Donald Gilliland, journalist at Central Pennsylvania local news site PennLive.com, discusses his series of articles chronicling the PA Office of Homeland Security’s practice of tracking Marcellus Shale activist groups — going far beyond their mandate of protecting infrastructure, the outsourcing of surveillance to American/Israeli security contractor ITRR, arguments between privacy advocates and the ‘if you have nothing to hide there’s nothing to worry about’ crowd and how the state DHS office tipped off private drilling companies about upcoming demonstrations against controversial gas extraction methods.
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