A report by Forbes has detailed how the U.S. government are secretly issuing keyword warrants to Google, ordering the search engine company to track and provide user data on anyone who searches specific names, addresses or phone numbers. Forbes obtained the information via ‘accidentally unsealed’ court documents, which show that the FBI and Department of Homeland Security may have used the method... 

Reports circulating Tuesday reveal that the Pentagon is working with a contractor to track web searches that it describes as indicators of “white supremacy,” citing the phrase “the truth about black lives matter” as one example. Reports from Defense One and Fox News state that the Pentagon is working with a UK-based company called Moonshot CVE (Countering Violent Extremism) to uncover networks... 

Police are searching white people under terror laws simply to provide ‘racial balance’ to statistics, it has been revealed. They are targeting people they have no real reason to suspect to avoid being accused of prejudice, said terror law watchdog Lord Carlile. But their tactic of ‘self-evidently unmerited searches’ was a waste of money, a breach of civil liberties and ‘almost...