How Police Are Harnessing Digital Technologies Against Us

FEATURING JAY STANLEY – We all know and love our digital technology – we use it to communicate instantly, navigate our cities, even find our phones when we lose them. We also know that government agencies like the NSA are using those technologies to spy on us, as revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden.

But, how much do we know of local police using those same tools? Now the ACLU has unearthed the dangerous extent to which local law enforcement are collaborating with federal agencies to intrude into all our lives.

Read the article on Tom Dispatch HERE, and find more at www.ACLU.org.

Jay Stanley, senior policy analyst with the American Civil Liberty Union’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. He is the editor of the ACLU’s “Free Future” blog and has authored and co-authored a variety of ACLU reports on privacy and technology topics.