Saturday, September 21, 2013

ACLU urges surveillance centers to narrow 'suspicious activity' standards

[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Thursday accused [press release] governmental surveillance centers of invasion of privacy and reliance on racial and religious profiling in their Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) and urged [letter, PDF] the centers to adopt stricter standards of reporting. Commonly known as "fusion centers" [website], these government surveillance units were established by Congress after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in order to foster cooperation between different law enforcement agencies. SARs are submitted by police, often at...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/09/aclu-urges-surveillance-centers-to-narrow-suspicious-activity-standards.php

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