{"id":31280,"date":"2018-01-11T11:09:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T16:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=31280"},"modified":"2018-01-11T11:09:34","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T16:09:34","slug":"wired-how-the-government-hides-secret-surveillance-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=31280","title":{"rendered":"WIRED: How the Government Hides Secret Surveillance Programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WIRED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/stingray-secret-surveillance-programs\/\">How the Government Hides Secret Surveillance Programs<\/a> by Louise Matsakis:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>First described in government documents obtained by Reuters in 2013, parallel construction is when law enforcement originally obtains evidence through a secret surveillance program, then tries to seek it out again, via normal procedure. In essence, law enforcement creates a parallel, alternative story for how it found information. That way, it can hide surveillance techniques from public scrutiny and would-be criminals. A new report released by Human Rights Watch Tuesday, based in part on 95 relevant cases, indicates that law enforcement is using parallel construction regularly, though it&#8217;s impossible to calculate exactly how often. It&#8217;s extremely difficult for defendants to discern when evidence has been obtained via the practice, according to the report.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WIRED: How the Government Hides Secret Surveillance Programs by Louise Matsakis:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surveillance-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31281,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31280\/revisions\/31281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}