it would be a good idea to develop a leftist/anarchist mini-group for intel sharing and distro,” wrote the Army analyst in a November 2007 email. Towery referenced books, “zines and pamphlets,” and a “comprehensive web list” as source material, but cautioned the officials on file sharing “because it might tip off groups that […]