January 22, 2021 by Ethics In Tech board member Brett Wilkins for Common Dreams Digital rights advocates reacted with alarm to a report published Friday detailing how Defense Intelligence Agency analysts in recent years bought databases of U.S. smartphone location data without first obtaining warrants. The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Read more…
December 3, 2020 by Ethics In Tech board member Brett Wilkins for Common Dreams The Trump administration recently used one of the most controversial surveillance provisions in U.S. history to record an unidentified person or group’s visit to an unspecified website, the New York Times revealed Thursday. The Times reports Director of National Intelligence John Read more…
By Brett Wilkins There are few surer signs of a democracy in danger than permanent states of emergency. One could reasonably argue that such a state existed in the immediate smoldering aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, when Congress rushed to approve the USA PATRIOT (Uniting and Strengthening Read more…
Democratic and Republican members of the House of Representatives and Senate have introduced legislation that would significantly reform the US government’s foreign intelligence surveillance authorities. The Safeguarding Americans’ Private Records Act (SAPRA) was introduced last week by Sens. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Steve Daines (R-MT) and Reps. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Read more…