The Government is Spying on You: ACLU Releases New Evidence of Overly Broad Surveillance of Everyday Activities | American Civil Liberties Union

The Government is Spying on You: ACLU Releases New Evidence of Overly Broad Surveillance of Everyday Activities | American Civil Liberties Union:

For years, we at the ACLU have been warning that the Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting Initiative – a vast information sharing program that encourages the collection and sharing of "suspicious activity" among private parties and local, state and federal law enforcement – would lead to violations of our privacy, racial and religious profiling, and interference with constitutionally-protected activities. Today, we're proving ourselves right by unveiling actual Suspicious Activity Report summaries obtained from California fusion centers (post-9/11 intergovernmental surveillance hubs). We are also joined by 26 other organizations in calling on the Justice Department, FBI and two other agencies responsible for Suspicious Activity Reporting to adopt stricter standards so that individuals' innocent activity will cease being reported, shared and maintained for decades in anti-terrorism databases.