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Matthew Harwood is senior writer/editor with the ACLU. A TomDispatch regular, his work has been published by Al-Jazeera America, the American Conservative, the Columbia Journalism Review, the Guardian, Guernica, Reason, Salon, Truthout and the Washington Monthly. He also regularly reviews books for the Future of Freedom Foundation.
Law enforcement agencies are keeping tabs on Americans in ways that violate the federal government's own privacy guidelines.
How the excessive militarization of the police has turned cops into counterinsurgents.
Now that household items connect to the Internet, what people do with their private lives will be monitored ever more closely.
The NSA isn’t the only government agency exploiting technology to make privacy obsolete.
Why violent right-wing extremism doesn’t scare Americans.