US Mulling Domestic Spying Partnership with Private Companies
The Biden administration is reportedly considering teaming up with private companies to monitor American citizens private online activity and digital communications.
According to news source CNN, multiple sources have said that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is actively seeking a way to monitor citizens online without having to first secure a warrant or prove that such monitoring is an essential part of an ongoing investigation.
The sources said that a plan is being formed for the DHS to circumvent these established checks to the government s power by working directly with private firms.
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As Body Cameras Become Commonplace, a Debate Over When to Release the Footage
The question of timing has become an unsettled new frontier of policymaking as the use of police body cameras is more the rule rather than the exception.
Andrew Brown Jr. was killed by sheriff’s deputies in Elizabeth City, N.C., nearly two weeks ago, and it could be many more weeks before video of his death is publicly shown.Credit.Amr Alfiky/The New York Times
Published May 2, 2021Updated May 3, 2021
ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. Ma’Khia Bryant had been dead only a few hours when the authorities in Columbus, Ohio, released body camera footage from the police officer who had shot and killed her.
Washington: The Biden administration has disclosed a set of rules secretly issued by President Donald Trump in 2017 for counterterrorism “direct action” operations - like drone strikes and commando raids outside conventional war zones - which the White House has suspended as it weighs whether and how to tighten the guidelines.
While the Biden administration censored some passages, the visible portions show that in the Trump era, commanders in the field were given latitude to make decisions about attacks so long as they fit within broad sets of “operating principles,” including that there should be “near certainty” that civilians “will not be injured or killed in the course of operations.”
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The red dot of a laser pointer circled downtown Houston on a map during a virtual training of poll watchers by the Harris County Republican Party. It highlighted densely populated, largely black, Latino and Asian neighbourhoods.
“This is where the fraud is occurring,” a county Republican official said falsely in a leaked video of the training, which was held in March. A precinct chair in the northeastern, largely white suburbs of Houston, he said he was trying to recruit people from his area “to have the confidence and courage” to act as poll watchers in the circled areas in upcoming elections.