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ADC appoints Abed Ayoub as national executive director

August 24th, 20220 WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Wednesday, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) announced the appointment of Abed Ayoub to serve as ADC national executive director. The ADC is a long-running organization, involved in advocacy in broad-ranging incidents of discrimination against the Arab American and Muslim communities of the...

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The “9/11 effect”: 20 years of evolving U.S. policy targeted an entire population

September 11th, 20210 Twenty years later, the Muslim community in the U.S. and abroad is reflecting on the legacy of U.S. response to the events of Sept. 11, 2001. The tragedy and trauma of the surreal attacks of that day are coupled with two decades of domestic and foreign policy that deeply changed the relationship between the U.S. government,...

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U.S. Supreme Court to hear case involving FBI’s spying on California mosques

June 11th, 20210 WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to look at a decade-long class-action case involving the FBI’s use of an informant to spy on several LA and Orange County mosques, the Courthouse News reported Tuesday. For more than a year, the FBI planted an informant in the mosques and instructed him to coerce and gather...

Local

New report shows Facebook and Google’s pervasive surveillance poses threat to human rights

November 26th, 20190 LONDON — A new report by the human rights organization Amnesty International says tech giants Facebook and Google’s surveillance of billions of people poses a serious and systematic threat to human rights. The report, titled “Surveillance Giants: How the business model of Google and Facebook threatens human rights”, lays out...

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NYPD settles Muslim surveillance lawsuit for $1 million

April 13th, 20180 NEW YORK CITY — Last Thursday, a group of Muslim owned-businesses, mosques, individuals, and student groups reached a settlement with the New York Police Department (NYPD) in a federal lawsuit challenging the discriminatory surveillance of American Muslims in New Jersey. Filed in 2012 in federal court in New Jersey, in Hassan v....

World

Report: Lebanese security agency turns smartphone into selfie spycam

January 19th, 20180 FRANKFURT — Lebanon's intelligence service may have turned the smartphones of thousands of targeted individuals into cyber-spying machines in one of the first known examples of large-scale state hacking of phones rather than computers, researchers say. Lebanon's General Directorate of General Security (GDGS) has run more than 10...

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U.S. widens surveillance to include ‘homegrown violent extremists’

October 26th, 20170 WASHINGTON ― The U.S. government has broadened an interpretation of which citizens can be subject to physical or digital surveillance to include “homegrown violent extremists,” according to official documents seen by Reuters. The change last year to a Department of Defense manual on procedures governing its intelligence activities...

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New York City reaches new deal over police surveillance of Muslims

March 6th, 20170 NEW YORK CITY- New York City's police department has agreed to a new settlement in a lawsuit accusing it of illegally targeting Muslims for surveillance, according to court papers filed on Monday, after a federal judge rejected an earlier deal. The new settlement gives additional powers to a civilian representative charged with...