Heidi Boghosian

Heidi Boghosian, a lawyer, is the executive director of the A.J. Muste Memorial Institute. Previously she was the executive director of the National Lawyers Guild, a progressive bar association established in 1937, where she oversaw the legal defense of people targeted by government. She co-hosts the weekly civil liberties radio show Law and Disorder, that airs on Pacifica Radio's WBAI, New York, and is broadcast on more than 100 other stations.^[1]

Government Surveillance[]

Boghosian's work often focuses on how technology affects our daily lives. In a 2010 Huffington Post article titled "Are You Chip-Ready", Boghosian discusses radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology that has been making its way into many people's lives including students whose attendance can now be tracked by a RFID chip implanted in their student ID cards. She points out identity theft, stalking, , and security breaches as just some of the negative outcomes of RFID technology.^[2]

In 2012, Boghosian documented her own data trail to show how everyday transactions and ventures are captured and stored, most times without our knowledge. From the outside of her apartment building, to a purchase at a local coffee shop, Boghosian illustrates how corporations play a larger role in people's daily lives.^[3] The National Security Agency (NSA), for instance, collects metadata on every phone call Americans make,^[4] as was revealed in June 2013 by Edward Snowden.

Bibliography[]

• Spying on Democracy: Government Surveillance, Corporate Power, and Public Resistance (City Lights, 2013) ISBN 978-0-87286-599-0
• The Business of Surveillance, ABA Human Rights, Vol. 39 No. 3, 2013]
• Police Brutality: Opposing Viewpoints, Chapter: "Antiterrorism policies result in police abuse of dissenters (Greenhaven Press, 2006) ISBN 9780737733594
• Applying Restraints to Private Police (Missouri Law Review, Vol. 70, Issue 1, Winter 2005)
• The Assault on Free Speech, Public Assembly, and Dissent (North River Press, 2004) ISBN 978-0884271796

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External links[]

• Appearances on C-SPAN]