Citizenfour, hailed the year’s Best Documentary Feature at the Oscars, is 114 minutes of masterful, chilling storytelling that takes us into the clandestine meetings and encrypted emails between Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill, Laura Poitras and Edward Snowden in the months leading up to the whistleblower’s world-changing NSA leak. The HBO film, a crucial supplement to […]
For an organization that has been so adamant on increasing its public surveillance, it is surprising and troubling that several NYPD precincts don’t have working security cameras. A new report by DNAinfo claims that “cameras outside police precinct stationhouses” are “not working in a number of cases, according to an NYPD source.” The point isn’t […]
A Pratt student’s sketch led to the arrest of an ex-con who was violating the terms of his probation. The New York Daily News reports that a 21-year-old woman noticed an older man, Christopher Thomas, lurking the hallways of Pratt last Thursday where he allegedly exposed himself and masturbated. The woman drew a quick sketch […]
The Intercept released the latest of Edward Snowden’s NSA document leaks early Wednesday morning, making it the first time that a Canadian agency has been implicated as a key player in global mass surveillance. According to the Intercept: The LEVITATION program can monitor downloads in several countries across Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and North […]
At this point in America’s ongoing loss of privacy, it’s becoming clear that if one can imagine a way for an agency to spy, it’s probably happening. Hot on the heels of the recent announcement that the DEA collects call data on citizens, the ACLU has discovered that the drug agency is tracking millions of peoples’ […]
Infamous hacker and internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom, who has been hanging out in New Zealand to avoid U.S. authorities, has released an encrypted video calling service called MegaChat. It’s free, opens in your browser to make audio calls, and offers end-to-end encryption, meaning “Mega shouldn’t have access to users’ encryption keys and shouldn’t be able […]
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Days after a Redditor found cameras hidden in New York’s Herald Square subway station, the New York Post investigated and confirmed that there are “at least six hidden cameras” embedded among the “ubiquitous domed video-surveillance cameras.” Though one source in the MTA described the cameras as “antiquated,” as they date back to the 1990s, the […]
Two plainclothes officers were shot Monday night after approaching two men suspected in a robbery at a Fordham grocery store. The officers are expected to survive but the suspects remain at large. UPDATE: A suspect has been arrested and identified as Jason Polanco of the Bronx. Police say that the suspects robbed a store at 363 E. 180th […]
An NYPD officer who has seven years on the force turned himself in on Thursday after he was accused of assaulting a female MTA worker who was on duty at a Bronx subway station. After Officer Mirjan Lolja, 37, saw himself in a surveillance video on the news, he elected to turn himself in at the 25th […]
