CHARLOTTE — Police officer Thomas Allen has been charged with four counts of secretly viewing another’s body or underwear with a camera, and four counts of possessing images that violate the peeping stature. RELATED: Woman Forced to Strip and Remove Her Bloody Tampon as Five Male Officers Watched and Joked About Her Body Investigators discovered … Read more
FLORIDA — Officer Watts of the Florida Highway patrol has filed a lawsuit against over 100 cops for harassing her to the point of putting her in a life-threatening situation, according to reports. It began one night when Watts noticed a vehicle speeding and swerving dangerously on the road as if the driver was drunk. … Read more
WASHINGTON, DC: Bill Binney, a former high-ranking agent who was with the NSA for 32 years and served as its senior technical director, has come out publicly and declared: “We are now a police state.” In a statement he sent to Washington’s Blog, he says, “The main use of the collection from these [NSA spying] … Read more
YAKIMA — A man has been shot in the head and killed by a police officer while sitting in his car with a disassembled toy gun. It was a toy airsoft gun with a bright orange cap and it was separated into different pieces, according to reports. The man was peaceful and was simply on … Read more
FAYETTEVILLE — The U.S. government insists that it gathers our personal information for the purpose of “safety.” But a woman recently experienced the opposite of “safety” after she was sexually assaulted by an officer who used a government database to find out her name and home location, according to reports. The woman reports that she … Read more
WASHINGTON, DC — Police can gain access to your location, your text messages, your conversations, your real-time web browsing activity, and much more. They contacted cellphone carriers over 1.1 million times last year in order to do so, according to a report released by Edward Markey, a senator. They often get the data without a … Read more
Google has announced that government requests for user data have increased more than 100% in the last few years. In particular there have been over 25,000 law enforcement requests for user data from January to June, 2013. The bulk of the requests came from US law enforcement. “And these numbers only include the requests we’re … Read more
Police refuse to explain mesh network planned for “citywide deployment” in Seattle. Strange new off-white boxes popping up in downtown Seattle use wi-fi networks that can record the last 1,000 locations of a person using their cellphone’s MAC address, but the Department of Homeland Security – which funded the network to the tune of $2.7 … Read more