On August 19, 1953, the government of democratically-elected Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh was overthrown in a blood-soaked coup d’état organized by the CIA and MI6. The coup has been dubbed the ‘ground zero’ of US-led regime change operations around the world in the decades that followed.
400,000+ Iranians Take US Government to Court Over 1953 Coup (archived)
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Venezuela’s election in the crosshairs of new U.S. regime change scheme
Twenty-five years after Hugo Chávez took office and began the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela, US officials have still not tired of dreaming up new plots to overthrow the country’s government
Venezuela’s election in the crosshairs of new U.S. regime change scheme
[2017] Exploring the Shadows of America’s Security State
Or How I Learned Not to Love Big Brother
Exploring the Shadows of America’s Security State
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Court rules automakers can record and intercept owner text messages
A federal judge on Tuesday refused to bring back a class action lawsuit alleging four auto manufacturers had violated Washington state’s privacy laws by using vehicles’ on-board infotainment systems to record and intercept customers’ private text messages and mobile phone call logs.
Court rules automakers can record and intercept owner text messages
H/T: Steve Lehto
[2010] Texas secretly gave newborns’ blood to federal DNA database
A shocking new report in the Texas Tribune reveals that state health officials illegally turned over 800 infant blood samples to a federal DNA database to be used not for medical research but forensic crime fighting.
Texas secretly gave newborns’ blood to federal DNA database
H/T: Steve Lehto
Previously:
NJ’s Creepy Baby Blood Bank is Out of Control
Without informed consent from newborns’ parents, officials must destroy blood samples, lawsuit says
Civil rights group sues New Jersey to stop secret storage, use of baby blood spots
X wants permission to start collecting your biometric data and employment history
The new policy for the service formerly known as Twitter says it will use collected biometric data for ‘safety, security, and identification purposes.’
X wants permission to start collecting your biometric data and employment history
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In Nahel M., a Stranger Killed by Police, French Protesters See Friend and Kin + More
“We don’t forget, we don’t forgive,” crowds chanted as they denounced the shooting death of a 17-year-old from the Paris suburb of Nanterre.
In Nahel M., a Stranger Killed by Police, French Protesters See Friend and Kin
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France: ‘La rage, partout’ Responses after the umpteenth police execution
NYT hypes China threat: They’re reading the internet
NYT hypes China threat: They’re reading the internet
That Beijing is mining publicly available information is not new or surprising but fear mongering about it in Washington is good for business.
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The Times was passing on findings from an analysis by threat intelligence company Recorded Future, which says a Chinese open-source intel company has been mining publicly available information from the Office of Net Assessment, a Pentagon think tank, and the U.S. Naval War College.
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Exclusive: Google, CIA Invest in ‘Future’ of Web Monitoring
The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information to predict the future. The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find the relationships between people, […]
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Congressional Rep Who Discovered His Info Was Illegally Searched By The FBI Likely Has No Legal Remedy
from the but-this-is-the-system-Congress-wants…. dept
The FBI has long enjoyed its close relationship with the NSA… or at least the NSA’s collections. Data and communications collected under the NSA’s Section 702 program contain plenty of “incidental” snooping on Americans. That’s because even though it’s a foreign-facing collection, Americans who communicate with people outside of the United States are swept up in the dragnet.
Congressional Rep Who Discovered His Info Was Illegally Searched By The FBI Likely Has No Legal Remedy
“Well that’s unfortunate. If only he were part of some kind of body that had the power to change the law.” [1]
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