#BlueLeaks: How the War on Drugs helped kill the leader of a revolutionary underground needle exchange in Maine called the "Church of Safe Injection" https://mainernews.com/the-crucifixion-of-jesse-harvey/

Law Enforcement Distracted by Facetious #BlackLivesMatter Tweets as Right-Wing Extremists Run Rampant https://mainernews.com/law-enforcement-distracted-by-facetious-blm-tweets-as-right-wing-extremists-run-rampant/

#BlueLeaks documents reveal bias and incompetence plaguing the government’s scrutiny of social media

UNMPD had files leaked in the BlueLeaks release in June. Some of the files contain private information like home addresses. https://www.dailylobo.com/article/2020/10/unmpd-files-leaked-in-large-scale-law-enforcement-hack

When UNM was asked if they’d notified people whose private info was made public, they said they were unaware of the files I referenced.

Is it already time for year end top tens? *checks calendar*
Hackpost's
Top 10 Biggest Data Breach Hacks of 2020

"2. BlueLeaks and the Return of Anonymous

Anonymous...resurfaced after nearly a decade of silence with a massive 269-gigabyte data leak. The leaks revealed, among other things, a ton of US law enforcement documents as well as intelligence documents detailing how they discuss activist groups like Antifa and how the police track protestors. Obviously, with all of the activism that we have seen in 2020, it is not too surprising that this gained so much attention."

https://thehackpost.com/top-10-biggest-data-breach-hacks-of-2020.html

"The reporting on both Maine’s MIAC scandal and Blueleaks, however, have missed the main point communicated by the majority of the documents, the stark reality that is tragically set in relief by Jesse Harvey’s recent death.

Police surveillance and related intelligence systems are echo chambers of wholesale criminalization. We live under mass supervision." https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/10/15/police-surveillance-is-criminalization-and-it-crushes-people/

Fact-checking some Silicon Valley bullshit: https://gizmodo.com/no-twitter-did-not-stop-blocking-urls-and-hacked-conte-1845393137/

"There's incredible journalism that starts with hacked materials," says Lorax B. Horne, editor in chief of the whistle-blowing "leaks" group known as Distributed Denial of Secrets. https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-hacked-materials-rule-change-impossible-needle/

Companies like Motorola, AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile and Google profit from selling surveillance tech and its related seminars to the well-funded police apparatus: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/15/private-firms-provide-software-information-to-police-documents-show

"#Blueleaks documents show that fears of a “forest jihad” have been on the mind of U.S. law enforcement agencies for a long time, stoked by extremist propaganda and periodically echoed by foreign adversaries." https://theintercept.com/2020/10/16/wildfires-forest-jihad-blueleaks/

In response to #BlueLeaks, ARIC Changes Its Course on Privacy Issues https://austinchronicle.com/news/2020-10-23/aric-changes-its-course-a-little-on-privacy-issues/

Suspicious Activity Reports to get a shorter shelf life as the Texas Fusion Center admits they may not have complied with their Privacy Policy or federal standards for fusion centers

"While some Austin activists self-­identify as "antifa," others ridicule the notion that such a thing even exists. Without doubt, on several occasions, "Red Guard" groups have enthusiastically confronted fascists in the streets. Such efforts as Serve the People, Popular Women's Movement, Frente de Liberación Inmi­grante, Stone­wall Militant Front, Fire the Abusers, Defend Our Hoodz, and most recently the Mike Ramos Brigade are opaque by design and don't broadcast their histories or membership. But as shown in the documents collectively known as BlueLeaks, a hack of police intelligence centers across the U.S. that the Chronicle has studied since June, local law enforcement has been surveilling the groups for years." https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2020-10-23/aric-informants-have-watched-local-leftists-for-years/

Law enforcement creates incredibly dangerous climates for real people and real impacts on their lives, says an anarchist activist who also points out cops' propensity for misinformation: https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2020-10-30/you-dont-have-to-break-the-law-to-get-watched-by-aric/

"But there is precedent for the Silicon Valley companies that suggests it is not political censorship, as some are claiming. In June, Twitter banned links to “Blueleaks"... 😳 https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/10/16/1010609/facebook-and-twitters-no-win-situation-over-biden/

Citing BlueLeaks findings, EPIC urges DHS Advisory Committee to investigate and abolish Fusion Centers

https://epic.org/2020/11/epic-again-urges-dhs-advisory-.html

https://epic.org/apa/comments/EPIC-DPIAC-Meeting-Oct-2020-Comments.pdf

New report on the Austin fusion center: "The BlueLeaks documents date to early June and before. The new ARIC documents show that in Texas, at least, social media surveillance persisted into July. The Intercept verified the documents by comparing their format and file metadata to that of the ARIC documents in the BlueLeaks trove." https://theintercept.com/2020/11/30/austin-fusion-center-surveillance-black-lives-matter-cultural-events/