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

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

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

"We have a permit. It’s called The Constitution."new

Reporting live from #OCCUPYBOSTON.
Dig Boston  |  Lauren Metter  |  10-12-2011  |  #OCCUPY

Narrow Search

Publication

Category

Narrow by Date

  • Last 7 Days
  • Last 30 Days
  • Select a Date Range