AltWeeklies Wire
License to Connivenew
Boston still tracks vehicles, lies about it, and leaves sensitive resident data exposed online.
Dig Boston |
Kenneth Lipp |
09-10-2015 |
Features
Tags: Boston surveillance
You Gotta Fight For Your Right To Record The Policenew
Meet the crusaders battling for everyone's right to record cops in Massachusetts.
Dig Boston |
Andrew Quemere |
04-10-2015 |
Civil Liberties
Smarter City or City Under Surveillancenew
Last week the Dig alerted readers to a secret experiment carried out by the City of Boston during the Boston Calling concerts that took place in May and September of last year. Among the revelations therein: Outside contractors helped municipal authorities deploy resources designed to analyze body and facial patterns of “every person who approaches the door” in order to gauge panic levels and crowd sentiment. In this follow-up, again relying in part on privileged documents that were left exposed online, we examine the communications leading up to these surveillance trials in the days, months, and even decade prior to the first Boston Calling.
Dig Boston |
Chris Faraone, Kenneth Lipp and Jonathan Riley |
08-15-2014 |
Civil Liberties
Tags: Boston Surveillance
City of Boston Testing Facial Recognition Software at Concertsnew
You partied hard at Boston Calling and now there's facial recognition data to prove it.
Dig Boston |
Chris Faraone, Kenneth Lipp and Jonathan Riley |
08-08-2014 |
Civil Liberties
Twisted Medalnew
With Boston on the short list to host the 2024 Summer Games, we tour Atlanta's broken Olympic promises.
Dig Boston |
John Ruch |
07-23-2014 |
Features
The Somerville Files: A Four Part Investigative Seriesnew
For 10 months, three reporters dug into the unseemly political underbelly of the City of Somerville, where the power and privilege of an elite few has dominated and perverted municipal progress for decades. The Somerville Files is the culmination of their work, which pulls back the hip urban Somerville facade to reveal a shadow government amidst both turmoil and transition.
Dig Boston |
Chris Faraone, Tom Nash and Adam Vaccaro |
08-15-2013 |
Housing & Development
The Somerville Files Part 4: The Man in the Mayor Suitnew
A look at the machine's once—and future?—king, Somerville Mayor Joe Curtatone.
Dig Boston |
Chris Faraone, Tom Nash and Adam Vaccaro |
07-31-2013 |
Features
Creative Destructionnew
The rise and (imminent) fall of Boston's only graffiti park.
Dig Boston |
Dan Schneider |
07-26-2013 |
Housing & Development
EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS OF TSARNAEVnew
DigBoston's response(and non-response to the Tsarnaev media shitstorm.
Dig Boston |
J Pat Brown |
07-21-2013 |
Very Recent History
The Somerville Files Part 3: Rage Against the Machinenew
How a carefully orchestrated bureaucratic ecosystem ensures development by any means necessary in Somerville—legal or not.
Dig Boston |
Chris Faraone, Tom Nash and Adam Vaccaro |
07-15-2013 |
Housing & Development
The Somerville Filesnew
The first installment in a multi-part series about the intersection of politics, development, and power in the City of Somerville.
Dig Boston |
Chris Faraone, Tom Nash and Adam Vaccaro |
06-12-2013 |
Crime & Justice
Why Boston Police Didn't Think Tamerlan Tsarnaev Was a Killernew
If anybody had a chance of identifying the Tsarnaevs ahead of time, it would have been the Boston Police Department. Here's how they fucked up.
Dig Boston |
Chris Faraone |
05-23-2013 |
Crime & Justice
Terror: Then and Nownew
"What the fuck is going on? Are you down there?"
Dig Boston |
Chris Faraone |
04-16-2013 |
Disasters
Occupy Boston's Faux Evictionnew
An eviction notice from the Boston Police Department led thousands of people down to Dewey Square on Thursday night, preparing for a raid of Occupy Boston by the BPD at midnight.
Dig Boston |
Monica Castillo |
12-09-2011 |
#OCCUPY
Tags: #OCCUPY, Occupy Boston
"We have a permit. It’s called The Constitution."new
Reporting live from #OCCUPYBOSTON.
Dig Boston |
Lauren Metter |
10-12-2011 |
#OCCUPY
