We’re working to stop spying by pushing for policy fixes at the national and local that put serious limits on government invasions of privacy.
From undercover cops infiltrating activists groups on the local level to the NSA’s mass surveillance government spying is ubiquitous in our everyday lives. Yet, we refuse to accept this as normal.
With technological advances in surveillance, the government is increasingly finding ways to try to sidestep what limitations on surveillance exist. They claim that new technologies are somehow exempt from the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirements.
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