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TELL CONGRESS: IT’S TIME TO INVESTIGATE AMAZON’S SURVEILLANCE EMPIRE

Written by ALEX MARTHEWS Posted February 25, 2020 Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

We need lawmakers to intervene. A Congressional hearing will help to expose Amazon’s invasive data harvesting practices and restrict it from acting as a paid informant for the surveillance state.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: Amazon, Boston Trolling, cameras, Congress, Digital Fourth, doorbell, Massachusetts, ring, surveillance

AU CONTRAIRE GRANDE FRERE: MASS OFFICIALS SAY THERE’S NO THREAT AT HOME FOLLOWING PARIS ATTACKS, YET PUT FORCES ON INCREASED ALERT ANYWAY

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted November 16, 2015 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

It’s never easy criticizing vigilant Big Brother while the crime scene is still bloody.

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: ACLU, Beacon Hill, biometrics, Boston Marathon Bombing, Boston Trolling, BPD, Charlie Baker, civil liberties, Deval Patrick, facial recognition, FBI, france, fusion centers, IBM, ISIS, legislature, Massachusetts, Paris, Paris attacks, security, surveillance, terrorism, war profiteering, William Evans

THE GREATER BOSTON INSTAGRAM SURVEILLANCE CHALLENGE: FLICK THE POLICE

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted August 25, 2015 Filed Under: Media Farm, NEWS+OPINIONS

Help us inventory the surveillance cameras in Greater Boston

Filed Under: Media Farm, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: #BINJbrother, Beacon Hill, biometrics, Boston, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Boston Police Department, Boston Trolling, BPD, Cambridge, facial recognition, hashtag, instagram, New York Times, Politics, software contracts, surveillance, Twitter, whitewashing

MASS GOES SHOPPING FOR THE MOST SOPHISTICATED SURVEILLANCE DRONE IMAGINABLE

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted April 28, 2015 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

It’s just a little drone, but the size shouldn’t fool you.

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Big Brother, Boston Trolling, Chris Faraone, CIA, contracts, drones, Kenneth Lipp, Massachusetts, RFR, State House, state police

LET THE GAMES BEGIN: ANTI-OLYMPIC ORGANIZING HEATS UP IN BOSTON

Written by DIG STAFF Posted November 23, 2014 Filed Under: News

The team at No Boston Olympics has been doing the lord’s work for months now. May god bless them.

 

But it was only a matter of time before more activists began organizing against the Hub’s Olympic bid for 2024. It’s especially amazing that it took this long to hear from people ...  read more

Filed Under: News Tagged With: 2024, Boston Olympics, Boston Trolling, Dave Zirin, Media Farm, No Boston Olympics, surveillance, The Nation

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