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By Catherine Crump, Staff Attorney, ACLU Speech, Privacy and Technology Project

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Invasion of the Data Snatchers: Big Data and the Internet of Things Means the Surveillance of Everything

This piece originally ran at TomDispatch.com.
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  • Free Speech and Pluralism

Mass Location Tracking: It’s Not Just For the NSA

Thanks to Edward Snowden we now understand that the NSA runs many dragnet surveillance programs, some of which target Americans. But a story yesterday from Washington, D.C. public radio station WAMU is a reminder that dragnet surveillance is not just a tool of the NSA—the local police use mass surveillance as well.