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expansion of surveillance

Big Brother, Meet Citizen Score: China to Cull Online Data to Create Individual Rating System

By Cyndi Suarez | October 30, 2017

China is developing a national program to monitor and rate the behavior of its citizens, where access to loans, jobs, schools, and visas will depend on one’s “citizen score.”

Nonprofit News

Facebook Officially Bars Use of Data for Surveillance of Protests, but is it Sufficient?

By Louis Altman | March 17, 2017

There is, a core existential conflict for Facebook and Twitter because of the value of information which social media companies control.

expansion of surveillance

Government Surveillance and Nonprofits: Time to Focus on the Privacy Concerns of Community

By Spencer Wells | December 5, 2016

The people with the lowest incomes are most likely to fall victim to a data profile aggregated from public records, aerial and audio surveillance of public spaces, social media postings, and third-party reports of late payments and defaults.

Nonprofit News

As Police Revelations Continue, Police Surveillance of Public Grows

By Spencer Wells | October 4, 2016

Three recent stories about police conducting citizen surveillance outside of the oversight of their uniformed and civilian authorities have made the news in the past month. At the same time, some police forces have mounted active resistance to reform efforts.

Nonprofit News

Community Surveillance Systems Funded by Philanthropy: Why Not to Worry

By Ruth McCambridge | September 1, 2016

Philanthropist Laura Arnold says that secretly funding an aerial surveillance system that was eventually exposed through an investigative report was all a part of a democratic process.

Nonprofit News

Donor-Advised Fund Provides Secret Funding Structure for Massive Police Surveillance Project

By Ruth McCambridge | August 26, 2016

The transparency and accountability of donor-advised funds is becoming an issue in the wake of examples like a Baltimore DAF being used to support controversial law enforcement tactics.

Nonprofit News

Can Edward Snowden Come Home and Get a Fair Defense?

By Rick Cohen, National Correspondent | June 29, 2015

The U.S. is becoming increasingly isolated in the world in its dedication to prosecute NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden under the Espionage Act, which would not permit him to raise a public interest defense.

Policy & Government

Transparency, Surveillance and the Obama Administration: A Civil Society Concern

By Rick Cohen, National Correspondent | June 5, 2015

Edward Snowden’s latest revelations concern the expansion of surveillance by the National Security Administration, authorized by the Obama administration but without public notice, legislative review, or public debate.

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