FBI: Burning Man Testing Ground For Free Speech, Drugs ... and New Spy Gear

Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 1, 2015 @03:05AM from the post-black-hat-vacation dept.

v3rgEz writes: The 29th annual Burning Man festival kicks off this week in Nevada's Black Rock Desert. Among those paying close attention to the festivities will be the FBI's Special Events Management unit, who have kept files on "burners" since at least 2010. One of the more interesting things in those, files, however, is a lengthy, heavily redacted paragraph detailing that the FBI's Special Events Management Unit gave Las Vegas Police Department some specialized equipment for monitoring the week-long event, as long as LVPD provided follow up reports.

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Re:Is this even legal? by gweihir · 2015-09-01 07:11 · Score: 3, Informative

With blanket-surveillance of the Internet, informants have lost their critical role.

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