[Lnc-business] Fwd: [rt4-national] RT4 update, June 20, 2017 - June 26, 2017

Tue Jun 20 22:47:21 EDT 2017

	Passing along the latest national update email from civil liberties group Restore The 4th. Among other news items, note that they're having a national teleconference on July 5 and people are welcome to call in:
> we have an activists' call-in at 8pm EST on July 5 at 650-285-1763 (no code needed)

Love & Liberty,
                      
                                     ((( starchild )))
At-Large Representative, Libertarian National Committee
                        RealReform at earthlink.net
                                  (415) 625-FREE
                                    @StarchildSF


> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- 
> From: Alex Marthews<rt4-national at lists.riseup.net>
> Date: On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 10:06 AM
> Subject: Fwd: [rt4-national] RT4 update, June 20, 2017 - June 26, 2017
> To: rt4-national at lists.riseup.net <rt4-national at lists.riseup.net>
> CC: 
> Hi everyone
> 
> This is the weekly update email for Restore The Fourth, your volunteer-run campaign against unconstitutional mass government surveillance. To post to the listserv, email rt4-national at lists.riseup.net; to unsubscribe, email rt4-national at lists.riseup.net. 
> 
> We are beginning work on a new amicus brief, in the blockbuster Supreme Court case US v. Carpenter (see links below), which will consider whether a warrant is required for historical cell site location information (and by extension, to any metadata). If you're interested in getting involved, please contact our counsel Mahesha Subbaraman at mps at subblaw.com. Our congressional scorecard at https://www.decidethefuture.org has been updated; we have an activists' call-in at 8pm EST on July 5 at 650-285-1763 (no code needed); and there has been lots of activity around surveillance oversight ordinances, including the campaign in California to pass SB 21; if you'd like to fire up a campaign in your area, please email zmanian at protonmail.com. Let us know any activities your chapters have been doing that you'd like us to publicize, by emailing fongaboo at protonmail.com. I'll be only intermittently available via email between now and July 7.
> 
> Chapters active on social media this week: RT4-Boston, RT4-Los Angeles, RT4-Northern Nevada, RT4-NYC, RT4-RI (RI-Rights), RT4-SF Bay Area, RT4-Susquehanna Valley. On Reddit, the top story on the Restore The Fourth subreddit is the CIA hacking routers: http://www.zdnet.com/article/cia-has-been-hacking-into-wi-fi-routers-for-years-leaked-documents-show/.
> 
> LINKS
> In The States
> AZ: Providing medical care for border migrants now triggers massive surveillance: https://www.buzzfeed.com/johnstanton/border-patrol-arrests-immigrants-seeking-medical-care
> FL: Our colleagues at the Defending Rights and Dissent Foundation successfully blocked the use of "wide area surveillance " aerial cameras over Miami: https://rightsanddissent.org/news/won-no-spy-planes-miami/
> IL: In Chicago, their algorithmic "heatmapping " software is not as effective as law enforcement thinks: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/13/upshot/what-an-algorithm-reveals-about-life-on-chicagos-high-risk-list.html
> NY: A furious debate erupts about NYC's surveillance ordinance, after Fox and Friends decries it as "disclosing our tactics to terrorists ": http://gothamist.com/2017/06/14/post_act_nypd_surveillance.php, http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/checks-balances-nypd-article-1.3260627, http://nypost.com/2017/06/18/even-de-blasio-thinks-proposed-surveillance-bill-is-too-liberal/, http://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/analysis/Fact-Check-The-POST-Act-National-Security.pdf, https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/14/15795056/aclu-police-surveillance-curb-campaign-nationwide
> RI: Rhode Island students should be very careful about using school-issued laptops: http://boingboing.net/2017/06/16/no-expectation-of-privacy.html
> 
> National
> Section 702 warrantless surveillance reform
> - Surveillance reformer Jake Laperruque evaluates how to deal with claims that section 702 warrantless surveillance is "effective ": https://www.lawfareblog.com/how-congress-should-evaluate-section-702s-security-value-when-debating-its-reauthorization
> 
> The release of 18 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court opinions this week has led to some interesting new insights:
> - Back in 2010, FISC judge John Bates blocked an effort to use Section 702 warrantless surveillance directly against US persons: https://www.emptywheel.net/2017/06/19/in-2010-the-government-tried-to-use-section-702-against-us-persons/
> - The NSA turns out to have always known, however, that it has a massive problem with "incidental " collection on US persons: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170614/17570137592/2008-fisa-transcript-shows-nsa-already-knew-it-might-have-incidental-collection-problem.shtml
> - Somewhere, there is a US internet company that cared enough about user privacy to sue over 702: http://www.zdnet.com/article/new-details-releasedsection-702-disclosures-intelligence-lawsuit/
> Libertarian blog Reason covers the most important factor preventing a straight renewal of surveillance powers: Hardline Freedom Caucus Republicans don't like them. http://reason.com/blog/2017/06/16/freedom-caucus-conservatives-break-from
> 
> Court rulings
> - A distressing Supreme Court ruling in Ziglar v. Abbasi limits the scope of Fourth Amendment "Bivens " claims for damages, in a case relating to Muslims detained after 9/11. http://www.scotusblog.com/2017/06/opinion-analysis-justices-throw-claims-federal-officials-post-september-11-case/
> - Fourth Amendment scholar Orin Kerr questions whether an originalist analysis can result in warrant protection for historic metadata, in the upcoming US v. Carpenter case: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/06/13/how-should-an-originalist-rule-in-the-fourth-amendment-cell-site-case/
> - A Ninth Circuit ruling prohibits sequential traffic stops as a way of evading constitutional limitations on stops: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/06/14/coordinated-traffic-stops-and-the-fourth-amendment/
> 
> Other
> CIA whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling is now into year 3 of his sentence: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cornel-west/jeffrey-sterling-completes-one-year-of-unjust-prison-sentence_b_10530598.html
> Surveillance databasing firm and SPECTRE wannabe "Palantir " is back worming its way into the government: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/11/palantir-defense-jim-mattis-inner-circle-239373
> Should we have such loose rules over prosecuting people for how they handle being investigated, rather than for the underlying crimes? http://www.nationalreview.com/article/448755/trump-investigation-shows-how-easy-it-feds-create-crimes
> 
> International
> Japan: The government has passed a repressive public safety bill that in the name of preventing terrorism, criminalizes sit-ins and unauthorized copying: http://www.france24.com/en/20170615-japan-anti-conspiracy-bill-terrorism
> UK: Through a Danish subsidiary, giant British defense contractor BAE Systems sold surveillance technologies to Middle Eastern governments connected with the disappearance of most Arab Spring activists: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-40276568
> 
> Alex Marthews, National Chair
> Restore The Fourth
> https://www.restorethe4th.com
> @Restore_The4th
> (781) 258-2936
> 
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